Chris Pirillo » chest http://chris.pirillo.com News and Reviews! Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:40:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 How Do I Make Money on the Internet? http://chris.pirillo.com/how-do-i-make-money-on-the-internet/ http://chris.pirillo.com/how-do-i-make-money-on-the-internet/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:11:18 +0000 Chris Pirillo http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/02/08/how-do-i-make-money-on-the-internet/

How Do I Make Money on the Internet?

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed A few years ago, I got the crazy idea of selling things on my chest. I had offended someone, and made up for it by writing the apology on my chest. I actually ended up making a couple grand by having [...]

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A few years ago, I got the crazy idea of selling things on my chest. I had offended someone, and made up for it by writing the apology on my chest. I actually ended up making a couple grand by having things written on my chest.

Behind me you’ll see the Chest 2.0 website. You pay through PayPal, securely. You then choose the colors and text. Choose the word that’s not already taken, or suggest your own. Your website will then forevermore be associated with that word on my chest. You can customize text color, size, and style with your purchase. Let my chest be your billboard!

If you want to make money online yourself, here are some simple tips: Be creative, be “nutty”… be yourself. That’s the most creative and easy way I can tell you to make money, or have ANYTHING online succeed. Thinking outside the box is a good thing.

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I Made the 25 Worst Web Sites List

PC World has published a list of The 25 Worst Web Sites. Weighing in at #25, Rentmychest.com: Look up the word hunk in any dictionary, and you will not find a picture of a bare-chested Chris Pirillo, the guy behind download sites such as lockergnome.com. But you used to be able to find several such [...]

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PC World has published a list of The 25 Worst Web Sites. Weighing in at #25, Rentmychest.com:

Look up the word hunk in any dictionary, and you will not find a picture of a bare-chested Chris Pirillo, the guy behind download sites such as lockergnome.com. But you used to be able to find several such pictures at this site, where the pasty, paunchy Pirillo auctioned off messages, written on his chest with magic marker, for $20 a pop. These days the marker-based messages are gone, replaced by a single background image that I wish I hadn’t seen and a bunch of linked keywords. Believe it or not, the keywords are actually more expensive, starting at $200. Look, Chris may know his downloads, but please, somebody buy this man a gym membership.

I get the last laugh, though. My chest rentals have generated over $5,000 in revenue so far – which is likely a little more than you’ve made from your own torso. ;)

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My Silicon Valley Chest

Guy would never hire me. And you know what? I’m fine with that. I stayed up all last night crying my eyes out – wondering why Mr. Kawasaki never talks about my chest. Today, those prayers were answered in tip #11 of Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting a Job in Silicon Valley But [...]

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Guy would never hire me. And you know what? I’m fine with that. I stayed up all last night crying my eyes out – wondering why Mr. Kawasaki never talks about my chest. Today, those prayers were answered in tip #11 of Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting a Job in Silicon Valley But Didn’t Know Who to Ask:

Confess your sins. If you did something stupid in your past, the company will find out, so it’s better if it finds out from you rather than from a search on the Internet. A tech entrepreneur once told me how he rented out his chest as a billboard and made $2,500 (it’s a long story). A woman that he met on Match.com found this out, and it was an issue. If a date can find this stuff from your past, you can bet an interviewer will. Hopefully, this makes you think twice about the stupid things you’re tempted do on MySpace.

Yes, it was stupid – but I refuse to take my chest off the Internet until someone pays me a million dollars to do it. Guess we’ll just have to live with the horror, eh? Guy is right about thinking twice before you put something (anything) online. Wanna know the truth? There’s a happy ending. I started renting my chest years before Ponzi and I met.

She found my profile on Match.com late one night and sent me a response almost immediately. It took me a day to get back to her, but I was sure to pass along my AIM handle for quicker correspondence. It wasn’t too long before we started to blast messages back and forth on IM. Within the first ten minutes, she asked an innocent question:

You don’t have any naked pictures of your chest online, do you?

WTF?! Did she know me? I really didn’t want to date someone who watched me on TechTV, read Lockergnome, etc. She asked this question because (apparently) a lot of guys upload “studly” photos of their greased-up chests to dating sites. I, however, didn’t realize this – as I never peruse male profiles. To her query, I responded:

Do you know who I am? :)

Now, Ponzi took this question differently than the way I intended – as if I was asking: “DON’T you know who I am?” She said she didn’t know who I was, and so I sent her a link to RentMyChest.com. If she didn’t laugh, I’d have to throw her back into the sea. Long story short: we met the next day and have been with each other ever since.

If someone doesn’t like my chest, then I don’t need them in my life. Guy referenced my chest without naming me, specifically – but I’ve had ten friends send me the link in the past half hour. Are there really that many tech entrepreneurs renting their chests online?! I think Guy was afraid his Technorati ranking would dip if he made the correlation. No matter, I’ve cleared about $10k with my chest so far – and that number is steadily climbing. Not so stupid, eh?

Oh, by the way: Guy might be speaking at the next Gnomedex…

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Chest-based Word Clouds Work

Put your word/prhase on Rent My Chest before it’s taken by somebody else. You gotta like testimonials like Linda’s: I’ve been waiting for someone to come up with a fun, unique spin on the “sell a word” craze… I just bought AFFILIATES… Checking out Alexa I already see a huge spike in traffic and the [...]

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Put your word/prhase on Rent My Chest before it’s taken by somebody else. You gotta like testimonials like Linda’s:

I’ve been waiting for someone to come up with a fun, unique spin on the “sell a word” craze… I just bought AFFILIATES… Checking out Alexa I already see a huge spike in traffic and the new word cloud upgrade just launched. I’ll give Chris a little plug – go check it out, it’s pretty cool!

Sweet. My chest drives traffic!

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Rent My Chest 2.0

You know I lost 30 pounds with my diet and weight loss tips, right? It wasn’t just for Gnomedex, and it wasn’t just for my upcoming nuptuals in December. No, I did it so that I could launch… Rent My Chest 2.0. I’m not looking for funding, though – and yes, the classic site is [...]

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Rent My Chest 2.0You know I lost 30 pounds with my diet and weight loss tips, right? It wasn’t just for Gnomedex, and it wasn’t just for my upcoming nuptuals in December. No, I did it so that I could launch… Rent My Chest 2.0. I’m not looking for funding, though – and yes, the classic site is still there (though depreciated). My exit strategy is to be purchased by Yahoo! for $27 million dollars.

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