Bad Grammer, Legal Issues, And Debating Rand Fishkin On Discloser

Its time for the Monday questions! Nick writes:

Hi Shoe, Why do you always mess up there their and then than. Ever think of hiring a copywriter?

Ohh well It gives the grammar people something to do. Also its amazing how many times the people who correct my grammar come back to check the post to see if 1) I have corrected it yet and 2) to see if everyone has praised them for pointing out my flaws. Whats really awesome is when they make posts on there (haha) websites and drive people here pointing out all my grammatical errors and they become subscribers. We do hire copywriters for things that we think should have great English. My personal blog is not one of them. John In LA writes:

Jeremy with your recent legal battles with the ebook dork rich jerk you mentioned you have had threats and experience with legal issues just wondering if you would be willing to expand anymore on that.

HAHAH LEGAL BATTLES. This is kind of my point... srsly.. legal battle? When someone makes empty threats its a legal battle? Ok well you asked so lets have a look at the scoreboard... In 2006: I was threatened by email almost 350 times for legal issues. I recieved only 20 cease and desist letters I did make it to a legal proceeding 2x but unfortunately it was to testify as a expert witness (boring) Here are some of the more funnier ones for 2006: Revenue Magazine - Stated on there website they sent me legal papers... weird I never got them. Plentyoffish owner Markus Frind said he was going to sue me after I made statements that he faked it until he made it. After a few months we actually became friends and started talking about scalability issues with managing huge websites. Hes even came on my radio show and we talked about making money online. I really do like Markus and I feel he is a marketing genious. There is nothing wrong with faking it until you make it (Markus you know i love u) If you want to read something that has made me see a courtroom here is a good start: Nextel Communications, Inc. Vs. Nextpimp INC - This one did not last long. Basically Nextel was saying they had rights to all Next* based domains and sites........ ya... The firm that represents us got it dismissed. You never hear me talk about people I have taken legal action against and you wont.. unless they post it. I don't make bullshit threats or even send cease and desist. If someone steals my content or makes false statements that might impact one of my companies we go for the throat with no warning. I admit someone has to do something pretty bad for us to act but when it happens we have had a 100% winning record. There are probably some people right now wondering if its worth it to make up stuff about me or one of my companies for linkbait - only one way to find out =P Bruce C writes:

Shoe- You recently said that bloggers should not trust you. I am curious if you then should think we should not run AuctionAds since you recommended it. Also you challenged Rand to a debate. What happen with that?

I'm so glad you asked! My whole point is that when it comes to making money online read whatever you want but use your head as to what is right for you. I will be the first one to tell you that AuctionAds is not the perfect answer for every site. In fact I will tell you that its not even the best source of revenue for this blog. However it does make a nice additional income even with just having the 125x125 ad in the sidebar. So yea you should not trust me... or Rand... or Andy Beal... or John Chow... Or Darren Rowse... OR ANYONE like we are Jesus Christ who you should do whatever they say and not use your own head. you should try EVERYTHING and let the money show you what works the best. As far as the debate Rand had to do SMX this week in Seattle so we were unable to do it live HOWEVER we were able to get some time in the WMR studio and pre-record the show. I think it was pretty good and it will be posted Tuesday.