Audrey Okaneko writes:

Scott asked some great questions. It was neat to read how you started this site.

Scott is really amazing. He is a wealth of information. He runs a community over on Ryze (that’s how I met him) called The Virtual Handshake.

Great interview.

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Lance Winslow writes:

I did not know that About.com was a subsidiary of The New York Times Company. Although sometimes the view points do get a little liberal there? Surprising this great piece on article marketing. I take many About.com ezines, which are offered by category, but since they are a subsidiary of The New York Times Company. I will cancel all of them. Thank you for the heads up.

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Priya Shah writes:

Fascinating interview, Chris. You were a DJ? That’s so cool! I liked this part best – “I overcame this by ignoring any doubt they brought to my attention.”
:-)

What you’ve done with the EzineArticles.com site is just awesome! The investment shows. Great advice and tips for us all.

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Lance,

In March of 2005, NY Times bought About.com for approx $410 million.

Always good analysis of content deals here:
http://www.paidcontent.org/pc/arch/2005_02_17.shtml

The New York Times press release:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=105317&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=676519&highlight=

Priya,

Yeah, I was a DJ. Great fun!

What I said about ignoring my family or friends doubt in what I wanted to do with my life was my favorite part of the interview as well. My business success dramatically changed many years ago when I decided I was not going to let my family tell me what was not possible.

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Lance Winslow writes:

Thanks Chris, for that information. Glad to see About.com was born of entrepreneurial spirit, even if they later got bought out by a bigger fish. NYT is a big organization with an Interesting Brand to it;

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Un-Branding-of-the-New-York-Times&id=301433

I did like the interview and it is really a great historical review of the hard work it takes to make it as an entrepreneur. Great Stuff and good questions too.

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Edward Weiss writes:

Chris, after posting about the About.com purchase, have you received any lucrative offers for EzineArticles yet? And if so, from whom?

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Edward,

One zillion dollars from an off-world buyer, but he could only offer us gold-pressed latinum for payment. ;-)

Personally, we’d be more interested in a ZPM (Zero Point Module) for payment as anything that can create immense amounts of energy from zero point energy (an artificially created region of subspace (think NATS, but for space-time) from which the power is drawn) has got to be cool.

In other words, I could tell you, but then I’d have to erase your memory with a Goa’uld hand device.

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James Nardel writes:

“Get into massive action.”

That’s exactly what needs to be done. I am struggling every single day to paint the big picture. Great interview, thanks Chris!

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Edward Weiss writes:

“Crikey!”

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Lance Winslow writes:

The most important thing a business can do is to inform and educate their customers, what you can do for them.

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