Early the other morning I decided to send Vic Franqui an e-mail asking him about his “challenge” to not only be friendly, but to find out some details about what they involve… you know the ones where he challenges the world to beat him at his own game. The funny thing is. Vic came off the hinges after only ONE friendly e-mail.

Well after getting his response… I decided that competing against him for 20 grand might actually worth doing. I mean wow… knocking Vic from his podium… what fun! On the other hand… black hat in hand… the guy is a loon and competing against a known spam-o-holic might be pretty silly.

My e-mail to Vic

—–Original Message—–
Vic! I hope that this e-mail finds you well. I wanted to write you today,
because I’ve read over and over again that you know what you’re doing when it
comes to marketing a site.

I’m not going to ask you a bunch of silly questions, or request an interview, I
simply would like to offer myself up to cause.

What’s the cause… a challenge. I’m not broke and I’m not one of those drones
who isn’t willing to put in time or money. I’m not ignorant, or arrogant. I’m
simply a guy with a few years experience under his belt who feels that he’s
willing to take on a “Vic” challenge.

I’ve heard that no one has ever accepted a challenge (that could be
inaccurate), but I’m ready and willing.

Please consider this an open invite and let me know if you have anything you’d
be interested in doing.

Oh, I’m a website designer by trade… not a basement hacker… but a real live
one, so if you need anything, let me know… I’d be more than happy to see if I
could help in some way.

Thanks for reading Vic. – PB

Vic’s response to me

Ok first of please tell me who has accepted my challenge as you say “(that could be
inaccurate)” second son when you contact a person you use a fucking name. I am a business owner I do not have time to be playing games with fucking noobs I do not give a fuck if you can make little wordpress themes do you really think that tells me anything about your skills with actual SEO knowledge. Do you actually think you could even be in the same fucking league as me?

Son I own over 800 live production sites to support that network I own over 300 pr3 to pr7 sites in my link cluster, do you really think you can fucking even come close to having a chance against me head to head LMAO!!!!

Normally I would jump all over and easy $20k but since I just got out of the hospital and had to reflect on my mortality I feel I should give you an opportunity to reflect on this.

Let’s See:

thepissbiscuit.com
Inlinks: 1091 Over 80% are from onemansgoal.com and all PR0 links and the anchor is “Piss Biscuit” LMAO!!!!!! You do not have one anchor for a term that is searched again LMAO!!!!

bloggerunleashed.com
InLinks: 25,131 over 60% anchored with “Make Money Online” 20% anchored with other niche related anchors as “Make Money Blogging” Make Money Vlogging” “Internet Marketing” currently rank on over 20 top niche related terms in the first 2 pages of Google. All this in 6 months on a site I currently max spend one hour a day if that.

But son let me give you an actual new example so you are totally clear if you are looking to lose $20k you can never say I did not tell you upfront what you would have to deal with.

http://xbox360redringofdeathfix.com/
The site is 2 weeks old.
In one week took position 1 in Google for the term “xbox 360 red ring of death” and the site was sent to sandbox but I still own on live.com depending on your data center position one for the term “xbox 360 red ring of death” giving me from MSN Live over 50 unique hits a day and converting at around 20% giving me a profit around $160 pus a day

Now son knowing what you know now you have 2 options. Act like you never sent this email and I will also act like it did not happen or option 2 lose $20k.

If you chose option 2 it will go down like this.

I cannot spend time right now on this until October after I am done with the contest and all my blogging convention trips. If you chose to lose the $20k you will meet me at the September blogging convention in Vegas. I will be getting to Vegas on the 17th and staying at the Sahara Hotel and Casino so I expect you to meet me at 5PM at the lobby bring the $20,000.00 and will book the bet at the Casino. We will keep it simple for the bet. We will both build brand new sites on October 1 2008 and pick a top level competitive keyword term, example “credit cards” the bet will end October 31 2008. Whoever ranks the highest in Google for the term wins the bet. We will fully negotiate terms and have them notarized at Vegas.

Vic

and my response…

I’ve got a lengthy reply that I’d like to send Vic, not to be mean to him, but just to let him know what I think about his response and to hopefully clarify some little details that he’s not been privy too. He thinks I’m a newbie… he thinks I know nothing about SEO… he thinks that PB is some sort of ability score card… I mean damn Vic… you made a lot of assumptions.

Anyway… In the next day or so, I’ll put up my reply… in the meantime, what do you guys think? Should I pull the trigger on ol’ Vic… or let him sit there in his own glory until he makes himself puke?

Web Designers needed for new sites, and to fix existing sites. Please send resume with salary requirements and examples of your work. We are looking for a full time web designer. This is not contract work.

Okay, if you need a designer try soliciting one. Submit salary, portfolio, and resume required. To who? Man-o-Man these people are crazy. Yeh, I’m going to go through all that trouble and send all my personal information… and work… to some random, unknown company who hides their e-mail address!?!

Website designer wanted for small job. Professionals with experience could do this in a few hours. Students welcome!!!

Alrighty then… who do you want. A professional or a student? See pros likely won’t take the “small job” and students are going to screw it up and turn it into a big job. Wait a second… maybe they want a professional designer who charges student rates! Oh my, how could I have missed it?

I have a few hundred pages that need editing an updating. This is part time work only!

Okay dude… a few hundred pages? Small job? Part time? Didn’t he say a few hundred pages? What were you smoking before you wrote this ad… maybe I’ll trade you some of that for some of this!

Small job with more to come. Low budget, big idea! Help me make money.

Yes sir… I’m all over this one. Only “bait” would take a bite at that one. I hope that guy never finds any help.

Leading advertising agency needed for full time design staff. We supply marketing for some major corporations on an international level – starting @ $10.50 per hour

Taking a job like this must be like working in a Casino. You watch millions of dollars go by your face every day and at the end of the week you collect your measly $10.50 an hour! I officially make seven and a half that amount working for a normal guy… maybe they should reevaluate their objectives.

Only adding fuel to the fire is when you do decide and ad sounds like a good project and you spend twenty minutes submitting your life to them… and low and behold, no reply! I at one point resorted to asking them to send a “no thank you” answer if they decided to go elsewhere out of professional courtesy. Can you guess how many people ablige with this small gesture? Zip, zero, zilch, nada, no-one.

Moral of the story for designers… take control and respond to those who post great ads. If you don’t, these morons are likely to keep posting the same crap over and over again. To address those who write ads, I’ll just say that I hope we never meet. I’d embarrass you in front of your friends!