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Wed, 7th January 2009
Tim Ferriss Takes Wired.com’s Self-Promotion Prize
OK, Timothy Ferriss: You win. You are the large self-promoter in the world.
When Wired.com asked our readers to support garner champion self-promoters, we were completely extemporary for the operation of your fans. They not exclusive voted for you, again and again, they also appointed you (along with Tim Farriss, Timothy Ferris, and another variations on your name) literally scores of removed times.
Perhaps that reflects the life of grouping won over by your promise of a four-hour impact week. Maybe that reflects the Brobdingnagian quantities of forcefulness that grouping who hit adoptive your four-week training plan crapper muster. Or perhaps it’s meet a depressing instrument to the slummy programme of Wired.com’s polling tool, which prefabricated it cushy for newcomers to the oppose to lie the fact that someone added had already appointed you, some times.
Regardless, it’s country that you’ve finished your self-promotion impact so substantially that you no individual hit to do it yourself. You’ve got legions of fans tooting your alarm for you, and that — more than acceptance on the pages of Wired.com — is the most priceless accolade a self-promoter could wish to win.
In the end, we spent a pair hours consolidating the removed nominations and adding up every the votes. Yes, we undergo this isn’t fair, because it allows grouping to balloting binary times. Suck it up, people, this isn’t a statesmanly election. The results? Timothy Ferriss by a landslide, with 3,583 votes for you and 2,126 votes against you. (Vote tallies are as of weekday afternoon, March 31, 2008, when we did the counting.)
The runners-up didn’t modify become close: The incoming most favourite pick, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, exclusive got 1,138 votes for him and 426 votes against him. Rounding discover the crowning fivesome are author Colbert, Richard Branson, and Savior — despite the fact, as digit commenter spinous out, that Savior never did anything modify remotely self-promotional, and mitt this connector without modify having designated an commissioned biographer. I mean, that’s meet easy P.R., people. But that’s the vox populi for you.
So congratulations, Timothy Ferriss. You are Wired.com’s garner for the large self-promoter of every time.
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