I was cruising John Chow’s Blog about getting what you want. Specifically he talked about two bloggers trying to get in to ad world next week. One blokes request (apparently he has a significant Blog presence) was so pathetic that he sounded like he was asking his mama for cookies from a jar. Obviously, he did not get a press pass. The other bloke (a much smaller Blogger) wrote to get a press pass as if the fact he had not received one yet was a slight oversight on his part and could the ad world folks please rush him one so his blog could give the event all the coverage needed.

Guess who got in. Yup, the little blog that could. It just goes to show you that acting confident is the ONLY way to get ahead. Sure, you must have some substance behind the bravado, but going begging for scraps will get you nothing. Actually it will wind up costing you. For the blogger that got shut down it will cost him about $1,500 to get an all access pass, just because he wasn’t confident enough to plainly state why he needed one.

Now, what I am curious to find out is, how many other bloggers will copy the text from John’s blog verbatim and try to get a pass. I check it out.