CJ.com acts against the Pepperjam Network
I received an email yesterday from Kris Jones letting me know about the whole issue regarding the CJ.com ultimatum give to PepperJam Clients , And quite frankly i just don’t like it. I think Kris and his team have the right to exist and practice what they do with out interference of another competing company.
On Tuesday 2/26/08 some of the Pepperjams team was in Vegas for the affiliate summit 2008. Suddenly the team started to receive calls, one after another, from different clients. Here’s a direct quote from Kris’s Blog on what happened next.
Our clients told us that they were being aggressively contacted by Commission Junction employees and delivered an ultimatum - either stay with Commission Junction or terminate all agency business with Pepperjam.
Now! That to me sounds like a shady tactic and possibly illegal. To deliberately go after PepperJam when there are so many other longer established networks they can try and bully? Maybe they just feel that Pepperjam has the best potential to reach them at the number one spot? Who knows.
Not only does this affect the client base but it directly affects the pepperjam team as well. Here’s another quote from Kris.
Pepperjam has roughly 20 dedicated full-time employees that do nothing but manage affiliate programs on Commission Junction. What are we to do with all these incredibly talented, hard working employees if our clients decide to submit to Commission Junctions demands?
When Kris Jones and COO, Michael C. Jones talked to Kerri Pollard (General Manager) and David Osmond (Senior VP) of Commission Junction in person, They got a response they really didn’t expect. (1) Sorry guys, it’s just business, and (2) Commission Junction wants “that” business. By “that” business I imagine Kerri was presumptively referring to Pepperjam’s business in the form of affiliate marketing technology (Pepperjam Network) and affiliate program management.
All this sounds illegal right? Since CJ.com is a Corporation and should abide by certain laws. You can read up more on this from Kris jones blog and from an active discussion at reve news
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