Posted under rambles on March 27th, 2008 by gas money
Sorry for the inactivity on the blog. I have been trying to share my time with all the sites in my network as well as new projects. Seems the blog is the last one to get my attention. Since i don’t have the time necessary for all the sites in my network i have decided to sell some of my sites. One of the sites to go is seomodz.com. I will be posting more on the blog so stay tuned as i have some great interviews and articles on the way.
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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Check out Dans video for the info. Tell em Gasmoney Sent you!
Today i found a pretty cool email from the people at payperpost.com . I’m sure everyone who signed up as an Advertiser and just hasn’t been active got one. It seems they are sending out $100 dollars as an incentive to come back to use their system. I think its a great way to get people to use em and i created my advert in just 5 minutes. (Can’t pass that up)
Heres the email i received.
So i went ahead and created my opportunity and heres how it looks.
Payperpost also has a great referral program you can join with them. You will get paid $15.00 once the referees first blog posting is reviewed, approved and then finally accepted 30 days later. This means they need to go all the way through the process in order for it to be a legit referral. If they do it right and are accepted we will hook you up. There is no limit to the number of people you can refer so long as we don’t see any fishy business with your account.
So if you haven’t tried to use Payperpost.com yet, I suggest you get started as you can make a lot of money by blogging on stuff you plan to blog about anyway.
The famouse v7n Webmaster Forum is up for sale on Sitepoint.com. For a starting Bid of about $400,000 and a buy-it-now price of $500,000 its quite a big sale for any established forum. Take a quick look at v7n’s homepage and you’ll see the type of content that’s discussed on the site.
John Scott is the guy behind v7n, He has stated on the v7n blog that he’s headed back to school and is stepping down from the daily duties of running the site. I’m pretty sure this is the major reason the forum (company) is on the auction block. So far it looks like there are quite a few people interested. So well see how it ends in the next 12 days.
