Yeah, my next project I start I want PayPerPost to run my marketing.
After reading all the comments, threats, pissing contests and shouting matches that have been going on Online about PayPerPost, I only have one thing left to say that hasn’t been said before. The PayPerPost team have had a brilliant marketing campaign!
Just look at how much buzz they have generated with such an easy idea. Get people to write about products, and have those people who make the products pay them for it.
Personally, comparing PayPerPost to cancer is a little extreme and stupid in my opinion. For a fresh Web 2.0 idea, why don’t we go interview a cancer survivor and see how they like the serious disease they had being compared to some Web site?
These idiots running around and saying that the sky is falling like Chicken Little with his head cut off are loons - plain and simple. It is not about “blogging ethics” it is about getting known. Good or bad, thanks to these loons, a lot more people know about PayPerPost and I am willing to be a lot more people are taking advantage of the deal.
Now with that said, do I get paid anything for what I post here? Nope. I make enough in Google AdSense ads to pay for my Web hosting and past that - I am just happy to be around and helping folks out.
Take TechCrunch for an example. The only reason PayPerPost gets mentioned over there is because is generates a lot of traffic and comments. Traffic and comments keep TechCrunch’s advertisers happy and signed on. Mike might as well be “in the sack” with these guys. He’s not even getting paid for the free press he is giving them.
You trolls need PayPerPost, the funny thing is though - PayPerPost doesn’t need the TechCrunch-like trolls. They are giving a chance out there to anybody and everybody. They don’t care if you are A-list or on “a list”.
Now to the ego driven maniacs out there that have nothing else better to do, just stop it. In the long run, you are helping them more than you are hurting them.
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