PayPerPost, il male assoluto
Ricordate PayPerPost? La società che paga i blogger per scrivere post promozionali?
Jason Calacanis, patron di Weblogs, Inc., ha deciso di dire la sua rispondendo a Pete Wright di PayPerPost.
Ecco alcuni estratti:
Pete: WebLogs Inc markets products through blogs, so does PayPerPost. Difference? We’re cheaper.
Jason: No, the difference is that we don’t allow deceptive advertising and you do.
All advertisement are clearly labeled as advertisements on our blogs. PayPerPost on the other hand creates the marketplace that allows people to get paid for DECEIVING their audience.
No one likes to be deceived–do you?
Una delle questioni fondamentali è rappresentata dal fatto che i blogger pagati da PayPerPost non sono obbligati a segnalare quali sono i post promozionali, questo ovviamente per fare in modo che appaiano più genuini, sinceri e di conseguenza maggiormente efficaci. PayPerPost in pratica promuove un sistema di pubblicità ingannevole.
Ed ecco il pensiero di chiusura di Calacanis:
You guys know in your hearts that deceptive marketing is, in fact, evil. I know there is some god in you–I can sense it. Take the high road. Sure, it’s not as easy to be one of the good guys, but you will sleep better at night and you will get much further.
Ten years from now do you want to be remembered as the place were covert marketers got their claws into the blogosphere and undermined the integrity of good bloggers everywhere? Well, in the .0001% chance you succeed at what you’re doing that will be the result-people will lose their faith in blogs. We spent years creating the blogosphere and educating the market of the value blogs-I’m not going to let you walk in here and destroy years of work.
You guys need to take a company retreat and think about what you want to be in life: evil, covert marketers or innovative participants in the blogosphere.
Right now you’re a cancer.
Sono pienamente d’accordo con Jason, avendo già espresso i miei dubbi quando fu lanciato il servizio di PayPerPost. Sono fiducioso però che le probabilità di successo della loro iniziativa restino veramente molto basse.














