Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Getting An Offer …

Hmmmm …

Seriously, hmmmm …

I’ve got to admit, these are difficult times, aren’t they?

Recession, collapsed banks, government loans, increasing unemployment, what have you, it’s not looking good out there, is it?

So, when I got this sent to me, I thought “Oh, looks good.”

But was … well … a touch sceptical …

The start-up company concerned seem to be offer to pay bloggers for short posts for various clients, and a share of the advertising revenue.

So long as you don’t actually give away that it’s a sponsored post …

It does actually look quite good, from where I’m sitting.

Until I got to the actually page that listed their clients.

Which gave me a ‘404: Not Found’ error page.

So, I’ll be frank, while I’m tempted, I’m going to thank everyone who’s suggested I hold off, for now.

That seems the sensible idea, for now.

1 comment:

  1. i avoid all advertising, even adsense, no-ones going to thank you for it, and IMHO you will lose readers :0

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