Business.com going PPC

4/30/2002

[Mike_Mackin]

You purchased our Featured Listings program on a flat monthly fee. Effective April 30, 2002, we'll be converting all "Fixed Price" programs to a performance based program charged on a cost per click (CPC) basis.

[Laisha]

Do they allow opting out? Or have they simply decided we must abide by their new terms?

[Mike_Mackin]

"A member from Business.com's account management team will be in touch in the coming days to convert your program to CPC - which will officially convert May 1 or earlier if you choose."

[agerhart]

To tell you the truth, I think that this is a good thing. As of right now, we paid the money to Business.com and we see squat for traffic....this switch may be a good thing.

[skibum]

We'e got a few sites listed in there and have never seen a single referral from Business.com.

Haven't been looking either so there might have been one or two.

[Mike_Mackin]

>"A member from Business.com's account management team will be in touch in the coming days"

And what will we tell this person?

This thread is ALL we have.............

[bobriggs]

Wow. Gonna take a lot of clicks to recoup that 7.5 million. And a lot of years too.

With 7.5 mil, grab up a name like gigablast.com for $8.95 - then you have $7,499,991.05 left, hire programmers to come up with a better-than-google search engine, perfect it, market it, value-add it to death with PPC if you want to or go the L$ Y$ model, blah blah blah.

I dunno, 7.5 mil is a lot to me, but maybe a drop in the bucket for the investors.