PayPerPost townhall meeting transcript

PayPerPost CEO Ted Murphy recently conducted a townhall meeting with 75 Posties who manage to go through to the system (due to system limitation). Unfortunately I was not present due to other pressing concerns. However you can read the transcript of that meeting here. I believe that some very important issues, particularly those playing in my mind, were asked and answered promptly by Ted.

The main issue Posties have with the new segmentation system is the banning issue. Oh, yes, I can understand that very well because the Opps currently available on PayPerPost is based on the number of tacks you have. The more tacks you earn, the more likely that you are going to get from the high-paying Opps. Most of the Opps now require at least three or four tacks at minimum, so a ban will severely affect the tacks rating.

For example, currently this blogger has four tacks, 44 votes and 7 bans. That is about 15% of the advertisers who decided that they do not like my write-ups and decided to ban me instead. Unfortunately advertisers are not required to make a vote for the Opps taken up, so this is not really a true reflection of what the quality of the posts for PayPerPost are.

Another issue which I feel was answered but still not properly addressed was the Alexa ratings issue. Any serious internet marketer knows that the Alexa ratings can be manipulated, hence they are not a reflection of the traffic received to the blog. Plus, the toolbar is only limited to Internet Explorer users, so Mozilla Firefox and other browser users will be indefinitely left out. I do agree however that until there is a solution to gauge the number of traffic to blogs, the Alexa system has to stay.

I guess on the whole, I am happy with the answers given by the PayPerPost CEO. Hopefully this townhall meeting will be a regular feature and that I will be able to participate in the next one.