Someone claiming to be Jarrod Hunt from textlinkbrokers.com left a nasty little comment on my online advertising blog:
And this is why you are broke with a blog that has no readers and why we have 40 people working for us and over 4000 active clients, including several Fortune 500 companies and 2 of the top 10 internet retailers.What struck me first is the lack of professionalism displayed by the writer. Am I to believe that the author of this comment does business with fortune 500 companies? The sort of bragging seen here, not to mention the lame insults, remind me more of middle school than a business context.You should spend less time criticizing other people businesses and more time thinking about your own.
And just so your information is correct. We dont charge to monitor your links until after 2 years.
I guess my last responce to you also went unheard as well, since you still think that we only pay $5 per link. We only pay $5 per link for low quality sites like the one you submitted to us.
Get over it dude.
Another thing that struck me is that the author is criticizing my online advertising blog though he himself seems to be a reader. I mean he did leave a comment on my site. Also, the comment about my being broke struck me as odd. I haven't argued about personal wealth since a boy named Alex told me in 4th grade that his family was richer than my family.
The other very interesting thing is the "low quality" remark regarding the site I submitted to textlinkbrokers.com. First it tells me that textlinkbrokers.com is buying links on low quality sites for 5.00 and charging people good money for these low quality links. After all, they do offer 5.00 each for low quality links.
Lastly, I wonder if this Jarrod Hunt actually remembers the emails I sent him regarding sites where I might place text links. At the time I mentioned ESL go and Jtrotta.com, both of which have lots of link popularity and traffic. If a PR 7 with over 1,000 uniques on a bad day is "low quality"...
Needless to say I didn't take them up on their generous offer to pay 5.00 for a permanent link on either of these sites. Nor am I likely to send these highly professional text link brokers who use schoolyard insults any more letters of inquiry...
Posted by James Trotta at July 21, 2005 12:57 PMtextlinkbrokers is a joke, not only because they charge 50% for commission, their online registration form never works, 40 people work for them? If there are 4, I would be shocked at how stupid they are.
Posted by: kp at July 21, 2005 9:17 PMI lost my professionalism the day you insulted me and my company. I guess I'm not as hard shelled as I used to be I tend to get defensive when someone that has never met me decides to publicly call me "greedy", without knowing anything about my business model.
Lets let by-gones be by-gones. I'm willing to concede that my project manager incorrectly quoted the value of the eslgo site. That quote came during the first days of that project.
Posted by: Jarrod Hunt at July 30, 2005 10:45 AMYes, no personal insult was intended though I chose my words poorly. When I discuss textlinkbrokers.com in the future I'll be sure to leave out the insulting adjectives. I am guilty of behaving unprofessionally myself.
Posted by: James Trotta at July 30, 2005 2:37 PMJames, you are quite the gentleman. If this jerk off came to my site spewing his filth I wouldn't of handled it nearly as well you did. Hell, I'm pissed off and I don't know either one of you. I congratulate you on your level of professionalism James, it far outweighs anything I've seen in along time.
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