molly.com
Monday 28 February 2005
goodbye, marqui paid to post
GOODBYE MARQUI PROGRAM. It’s been three months of an adventure that not only shook up the web world with controversy, but shook up my personal world, too.
Sometimes things happen for a reason, and I am confident that Marqui’s paid-to-post blogger program has taught me lessons that needed to be taught. Primarily, I learned that I can’t blog naturally if I feel forced to do it, and that’s intriguing because I can write in just about any style. But, it turns out my blog is really personal, I take it personally, and I need it to be that way.
This process really helped me clarify my own thoughts about marketing and promotion. In fact, at the end of my time with Marqui, I do have to say I think that there’s still a lack of clarity about the product. In the next months, the bloggers going forward with the program will be writing a lot more in depth about the actual product, so there will be less hype about the hype and more focus on what Marqui really does.
I wish my fellow paid-to-blog bloggers all the best and a special thanks to the good folks at Marqui for providing such a compelling, growth-oriented experience for me.
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Posted by: Molly | 11:55 pm |
March 1st, 2005 at 11:01 am
i observed your thought process during this whole blog for cash, and i must say it is interesting to see how the mind evolves. i also considered pursuing this idea, however it was on hold until i was able to convince myself for it. i figured any sort of advertisement on a personal site needs some sort of a justification. i suppose having any level of advertisement on a personal site says ’something’ about the individual.
March 2nd, 2005 at 11:14 am
Travellogue of an internaut
Some notable nodes of interest:
Wow. This is what I’ve been imagining for some time. As soon as I have the slightest desire to be out of doors again (read: in another 2 months when it stops snowing in upstate, NY) I will be out with my GPS and came…
March 2nd, 2005 at 6:10 pm
[…] . Yahoo opens up its search API The first round of the Marqui paid-to-post experiment is coming to an end. Neologism of the day: Shufflecasting Two, two, two memes in one: […]
March 3rd, 2005 at 6:02 am
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March 7th, 2005 at 3:41 am
Marqui time again
Time for a quick post about Marqui, the software company that’s paying me and some others to blog about it and link to its demonstration site. On my to-do list this week is getting out a contract renewal that will…
March 31st, 2005 at 9:14 pm
sponsorship swan song
This, my friends, is my last sponsored post for Marqui. Or for anybody, for that matter. I’m grateful to Marc and Marqui for the opportunity to experiment with a new form of blogvertising. I have a great deal of admiration for their original and …
April 3rd, 2005 at 1:46 pm
Blog for money? No thanks.
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January 23rd, 2006 at 9:38 pm
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April 14th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
[…] At last report, several of the writers from the original crew are letting their contracts expire without renewal. Molly Holzschlag, for example, found that “[p]rimarily, I learned that I can’t blog naturally if I feel forced to do it, and that’s intriguing because I can write in just about any style. But, it turns out my blog is really personal, I take it personally, and I need it to be that way.” […]
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August 31st, 2007 at 1:13 pm
[…] This is what Marc Canter and I worked hard to avoid when we wrote the terms for the Marquis blogger program—a blogger could review product from the company and talk about it, if they wanted, or they could simply acknowledge sponsorship of their blog, just like advertising. At that time, the first time anyone provided direct financial compensation of bloggers, it was a worthy experiment that taught some good lessons. But paying people to post about a product—that being the condition for receiving payment—creates a huge ethical problem. […]
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