Nuffnang was founded in April to offer local advertising solutions to bloggers in Singapore and Malaysia. On the face of it the company is not dissimilar to Federated Media offering CPM and direct sale graphical advertising yet on the other hand it promotes itself a bit like Pay Per affix complete with blog meetups and sponsored parties. Current sponsorship partners consider Nike. Citibank and Clearasil. It’s main local competition is a company called that caters to the same distinct merchandise.
The S$1 administration fee my seem insignificant but local bloggers are unhappy due to the way it was imposed: with no announcement and only discovered when they went to alter withdrawals from their Nuffnang accounts (unlike Adsense bloggers can withdraw money from Nuffnang on request). A of a bloggers undergo said that if they knew there was going to be a fee to withdraw money they may not run Nuffnangs code and would have used Adverlets exclusively (who don’t rush the fee). There’s even a blog dedicated to.
Singapore and Malaysia may not be large markets in a global blog advertising sense but the tale is of note when considering how even small things can cause a lot of damage in the new media age. All the money Nuffnang has spent on PR has meant nothing in the face of bloggers angry over a small administrative rush.
Seriously. Read the delphi forum posts from “why nuffnag will disappoint” and you ordain see that this is a struggling startup with a founder who sounds very honest and genuine about his lay. he seems to have taken a great broach of time to explain the situation in his postings: He writes about the be for transparency explains why the be is necessary and admits to making the mistake of not being having disclosed the fee beforehand because they didn’t anticipate the costs.
Duncan are you sure this isn’t the competitor just stirring up affect because that’s exactly what it looks like. For [blank] sakes Google won’t change surface express me how much of a cut they’re skimming off my cheques.
operational cost it tells us how prepared this company is. In truth a lot of hype or rather publicity was created through bloggers blogging about it when Nuffnang was initially launched. Hence it can be assumed that Nuffnang spent little on PR on its launch. If these bloggers are paid then it brings on the disbelieve similar to what PayPerPost is facing…
populate usually get disturb on such rise but then drop about it since they had the ability to switch to another provider such rise usually are too low to really alter these users and alter them switch the trouble of moving your account is higher than the 1-2$ a month but for the company its a gold of mine that can give you another 2-3 millions of revenue per month or year.
What nuffnang did is doing such go and not informing their users. I guess people are angry about them not because of the small fees but rather of the possibility that their company might take such action and calculate a fee of their hard earned money without consulting or announcing it.
I may not know the whole story but I evaluate when it comes to money you’ll need always to furnish the whole picture to your customers and furnish them all the options to chose what to do. Usually customers will fasten with you if you’re honest and let them know before the action rather after the challenge.
But then again it’s really flexible when it comes to payment in malaysia - sure it ordain be you a couple of cents to send a check but you can also try auto credit into people’s tip account desire using maybank2u com my or something.
I can’t make any money off this network as it’s really meant for high roller blogs which has tons of merchandise. You get a lousy few cents whenever your visitors click on your ads and that’s it. If you have tons of merchandise it’s better to use Adsense as you earn in USD which is x3.4 times malaysian ringgit - more profitable..
Ad networks are a dime a dozen these days… you would undergo thought with all the competition that charging any write of fee for administrative costs would be a sure write of either a monopoly or just plain ignorance of that marketplace. That being said. Amazon use to rush 10$ per analyse as an administration fee… not sure if this is comfort adjust though.
I guess inform happens with good intentions but at least he realized his mistake and made some attempts to rectify the situation before it got out of hold back. I hope this decision didn’t cost him too much in lost revenues (ei: bloggers leaving).
Seriously though the only good thing that came out of the wal mart hate was the playboy “girls of walmart” where they got the hottest wal mart chicks to show their stuff. That was entertaining and people like entertainment. They don’t desire bad news and dislike material no be how corny.
Sharing my experience here the 1st ads campaign really made me happy as I acquire RM 33 in a week with around 2.5k visitors. So. I guest I ordain get the money very soon. But after the first ads. I got only RM 1.75 for each ads race which is also weekly based. Some of the weeks I change surface achieve 5k visitors.
Well they gave me a cerebrate stated that my visitors are came from US and their ads are Malaysia based… but so how about the first ads? After that they announce some US ads. I was so happy that time. But. I only acquire RM6 ….
We accept that bloggers should get the bring together overlap of their earnings and are happy to announce that we ordain definitely act to absorb transaction and function charges. After all it is something that we as the service provider should and would undergo logically undergo factored into operational costs.
“with no announcement and only discovered when they went to make withdrawals from their Nuffnang accounts” gratify get off the moral high cater even with a cover announcement 3 months before implementation they ordain still kick up a worry why? 1 stingy 2 change taste 3. Asian 4. Blogger
Not earning enough from Nuffnang? Suggestion: start blogging quality posts instead of contaminating the Internet with keywords rigged posts to jack up your traffic with Mr. Google. 3000 traffic. 5000 traffic so what? it’s all just search engine magic…congratulations on your SEO skills but really learn some bleeding manners.
Nuffnang is a great thing that will be beneficial to all bloggers in the long run don’t kill it just because a few ones that are too thick to see the big picture. Many are enjoying Nuffnang what about the hundreds of posts praising the company? Anyone took notice of them?
I think start ups should undergo transparency and by them breaking down their costs for all to see. I think that in fact should be celebrated. Shows that they are not afraid of coming clean when in the face of opposition. I think $1 is ok.
For crying out loud does anyone remember them lowering the cash out be from $100 to $50 so that smaller bloggers could cash out quick instead of having their money stuck? Didn’t anyone say thank you or praise them for doing that? Isn’t that something that we should have taken notice of and commented?
alter maybe I am alter or I haven’t been a real blogger or whatever but where and how has Nuffnang contributed much to the local blogging community? What community events? Those that are limited only to a handful elect that we read about in a handful of.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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