Great Seattle Affiliate Meet-up
Last Saturday was the latest in the Seattle Affiliate monthly meet-ups. This time we had a record of about 18 people that showed up. There were a lot of new faces and the familiar ones also. It was great talking with them and I even learned a couple of new tricks.
It was also announced that myself and Edward Jiang will be the new Seattle Affiliate Meet-up organizers. I’m really looking forward to it take on the new challenge. Edward is currently on vacation, but soon as he gets back we will plan the next meeting.
Unfortunately it was so busy and we were talking the whole time that I didn’t get a chance to take and pictures of the actual meet up. Afterwards, a group of us headed out for the night. We ate at the Blue C Sushi and then headed to GameWorks in downtown Seattle where we held the first Seattle Affiliate Video Game Car Race and Wes Mahler won, not only once but twice!
Then it was off to The Cheesecake Factory for more grub and some great conversation. All in all it was a great evening and looking forward to the next one.
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Enter the UBD 1-Year Anniversary Contest
In celebration of Unique Blog Designs one-year birthday, Nate and the guys are running a contest for the remainder of August (until Sunday, August 31st). The contest is open to everyone.
So, what are the prizes?
Grand Prize - Brand New 8GB iPod Touch ($299 value) and One (1) Copy of our New UBD Citrus WordPress Theme (coming next week).
Three (3) runner-up prizes include copies of our new UBD Citrus WordPress Theme. ($99.00 value)
So how do you enter?
Entering the UBD 1-Year Anniversary Contest is super simple!
• For one (1) contest entry - just reply to this post with a comment. Only one comment per person will be counted.
• For five (5) contest entries - write a blog post about the UBD 1-Year Anniversary Contest and link back to this post. If your blog post does not appear under the “Pingbacks,” leave a comment with a URL to the post.
The winner will be randomly chosen Monday, September 1st, 2008. We will draw the winner via streaming video from the UBD office.
Unique has designed some great blogs, including this one. Some of the other blogs that UBD have designed include Zac Johnson, Israel Lagares over at Fat Man Unleashed, and Paul at UberAffiliate, plus many more.
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Biggest Seattle Affiliate Meet Up Yet?
Looks like we are going to have a great turnout at tomorrow’s Seattle Area Affiliates Meet up. Besides myself, Wes Mahler, Steven Truong, both from the 202 network of sites, looks like Greg Morgan of BCM Blog is coming down from Vancouver BC, along with Edward Jiang, and about 15 others, this maybe are biggest meet up yet. I’m really looking forward to this one. I keep saying I am going to take some pictures, this time I will.
So if you’re interested in going here are the details:
When: Saturday, August 23, 2008 2:30 PM
Where: Barnes and Noble
2675 NE University Village St
Seattle WA 98105
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NeverBlueAds Update
According to my (now former) AM at NeverBlue, I will be getting paid via wire transfer this morning. So we will see. I will update as soon as I hear something. It’s really a shame that it has come to this, but sometimes blog posts seem to put things in motion faster.
Edit:I successfully received my wire transfer yesterday and had a great talk with my AM and he completely understands for me pulling all my campaigns with them. So I will still stand firm and I will not be using NeverBlueAds anytime soon. It’s nothing personal, it’s just business.
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NeverBlueAds You Failed!
Okay so here it goes…
So it all started back in May when I received my first check from NeverBlueAds, for April’s revenue. The check arrived to me without my physical street address on it, just had my name, city, state and zip, somehow it got to me. So of course my first phone was to NBA and letting my AM know about the error. I figured that was the end of it, well I was wrong.
So June comes for May’s revenue, about the 21st and still nothing I called my AM and asked him to look into it, all I wanted to know was my check sent to me again without my address on it. My AM said that he would look into it and get back to me. Well he did, just to tell me that it was sent out on the 15th and that was it. He told me to call back in a week if I haven’t received it.
A week later still no check. So I called and guess what? He’s on vacation, so I call the front desk and asked to speak to the accounting department and she tells me that I need to speak with my AM and before I could say he is on vacation, bam I was in his voice mail.
So I decided to call my business development manager, I know this is not his job to handle the situation, but I was getting pissed off. So he gave me the same answer, the check was sent out on the 15th NBA all I wanted to know was my check sent out with my physical address on it, Is it that fuckin’ hard?
Now we are in the first week of August and still no check (Frm May’s revenue), no communication from NBA letting me know that maybe my check was sent back to them with no address on it and they will send out a new one. Nada! Nothing!
So again I call up my AM to get this situation taken care of, because now it’s not about the money it’s about the principle and customer service. I was told he would check on it and get back to me. Check on it? This is being going on for well over a month now. So a few days later, I had to call and find out what is going on and he tells me that he hasn’t heard back from accounting yet. So he says he will go down and talk to them and find out what’s going on. Well what the hell have you been doing every time I call? He calls me back and lets me know that my check will be sent out with my July’s check.
So today I am still waiting for both checks.
One thing I did find out is that NBA offers PayPal payments; you would have thought with the problems I was having they would have offered me that, but again, no communication.
So I have pulled all my NeverBlue campaigns and I have chosen to no longer do business with them. I am sure I’m going to hear from people about how NeverBlueAds is a great company and they have never had problems with them, I am not saying they are a bad company; they just didn’t work out for me.
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