Remember Bido spamming people on DNForum?
Well they’ve also decided it would be a “good idea” to spam bloggers asking for a review.
*sigh*
I get a lot of email to both my personal and work email addresses every single day, so sometimes I don’t spot an email immediately. Since it’s a Saturday I decided I’d go back over some of the less important emails I’d received over the last couple of days when I came across this really stupid email from Bido:
My name is Andrew Laskaris with Bido.com – the
one-domain-per-day Social Auction Platform. I’d like to take a moment to
let you know that Bido is back! We took a technical hiatus for the past few
months to rebuild our architecture, and we’re finally returning auctions
with a big splash. I’d like to get you to visit our site and perhaps
post a review on your blog about our Social Auction service.Check out our site of course, but here are some
pointers about Bido to get you started:
Mainly we are trying to relay the image to people that we are a Social Auction
platform, so that should certainly get a mention. More on this later.
We also feature Trackbacks so we give incentive for bloggers to link to us, as
we will give a permanent link back.
We’re also happy to announce that we will be soon opening the Bido
platform to extend beyond domain names, it’s a Social Auction platform
that can be used in almost any industry, such as classic cars for example. More
on this later.
Expert Members get many benefits of participation, details below, along with
some more info and strong points of Bido to help you understand what we do, who
we are, the vision, how the site works, etc.Bido was founded on the principal that the domain name industry needs change
and we expect the revolutionary means in which auctions are conducted online
will contribute to this change.Bido.com is focused on auctions in the domain name industry. Domains
names are equivalent to online real estate, and getting a good name these days
is hard. A number of companies have sprung up with made-up names or
unique names that leave out vowels, such as flickr.com.
This is because they cannot register regular domains as they have all been
gobbled up long ago.Bido.com focuses on one good domain name a day, so people both within the
domain name industry and outside the domain name industry have a chance to
acquire great domains at fair market value via our auction.The one domain a day auction allows a lot of people to focus on the value of
one domain, instead of having to search through thousands of domain listings to
find a domain they may or may not want.We pick one domain from thousands of submissions we receive on a weekly
basis. We write a description about the domain’s potential uses, find
videos that correspond with that domain to try to visualize our description,
and then we market the domain the domain around to our contacts, partners, and
end-users identified as possessing an interest in the domain at hand. The
auction lasts one hour and starts at 1:00PM EST. The starting price is always
$1.00.Members submit domains with no reserve and let the market determine the final
selling price, while the Bido team ensures the technology and brand are there
to ensure the maximum sale price that the market will bear.The type of format we use for auctions is unique, as is the platform and
technology we use to push the domain names up for auction.We have built our own, proprietary “push technology.” The technology
allows us to push all of the bidding prices, the bidding history, high bidder
status, and other information directly to the user – without requiring
the user to refresh his Web page. All information is updated in real time and
no action is needed from the user – as far as domain auctions go, this is
completely unique.Bido uses trackbacks so if you link to an auction, we will detect it and send a
linkback from our trackback system. Each linkback is admin-approved, so if you
don’t see it right away, give it a little bit of time for Bido to review the
link and approve the linkback. The linkback will appear just above the array of
Expert Commentaries.
This is an incentive for bloggers to get benefits from participating. The
linkback is a reciprocal link from the Bido.com site and will help the blog
gain more weight in the search engines.Being an expert member helps the person to build their brand, market their
name, gain exposure and recognition in the industry.
Who are Bido.com Experts:* Direct navigation experts
* Domain name development experts
* Domain name investors
* Search engine optimization experts
* Brand managers
* Marketing executives
* And some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the
business world today.Benefits of being an Expert Member:
* Expert reviews on Bido.com will be viewed by thousands of
people everyday providing increased recognition for yourself and your company.
* Being featured on one of the most popular domain name
auction websites in the world will increase your credibility and standing in
the domain community.
* Bido.com will keep a history of every auction so you can
refer to your comments for years to come. Search engines will also index your
comments further strengthening your web presence.
* Your profile will give users the ability to communicate
with you directly and allow you to highlight your personal and professional
interests. In exchange for contributing your time and domain knowledge,
Bido.com will help you connect with new clients and build your own business.The Bido platform is much more than domain name auctions, however.
Soon we will open the Bido platform and let other people operate their own
auction channel.
The Social Auction Platform can be used in a plethora of industries.So these are some key points about Bido, to give you an overview of the
platform. In your review, if you would like to link to a specific auction URL,
we will approve a link back to your blog. It takes approximately an hour for
that link on our site to go live.Your readers will certainly applaud you for identifying Bido as a site of
interest to them.Also, we have a Facebook group we would like you to join:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=51023537523
We have a LinkedIn group as well:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1171027
And if you would like to follow us on Twitter, this is our profile link:
http://twitter.com/bidodotcomWe can expand upon this later if you need additional information. Feel free to
give me a call at 800-611-Bido if you have any questions and you would like to
speak with me. Thanks for your attention and I look forward to reading and
hearing your thoughts. Please send me a link to your blog post should you
decide to do a writeup on us.Best regards,
Andrew Laskaris
www.Bido.com
Idiots!
Why do I get the distinct impression that the Bido spammers are not going to stop spamming any time soon?
So now the question is whether I should email the spammers to give them links to my blog posts about them, or if they have any semblance of a clue (doubtful, admittedly) maybe I’ll just wait until they find them by themselves …
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