July 30, 2008
What About The Asian Bloggers..??
A few months ago .. there was a town hall meeting with Ted Murphy to catch up on things. In the meeting I had asked Ted Murphy a few questions. Below is what I had asked.. for the Asian community and the Asian bloggers. The whole transcript can be found here.
Mama BoK: Ted, I’m very concern about no available opps .. for the asian community.. some resort to putting their addresses in australia.. just to get opps.. ??? Is the asian market dead..?? should we just tell asian bloggers to pack up..??
Ted Murphy: I don’t know about dead, but we surely don’t see as many asain focused advertisers as we do us focused advertisers. I know the internet is global, but advertisers tend to want to focus media buys.
Mama BoK: Ted, I know where you and the advertisers are coming from.. but we have many asian bloggers on PPP and I feel for them. Maybe some advertisers from Asia.. can help..??
Ted Murphy: Yes… if you can help us get them! : )
It has been a few months since the meeting.. and yes.. I’ve seen some opps for the Asian community but not really a lot. May I suggest, if you are an Asian blogger .. to please leave suggestions.. as to what can be done to help the Asian bloggers get more jobs.. on a more regular basis..?? Maybe someone can hook up Tim from Nuffnang with Ted Murphy from Izea. Maybe they can do something together..??
I find it awfully sad.. when an Asian blogger is so desperate as to lie and say that they are living in Australia or United States, just to get opps. Or worse.. some who are veteran bloggers.. but continue to hold opportunities by submitting them against the TOS. Perhaps you know someone who works for some big hotel chain or travel agency.. that can use Asian bloggers to advertise for them.. thru’ Izea or Social Spark..?? Perhaps you know of some legal firm .. who could use some advertising or word of mouth.. thru’ Izea or Social Spark..?? Perhaps.. My Mom’s Kitchen or Prima Taste can do a food tasting .. by our Asian Bloggers thru’ Izea or Social Spark..?? Perhaps you want to lend a helping hand to your fellow Asian bloggers..?? Any suggestions or follow thru’ I’m sure will help. Lets brain storm shall we..??
“Humility is the defining characteristic of an unpretentious and modest person, someone who does not think that he or she is better or more important than others.”
Ya, there is actually a market for blog advertising from the asian countries. nuffnang only limited to malaysia, if i am not wrong. may be someone can be a middleman to help find advertisers from asia (china, japan, taiwan, thailand, indonesia, or more) and introduce izea and socialspark to them.
Comment by whoisbaby — July 30, 2008 @ 1:01 am
I would love to share or help but some of the terms are pretty blur to me. Is opps short form for something cause I can only imagine it is and not the “oppss” the first time I read the post
Cheers!!!
Comment by hyelbaine — July 30, 2008 @ 10:18 am
well…i would love to help in any way…hey we all need more ops…i need to add to my “tabung susu bayi”…
Comment by fashionasia — July 30, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
Not many Asian advertisers are willing to pay USD. Blog advertising is also too new to them.
Anyway, Izea or PPP, I have not log into my account for months. You keep up the good work while there are still opps.
Comment by Immomsdaughter — July 31, 2008 @ 2:34 am
how wonderful of you to think of us. err what can you say about some asian bloggers having wider audiences from America?
Comment by Girie — August 2, 2008 @ 3:40 am
although u’re getting opps more than Asian bloggers, You still think of us. very nice of you. Someone told me about his plan to start up something like this. Maybe he can make a difference for us.
Comment by sasha — August 5, 2008 @ 10:51 pm