BannersBroker – the plot thickens (or the waters muddied?!). StellarPoint??

by phil on January 11, 2013

Well, I just got a very interesting email with a Word document attached. Here it is:

Who or what is StellarPoint and why are they saying these things about me!? Who or what is StellarPoint and why are they saying these things about me!?

The email looks like this:

Must be nice to have a middle name that is the company you're working for! Must be nice to have a middle name that is the company you’re working for!

The problem is – I don’t advertise BB (as anyone who reads this would know!). I never have. I am a publisher!

Who is StellarPoint? Where do they fit into the mix?

Well – here is the whois info about StellarPoint:

StellarPoint.ca whois

Seems they’ve only been registered a few months.

I have responded, saying that I don’t know what they are talking about.

Has anyone else received an email like this?

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BannersBroker – I’m getting heavily quoted!

by phil on December 23, 2012

Hi everybody.

Recently I’ve noticed a significant increase in traffic here to philsmy.com. It seems there are a lot of people interested in what I have to say about BannersBroker (and interested in Banners Broker I guess!).

One of the places I am getting a lot of traffic from is ‘The Motley Fool’ message boards. This is nice as I’ve been a Fool member for year! You can see that thread here: http://boards.fool.co.uk/banners-broker-12595908.aspx?sort=whole

Again, if you have any personal experience as a publisher in the banner’s broker network I’d love to here it. Please comment here or send me a message.

 

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