{"id":2886,"date":"2008-11-14T08:14:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T14:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2012-05-19T10:19:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:19:17","slug":"shop-to-earn-please-get-my-web-address-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/shop-to-earn-please-get-my-web-address-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop to Earn: Please Get My web Address Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a lame, half-hearted attempt to counteract the truths posted here about Shop To Earn and Shop To Earth, the company has started an &#8220;official&#8221; blog. The blog tells readers next to nothing, but is a place for STE brokers to high-five each other about the company. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The company is so surprised that anyone visited the blog, that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2008\/11\/13\/idUS87883+13-Nov-2008+MW20081113\"> they issued a press release about it<\/a>. They&#8217;re thrilled that they had 2,500 visitors and 50 comments in the first 48 hours. That&#8217;s actually a little sad, since the company claims they have 45,000 members\/brokers who each received the announcement about the blog. (That means that even if <strong>all<\/strong> their visitors were members, only 5.5% of the members cared about the blog!)<\/p>\n<p>I even got a mention in the press release, but sadly, ShopToEarn got my web address wrong:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This blog is our official voice online. With certain sources spreading misinformation on the web, we wanted to make sure the real facts were available,&#8221; said Shop To Earn CEO, Dan Swiniarski. &#8220;Writers on blogs like fraudfiles.com base their information on inaccurate facts that are one-sided. We wanted to give our members a chance to speak for themselves.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to mention that in the early days of our discussions here on STE, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2008\/07\/14\/shop-to-earn-lawyer-bullying-bloggers\/\">their attorney, Gerald Nehra<\/a>, tried to stop the negative legitimate criticism of the program. I invited him to point out any inaccuracies in my posts so that I could amend them. Of course, he never pointed out any.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is a noble effort by ShopToEarn to get better search engine rankings. Hopefully soon more of their brokers will actually care about their blog, and they won&#8217;t have to issue silly, useless press releases about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a lame, half-hearted attempt to counteract the truths posted here about Shop To Earn and Shop To Earth, the company has started an &#8220;official&#8221; blog. The blog tells readers next to nothing, but is a place for STE brokers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[184],"tags":[918,919,885,886],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pyramid-schemes-mlm","tag-gerald-nehra","tag-gerry-nehra","tag-shop-to-earn","tag-shop-to-earth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-Ky","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}