I received the following (unsolicited) email:
Hi Andrew,
I work on the business development team of FindTheData.org, an unbiased comparison engine founded by Kevin O’Connor (founder and former CEO of DoubleClick) and backed by Kleiner Perkins with ~10M unique visitors per month.We are working with large online publishers including Golf Digest, Huffington Post, Under30CEO, and offer a variety of options to integrate our highly engaging content with your site. I believe our un-biased and reliable data resources would be of interest to you and your readers.I’d like to set up a quick call to discuss similar partnership ideas with you and would greatly appreciate 10 minutes of your time.Please suggest a couple times that work best for you or let me know if you would like me to send some more information before you make time for a call.Looking forward to hearing from you,Jonny–
JONNY KINTZELE
Business Development, FindTheData
mobile: 619-307-0976
skype: jonny.kintzele14
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It looked kinda spammy but I clicked on the link and it looked sort of interesting. I can’t imagine how it could be integrated with my site but I thought I’d pass this on to all of you. Of course, if they were to offer real money for sponsorship I’d consider it but I can’t imagine that would make sense to them.
I love the presumptuous phrasing in “let me know if you would like me to send some more information before you make time for a call”. I’d check out a company’s business model before adding anything. DoubleClick was (and still is under Google) all about tracking people’s behavior on the web.
You have to feel kinda sorry for HuffPo, which gets sandwiched between “Golf Digest” and “Under30CEO”…
Well, the website looks interesting on the surface but when you get down to doing some actual comparisons, the methods used to visualise the information aren’t very helpful. Just lists of tables and occasionally a not very well thought out coloured chart. C+ from me.