Comments on: Performancing Closes Partners Advertising Network

By: Markus Merz

Markus Merz — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:58:47 +0000

I first felt bad when they closed personal blogs. It didn’t look too bad to outsiders first but my personal blog RSS feed at p.com vanished … and I couldn’t post to p.com with the Firefox plugin.

No words from me about the partners network but the quality of the forum entries vanished and everything became partners related.

The closedown of PMetrics beside all internal technical and financial discussions: Bad, very bad move.

Let me get back my blog again and let the party start again.

And yes, I still very much like and recommend the Firefox plugin …

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By: George

George — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:29:11 +0000

I also agree with your point Darren.

Performancing was in my list of top 3 blogs, before they slowed down their posting. I am sure Chris has good plans for it and look forward to seeing what direction he takes the company.

By: Ollie

Ollie — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:33:07 +0000

Like most people here, I also enjoyed Performacing the most when it was an informative and stimulating blog. The posts written by Chris and Nick were really helpful, and like here at ProBlogger.net, put across in a friendly and inviting manner. I do hope Chris returns the site to what it once was.

By the way and as a complete aside, I love John Chow’s advert below. In case it doesn’t come up, it appears to be a Google ad that says “I Love Darren Rowse” and then John’s URL. Classy!

By: siong1987

siong1987 — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:42:32 +0000

As expected, Performancing will close its Partners Advertising Network down. I don’t think that it is because of the bandwidth problem. Instead, it is because of the poor performance of the network.

The network actually didn’t help bloggers to get extra income for their blogs. I did a review about Performancing Partner Ads here – It’s Time To Say Stop To Performancinng Ad.

By: Stuart Robinson

Stuart Robinson — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:33:13 +0000

I totally agree Darren.

I loved Performancing when they just had their blog. I would wait with baited breath, much like Problogger’s content, for the next post.

Then I just got lost….

By: Martin Neumann

Martin Neumann — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:05:09 +0000

It is pretty sad – more so for Chris whom I respect as a blogger – when Performancing first started and they were basically just a blog Chris’s posts were the one’s that interested me the most.

Their plugin is their best asset, by far – shame they had to re-badge it. I’m willing to bet they’d like to put it back into Performancing. If that’s there feeling I’d just do – better to go back to what was working and take a little heat.

Even though their dealings with PPP (which never went through) seemed to start their downfall, I got this feeling there were problems way before that – I’m guessing a lack of focus.

An ad network is very intensive in all sort of ways – money, time, servers, adv, publishers, payouts etc … so I don;t think we should “bash” them for failing – at least they gave it a shot.

Darren – your last paragraph is spot on – they should go back to square one with the group blog and forums.

By: Enblogopedia

Enblogopedia — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:42:30 +0000

Well I couldn’t use Performancing Partners, but still sad for these guys..
Anyway I think you are right:

I loved Performancing the most when it was just a blog. They produced amazing content and generated wonderful conversations. Perhaps it’s time to go back to that?

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:28:37 +0000

Emily – I think that’s all just speculation.

I do get the sense that Chris has found himself in a tough spot with this one but what is behind it is anyone’s guess and I suspect won’t ever come to light. Sounds like a tough situation for all involved from what I can see.

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:08:36 +0000

Looks to me like Chris got screwed over here.

Being made ‘CEO’ only to have to close everything down while those who might have caused the problems hide in the back rooms?

To me it all started to go downhill when Text-Link-Ads got sold. Wasn’t it previously owned by the same people as Performancing? I’m just guessing but there seems to be more to this than is being talked about.

By: Chris Baskind

Chris Baskind — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:03:41 +0000

Yeah, I feel for Chris, too. He had no time to act.

Darren, you’ve made a very constructive suggestion as to Performancing’s future. I’ve learned that in business — as in life — when things don’t feel right, it’s sometimes best to go back to whatever you were doing the last time things clicked.

By: Owen Cutajar

Owen Cutajar — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:54:22 +0000

I got to know Performancing through their FireFox plugin. I think it’s their best asset, didn’t really care much about their Partners programme

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:29:52 +0000

Allen – PPP didn’t end up bying any of them.

By: Mary-Ann Horley

Mary-Ann Horley — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:12:26 +0000

yes, it was an excellent blog but I think the add-on ideas were a bit me-too

By: Grayson De Ritis

Grayson De Ritis — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:54:28 +0000

Never was a “Performancing” (what a stupid name) fan.

By: Allen.H

Allen.H — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:49:58 +0000

I predicted the start of the fall of Performancing from the day PayPerPost got their hands on them, or part of them. I love(d) their blog posts and discussions, but I think they expanded to many different fields too fast.

Allen.H