Izea Upto Their Old Tricks

Ted Murphy at Izea is a lot of things but one thing he definitely is, is a marketing expert. This weekend Ted has thanked Techcrunch and Calacanis for helping them reach 100,000 members.

“Our good friends Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis have also done a stellar job of driving traffic and making sure the entire blogosphere knows our name. We simply couldn’t afford that type of advertising if we had to buy it. I really need to find some time to write these guys a thank you card or send a fruit basket.”

There are a great deal of people out there that dont like PPP and Izea and Im curious to see out of the 100,000 member how many of them are active. Im sure the number has probably dropped drastically recently because of the Google penalties to all PPP members.

Personally I dont like the idea of bloggers posting for small fees, especially on topics that are totally inrelevant in relation to their blogs, but there also has to be a place online where companies can go and actually pay to get some good promotion from blogs such as Techcrunch etc.