ERAC Strikes!!!

[GP51Sux]

Admin,

Don't know if you've had it happen or not, but 2 out of the last 5 times to your board, I had an Enterprise Popup happen!!!

It looks like they are trying to get into internet scammy advertising, and have aparently gotten to your site. Obviously you know how the net works better than me, but can a popup advertiser target a particular site to piggyback??

I hate popups, and I hate ERAC!!!! LOL!!!

[GP51Sux]

BLAH!!!!! It happened again. Has anyone else had this happen???

[FailingEnterpriseAdmin]

Originally Posted by GP51Sux

Admin,

Don't know if you've had it happen or not, but 2 out of the last 5 times to your board, I had an Enterprise Popup happen!!!

It looks like they are trying to get into internet scammy advertising, and have aparently gotten to your site. Obviously you know how the net works better than me, but can a popup advertiser target a particular site to piggyback??

I hate popups, and I hate ERAC!!!! LOL!!!

Sorry I didn't see this post until just now.

Just to make sure everybody understands: FailingEnterprise.com doesn't sell or host any sort of ads in any form, and especially not pop-ups, so the ads must have been generated by some other method.

One possibility is that your ISP is inserting them into your HTTP sessions after analyzing your traffic. This probably isn't the case, as customers would be really pissed if they did this.

Far more likely is that you've got yourself some sort of adware on your PC (similar to an unwanted virus, but it inserts targeted ads into your web-browsing sessions) and it's analyzing your web traffic and deciding what sort of ad to present to you. Enterprise must have contracted with an adware company to do this. This is generally considered really bad manners and sleazy in the Internet community.

I recommend you run scanning software to delete these programs. I've used Ad-Aware, from www.lavasoft.com and I've been happy with it.

Or here's another possibility: Enterprise undoubtedly pays for these ads by the click-through, and the cost per click could be significant. If you were to click-through on those ads every time you see one, you'd be taking money out of Enterprise's pocket. Eventually, after seeing their ad effectiveness decline, they'd figure out this isn't the best place to place their ads.

Click away. Burn up some of their marketing dollars. They're idiots to associate their ads with FailingEnterprise.com. They'll learn.

Admin

[FailingEnterpriseAdmin]

Originally Posted by GP51Sux

BLAH!!!!! It happened again. Has anyone else had this happen???

See today's blog entry where I talk about this some more.

Admin

[gp65:(]

I first discovered this website when I was a bright-eyed MT. I felt indignant that someone had the nerve to say such lies about my fair ERAC. Now, a year later, jaded, and exhausted, I am very grateful to have this site to share my experiences. For a company where the TRUTH is unacceptable, and if you speak up there are dire consequences, this site is almost like a support group for the disenchanted.

Tomorrow, I am faced with 8 Natres' first thing and one car. We're not even sold out online! Hopefully, we can schmooze our way out of this pickle. If not, maybe those customers will go online and start their own complaint sites. :) It's funny, if they complain to our higher ups, this will turn out to be our fault at the branch somehow. Except that we don't have any control over the buying, selling, demand, etc. We stopped booking deals or taking walkups yesterday....

[GP57 Dropout]

Originally Posted by FailingEnterpriseAdmin

Sorry I didn't see this post until just now.

Just to make sure everybody understands: FailingEnterprise.com doesn't sell or host any sort of ads in any form, and especially not pop-ups, so the ads must have been generated by some other method.

One possibility is that your ISP is inserting them into your HTTP sessions after analyzing your traffic. This probably isn't the case, as customers would be really pissed if they did this.

Far more likely is that you've got yourself some sort of adware on your PC (similar to an unwanted virus, but it inserts targeted ads into your web-browsing sessions) and it's analyzing your web traffic and deciding what sort of ad to present to you. Enterprise must have contracted with an adware company to do this. This is generally considered really bad manners and sleazy in the Internet community.

I recommend you run scanning software to delete these programs. I've used Ad-Aware, from www.lavasoft.com and I've been happy with it.

Or here's another possibility: Enterprise undoubtedly pays for these ads by the click-through, and the cost per click could be significant. If you were to click-through on those ads every time you see one, you'd be taking money out of Enterprise's pocket. Eventually, after seeing their ad effectiveness decline, they'd figure out this isn't the best place to place their ads.

Click away. Burn up some of their marketing dollars. They're idiots to associate their ads with FailingEnterprise.com. They'll learn.

Admin

I just stumbled upon this post...as someone in the advertising business, just about all companies, now a days, will only pay per click for unique users. This is to prevent people from doing what you had suggested. So click away all you want, you're only wasting your own time and you may have cost ERAC $ .25.