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Changing the Guard: Chris Garrett Takes Over as CEO

Whilst planning our strategy for 2007, I came to the realization that this year, I was not the best person to lead the community, and that what we really needed was a totally fresh perspective on The Performancing Blog Ad Network and a community-centric approach to growing our business.

The best person to do this, is Chris Garrett. Without any shadow of a doubt.

Chris has been with us since day #1 and has not only lead the technology side of the company, but consistently been a favorite author on the Performanicng blog, and on the quiet, is an outstanding ideas man and marketer.

I know Chris will want to post himself, and layout some plans in due course, so for now, please welcome Chris Garrett as the new Performancing CEO.

Here’s to a fantastic 2007 everyone!

Comment Contest is a Winning Idea

I love contests and competitions as a way of bringing in readers, links and in this case comments to brand new blogs 451 Press have a bunch of new blogs going out and Chrispian Burks was nice enough to ask me if it was ok to post that thread in the forums — absolutey! More details on the 451 press site.

December Payments Sent

publishers in the soon to be renamed Performancing Partners blog ad network will be pleased to know that payments went out without hitch this month 🙂

After the fiasco last month with PayPal they’d bloody well better have done eh?

Happy new year everyone!

Performancing Member Issues Answered

Ted over at PayPerPost has been answering questions from the Performancing community in a recent blog post. If you have questions or comments do pop over and jump into the comments…

Scribefire

As most of you know, Performancing Firefox, our free blog editor for Firefox, will be rebranded, and relaunched under a new name in 2007.

That name is Scribefire.

With well over 400k downloads on Mozilla alone, Scribefire is an awesome project, and one I take particular pride in, having been privilged to shape it’s development over the last year.

We’re looking for developers and designers to join the new project, so if you think it would interest/benefit you to be involved, please email me at [email protected]

thanks everyone, and happy new year!

Performancing and PayPerPost

No doubt many of you will have heard the good news that PayPerPost have agreed to aquire certain parts of Performancing.

There appears to be some small confusion over what parts of Performancing the guys at PayPerPost have agreed to aquire, so aswell as posting this on my personal blog, i’ll reiterate here so that everyone is as clear as can be.

This does not include the Partners ad network, and does not include PFF, our free blog editor for firefox. Details will go out shortly, but the bottom line is that we’ll be moving those parts of Performancing to new domains and new brands.

We’re all very excited about the deal. It gives Metrics a chance to truly flourish, and the community an opportunity to grow and continue to discuss the business of blogging.

Clearly there’s a ton of stuff to do to make this all go smoothly, so do excuse me while i rush around like a madman trying to do it all in time….

Your thoughts on Auto Pricing

Of all the features of the partners blog ad network, Auto pricing, the mechanism we use to determine a blogs monthly charge for advertisers, seems to cause the most contraversy and support posts in the forums.

This doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad thing, but I would like to find out your opinions on it as Im rather inclined to do away with it and set a flat rate for every blog unless the blog owner edits it to suit themselves.

Let me know what you think. The decision hasn’t been made so if it’s important to you, take a moment to influence it by sharing your opinion…