Will did you ask Gordon for feedback, or out on a date?

There was some great feedback in there for us and Gordon was kind enough to let me have a look at his comments before posting. I must confess when that email pinged into my inbox, my stress levels rose and mouth went dry, waiting to see the verdict. It’s a funny thing, asking for unbiased feedback and having no control over the output. I kept thinking things like “hope the server doesn’t go down! are we doing any dev roll outs?! will the paypal server time out?! hope we’re not out of stock on our top products! I wonder if we’ve missed something. I hope he likes the site! aaargh!”.

Anyway, very useful indeed, and eye opening.
This internet thing might take off, you know!

Thanks again, Gordon.

PS Adrian, Meriem has a boyfriend, so behave yourself!

Because like many bloggeurs I like to share good service and value, I often recommend this or that product/company. But because also there’ve been upfront ads on NB for about a year now, I would fully understand if readers felt I was lying. I’m not, but there’s no reason why anyone should believe that.

I think, but can’t be sure, that a paid-for text recommendation is called a blogvert.

But look at cinema and all the product placements.

Which there are, and maybe I should’ve said that but that wasn’t really what this was about, and I don’t think that was Will’s aim either…

Roll on the cinema premieres!

Although it does mean I can’t comment on Merium being cute. You know, inappropriate like.

The other difference between adverts and endorsements is if the endorse (aka Gord-man) are able to totally slag of the site if they are rubbish. If G-dawg thought Arena sucked and said he preferred BarenaFlowers then he could have, and that was a risk will was willing to take. I think that is a significant difference too.