Monster getting desperate?
On several occasions over the last month, a large, tacky Monster.com truck has parked in front of our SF office, and proceeded to blast loud music, to the point where our front offices were rendered unfit for working. On the latest occasion, a few of our techies asked the driver to turn down the music, which he was nice enough to do.
He actually turned out to be a sterling fellow, who clearly felt bad about what he’d been asked to do. He was good enough to allow us to photocopy his marching orders (that’s him holding the fax in photo), which are excerpted below:
“For San Francisco the concept is that we want to make sure this address is on the loop drivers take and if they can be close by during the morning commute, lunch time (noon thru 2) and 5pm-6pm, that would be ideal. For the rest of the time, please drive through high-pedestrian traffic city locations. If you can get a picture of the truck parked in front of the Craigslist address, that would be great.”
Is it possible that Monster is “green” with envy, now that our job boards alone receive more employment-related traffic than all of monster.com?
April 17th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Monster is a horrible service. They claim to get people jobs-wrong. All they do is spam your e-mail with job “matches”.
April 18th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
I can not believe that sent him to your office! And that truck is very unattractive.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:17 am
That is hilarious! You would think that a company such a Monster, wouldn’t stoop to that level. HA HA HA You guys rock!
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Monster isn’t as good as Craig’s List - except for one thing. Spam. I can go through Monster’s listings and expect a fairly minimal amount of it, although there’s some. CL Jobs, on the other hand, is overrun with spammers.
Right now, you guys are neck and neck with Monster, so far as I’m concerned. Do something about the spam (PLEASE do something about the spam), and you’ll go way, way ahead.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
hmmm. Do you think that is why Ebay had their listing promo in April and for the first time ever it was sponsored by someone? It was sponsored by MONSTER.COM, woweee
http://pages.ebay.com/promo/10centPS/
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
This is the ultimate non-response. And it makes them look helpless.
Why doesn’t Monster just improve its product instead?
August 6th, 2008 at 5:47 am
WELL LEO FOR YOUR INFORMATION CRAGLIST IS WAY BETTER THAN LOW CLASS SUCKY SITE MONSTER CRAIGSLIST PWNS WOOHOOO!
September 9th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
This is in response to the remark about spam on Craigs List. If you are searching for a job and click on a job posting that is clearly spam, flag it as spam. Dont be afraid to flag them. If everybody did that, they will eventually quit posting on Craigs list
May 6th, 2009 at 11:18 am
I started off wondering how I might post something to the Craig’s List job board, but remained uncertain about the “spam” policies. What I want to communicate is that in this down economy we have to work together to figure out how we can create new jobs. So, I am am organizing a music centric Unconference in Detroit, which needed jobs long before everybody else had problems.
I think that anyone who has attended Full Sail University or similar program should be interested in how people can help each other to learn about the music business through interacting online, starting your own local meetup or participating in an Unconference. Full Sail graduates and other like minded people could become members of a new category of music industry worker that I have been calling a “Digital Music Coach.” I’ve been lighting a fire to get this started, but I don’t want to run or control it. Thus, I am seeking others to participate in this “Open Source” style of approach, whether or not you graduated from Full Sail University
MusicBizCamp on May 21 - 22, 2009 in Detroit is about sharing knowledge to create new jobs for a new music industry. Imagine applying the philosophy of the Wikipedia to a New Music Industry, but not just online. Everyone can participate and present in this Unconference. We’ll conclude just as the Electronic Music Festival begins in Detroit, May 23 - 25, 2009. So come for both!
I’m Ron Suarez (aka dr.ron) and my startup Loud Feed is sponsoring MusicBizCamp: The First Music Unconference, Detroit09.