As someone in the influencer marketing space (100 players when I started, over 400 now), I view crowded spaces a bit differently. It implies, to me, a validation of consumer demand -- thus, those that can properly segment their offering to satisfy specific demands and execute more efficiently can pick up the available dollars.
I built this thing for all of us who read too many books and collect too many ideas ("build things that people will miss when they're gone, take more cold showers, measure twice, cut once"). I keep reading great books or posts with great ideas and I keep forgetting to put them into action because they don't really belong on a task list.
So, the idea is you list a handful of thoughts / ideas / snippets that you should be considering and it pings you with an email randomly through the week and keeps the thought or idea in the front of your mind as you work.
Keep in mind that this is more of a monopolistic move than a quality move; Amazon was already scrubbing for a while.
1. Amazon Vine reviews are still live and will still go live -- there's no more editorial quality to them than some of the other services.
2. This policy doesn't impact book reviews, where fake reviews, incentivized reviews, and review trading is most rampant.
3. The easiest way around the policy will be for vendors to get shadier and not offer upfront discounting. Instead, you'll see non-disclosed reviews where the reviewer is compensated for the product costs afterwards. If done properly, that'd be hard to catch.
As disclosure, I'm CEO of Intellifluence, which is essentially a marketplace for reviews (one supported platform of which is Amazon). We emphasize honest reviews and have been trying to fight some of the shadier players, but this policy move isn't going to fix things...it just is a move to push Amazon's own program.
Can you share any stats on the distribution of your review scores? I'd be shocked if it didn't skew positive to highly positive since presumably those who don't rate positively would find nobody wanted them to review or would stop using your service.
This is good, but it would still be better if Bloomberg broke out top 1%, top 0.1% and then top 0.01% -- the graphing then makes it that much more obvious.
Recruiters and sales people (guilty!) tend to network exceptionally well, which means by connecting with them, you'd just significantly expanded your 2nd level connections within your own industry.
But then a recruiter I didn't know wrote me how he heared that people say I'm a real good JavaScript developer. I asked him who says this and his reference was another of these recruiters I didn't know.
