Comments on: Lijit Search Widget Improves, lands b5media deal

By: Lijit Gets $7M more of funding, will open Ad Network | Widgets Lab

Lijit Gets $7M more of funding, will open Ad Network | Widgets Lab — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:37:30 +0000

[...] what the improving and consolidation of idea with potential can bring: Lijit, the company that develops search applications for online [...]

By: Ok, my mistake. b5media got all the widgets they need. forget the pitches. | Widgets Lab

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:59:20 +0000

[...] in my post about the lijit news ad deal with b5media. i mentioned that maybe it was a time to pitch to them. Jeremy Wright, b5media stopped by to chime [...]

By: Avatar

Avatar — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:51:16 +0000

@Jeremy Wright: very clear now (check the blog)

thanks for stopping by.

By: TrishaLyn - Cribbed Content for June 6th

TrishaLyn - Cribbed Content for June 6th — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:47:42 +0000

[...] widget Lijit has teamed up with b5media to improve their service. Longtime readers will note that I had this widget up for awhile and when [...]

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:27:24 +0000

Just for the record, we’re basically tapped out on widgets. We don’t need *more* pitches! We tested Lijit for nearly 6 months before this announcement went out, and while we totally believe in the team and product, I think everyone on both sides is glad we did the testing we did.

As we always tell widget makers: you can pitch us, but we don’t want promises, we want results. Don’t tell us you can increase revenue and traffic, show us you’ve done it a dozen times before.

And, be ready for the load 350 new blogs can put on the product.

The harsh reality is that most of the emails we get are the exact opposite: 2 guys in a garage, hoping to get real traction so they can get funding, want to use us as a reference case, drop us on and then can’t handle it (and don’t deliver on their promises).

The Lijit guys, and the PicApp guys, were the only 2 groups to actually deliver on their promises. Out of more than 20 widgets we’ve tested (and hundreds we’ve turned away).

Sorry for the rant, I should probably write a blog post about this at this point