Metails.com, currently a member of the 'friend networking sites' category
in my SNS Meta List, recently launched a
'Peer-Rewards' program. Eoin Matthews, of Metails, tipped me regarding this new release geared to facilitate
'buy-through-your-friends' networks.
Hm, peer-marketing with built in reward incentives? Sounds interesting.
Here's an excerpt from the press release—Metails
Bucks the Online Advertising Trend- Trends Among Friends Show You What's Hot and What's Not:
"Metailing", which allows members to incorporate products and trends they feel passionate about into their online profiles, has drawn more than 10,000 users to the network and resulted in more than 50,000 products and trends being added to user profiles during a test phase in June.
According to the company's CEO and founder, Jared Morgenstern, "We share our passions with friends and strangers everyday – the clothes we wear, the music we listen to, the tv shows we watch. These choices make their way into our conversations because they are part of our identities. On Metails, we make these choices central to your profile and we reward you for the implicit marketing your identity generates. It's not just a novel concept for users - it's a wake up call to retailers to start partnering with their best advertisers - their customers."
The new "Peer-Rewards" program is simple: when someone clicks on a product in your profile and then purchases it at a Metails affiliate retailer (of which, Amazon.com, Buy.com, Karmaloop.com are just a few), you receive a reward typically valued at between 3% and 10% of the purchase price. On Metails.com, new users can browse and meet people, research and buy products, and discover burgeoning trends. As users adopt the system, they can build profiles themselves – contributing to the word of mouth that sustains the network.
1. i checked out metails and it's really fun! there's so much to do. there's this "boot camp" thing and if you complete it you get $5. it seems easy to complete. i'm almost there.
until i found metails, i didn't do anything with the pictures i took with my digital camera. i don't have my own website or anything like that and i don't take my pictures to the store to print out. but now i can post them online through metails galleries which are actually pretty sexy-looking. the pics slide around and they're really easy to upload and organize.
you can blog too if you want and you're connected to all of your friends and the people you meet through metails.
metails is hot, man
Posted at 8:03PM on Dec 18th 2005 by speed racer