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[Junior Samples]

Its user uploaded content.. they just provide the bare bones system. So if it were here, it would have Buick videos. Im just showing you the general layout.

oh ic so i wouldnt have to look at mustangs...lol

Na i like this layout..plain and unassuming...untill you pop the hood

 

[JayC]

oh ic so i wouldnt have to look at mustangs...lol

Na i like this layout..plain and unassuming...untill you pop the hood

That about sums it up. PowerTV owns the servers, everything streams from them but the users upload the videos and the hosting website just kind of acts as a gateway.

 

[RatFink]

This thread makes me ask a legit question. I'd like to do some Buick and Turbo TA art. I did two painting for the Conleys many years ago (The Turqoise Tweaked GN Guy) and I was thinking of doing some more. It's Buick and TTA specific that's why I'd try here first, So my question is what do you have to do? Buy an ad, become a vendor? How much cost is involved with becoming a legit seller here?

 

[Junior Samples]

Well heck then..hey Jon why dont ya just start one called powerspace er somthin..kinda like a myspace but for go fast guys, people get thier own page and can html edit then before ya know it..ya got advertisers climbing all over themselves to jump on board

i can see it now..the new Tom...hmmmm not a bad idea really

 

[SinistrV6]

Kinda wishin' I'd left this one alone. "Let sleeping dogs lie" and all that.

While "powerjon" and "powermelissa" may, indeed, be "car people" and have real project cars, the fact remains that "powermelissa" did a "cut and paste" posting on dozens of sites.

Jon, would you care to address the claims made on this site?

Tenneco Sponsors Stealth Forum Marketers

If your selling something, tell me that. Don't pretend to be my buddy, then hit me with the sales pitch.

 

[Pronto]

Let powder Millister post if she shows her BOOBIES
Power toilet can go pound sand.

 

[John Wilde]

Let powder Millister post if she shows her BOOBIES
Power toilet can go pound sand.

Although we may not agree with the marketing of this company,
let's not degrade women on this board.

 

[no-nos]

1 word about sums this up BUSTED you tried to come in here under false pretenses, and while i might have not read all the reply's, i feel it's not needed, i guess sinistrv6 busted your promotinal attempt, I have spent thousands of dollars, just like all the guys here, and you better believe i only buy from vendors who have stuck it out with us, these vendors don't and probably will never get rich off of us, they do it cause like us were pretty crazy about our buicks. you say you are legit? maybe but i will never buy anything or even read anything your selling. you don't try to sneak in a place and then start doing what you do. , legitimate sponsors pay to do their advertiseing here they don't try to scam their way in
my advice to you keep moving on, you try to cover your tracks only after you've been busted, go to the viper forum you'll fit right in.


just my 2 cents. Great detective work Sinistrv6.

 

[powerjon]

Kinda wishin' I'd left this one alone. "Let sleeping dogs lie" and all that.

While "powerjon" and "powermelissa" may, indeed, be "car people" and have real project cars, the fact remains that "powermelissa" did a "cut and paste" posting on dozens of sites.

Jon, would you care to address the claims made on this site?

Tenneco Sponsors Stealth Forum Marketers

If your selling something, tell me that. Don't pretend to be my buddy, then hit me with the sales pitch.

I think that I have addressed most of the concerns here promptly and efficiently.

As far as that site, if you read further, he tried to sue SEMA at one point. :tongue:

We don't sell anything, and I have discussed with JayC the details. We posted some videos having to do with a dyno run competition (I'll let you guys do the detective work as to what dyno run competition it was), and the guy who runs spankmymarketer decided there was a conspiracy involved with Tenneco and ourselves. I assure you that we were not hired by Tenneco to do so, and our intent was to post a dyno competition and feature top cars from around the country. If it were a single person operation to post the video, i assure you, again, that measures such as these would not be brought up.

the scenario is equivalent to me putting my personal sponsor's sticker for my drift car on my motorcycle and someone saying "they can't market here. they make body kits for cars...not bikes."

JayC was close in summing it up, but rather, we run the servers and application, but the host site gateways to the host site's channel on the server. It works as a sort of photobucket idea for video. unlike youtube/ect, you can place all relevant material to the turbobuick channel rather than sifting through sand.

 

[powerjon]

also, he failed to mention that most of the videos we post are just simple videos of exotics/domestics/imports doing donuts, wheelstands, or crashing. remember, there are always two sides to a story. some things are more appealing to flaunt and exaggerate than others.

 

[powerjon]

1 word about sums this up BUSTED you tried to come in here under false pretenses, and while i might have not read all the reply's, i feel it's not needed, i guess sinistrv6 busted your promotinal attempt, I have spent thousands of dollars, just like all the guys here, and you better believe i only buy from vendors who have stuck it out with us, these vendors don't and probably will never get rich off of us, they do it cause like us were pretty crazy about our buicks. you say you are legit? maybe but i will never buy anything or even read anything your selling. you don't try to sneak in a place and then start doing what you do. , legitimate sponsors pay to do their advertiseing here they don't try to scam their way in
my advice to you keep moving on, you try to cover your tracks only after you've been busted, go to the viper forum you'll fit right in.


just my 2 cents. Great detective work Sinistrv6.

if youre so anxious to make a reply without reading the rest, get off your high horse and start opening your eyes. as most of you have mentioned and what i have known, no one makes parts for buicks. I can try to sell you some used socks, but as I am not a big time driver, they are probably worth as much as the dirt under your feet. so..buy the nothing that i'm offering you. just my $.02.

 

[Junior Samples]

All right all ready Jon ...your just server side it was easy to understand for me ONCE someone told me!...lol

Dont sift through the sand too hard...sounds like a good idea..but i still dont like the marketing

 

[SinistrV6]

So...

You nor Melissa is paid/employed by Tenneco nor any of the manufacturers that they represent?

Who DO you work for? You're definitely not Turbo Buick folks so you have some ulterior motive for being here.

 

[Junior Samples]

Rich,

For the most part i felt it was the marketing ploy that was used that irked me once you let it out of the bag.

To come in a forum and say hi im so and so etc then race off to the next forum and say hi im so and so etc.

its not a good way to win friends and influence people..lol

 

[powerjon]

We work with them soley to create video that they then embed on home sites. Our main stable is video production.

Our online application is a user driven program. We serve most user sites with google ads, as does myspace/youtube/ect. On certain user channels, we do serve relevant ads. Most are google based. These ads might buy us lunch once a week ... but the main idea is that maybe someone on this board, you (sinisterv6) for instance, will enjoy the program, and maybe suggest it to your chevy avalanche board, or vouch for the program.

 

[Junior Samples]

but the main idea is that maybe someone on this board, you (sinisterv6) for instance, will enjoy the program, and maybe suggest it to your chevy avalanche board, or vouch for the program.

Look dude you want to open this back up? You plainly state ..refer to above quote, yet this powermalissa comes on here suggesting it and vouching for it? not spoolinbob or intercoolfool (names made up) to get point across

Read this clearly i will say it one more time
YOUR MARKETING STRATEGY BLOWS...lol now go away

 

[powerjon]

why do you keep hijacking? first off, you control the english language as well as a 10 year old. secondly, my response was in dialogue with sinisterv6, who can handle a 'grown-up' conversation. He asked a question of which I have answered. You, sir, are the one butting in with your childish "look at me; I need attention" attitude.

 

[Junior Samples]

dude you got nothing to offer and your a moron so go take your crappy biz elswhere you were all exposed for all to see and stop trying to hyjack OUR FORUM...see the buick in my sig? huh huh get on down the road you little man

 

[Junior Samples]

No one wants your crap no one wants to see your crap and no one will vouch for your crap and its the same replys as on the other forums I was just on reading a whole bunch and go back to marketing school you bone head..lol

 

[SinistrV6]

We work with them soley to create video that they then embed on home sites. Our main stable is video production.

Our online application is a user driven program. We serve most user sites with google ads, as does myspace/youtube/ect. On certain user channels, we do serve relevant ads. Most are google based. These ads might buy us lunch once a week ... but the main idea is that maybe someone on this board, you (sinisterv6) for instance, will enjoy the program, and maybe suggest it to your chevy avalanche board, or vouch for the program.

I'm trying to establish the "food chain" here.

PowerTV works for Tenneco as an independent contractor creating auto-enthusiast related videos.

Tenneco (or is it PowerTV) embeds that video where, exactly? You say "home sites", does that mean sites like TurboBuick.Com - The World Wide Web under BOOST! - Buick Grand National, GNX, T-Type

Does PowerTV create advertising deals with the owners of the boards so that the embeded video can be added to their site?

You say it's a "...user driven program...". Does that mean that it collects data from searches and posts and presents relative advertising based on that data?

So the advertisers are paying you a little (by your own admission very little), so are the board owners paying you for the embedded video setup? Sorry, to seem so cynical, but I'm trying to figure out what's in it for PowerTV. You may have a legitimate product/service here but getting it in front of us motorheads under what seems like false pretenses is off-putting to put it mildly.