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Comment by Chris Russell on April 19, 2009 at 4:01pm

I havent heard anything. What is the "minimum" they want you to pay?

Comment by Michael Policano on April 19, 2009 at 4:16pm

I was quoted $500 per month minimum...

Comment by Jason Gorham on April 20, 2009 at 1:43pm

Pretty interesting, I started this model and scraped it and this is one of the reasons why. I couldn't see how they were going to make enough money from employers to do ppc.

Comment by Simone Emmons on April 20, 2009 at 2:11pm

I was also quoted $500.00 minimum for each website. But what I don't know is if this $500.00 is for sponsored listings or organic listings. Does anyone know more about it. Are there any other sites that have experienced this or was I the first one to get called? I am just wondering why there was no official notification about this or why they did not give advanced notice about this change. 2 years ago when they increased the minimum pay per click, they did give 60 days advanced notice which was great, however this time no written notice was given, nor do I see this change advertised on their website.

Comment by Kat on April 20, 2009 at 9:44pm

Yes, there is a minimum of $500/month to sponsor (advertise) your job listings on the Simply Hired network. This minimum reflects the effort to service our advertisers. Per our advertiser agreement, we are not obligated to issue an advanced notice when our terms of service change.

The $500/month minimum for sponsorship is not related to getting your jobs onto the Simply Hired network.

Comment by Simone Emmons on April 20, 2009 at 10:16pm

Thanks Kat for the clarification. Of course we do understand that you are not obligated to issue an advanced notice but it would have been the professional way to do. If you care about keeping your customers this should have been communicated to customers in advance. Otherwise it appears that you are singling out certain customers.

Comment by Chris Russell on April 22, 2009 at 9:53am

ERE has a great follow up article on this issue that John Zappe wrote.

Here's the skinny:

What’s the criteria? It applies, Godhwani says, “to problem accounts.” These, he defined for us, as publishers and ad buyers who “overwhelmed” the sales team with too many service requests.

Comment by Simone Emmons on April 22, 2009 at 7:45pm

Interesting explanation. When they called me on Friday they never mentioned that the reason for this minimum was for problem accounts. The only service requests I remember was to either increase or decrease my budget and about a week ago I increased my budget voluntarily. My customer service rep was always so nice offering her help so I basically took advantage of it but if I would have known that this would cost more money, then I would have done this on my own.

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