As you may know Tomoson has been getting a lot of spam promotions lately which are degrading the brand and reputation of Tomoson.  We have heard your complaints and have taken action to increase the quality of promotions posted on Tomoson.

As of Wendsday 12-7-11 Tomoson has started manually approving all promotions posted to our site.  Before a promotion will go live it will be reviewed by a person and approved or denied within 24-48 hours (excluding weekends and holidays).

For those of you who thought this is how it should of been from the start.  We apologize for our mistake managing the promotions and hope this will help get our reputation back to where it was in the past.

What Constitutes A Promotion?

This will obviously change as our team gains experience but here is what we are starting with.

1. Must be a product that can be shipped or emailed via the message center
2. If the product is emailed (ebook, software, ect..) it cannot be the free trail version or limited package.  It must be the full paid solution or book.
3. If the product is an ebook it must be over 90 pages of useful information that cannot be easily found on the web for free.  (Easily found= 1-3 separate Google keyword searches)

What Will Happen To Promotions Posted Before This Date?

We will be going through the promotions posted in the last week and making some edits but most of them will remain, because they will slowly filter out as new verified promotions take their place.

What We Need From You

We are looking for comments from the community on  what we define a promotion as.  Please add your thoughts and other criteria below in the comments.   As comments come in it will help us continue to modify this definition.

Thanks for your continued support and use of Tomoson.

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We wanted to make this post after acquiring an investment to make improvements to Tomoson.com.  Besides a lot of feature updates we are looking at integrating a new color scheme and navigation.

We are looking for your feedback on the ruff mockups we have below.

Please make comments on these things.

1. Colors: which do you like better and why?
2. Do you like us calling the promoters advertisers?

Design 1  (aka: Chuck Norris)

Design 2 (aka: Steven Seagal)

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After working with a lot of bloggers we noticed that they didn’t like the large sponsored by Tomoson links on their blog posts.  We changed around the system so it will now only show one link on the bottom of the review.  The link will say ” this is a free product giveaway” and link back to tomoson.com.  We adjusted this feature so it wasn’t so intrusive and would comply with new review guidelines online.

Please watch the video to learn more

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We have recently finished our message center in Tomoson.com and want to hear what you guys think about it.  Please watch the video below and let us know if there is anything we are missing or should fix.

HERE IS HOW YOU CAN TEST IT OUT (watch the video below first)

1. Log into your tomoson.com account
2. Go here and ask a question in the lower left corner: http://www.tomoson.com/dev/view-promotion/new_promotion_testing_message_center
3. Within a few hours (DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS) someone in our team will respond to your question.
4. After that you will get an email with the answer to your question and you can start to interact with the message center more.

And because we all know how funny movie quotes should close out any blog.  Where did this classic line come from?

“I want to go somewhere, where the salmon instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano.”

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Tomoson is all about connecting and helping manage promoters and bloggers who want to review products.  This being said promoters need to make an educated decision on what bloggers are best to review their products.

Tomoson would like to know besides publicly known information like your twitter followers, Page Rank, and Alexia ranking; would you provide Promoters other statistics about your blog to get a Free product to review?

Here are some of the statistics promoters have been asking for.

1. Facebook Fans
2. Reader Demographics
3. Your Gender
4. Your Age
5. Your Blog Type (tech, mommy, ect..)

Please comment below on your thoughts and feelings about some of these fields.

And because I like funny movies can you name this movie?  (I know this has nothing to do with Tomoson.com but it’s fun )

“It’s a jump…. to conclusions mat.”

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After hearing some comments about the Tomoson logo we wanted to make a blog post to see what the rest of you thought.  Originally we made this logo but we got feed back that it was too boring and wasn’t any fun.

ORIGINAL LOGO

Next we worked with our graphic designer and came up with two other logos based on the feedback.  We made this logo because it had a unique icon that symbolizes increased sales when using Tomoson.com.  Obviously it also looked like a T but we didn’t think the obvious needed to be stated

INCREASED SALES LOGO

The third logo was coined the fun logo.  If you look at any of the large websites out there you’ll see they don’t make things too fancy.  They use a unique font and brand one of the letters, facebook.com and twitter.com are perfect examples of this.  This lead us to the logo below which is more fun but simple like we wanted.

TOMOSON FUN LOGO

Internally we liked the fun logo best (that’s why you see it on the website) but we want to hear from you the pre-users.  Please comment on the blog below and let us know what you think.  Even if you don’t like any of them please tell us and give some constructive critisisum.

As Derek Zoolander and Hansel said, “It’s a walk-off”   

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After getting feedback from users we started making some changes and fixing issues on Tomoson.com.  The first bug we had occurred after a blogger uploaded a photo to their profile.  The screen would go blank and the blogger didn’t know if their photo got uploaded.

This issue has been fixed and after you upload a photo the website displays a success screen.  You can click on account info link again to see a thumbnail of the photo you uploaded.  When Tomoson.com is fully launched this picture will be seen on your profile page.  The profile page will be used to display your Tomoson rating.  The rating system will be strictly based on if you write a review on the product and that it’s in a timely manner.  It does NOT matter if you write a good or bad review simply that you write one promptly after receiving the product.

Another changed feature is the requirement to add a password for your Twitter account.  When applying to review for a product we WERE requiring that you list your Twitter password so we could verify how many followers you have.  As we came to find out we don’t need that information, so we removed the requirement and only require your twitter email.

Please keep the feedback coming and watch for more updates in the next week or two.

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First off we want to say a huge THANK YOU for your feedback, and please keep it coming.

Due to this feedback we will be removing the requirement for a password when bloggers apply for a promotion.  The reason behind the password was to capture the amount of followers bloggers have on their Twitter profile.  We realized that bloggers do not feel comfortable giving out this information so we will be removing it before the site launch.

If you don’t know what feature I’m referring to please sign into your Tomoson.com account.  If you don’t have an account click here to register for free.  Once logged in click > bloggers at the top > find promotion > apply to review product and you will see this information below.

We will be removing the password requirement but we will be requiring what the bloggers Twitter account is, so promoters can see how many followers a blogger has.  This is critical information to a promoter and this will keep highly qualified promoters with great products coming back.

If you have any other feedback for us please click here to submit it.

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