We’re currently taking bets on who in our industry will appear on The Silicon Review magazine [1]‘s ’50 Most Admired Companies of the Year’ list. Why? Well not because anyone we respect has actually earned it but because, according to an email we received from Andrew Jones you can simply buy you way onto the list!
We’ve seen this sort of business practise before [2]. The Silicon Review magazine says that it is a business and technology magazine for tech decision makers and enterprise IT, however, it would seen that their claim (and we quote) to be the “most trusted source of news and information for business professionals” doesn’t quite hold true when yes, their editorial can be BOUGHT for a mere USD 2,500!
I am Andrew from The Silicon Review magazine … It is the most trusted source of news and information for business professionals.
We are glad to inform you that your company has been shortlisted for “50 Most Admired Companies of the Year”. It will be 2 full page in depth feature about your company’s differentiators, products, services, challenges, road map and how the CEO is driving the company with a title 50 Most Admired Companies of the Year with interesting tagline.
_Circulations:_
1) We are going to circulate 70,000 copies of this issue to all decision makers like CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, and other C level executives.
2) It will also circulate to the CXO level of Fortune 5000 companies and also to premium subscribers of The Silicon Review.
3) We are going to do branding and marketing for your company for the duration of 1 whole year by sending this issue via newsletter to all our readers.
4) It will reach to 200 thousand network members._Benefits:_
1) Title as a “50 Most Admired Companies of the Year” with interesting photograph of the founder.
2) Two full page in depth feature about your company’s differentiators, products/services, challenges, road map, strength, unique proposition to the customers worldwide and how the CEO is driving the company with very interesting picture and chart-graphs.
3) One full page complimentary press release/article/ Product release anytime that can be used by you.
4) One full page ad anytime that can be used by you.
5) 1 whole month visibility on our website where we have more than 200 thousand network members.
6) I will share with you the high resolution pdf of the profile which you can use for your media circulation and the same you can put on your website also.
7) Two complimentary hard copies of the issue.Cost: $2500
Integrity? Proper journalism? Honesty? Well all of those were obviously left at the door sometime ago.