Comments on: William Shatner wants to interview me for the "Heartbeat of America!"–umm, what is this? http://calacanis.com/2009/08/11/william-shatner-wants-to-interview-me-for-the-heartbeat-of-america-umm-what-is-this/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:11:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Jeremy Hanks http://calacanis.com/2009/08/11/william-shatner-wants-to-interview-me-for-the-heartbeat-of-america-umm-what-is-this/#comment-3936 Jeremy Hanks Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:14:05 +0000 http://calacanis.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/william-shatner-wants-to-interview-me-for-the-heartbeat-of-america-umm-what-is-this/#comment-3936 In the past 4-5 yrs, I've had two or three flavors of this business model approach me to talk about Doba. Anyway, they buy airtime on networks, it's similar to an infomercial type deal. So sometimes they say, it's for our program called XYZ that's on CNBC or MSNBC. In your case, they're paying Shatner I guess to use his name and be involved. Most of the Posterous post comments are right on, if you called this lady, she'd go on and on about how you have to pass editorial approval, and how exclusive this opportunity might be. It'd take you a good many minutes and point blank direct questions, but at some point, they'd say, the fee for us to be able to make all this work is 30k 40k 50k. It's very borderline, if not over the line, shady. Good to see they target any tech company with some amount of momentum across different industries equally, I was feeling picked on. ;) In the past 4-5 yrs, I’ve had two or three flavors of this business model approach me to talk about Doba.

Anyway, they buy airtime on networks, it’s similar to an infomercial type deal. So sometimes they say, it’s for our program called XYZ that’s on CNBC or MSNBC. In your case, they’re paying Shatner I guess to use his name and be involved.

Most of the Posterous post comments are right on, if you called this lady, she’d go on and on about how you have to pass editorial approval, and how exclusive this opportunity might be. It’d take you a good many minutes and point blank direct questions, but at some point, they’d say, the fee for us to be able to make all this work is 30k 40k 50k.

It’s very borderline, if not over the line, shady. Good to see they target any tech company with some amount of momentum across different industries equally, I was feeling picked on. ;)

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