Demand Satisfaction!

We just added ads to some pages on Get Satisfaction.

And though we’ve all gotten used to the clean as snow ad-free version, a few advertisements are not so bad. At their best, ads are actually an opportunity to find just what we were looking for, or something new and related that we never knew we wanted or needed. I even follow blogs that feature the most interesting new ones.

With that in mind, we’re going to aim at keeping them in one place on Get Satisfaction: in the spaces where active customers and companies won’t see them.

Here’s the way our new ads work: If you’re logged in to Get Satisfaction, you won’t see them. If you’re curious, they are text ads, of the familiar Google-based type. Contextual. Low-key. Simple.

Who will see them? People who come to us from a Google search. People who don’t have a Get Satisfaction account. People who are, as they say, “just browsing”.

Here’s the other way our ads work: If your company has purchased a Get Satisfaction Basic or Pro subscription, no one who visits your section of Get Satisfaction will ever see any ads.

That’s the long and short of it. We’ve had many discussions about whether or not to include ads of any stripe, and ultimately recognized it as an important tool for supporting the continuation of our free service. Weigh in with your kudos, complaints, anecdotes, et. al., right here on our site.