{"id":10627,"date":"2012-03-08T06:54:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T14:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=10627"},"modified":"2012-03-13T08:33:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:33:05","slug":"aol-hitting-a-serious-rough-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=10627","title":{"rendered":"AOL Hitting A Serious Rough Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/patch_network_logo.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/patch_network_logo.png','popup','width=137,height=91,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/patch_network_logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"66\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Patch Network Logo\" \/><\/a>This week <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AOL&#8217;s Patch<\/a><\/strong>, the network of faux-local cookie-cutter websites, is reportedly firing a slew of sales people. While the original rumor was that the company would fire 200, Patch PR and president <strong>Warren Webster<\/strong> refused to comment on that number, according to a story on <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/aol-patch-sales-people-are-getting-fired-2012-3\">Business Insider<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We asked one employee how many people were getting let go, and this person responded: &#8220;Why does it matter? It is 2 people on my team and other ones too. It stinks.&#8221; . . Says another: &#8220;I&#8217;m taking my 15k payout and running the hell away from this disaster.&#8221; . . The firings come after the experiment lost ~$150 million last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Business Insider<\/em> goes on to explain in more detail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The problem with Patch is a pretty classic one: it has too many employees (~1,500) working on a product that doesn&#8217;t get enough attention from consumers and, therefore, advertisers trying to reach consumer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It won&#8217;t be long now. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/aol-patch-sales-people-are-getting-fired-2012-3\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider<\/a><\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwantmedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">I Want Media<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week AOL&#8217;s Patch, the network of faux-local cookie-cutter websites, is reportedly firing a slew of sales people. While the original rumor was that the company would fire 200, Patch PR and president Warren Webster refused to comment on that number, according to a story on Business Insider. We asked one employee how many people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10627"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10637,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions\/10637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}