Basically, these trade magazines want to boost readership so that they can make money by charging advertisers more to advertise in their magazines. They seem to accept most people without too many requirements and some of them are quite good as you have heard me mention on BRR over the years. They also offer some whitepapers and some of them looked pretty interesting. They DO NOT approve everyone for everything. I got turned out for several items, so do not be surprised or upset if you do not qualify.
They will obviously need your name and address to send the magazine so you will be dropping your docs to this company, BUT It is important to note a couple of things about that topic:
1) *I* do not have access to any of that information! We just send them the hits and they do all of the processing, I do not see any of your personal information.
2) I did the courtesy of reading their privacy policy to make sure that I am comfortable with it before I would offer this to you all. Their privacy policy looks clean.
I also have some other tips, just as a concerned privacy advocate:
1) They ask for an email address to confirm the registration and/or to send renewals when the time comes. Use a WH4F disposable email address if you want or create a SPAM only yahoo/gmail account! Basically, they send you emails a few times per month about topics that relate to their offerings.
2) Some ask for a phone number. Especially for the whitepapers. They probably WILL call you and try to turn it into a sale thinking that you are interested. Give them a VMB number somewhere and let them dump messages into it unless you want to speak with them personally.
3) Be careful with the forms themselves, they can try to be tricky sometimes. They have checkboxes about joining their OTHER mailing list, or getting other information. IF you do not want this, READ THE QUESTION CAREFULLY! Some of them say to CHECK the box to OPT-OUT while others say to CHECK the box to OPT-IN. Sometimes they even mix them up on the same page. Read them carefully!
I should also disclose that BinRev does get a kickback for any referrals, *but* THIS IS NOT THE REASON FOR DOING THIS! We will not make very much from these. I just like the idea of getting free information. Some of these magazines are great and I would have done this with or without kickbacks from the company. The kickbacks are just bonus.
So you can help us out by submitting for some of the magazines and whitepapers that you see on the page. Some of us who are already familiar with some of these publications will post in this thread with some recommendations.The site is: http://binrev.tradepub.com/
Please post anything that look interesting in this thread, which will remain pinned at the top of this forum for a while.
