CareerBuilder “Re-selling” Facebook? Yikes!

Categories: General — admin at 12:39 am

I have a most interesting and unusual phone call a couple of weeks ago from a sales person at CareerBuilder. Ironically, the sales person had no idea who was trying to sell us the very same services we provided. According to him, CareerBuilder is the “first company with an exclusive contract to resell Facebook services”. Little information about this “deal” exists on the web but there is probably some (little) truth to it. He said he was calling “on behalf of Facebook” selling “Facebook services”. According to this sales person (based out of their Chicago office), services start about about $1000 for “hosting and running your Facebook page” (by the way, Facebook actually hosts all Facebook content). Most interesting (and amusing) indeed. As background, CareerBuilder is owned by Gannett Co, Inc., Tribune Company, The McClatchy Company, and Microsoft Corp. (who is a close “partner” of and investor in Facebook).

What I found the most assuming was their email signature – I had no idea that could “buy” Facebook from a reseller!
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With 1700 employees and 75% of them in sales and given the current economic climate, no wonder CareerBuilder is“Reselling Facebook”. I wonder how much it cost?