Thank you first for posting about Standout Jobs – I always appreciate open dialogue, including that which covers our business and product.

This marketing campaign is not panic – but an offer we made to people who signed up for our original version of Standout Jobs – to get them interested in testing the latest version. This offer was made to a select and small group of potential customers. Given the tough economic times that most companies are facing, it’s clear that companies are price sensitive.

We’ve seen our customers – who launch well-designed and maintained career sites and recruitment micro-sites – gain increased traffic, higher quality applicant flow and increased value over time. Those aren’t made up results, they’re the truth.

The product is easy to use – we have many customers that update and manage their sites on their own on a daily basis.

Also, in a previous post you wrote about some of the negatives of Standout Jobs:

1. The domain — http://companyx.standoutjobs.com — you can in fact map this to your own domain. Many customers do. Examples: http://jobs.well.ca or http://jobs.apption.com.

2. Candidates have to register first, before applying — this is no longer the case with the latest version of our product. We understood customer feedback and responded to it.

On a side note, we’re based in Canada (not the US)…

I hope you’ll take another look at the product and the company, as well as some of our customers and how they’re using it. Best wishes!