Question: Did Liz Spiers kill the "Super Mogul"?
Published: Thursday, April 19, 2007
-NEIL YOSHIDA We're big fans of Elizabeth Spiers and like to cruise through her blogs daily. But when we attempted to visit Supermogul.com, we were forwarded to Dealbreaker.com. Did Liz kill the SuperMogul, or is it down for some kind of revamp? Whatever the situation, we're sure it was a business move. This could only mean a bigger and better Dealbreaker, Fashionista and Abovethelaw.UPDATE2: Elizabeth Spiers Leaves Dead Horse Media UPDATE: DealBreaker Acquires SuperMogul: Hostile In A Friendly Way Supermogul.com Labels: Dealbreaker, LizSpiers, websites |
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post a commentYEAH THEY PULLED THE PLUG ON SUPERMOGUL. I NEVER GOT WHY THEY WOULD HAVE SUPERMOGUL AND DEALBREAKER ANYWAY. THEY'RE BOTH ABOUT BUSINESS, I NEVER GOT IT.
you guys closed down your business site after two months.
The plug was pulled on Elizabeth Spiers herself.
I never understood the site either. Real supermoguls wouldn't be caught dead reading such a site. It was just another banal lazy blog that glommed material from other news sites / blogs and added a line or two, and claimed it as their own. And from what I gather they had virtually no traffic other than what they could generate from linking from their other sites.
Seems like most of Liz Spiers' blogs are following the same cookie cutter formula, now very long in the tooth. Even Dealbreaker is getting old, and there's new competition out there that's actually both entertaining AND informative. Even Gawker and the Daily Intelligencer report more financial news and beat Dealbreaker to the punch. Dealbreaker never really had much in the way of real substantive original content and rarely has ever broken news (at least nothing big). I'll bet their traffic is way down. It sure seems like their ads are off -- they used to have Bloomberg as a sponsor, movies, etc. Now they mostly show ads for the other Dead Horse Media sites.
So Elizabeth Spiers has officially laid her first egg. I'm wondering if her book is also having problems. I seem to recall her saying that it would be out in 2007. Now all I see is 2008. Has Ms. Spiers lost her golden touch?
http://www.dealbreaker.com/2007/04/dealbreaker_acquires_supermogu.php