How Dennis Yu Successfully Trolled an Entire Industry
Most of you probably have never heard of Dennis Yu. This is hardly a surprise because he is the epitome of the mediocre online marketer. There are thousands of them out there. They read everything on digital point forums, feverishly refresh john chow for ideas, buy a caricature cartoon avatar to use everywhere as their “branding” because zac johnson did it, etc. Dennis Yu is “CEO” of his very own local business advertising agency called blitzlocal. Hypothetically, in a world where his business were successful, he would attract local business customers and help promote them online. This might seem like a clever idea to some, but to most of you who have been in this industry for a while, this is an idea that was hashed out and re-hashed over two years ago in several threads on wickedfire forums. But Dennis’ local business being a complete failure based on almost every metric conceivable is not really the point.
Dennis is a pretty bad affiliate marketer too! Let’s face it, affiliate marketing is easy. Not just kinda easy, but possibly one of the easiest jobs you could think of. It doesn’t really take much skill, just trial and error. The only real skill involved in making decent money is knowing how much mountain dew will be required to keep your eyes open long enough to build a winning ad campaign. But, some people still can’t manage that. So what do you do as an affiliate when you just can’t make the cut? You start a crappy affiliate network, of course! And so began BlitzAds, Dennis’ affiliate network. Well, it shouldn’t take a genius to figure out how well that venture is going.
But a couple days ago, Nickycakes was laughing his ass off as Dennis did something great. He managed to troll the entire affiliate marketing industry with a simple guest-post on techcrunch. For those unfamiliar with trolling, wiki defines it as “someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response”. So here’s what happened. Dennis has now failed in pretty much every area of the industry so far, and has decided to move on. He’s given up and decided to move onto a different area of online marketing, and as a goodbye note, he wrote this article for Techcrunch. Can you say “Best Troll Ever?”
Dennis, if you’re reading this, you may be the biggest failure in the industry. And, of course, nobody trusts you anymore. But man, you trolled the hell out of everyone in your little goodbye note. Nickycakes has a soft spot in his heart for people who care absolutely nothing about what people think of them and are willing to completely destroy their business reputation just to piss people off.
So kudos to you Dennis, you have won the internet for this week. And good luck in whatever industry you decide to move to after this one. Hopefully it’s not something too difficult for you, like a shoelace tying factory.
Keep it real.
Bravo nicky, bravo.
The saga continues.
I have enough fodder for a 3rd post on Yu, but i’m going to bite my tongue until he does something else stupid..
Dennis is a baller. If there’s one thing I do know, it’s that Dennis doesn’t “fail” at affiliate marketing.
If there’s one thing everyone else knows, it’s that you’re full of shit.
I’m just wondering how long it’ll be ’til there’s a hit on you. I was hoping you were dead already. What hotel are you staying at for ASW big boy?
I live in vegas, and everyone knows my address already. Have at it though, champ.
Great linkbait, btw
dude, what happened to Boston?
moved in april
As if anyone in this nerdy ass industry is ever going to put a “hit” on anyone. Go watch your Goodfellas Blu-Ray again.
Take the Tyler Durden fantasies somewhere else. ASW will not be a venue for this silly crap.
“feverishly refresh john chow for ideas, buy a caricature cartoon avatar to use everywhere as their “branding”
That’s pretty funny.
Gets*Some*Popcorn*
yammi…
Oh look… a link to a post i made. I KNEW you loved me!!! haha good to see you back.
I agree this guy seems like a tool, but I think everyone is getting their panties in a bunch for no reason. What did he really give away in that article? Nothing.
Everything he said was public knowledge and available on tons of IM blog, message boards, and forums.
Besides, you can’t really “out” something that is being shown billions of impressions all over the internets.
I agree with you. That’s why I made this post.
If you don’t think he outed anything you are a complete moron.
But the thing that makes this worse in my mind is the comparison to facebook advertising as “spam/scam”.
All black people go to jail, i like generalizations.
And anyways, PJCann, back to dp (or mafia wars with that death threat)
lol @ ‘death threat’.
No he didnt “out” shit. Did you learn something new? Besides, Techcrunch readers obviously aren’t the dumb 15 year old girls that those apps take advantage of.
..and you call me from DP. Fucking n00b, go back to your FB compliancy.
“If you don’t think he outed anything you are a complete moron”
actually sir, this so called “ecosystem” has been in the industry for the past 10 years and It is nothing new.
there are so many whinney fags in this industry that if i went to these sausage fest conferences, i’d probably end up punching half of the douchebags i see in the face.
another e-toughguy
nah i wouldn’t consider myself an e-toughguy, as i could careless what other affiliates do or say.
Just stating the obvious.
You don’t care so much you’re posting about it here.
well this is a trollin thread after all.
LOL! So that means you are going right? I’ll make sure I bring my A game and knock you out.
+Rep for outing this dumbass
OMG, nickycakes is alive!
Bwwwahaha. This shit is hilarious. Pretty hypocritical. Looking for redemption Yu? Or just some free publicity so you can make yourself look a little “nicer.”
Dennis Yu, smells like poo!
hey PJCann, are you Dennis’s best friend or something? how do you know that level of detail about him?
and is this you:
http://www.realjock.com/pjcann
Wow, some people sure take Yu seriously. I was unaware of his god-like status. Are you guys from DP?
FYI @semjedi, not all conference attendees rock the sausage. But you and yours aren\’t missed anyway.
Really though, his post didn’t really discuss much that the other techcrunch article on the matter hadn’t already talked about. Sure, he went into a bit more detail, but nothing he said really matters. What I think is hilarious is the way he added links to his clients’ sites into the article.
I just saw his post on techcrunch today, it made the front page of reddit as well.
I was making millions and now want to repent as well, please point me in teh right direction.
Just noticed that the single quotes are not being unescaped upon display in the new site theme.
yeahhhhhh workin on that kinda
Can facebook please give him and his company a lifetime ban from their platform? He admitted to cloaking ads in an effort to push ads that break their TOS.
yeah but so have i….
everyone.. ?
lol – great post
what did this soab think anyways?
btw: amazing new blog design!!! it kicks ass + I love the logo
Haha this posts so great.
Dennis is such a baller that he purchased my parents names.com and made them BUY EM BACK!
I once a blitzlocal.
hey nicky, good to see you back and make a post about the big douche bad : Dennis Yu.
This guy is a total fraud…this comes from dealing with him directly for several months.
Putting Dennis’ blog post and this specific blog post aside…..
I am wondering what he personally did to you that caused you to write such an angry post?
He didn’t reveal anything that we already don’t know. Why do you feel the need to personally attack him? Did he attack you in his post?
I am pretty sure he did not.
Uhh.. Maybe you don’t know me very well. First off, no he did not reveal anything of significance. I never claimed he did. He will not affect my business or anyone elses in the slightest. What most people are mad at are that he basically has done is try to gain popularity by badmouthing all the ideas he stole from people he claimed were his friends.
Me personally, I just think it’s funny how mad everyone got about it (which is the entire point of this post since you obviously can’t read). Also funny that nobody will ever do business with him again in this industry (not that they really did anyway).
Good post on the POS Dennis the Menace Yu
Also the c2m banner on the right goes to a random website
I was gonna say something relevant to the post or maybe something about how my blog was about to take the caricature branding route but I can’t remember what I was gonna write now because I got distracted by your buggy template, nickycakes.
It gave me a message saying that the CAPTCHA code that my BOT entered is invalid. Gave me that error twice. I was using FF. Now lemme try this comment with chrome.
maybe you should learn to do simple tasks like reading and repeating letters you see on a screen. don’t blame the template for your retardation.
Linkbait for the win.
&
Dennis Yu for the loss.
haha! ^^ made my day.
Finally someone has called BS on the turd that is Dennis Yu. That guy encompasses all that is douche baggery. I love the guest post he wrote for Zac Johnson warning of the FTC and flogs making false claims. Blitz Locals website used to blatantly lie on its homepage with an image of an accountant saying “Jim’s accounting practice , 569 leads last month for his Accounting Firm in XXXXXX.” where XXXXX would dynamically insert the city of the viewer based off their IP Address.
I agree.
Got to admit as Trolls go at least excelled
my name is teh dennis poo and my asshole is a cavernous abyss.
Failing is the nature of business. We fail 90% and it makes us stronger.