Alert AgWired reader Michael Kopka has pointed out, Tractor Chasers is a John Deere website. As if you hadn’t already figured that out.
I’ve been off the grid for a couple days but am back in the saddle. I got this notice on my way out of town on Friday so Cindy handled the duties of pointing you to the Tractor Chasers website.
What do you think of this kind of campaign? You know we’re doing work for John Deere on a completed unrelated project – DriveGreenTractors.com.
Feel free to comment away.
I hate to bring up ugly words like “transparency” and “full disclosure” but…
Was it the intent of the Tractor Chasers site to mask or hide that it was behind the site? That’s a big online no-no.
As I understand it, the idea of Tractor Chasers is these guys search the fields trying to get a glimpse of the news Deere tractor. Like the guys who produce the first photos of the new cars. Cool idea.
But once we know it’s all a scam… it’s not cool. What chase? Deere could have told the guys exactly where to find the new tractors.
Deere is doing interesting things, with AgWired and others. I hope they’ll check with you first next time.