Archive: September 2007
A huge thank you to everyone that responded to our call for volunteers for Argus testing. We've had 100 responses and we'll be contacting you all shortly. It would of course take far too much time to respond to everyone individually, so you'll all be getting a generic email from us early next week with info on what to do next.
Thanks again for your help with this.
We are going to hold off on $1k Tuesdays and World Wide Wednesdays for the weeks leading up to the unveiling of Argus so we have the budget to launch with a bang. I promise it will be worth the wait. Congrats to all the recent Posties who have grabbed these high dollar Opps.
Near car accidents - 10
Lost meetings - 2
Robberies - 1
Delayed flights - 1
Missed Flights - 1
Sleep - not much
Trip to Texas - Priceless
I can't believe that the unveiling of Argus is a mere 45 days away. We are burning the midnight oil every night chugging away on what will be a gigantic leap forward for PayPerPost. Thousands of man hours have gone into Argus already and the system is looking better and more exciting by the day. I have got to hand it to the Dev team, the commitment to the project has been outstanding.
As mentioned in some of my previous posts PPP Tools (or whatever they will be called in 45 days) will be play a pivotal role in the Argus release. We will be using these tools to provide advertisers with accurate page view and visitor information rather than having to rely of Google PR or Alexa Score. This will also be great for those international bloggers who have a large US readership as we will be able to report geographic readership information as well. Of course, you will have the option of whether or not you choose to make this information public or not in Argus.
We are ready to test our blog tracking on some of our Postie's blogs. In order to participate you must have another stats package (such as site meter, google analytics, etc) installed that will allow you to report back your numbers through a simple data collection website we will point you to. We want to compare the numbers to make sure that the margin of error between packages is minimal and within acceptable limits. Every stats package works a little different so we expect some variance, but we don't want you to see one thing in your stats package and a completely different thing through PPP Tools.
If you would like to participate in this program please send an email to argus (at) payperpost (dotcom) with your blog url and your username and we will provide you with the new code you need for the test. You won't have to change out any code when we role it out system wide.
For those of you who aren't attending PostieCon this is the only way to obtain an early adopter key. If you participate in this program now you will receive a key shortly after launch.
Ted's been doing some updates on CollegeFest '07, I noticed, but I thought I'd post some photos I took at the event yesterday. Crowds were plenty from opening-to-close (in fact, we found out this morning all attendance records were broken), and we had constant traffic in our booth! Good stuff!
Here are some pictures, including our two Postie Reporters, Drew & Justin:
Drew also just did a live interview--which you can catch here on our blog--with musician Laura Glyda.
I am pleased to announce that we crossed the 60k blogger mark this morning. We have seen tremendous growth over the past two months on both the advertiser and blogger side. On Friday we increased the posts/day limit to 3 to deal with the huge influx of new Opps. The plan is to keep this at 3 through the end of the month for now, though we may keep it longer depending on how fast Opps are being filled.
I can't wait to meet you all for PostieCon. Do you think they will let me have 60k Posties in my hotel room for an after party : )
Drew and Justin have been blogging like crazy with regular updates from College Fest. They look like they are having a ton of fun at the event. Here are a couple of photos from Drew's site.
The Shop Boyz with Brit and Justin.
Here is a little quote from his blog. You guys know PPP hooks you up!!!
"Wow, so this is a post about probably one of my favorite parts of Collegefest 2007. As most my friends and family knows I am a huge music fan and love to listen to all types of music. Most of the artists playing at collegefest I had never heard of except for whom they saved for the last to end the day “Shop Boyz”. Before I got into Boston I had already known that The Shop Boyz would be performing and singing their hit Party Like A Rock Star but I had no idea what I was in for!
You know how I received a yellow press pass? Well this means I was allowed backstage access to everything (more on that tomorrow) and as soon as the Shop Boyz arrived at the convention center Justin was on top of it. I felt like royalty since I would say I was 1 of less than a dozen to get a shot with them."
You should read the rest of the post... it gets better!
Ashley with a Playboy Playmate
Random new PPP Fans
I am off to BarCamp Orlando. I hope to see some of you there!
Drew has setup a Ustream account and is broadcasting live from College Fest. Check it out here:
Drew and Justin have been selected to be our exclusive reporters for College Fest. They are both being hooked up with media passes, special access, postie packs and exclusive access to our PPP team (not to mention $500 spending cash!!). There are going to be tons of reality tv stars, entertainers including Fabulous and The Shop Boyz and even Playboy playmates at the event. I expect some good interviews and pictures guys!!!
Here is a photo from Drew on his way into the event this morning. The action starts later this afternoon.
In addition to coverage on his blog, Drew has also setup a Flickr Set, a Zooomr Set and will be blogging through Twitter and Pownce. He is going to be a busy boy.
I wish I could be there, but I am heading to BarCamp Orlando tomorrow. Have fun guys!!!
This album is powered by BubbleShare - Add to my blog Some of the photos we've taken, I'll try to get some video up later. It appears to be 9 40PM your time, and it's 10 40AM Tokyo time, Friday. Miss you people. Veronique
