At the beginning of this year I sat down with the team and set a goal of having 100,000 Posties by Janaury 1, 2008. 100,000 Posties?!? At the time we only had around 11k and the growth rate didn't indicate that was necessarily achievable. The team agreed to my seemingly unattainable goal and whispered, "this guy is crazy" under their breathe.
I am not going to say they weren't right about the crazy part. I knew it was going to be a major undertaking and over the past year we have worked very hard at getting the word out about PayPerPost. Of course we couldn't do it all alone. We owe a lot of our growth to our loyal Posties and Advertisers, you guys are awesome and represent the best community on the Internet.
Our good friends Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis have also done a stellar job of driving traffic and making sure the entire blogosphere knows our name. We simply couldn't afford that type of advertising if we had to buy it. I really need to find some time to write these guys a thank you card or send a fruit basket.
This week we crossed the 100,000 Postie threshold and I couldn't be more excited. Not only is our community growing, it is growing faster and faster (see below).
That's 100,000 Posties representing just about every blog platform out there and tens of thousands of unique domains. We have blogs about knitting, surfing, acting and everything in between. We've even got a few cats and dogs that blog (I wish my dog was that smart).
We are working hard to keep up with the demand of the ever expanding network. We have been adding additional resources, hardware and sales staff to bring on more Advertisers (12,500+ and counting).
PPP has definitely hit some bumps over the past year. We are constantly dealing with new challenges and struggles both internally and externally. But through it all we have achieved some tremendous things and I couldn't be more proud of our team and our community.
You guys are why I do what I do and love every crazy minute of it. Let's hope to break 250,000 Posties in 2008. Party at my house when we hit it... Colleen is buying the beer!
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Colleen said...
A keg outta cover it, right? We don't drink all that much...
Dec 1, 2007 12:19:48 PM
Tim said...
"Our good friends Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis have also done a stellar job of driving traffic and making sure the entire blogosphere knows our name. We simply couldn't afford that type of advertising if we had to buy it."
It's like they have stock options or something.
Dec 1, 2007 1:18:23 PM
Jules said...
WOW! That is amazing! Great job guys! I'll be at the party for sure!
Dec 1, 2007 4:23:55 PM
Tom said...
Wow, that's great. Congratulations for the job well done. I hope you would hit and break the 250K mark too. Keep up the good works.
Dec 1, 2007 5:10:41 PM
Stentorized said...
congratulations guys.
250k in 2008 is achievable.
Just give us more opps...
thanks
Dec 1, 2007 5:55:28 PM
anonymous said...
And if you give us who've joined something to write about and get paid, you'd really have something.
Dec 1, 2007 6:04:07 PM
dragonfly183 said...
Colleen: A keg outta cover it, right? We don't drink all that much...
Speak for yourself Colleen!!!!
Dec 1, 2007 7:05:23 PM
dragonfly184 said...
Its a lot more fun calling him Michael A$$ington, he hehehe
Dec 1, 2007 7:08:35 PM
Cheryl said...
As Colleen's Sister, I feel it my obligation to see her keg, and raise her a case of her favorite Arbor Mist screw top kool aid wine!
Dec 1, 2007 7:37:01 PM
Robyn said...
Eh-----I liked it better when it was just 11K!!! Congrats on meeting a lofty goal guys!!
Dec 1, 2007 10:07:05 PM
Gxf said...
That's amazing!
I was waiting for u guys to announce this mark!
Surely this is a landmark achievement :)
250,000 may look crazy now! But let we see in how many months we get to see that post.
Cheers, Go PPP..OOPS! Izea!!!
Dec 1, 2007 10:58:04 PM
mistipurple said...
Hurray! I'll have to UPS my keg over since I'm living too far away. Go Go Ted and Team! We are counting on you! Congrats! The achievement is phenomenal. It is every business person's dream to go this far this fast. Nits and grits are part of the process of the learning curve. They are stepping stones to bigger success. Now, send me your address for that keg. *wink*
Dec 1, 2007 11:04:15 PM
techie said...
Great growth Ted. I hope these types of graphs help you get what really matters: advertisers.
Dec 2, 2007 1:12:58 AM
Jill said...
Many congrats! I'm happy to be a part of the first 100,000
Dec 2, 2007 3:44:53 AM
Mr. Fabulous said...
This is a bad idea. Colleen drinks that light beer crap...
Dec 2, 2007 5:18:43 AM
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Dec 2, 2007 7:46:44 AM
Jenn said...
There's nothing wrong with the light beer. If Colleen's buying I'll drink to 250,000 posties!
Dec 2, 2007 8:41:18 AM
johnny said...
Good Achievement. More posties, less Oppurtunities.. :(
Dec 2, 2007 8:52:11 AM
Randy Mountz said...
Congratulations to all it's been a pleasure working with IZEA and all of you Posties. To all those Posties that are concerned that more Posties mean less opps it will be quite the opposite. Advertisers follow eyeballs the more Posties the more advertisers and better quality opps. Spread the word about PayPerPost and SocialSpark as my team is motivated to deliver for all of you!
Dec 2, 2007 9:15:01 AM
John Holowaty said...
This is a truly significant milestone. By hitting what major advertisers will begin to see as a "critical mass" with the continued growth of the network - including the ability for those advertisers to work with a larger number of bloggers blogging to specifically targeted lifestyles and interests - deal sizes and quality of opportunities will continue to improve. And with the introduction of Social Spark, with its groundbreaking metrics, functionality and transparency...this rocket is about to blast-off to new heights in the Blogosphere and the world of conversational marketing!
Dec 2, 2007 10:00:59 AM
xBrain said...
Love you Guys !!
Dec 2, 2007 11:22:46 AM
Lifecruiser said...
Congrats to that big achievement :-)
However I have another important subject for ALL bloggers and it will certainly affect many of your payperpost bloggers!
Please help spreading this, since it’s affecting us all:
Blogger sucks more than ever not allowing extern blog links
At least go here and request the feature back:
Blogger Help submit a Request
(Scroll down to “suggest a new feature” and write that you request the extern link feature in comments back!)
Dec 2, 2007 11:36:05 AM
Elizabeth said...
Congratulations Izea team! I remember back in July at BlogHer, Joe and Robb were excited about hitting the 60,000 mark!
And it sure was swell of Arrington to quote my forum comment and call me "pathetic", I had my best traffic day ever :)
Dec 2, 2007 12:43:22 PM
Rhemarnch said...
congrats :D without me you'd still be at 99,999 OR you would have to wait longer to hit the 100k mark lol :D
Dec 2, 2007 1:18:53 PM
Robert said...
When RedHat went public they gifted Linus shares of the company instantly making him rich. In the beginning without Linus there would not have been a Linux. So... is Mikie A. receiving a gift for all the traffic sent to PPP.
Congratulations on hitting 100k and I'm quite sure that the efforts put into keeping your currently happy Posties happy in the future will translate into Izea hitting next next target on time.
Dec 2, 2007 2:10:02 PM