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MrWeb changes every day, and aims to add significant new content for research professionals every week.
What's New for the weekend?
42 ads posted on Friday, following only 30 yesterday but 68 on Weds so... not a bad week. Better audience figures so far in September, after a quiet August, and plenty of activity behind the scenes with a new international feature due for launch shortly.
What's New for Thursday 4th September?
A good start to September with 161 job ads in 3 days - boosted by a lot of Australian jobs. A new feature coming on nicely and should be launched soon - watch the home page for announcements.
What's New for Thursday 28th August?
Slower again for jobs - just 32 today and just 11 in the UK, but that's fair enough with so many posted on Friday.
Today GfK appeared finally to give up on its bid for TNS - a story which has kept bubbling along since March and which has brought record audiences for news stories - it continues with WPP's bid still in the balance. Today's item is already no.2 for the week after only a few hours and with most of its potential audience yet to see the headline.
What's New for the bank holiday weekend?
A record or near-record total of 101 job ads posted, with the UK very prominent.
What's New for Thursday August 14th?
39 ads posted. Behind the scenes work on a new directory and two new mailshot databases. Site stats are fairly quiet but hey, it's August and everyone we know seems to be taking a holiday. It's almost like being in France (steady on).
What's New for the weekend?
A decent 57 ads posted today, two thirds of them for UK positions which is much improved after a slow week. The banner ad booking activity also continues, with a lot of slots fully booked until 2009 now :)
What's New for Friday 1st August?
July come and gone - our second busiest month ever for audience but a long way behind the rather exceptional June. However, July has broken records for new subscriptions - several hundred for the news - and for banner advertisers with all 25 of our major ad slots currently taken.
What's New for Weds July 30th?
42 new ads posted, good number of UK jobs again after last week's low totals. Lots of new jobs subscribers at present and newsreader subscriptions are through the roof following some serious mailshotting - more than 270 added in the last two weeks. Banners for ESOMAR have appeared in three different slots, with two more to come in the next three weeks.
What's New for Tuesday 29th July?
45 ads posted, not bad for a Monday. Another banner due to appear tomorrow.
What's New for Tuesday 22nd July?
A whole new array of banners appearing - Nielsen on the home page, Itracks Canadian panel on news articles and the Trio, and two more to come tomorrow or later in the week. Both job ad numbers and audience rather slower than last month - which was of course exceptional, but even so, a shame to see a summer slowdown. It's still on course to be our second busiest month in the key measures.
What's New for Wednesday July 16th?
A really good day for banner sales and enquiries, plus some encouraging feedback on UK job response. Just 34 ads posted, but a massive 130 people added to the newsreader list today - a week's worth, and a very good week at that.
What's New for Friday 11th July?
Just 38 ads - but there have been a couple of 50+ days in the last week - bit busier again. Three new banners on the main pages this week. Some behind-the-scenes work on getting directories to be more international - results should be apparent soon.
What's New for Tuesday 8th July?
46 ads posted, not a lot else as short-staffed today so all hands to the pumps just to complete the regular / admin stuff.
What's New for Tuesday 1st July?
Half the year gone - where to we wonder? Anyway it's finished with a flourish for MrWeb, June being our busiest ever month by some distance in terms of audience. Final totals:
30,200 unique visitors
68,900 visits
What's New for Friday 27th June?
Just 30 ads posted - been quite a slow week for them, especially in the UK. Good for audience though - we're now in new territory for both monthly unique visitors and total visits, still with four days to go.
We have at last added the table of 'most viewed' news items to the Headlines page - promised a few days ago by a Home Page link - and have automated some of the 'most viewed' work.
What's New for Wednesday 25th?
42 ads posted. Correction and improvements made to the jobseeker registration form and the email it generates. Good numbers of candidates registering this week and last - along with everything else on the site being very busy, as below.
What's New for Tuesday 24th June?
June is set to cream (there's no other word for it) all previous records for site visits, overtaking last month's totals with nearly a week to spare. A few news stories are getting more than 1,000 views apiece - a fact now recognised in the Top 6 listing on the html emails.
What's New for Thursday 19th June?
A great day on Wednesday - a record 3,500 site visits keeping the month on course to be comfortably our busiest ever. 67 people have joined the news subscription so far this week, and the jobseeker registrations made double figures today. Numbers of Asian jobs are rising and US ads keeping up to good levels thanks to Chris's efforts. The new look html news emails have gone down well and with some big takeover stories this week it's been a lively time to launch the 'most viewed stories' listing.
What's New for Tuesday 17th June?
55 ads posted with lots in Asia and relatively few in the UK for a change. New look html news launched with 'most viewed' stories table and links to the entries of some of our subscriber agencies. Audience continues to rise very nicely, with a record for a Monday today, c.2,600 visits.
What's New for Friday 13th June?
Some terrific site stats - in the last seven working days we've had our three busiest ever in terms of the number of visits, so June should break one or two records. Also some good news on subscriptions from agencies - some are going for our new two- and three- year packages, with a total of four added yesterday.
A new look for the html news email is due shortly - the most radical change in a couple of years although the basic format will stay in place.
What's New for Thursday 5th June?
Site stats off at the gallop this month. A busiest ever day for site visits on Wednesday with well over 3,000 - helped by interest in the ongoing GfK-TNS news. Around 40 ads posted each day.
What's New for Friday May 30th?
38 jobs added. Record site audience for May in terms of visits, and hopefully unique visitors, and lots of advertising coming in. Diary section finally converted to new site format 'though it needs a check...
What's New for Wednesday 28th May?
54 ads posted to add to 86 from Friday. Today's included lots from the US and Australia, but not Asia so we'll target some more from there shortly. Site audiences are due to be only a slight improvement on April but still going in the right direction.
What's New for Thursday May 22nd?
41 ads posted, quite a lot of UK direct advertisers lately. Site audience figures mostly very good - visits and unique visitors hopefully headed for a record month.
What's New for the weekend?
What a great week for MrWeb. New person Chris is making a very good start; lots of enquiries about banners and a couple of long-term bookings; some news of senior placements and some happy candidates; record viewing figures on Wednesday; and our first full week in our new office having moved from one side of Langdale House to the other.
64 ads yesterday and 53 today - such numbers should be standard from now on after a few months around the 40 mark.
What's New for Thursday 15th May?
44 ads posted. A record number of visitors, I think - 2,850 - on Wednesday. Lots of interest in news email banners at the moment so there should be some new names appearing in the Trio and/or other positions shortly.
What's New for Tuesday 13th May?
A slow day on Monday for UK job ads - lots of US ads in the evening to compensate. Behind the scenes, another big audience drive is in preparation. Great audience figures last week anyhow, with several days around the 2,500 visitor mark. Also some progress today towards a search engine campaign long in the offing.
What's New for the long weekend?
76 ads posted since Friday morning - couldn't actually finish posting them and send out the emails until now - Sunday evening - due to a power cut which lasted from sometime on Friday lunchtime to sometime on Saturday afternoon or later, with only short bursts back on in the middle of it. Apart from a lot of sitting in the dark and freezing, and a fridgeful of soggy food, this meant no use of computers with the necessary files on until my return today. Oh well, makes for an interesting life though it seems a bit odd in this day and age that an electricity company (edf energy) can't guarantee a better supply. It's the umpteenth power cut in this part of Kent so far this year - and last year wasn't so different, or many of the years before that.
Anyway... 76... good total and with Chris Jensen starting with us next week in the new role of Marketing Exec, overall numbers of ads should be rising now. Site stats continue to be good with well over 2,000 visits per weekday.
What's New for Thursday 1st May?
First monthly records of the year - April saw 57,000+ visits to the site and finished with a highest ever 3,479 ads on the site. The TNS-GfK story from yesterday is already one of our most-viewed items with more than a thousand people clicking through to it in the first 12 hours or so.
What's New for the weekend?
44 ads and a new banner for MRA.
What's New for Thursday 24th April?
Freak high page views on Tuesday, but more importantly a good month for numbers of visits and unique visitors. 41 ads on Wednesday. Also a new UK recruiter started sending jobs this week.
What's New for Tuesday 22nd April?
Might be our last day for a long, long time with only two people working - Ian off, Mel off - Chris starts next week and then we'll be Five. Anyway today was tiring, but in the end 48 ads were posted, lots of international variety. Also a bit of progress with admin and site improvements.
What's New for Weds 16th April?
Just 27 ads posted - slowest day for a while as it's been uncannily consistent around the 40-a-day mark.
A healthy 2,400 visits but low page views-per-visitor this week, dunno why. Today's might reflect the slow-day-for-news.
What's New for the weekend, 12-13th April?
What with a wave of email invites due to go out, a marketing assistant starting in 3 weeks' time, several new features on the news pages and home page encouraging registration, and some search engine optimisation about to start, things are looking very good for our audience figures. Not to be outdone, however, advertisers seem to be coming out of the woodwork in large numbers - discussions with several agencies this week about starting long-term ad packages, some small and some large, and three enquiries for banners in the last couple of days. In a word - lovely jubbly.
What's New for Tuesday 8th April?
46 ads posted. A slightly leaner and fitter jobseekers list after the first half of a big spring clean, but a good number of new subscribers and some CVs sent via us. Direct advertisers continue to flood in at present - two or three posted today and enquiries about another twelve.
We have filled the Marketing Assistant position - the new MrWeb-er will start in May - announcement shortly!
Another improvement to the news pages, to add to the company links added last Wednesday and another tweak on Friday afternoon. We now have proper embedded links to previous articles instead of the rather clumsy full URLs used before. Long overdue really...
What's New for Thursday 3rd April?
41 ads posted; new Consumer Confidence stats due up tomorrow / Friday; lots of new graphics appearing on news and other pages; some new links to agency details on news stories. A good week for direct advertisers so far, and not bad on site stats.
What's New for Easter?
280 ads in the last week, some significant revisions to the various home pages coming along well, good site stats and some changes to our emailing and registration systems in the offing. Have a good Easter!
What's New for Weds 19th March?
Great day for site stats - more than 20,000 page views - and reasonable for ad posting with 43 added. Some serious behind-the-scenes work on audience generation but it's very early stages yet for this particular initiative - will hopefully have some effect in early April.
What's New for the weekend?
78 ads posted on Friday, some improvements to agency home page lists which will be appearing soon, and another good audience figure.
What's New for Friday 14th March?
A good, productive week. 57 job ads on Thursday; very good visitor numbers and fairly good page views; some programming and lots of admin clearing the decks for an active second half of March. An ad for a Marketing Assistant posted today - if we can find someone enthusiastic and capable for the role they should contribute to a very exciting rest-of-2008.
What's New for Wednesday 12th March?
47 ads posted, quite a few different US advertisers, which is nice, but must get skates on as regards getting larger numbers of international ads on the site - lots of behind the scenes moves on this but it's time they came out in front of the scenes...
Some truly lovely feedback about site response this week and last!
What's New for Thursday 6th March?
61 ads including lots of Australian, Asian and US; more good feedback on the news and a record number of news and appointments items posted today (14 in all - think that's the most in a day anyway) - lots happening at present in the industry.
What's New for Wednesday 5th March?
47 ads, busier after a very quiet Monday. Several nice emails from newsreaders who find the emails useful and seem to pass them around companies / forward them to colleagues a lot.
Further improvements to overseas pages are coming on well behind the scenes.
What's New for the weekend?
35 ads bringing Feb's total to 1,033. Had to tweak my job emailing program to cope with the 29th Feb! Like our own little year 2000 problem - sweet - originally it emailed all Thursday's jobs again - but fixed in 2 mins.
It's been a very good week commercially for the site, with lots of orders - and a reasonable one in terms of design and programming with some improvements to top menus and addition of some banner slots, both for non-UK pages. Time for some serious activity on the UK side next.
What's New for Thursday 28th Feb?
Some good totals for this month - nearly 1,000 jobs and will pass that milestone tomorrow; and nearly 50,000 visits despite the 1-2 missing days. This evening the top menus for the US, Aus and Asia are finally sorted out to go to their specific job search and Today's Vacs / Recent Vacs pages, and I've hopefully got the banners for these pages working smoothly, following some block bookings for them earlier this week.
What's New for the weekend?
39 ads posted, slight improvement to new home page (no prizes for spotting), prizes finally wired to our two Aussie recipients after posting job no.50,000 - news item re this is pending; and the rare phenomenon of more than 2,000 visits on a Friday - 2,200 in fact. Audience still needs to climb steeply in the near future however - but can wait a week I suspect while *I* am busy climbing steeply, and falling down again very fast head over heels, trying to remember how to snowboard after a seven year gap :( Still, am demob happy this evening.
What's New for Thursday 31st January?
61 ads, roughly doubling the week's total as first 2 days were slow - and with a better variety of US ads. Ian back from holiday tomorrow so we'll have a full complement of staff for more than a week for the first time since... November?
What's New for the weekend?
Two to the ten jobs posted so far in January - headed for around 1,200 by month end. Whereas that's similar to last Jan's figure, we're hoping to keep it going and growing this year whereas January was the job posting peak in 2007 (audiences of course kept growing!).
All December's advertisers are now signed up again, mostly for another 12 months, and there are more regular US jobs going up from the big agencies.
What's New for Thursday 24th January?
57 ads posted today, and a continuing stream of direct job ads and banner bookings so far this year - keeping us very busy.
What's New for Wednesday 23rd Jan?
70 ads posted, and some new banners about to appear.
What's New for Tuesday 22nd January?
44 ads posted - averaging 50 a day in January so one of our busiest months.
What's New for Thursday 17th Jan?
59 ads, a couple of new scripts written to make things easier to post in future, and some good site stats - 2,100+ visits, 17,700 pages - picking up nicely after December low point - long way to go yet but encouraging.
What's New for Weds 16th Jan?
71 ads posted from 4 continents, and things are very, very busy with new advertisers, direct advertised vacancies, banner enquiries and people wanting lunches to discuss partnerships - all very nice but all very finish-at-4am-ish, hence finishing at 4am. Mel's doing a marvellous job with the news at present and that's no doubt contributing to page views which are back at November levels despite the more 'pessimistic' way they're now measured.
What's New for Tuesday 15th January?
A few more things working each day post-site move... Seem to have my stats back. Lots of jobs subscriptions and 'CVs via' at the moment, making up for a quiet Christmas. 42 ads posted today.
What's New for Weds 9th January?
Job posting getting busy with 58 ads today and at least as many likely tomorrow. Upgrades of the less-used bits of the site to the new format are underway and we're likely to switch over a couple more sections this week.
What's New for 2008?
The first 19 ads of the year - people seem to be prolonging their holidays in a lot of cases so it's rather sleepy this week. Lots of bits of the site that weren't working on 21st Dec are now functional - hope you're finding it thoroughly usable now. Lots more to come though in a packed Jan and Feb - watch this space!
What's New for Christmas?!
58 more ads were posted on Friday 21st, our last day's work before January 2nd 2008.
It's been rather a chaotic week, with lots of teething problems on our utterly new site, email problems of a more random nature and limited staff here to cope with it, but there are lots of positives for 2008 including very cheering comments from some of our major advertisers and a good flow of interest in one-off job ads and banners. Provided we can get the quirks ironed out and the remainder of the site functioning neatly by Jan 2nd (or preferably before) we should be in for a very good 2008. But first, some relaxation!
[actually, even before that, some more panic - haven't bought any Christmas presents yet].
We wish you all a very Merry one and a Happy New Year!
What's New for the weekend?
Well, an awful lot of the new site is not working or just not there yet as you may have noticed - but a great deal of it is working and looks, I think, very good - and it's coming on fast. I know my habit of letting things go live when they're not finished is a tad controversial (even within the company itself...) but it does focus the mind :) And one partially lost weekday (with jobs and news substantially working) is not the end of the world, so provided it's mostly done by Monday... Ah, there's the rub, and there goes the weekend :(
What's New for Thursday 13th December?
As of Thursday evening... a whole new site - or half a wholly new site, to be more accurate, seeing as we haven't finished it yet - but that won't stop us launching it, as those of you who have followed MrWeb over the years may be painfully aware :) No seriously, a lot of the redesign is done and much of the rest should be completed frantically in the few days after the move, so watch out for it from 8pm - or better still, give it a few hours and take a look on Friday.
36 ads were posted on Weds.
What's New for Wednesday 5th December?
Everything ticking along nicely. 57 ads posted, 9 news stories, a wee bit of work on the site relaunch coming up next week, a new agency in the directory and 4 direct ads so far this week, plus some hopeful signs from our regular UK recruitment agencies, some of whom are already booked up for another year.
What's New for Monday 3rd December?
Records in November for page views - 460,000 plus, up from 428,000 previous; and unique visitors, 24,600 from 23,800 in October. December will be quieter so that's all the records until January which usually smashes'em. An eventual total of 1099 job ads on the site from the month - 2nd only to... January 07.
What's New for Friday 30th Nov 2007
Nine years MrWeb's been going, as of Thursday 29th, on which 61 ads were posted. A few new n different things planned for our tenth year beginning with the biggest, ie the hardest work if not the most original, in two weeks' time. Hope that's got you intrigued...
What's New for Thursday 29th Nov?
Up to 1001 jobs for the month with 32 added today. Some new designs for key pages coming along nicely.
What's New for Wednesday 28th Nov?
Nick now back on the case after a great not-quite-a-week's holiday.
52 ads posted on Tuesday. Some good stats at present and November totals are promising - the overall number of visits won't beat last month's record level but unique visitors might well do, page views will and the number of job ads posted looks likely to be second only to Jan 07 - 969 and counting.
A few technical problems in the last week which we hope are sorted out now.
What's New for Thursday 22nd Nov?
Change of personnel in the office with Mel now in for two more days and Nick away for four. 45 ads posted on Weds.
What's New for Wednesday 21st November?
52 ads posted. Mel down from Edinburgh and visited the Insight Show today - apparently a social whirl whether or not the stands were any good.
What's New for Tuesday 20th Nov?
56 ads - keeping up a very steady stream so far in November - but with the UK's Insight Show starting tomorrow it might be a slightly sleepy rest-of-the-week. Some real progress with redesign work on several sections since last week - all to be revealed in December, probably the second full week of.
What's New for Thursday 15th Nov?
Some busy days for job posting and some great site stats this week - we had 21,000 page views on Weds and November is just about on course for another record despite the missing day vs October.
Some work on new scripts to make job editing and management easier, and some good progress with redesign work on directory pages.
What's New for the weekend?
A quiet day Friday - just 26 ads with the UK in particular off its usual frantic pace. Lots of other activity though - new design, banner programming improvements and a good number of viewers.
What's New for Thursday 8th November?
47 ads posted, some work on new designs and a great deal of admin done this week, plus a new banner up for Research Now today.
What's New for Tuesday 6th Nov?
Only one of me in the office! Due to sickness and holiday. Only 30 jobs posted, but 8 news stories.
What's New for the weekend?
155 jobs in the first two days of November - wow. Large numbers being posted for Nielsen and Millward Brown in the US, and for CSA Recruitment and many others in the UK.
What's New for Friday 2nd Nov?
69 ads posted, including lots from the US, Aus etc.. Lots of quotes issued for banners and a couple for potential new regular advertisers.
What's New for Thursday 1st November?
61 ads posted. Final October audience totals - all records - are:
Unique visitors 23,800
Visits 56,300
Page views 428,000
996 jobs were posted - not a record but pretty good.
Page view stats likely to dip in the near future when we switch to a less frames-led design for the site - one way in which this stat can be a bit misleading at times - but we hope the other two figures keep on rising.
What's New for Weds 31st October?
All 3 site records gone now, with page views steaming past 410,000, easily the biggest for any month; total visits past the previous best and up above 54,000 tonight; and unique visitors just dawdling past the previous best and the 23,000 mark. All three of these stats are between 40 and 50% up on last October which shows pretty good progress - but then the whole online ads and recruitment sector is very buoyant so we know we have to keep pushing to stay ahead...
70 ads posted today with good numbers from each of our four usual continents. US jobs will be in double figures every day now, barring technical hitches or overwork crises!
What's New for the weekend?
A week without a 'What's new' due to NT being away for 3.5 days and others having to cover large amount of duties. 30 ads posted each of the last two days - should get much busier on Monday. Site stats are excellent - headed for just-about-records for unique and total visitors, and easy record for page views after 80,000+ in the five working days of this week - we should pass 400,000 for the first time by midnight on October 31st.
What's New for the weekend?
45 ads including lots in Aus. Audience is up and down a bit this month, but overall headed for roughly the same as last month's record stats.
What's New for Friday 19th October?
35 ads posted including another late, large batch from the US. Some major new design and programming coming together today on a test site to which we're moving soon.
What's New for the weekend?
68 ads posted - busiest for a while, with loads in Asia. A mass of jobs are due next week from a top ten agency, mostly in the US or Asia - we've had a few from them before but this is much larger-scale. We hope for more such agencies soon!
What's New for Friday 12th October?
42 ads posted. Quite an extraordinarily slow day for news, at least until about 4pm when it perked up a bit. Till then we were on the verge of publishing 'No Researchers Hurt in Small Earthquake'.
Around 25 companies updated in the agencies directory in last few days - hopefully this level of activity at least will keep up for a good while yet. Site stats are very good again this week, and direct advertisers are fairly lively, with more due tomorrow or Monday.
What's New for the weekend?
40 ads posted, and some new graphics on the news email.
What's New for Friday 5th October?
... anyone there...?
Tumbleweeds blowing across MrWeb today with a mere 10,000 pages viewed - after the frantic first three days of the week which had more than 15,000 apiece. All relative. Been an excellent start to October anyhow!
What's New for Weds 3rd October?
October started with the two busiest days ever, in terms of site visits, with 5,500 by 3am Wednesday. 63 ads were posted on Tuesday with lots overseas making up for Monday's very UK-centric day.
What's New for Tuesday 2nd October?
32 ads posted, only one outside the UK. Final tallies for September were very good indeed - a record 53,000 visits from a record 23,000 unique visitors, and 350,000 pages viewed, second only to August. Ian back from Japan which means some graphics that sat still for 2 weeks should start changing again, freshening things up a bit.
What's New for Thursday 27th Sept?
20,000 pages viewed on Wednesday - in the all-time top 6. Visitor numbers also excellent. More companies being updated in the agencies directory and 38 job ads posted.
What's New for Wednesday 26th Sept?
55 ads posted. Site stats headed for 2 monthly records, unique visitors and visits, by the end of the month on Sunday, barring disasters. About three dozen companies have so far updated their directory entries in the last 4 days, and three have subscribed, even though we haven't yet sent out the invites to subscribe. Classification information added for about 1,000 news readers so far following an emailshot last week.
What's New for the weekend?
Nearly but not quite 12,000 visits Monday to Friday - only a short while ago I was shouting about making 10,000 for the first time. So that's good.
32 ads posted, and lots of people updating their entries in the agencies directory, plus a new paying subscriber, FreshMinds.
What's New for Friday 21st September?
65 ads posted, classification data added for about 220 news readers, and some very good feedback from our biggest recent direct advertiser. Wednesday's record audience ended up at about 2,650 visits.
What's New for Thursday 20th Sept?
Passed 2,500 visits for ?possibly? the first time today, and in the past two days we've had 33,000 page views which ain't at all bad. 34 ads were posted. Mel's back from ESOMAR tonight so no more shoddy newswriting from Yours Truly :)
What's New for Weds 19th September?
Good day for jobs - 45 posted. Great day for visits - 2,450 of them with 17,500 pages viewed. Ridiculous day for news stories, with 15 posted including appointments. Had enough news for twice that - all happ'nin in the world of MR.
What's New for Tuesday 18th Sept?
34 jobs posted, and some ESOMAR Congress coverage appearing courtesy of Mel feeding info back to the office to be written up. Not much else due to short staff (just taken on a dwarf) and those that remain not feeling too good either!
What's New for the weekend?
A reasonable audience for a Friday but a tiny 21 job ads posted - nice break really. A mammoth 9 news items posted, but with Mel off at ESOMAR next week there might be some quieter days coming up :)
What's New for Friday 14th September?
Another day with 14,500 pages viewed by 2,000+ visitors - a very busy September - and there were 63 ads posted. Some developments today for the agencies directory, both behind the scenes and with our first 2-year subscription booking - multi-year deals are a new feature.
What's New for Thursday 13th September?
56 ads posted. A huge number of site visits today - almost 2,500.
What's New for the weekend?
61 ads posted. Some behind the scenes work that should help boost the number of global jobs appearing for big agencies.
What's New for Friday 7th September?
Several exciting new things are bubbling away now and a couple of them moved ahead a fair bit today - new layouts, promotions and features. Hope we can keep them on track despite impending staff holidays and a mass of admin that sometimes seems to crowd them out of the schedule...
48 ads posted. 2,300 site visits. News subscriptions had a slow day but Hey, it has to happen sometimes.
What's New for Thursday 6th September?
15,600 pages viewed, a dozen or so subscriptions for the news, 43 ads posted and a fair bit of work - after a bit of a gap - on the major launch which still looks OK for September despite a bit of a slippage.
What's New for the weekend?
September just started and it should be a good month for launches and changes.
August was a record month on all audience counts and the number of visits ended at around 51,500, page views over 380,000. We also crept over 1,000 job ads by virtue of a late flurry Friday night.
What's New for Friday 31st August?
We should break the 50,000 site visits mark for the first time in a month, and get a record for unique visitors too. Page views at c.380,000 is already way over the previous highest.
52 ads were posted on Thursday.
What's New for Thursday 30th August?
38 job ads with quite a lot in the US and very few in the UK. 15,000 pages viewed by 2,300 visitors, and monthly visitor figures a few shy of a new record with two days to go. About 30 new subscribers added again - good times for the site.
What's New for Wednesday 29th August 2007?
43 ads posted on Tuesday, and around 30 subscriptions to news, jobs or both. Page views for the month are well above the previous best with three days to go, and unique visitors and visits should just about get there by Friday too.
What's New for the weekend?
49 ads posted. A slower day for audience, but not for candidate registrations which continue in double figures.
What's New for Friday 24th August?
Oops, it's Friday 24th and it wasn't Thursday 24th was it? :)
73 ads posted - busy one.
Today we announced our promotional partnership with America's MRA (Marketing Research Association) - we'll be pointing readers to their training and events and they'll be offering their members access to our news and jobs services. Hopefully the start of a major increase in US audience.
It's been a great week for UK jobs and for site audience, and our projects headed for major launches in September moved on a step or two today as well.
What's New for Thursday 24th August?
48 new jobs and a record 3,350 on the site; also an all-time high of 41 new candidates added tonight.
What's New for Wednesday 22nd August?
A number of initiatives underway this evening which should result in renewed agency subscriptions, increased jobseeker registrations and more newsreaders signing up this week. 32 ads were posted and page views continue to soar above previous levels with 30,000 in two days so far this week.
What's New for Tuesday 21st August?
46 ads posted, only one of them in the US but a few in Asia and Aus. Lots of news stories around at present, and both news and jobs registrations over the weekend made double figures.
What's New for the weekend?
Total page views for the working week just passed 70,000, and with 91 ads posted on Friday we'd expect it to be a busy weekend too. Various new initiatives a bit stalled today, what with the above, 8 news items and 4 further appointments keeping us very busy - but it's been a good week for them and Monday will see one of them going ahead.
What's New for Friday 17th August?
Well over 200,000 page views already this month - on course for the highest to date. Today, 42 job ads, some progress on a much-delayed MRWho, some more in programming and some in setting up a better online payment system. Plus some work on major new designs which will affect the look of the site in a month or so.
What's New for Thursday 16th?
A mere 17 ads on marieceleste.com on Weds. Audience however continues enormous, with 2,200+ visitors today and an average of 16,384 pages a day so far this week - a number no doubt familiar to the students of exponentials among you. Two big announcements are due in the next 2 or 3 working days.
What's New for Weds 15th August?
More extremely high stats, more progress with software development and new designs, and an email from someone who's found his last two jobs via the site which is always good to hear! 49 ads posted in the end.
What's New for Tuesday 14th August?
Only 23 ads, nice quiet one. Mel back on the case with the news tomorrow, fortunately. Site stats going like the clappers this month, on course for records for all three main indicators, unique visitors, visits and page views.
Programming to go behind September's new feature is all but done - then there's lots of lesser coding and organising to be done, but it's nicely on schedule for a change.
What's New for the weekend?
Programming for new feature almost finished on schedule and it looks quite exciting; another 14,500 page views mean that August is on course for a record 360,000 or so - doubt it will keep up at quite that rate, however. A lot of holidays at present mean lots of work for those of us who remain - but we're getting through it and next week will be back to full strength.
What's New for Tuesday 7th August?
Large numbers of subscriptions and page views continue. Just 31 ads posted. The agency home page list is to be tidied up a bit in the next day or two.
What's New for the weekend?
It's been a fairly spectacular week for the site with a final tally of 120 news subscribers added, more than 50,000 page views in the last three days and lots more happening behind the scenes. Whereas if we were based in France, we would all have just gone off on a month's holiday. Hmm, actually that sounds OK...
What's New for Friday August 3rd 2007?
All good news at present with 37,000 page views in 2 days of August so far, and large numbers of people responding to an emailshot and signing up for the news emails. More good progress with the new site feature for September.
What's New for Thursday 2nd August 2007?
34 ads posted. Some great stats with 50+ new subscribers to the news already this week, and a rather dubious 24,000 page views on Wednesday - no doubt a blip of the same kind that reduced some totals last month and in May and June - but also a realistic looking 2,250 visits. Also some great progress on the radical new site feature which looks like it might actually go live in September as previously mooted.
What's New for Tuesday 31st July?
47 ads posted Monday - a similar haul on Tuesday would just take us past 1,000 for the month. 13,500 page views, and our 14th consecutive working day over 10,000. We also had over 1,000 visits on a weekend day, possibly for the first time, on Saturday. Around 15 new news subscribers today including the first from what looks like being a very useful emailshot.
What's New for Wednesday 25th July?
39 ads posted, audience consistently around 12-13,000 page views a day again which is good news.
What's New for the weekend?
Just 28 ads posted, but audience still good and lots of progress on technical matters today and yesterday, including programming new features and speeding up old.
What's New for Thursday 19th July?
Nearly 14,000 page views and 49 ads posted. Some design work on the radical new feature which will hopefully launch in September.
What's New for Weds 18th July?
64 new ads and 13,000 page views today, plus 50 news subscribers added from last few days - an excellent July so far. Have also done a little better with 'other' appointments in the news this week but still need to do better.
What's New for Tuesday 17th July?
63 ads posted, around a dozen new news subscribers and some more blooming good site stats with 12,000 page views, high for a Monday, and 19,000 at the weekend, a record. Fingers very much crossed that it continues.
What's New for the weekend?
39 jobs posted Friday, an OK week for ads altogether.
A very good week for audience and registrations! 35,000+ pages in last 3 days which is back to the levels before the rather inexplicable early summer slump - and scores of people have signed up for news this week. One new regular UK recruitment advertiser also booked, the first in a while but then there are very few left who are not on board.
Some more progress with the bold new feature... all very secretive I know, hope it's not going to be too much of a disappointment when it arrives :)
What's New for Friday 13th July?
32 ads posted on Thursday, and the total number of news subscriptions for the week has passed 50 which is useful.
What's New for Thursday 12th July?
31 ads posted, another dozen or so signed up for news and some serious ideas taking shape for big changes in site design.
What's New for Wednesday 11th July?
All of 76 ads posted, and nine news stories sent out - it was also weekly news days so a very late finish indeed. About 30 people signed up for news after the most successful email session in some time.
What's New for the weekend?
49 ads posted, lots in Asia and Australia from the busy CCI Recruitment. First steps taken this evening towards an ambitious new feature which, if it happens, will be our biggest departure in years...
What's New for Tuesday 3rd July?
37 new ads, a smallish response so far to latest emailshot, and some behind the scenes work on some bold new features..... coo-er.
What's New for the weekend?
A lighter day on the jobs side - 36 after a fairly relentless 50-a-day for most of June. Lots of news items to make up. Some exciting plans taking shape for the next month or two including a big redesign and some new site features very unlike anything on there at present...
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