Your Opinion Matters On This One!

I have enjoyed writing this blog and sharing interesting stories as they happen. In my previous blog, I shared how I use Google Analytics to keep track of the traffic on stlbeerman.com. I have been contemplating on how to further advertise stlbeerman.com.

I've also noticed how my site has been getting several hits through many different Google searches...varying from "how heavy is a beer mans tub" to "where to buy beer in busch stadium"...So this started to get me thinking...

I mean, how many beer men do you know that blog about their experiences? Why not market this site a bit more...I can't really display something on me (like a pin or a button) on my uniform while working. I don't think it'd be appropriate to hand out a slip of paper or something while handing out change to customers. I have contemplated writing out "stlbeerman.com" on the dollar bills I use as change...but then again, that's defacing government property...(even though I get tons of $1 bills with the "wheresgeorge.com" link on them while working at the stadium).

I mean, I guess if I get into a conversation with a fan and I bring up my blog...there's nothing wrong with that... Now it's not like I'd just bring it up myself...I usually get asked a lot if I have interesting stories from working at the stadium...It's kind of crazy how many times I get asked about my work experiences at the stadium while selling beer to someone.

SO, here is where I'd like for you to sound off your thoughts...besides sharing the link through my facebook and twitter status', how do you think I should advertise www.stlbeerman.com? Better question, how would you advertise it?

---8 game home-stand starting tomorrow...lots of updates this week!---

Never shake a baby...shake a beer instead.

Do I have your attention?

Great!

Some of this may intrigue you, some of it may bore you...either way, you've already read this far and by now nearly 77.5% of you have closed out of this blog.

For the most part, I'm sure you'll ignore this entry and visit again when I have stories from an actual game...and I'm okay with that.

In this entry I want to share with you some interesting statistics.

What if I told you that as of 12:00a.m. on Friday, May 29th, ever since April 6th, I could tell you that www.stlbeerman has had...

- 824 visits out of 287 unique visitors
- 1310 pageviews
- 61.17% (504)of those visits were from people who have Cable internet
- 0.97% (8) of those visits were from people who are crawling along on dialup internet
- we've gone INTERNATIONAL! (visits from Canada, Mexico, Sweden and the U.S. of A.)
- visitors from 32 of the 50 states in America (i'd personally love to see all 50 states represented)
- 7% of you clicked on the link in my twitter status. 30% of you clicked the link in my facebook status. And 52% of you know how to type in "www.stlbeerman.com" into your browser or have it bookmarked
- 24% of you have been loyal followers and have visited here more than 10 times
- 14% (105) of the visits have come from either an iPhone or an iPod

Now I've taken into account that 77% of the visits to stlbeerman.com have exited the site under 10 seconds, and this may include bots who search sites for information...or people who didn't get to realize how sweet of a blog this truly is...i'll go with more bots than people though...I've also been able to extract my visits to my own blog so that the stats are not skewed in any way.

Here's images of maps directly from Google Analytics:





By now, at least 20% of you have read through this much of this blog entry.

I'm able to do find out all of these things through Google Analytics.

I'm sharing this with you because of several reasons...

1. I'm a web designer and following these statistics is important in how marketing is done with sites.
2. I care about the people who read this blog...and i'm curious as to see who (not literally who, but where the people are located) is reading this blog. (but then again, if I only know one person from a certain city/country (mexico/canada I only know 2 people from each country) and I get a dot showing someone accesses this blog from that city...it warms my heart to know you've read).
3. I'm a dork.
4. I actually was wondering if anyone read this blog...because there hasn't been a consistently high amount of comments on my entries (which I'm not asking you to comment, it wouldn't bother me at all if you never commented, but only read the entries).
5. I was very curious from the marketing side of things...does word of mouth work best or facebook/twitter status'...

While I was at a wedding this past weekend, I was surprised by the number of people who told me they actually read this as well as the number of people who had no clue that I was a beer man...I mean, come on...people know all kinds of crap/gossip from everyone's facebook/twitter status, but you're telling me you haven't noticed a consistent status that links you to a site with the word "beer" in it!?!?!

As I digress...I want to let you know that I appreciate you reading this blog and that as long as the statistics are consistent, I'm saying this to only 14% of you...but I still appreciate the 86% of you who are speed readers!

So remember...never shake a baby...shake a beer instead.