Thought I’d post an update about what’s going on at The 3/50 Project website:
• I’m working with my friend and IT guru, Gregg Marshall, to find ways to better handle the enormous influx of registrations. In the meantime, I’ve posted notes in a couple of places on the site to let people know it’s taking a while to get business names on the Supporters page due to the extraordinary number of submissions, and to please be patient.
(Any help you can lend in repeating that message to the various audiences you connect with would be greatly appreciated.) [click here to continue…]
Or more, accurately, we’ve gone viral. As of midnight Monday, The 3/50 Project website has seen more than (drum roll, please) 7,500 “absolute unique visitors.” Total visits, including return trips, pop up over the 8,600 mark.*
Yeah. I did a double take too. Right before letting out a big, juicy woooooohoo!
Next stop: KARE-TV, the NBC affiliate in Minneapolis.
The 3/50 Project has been hopping here in the Twin Cities. Yesterday started with a piece on the front page of the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper…then an interview with Minnesota Public Radio…immediately followed by taping the segment for KARE‘s 10:00 p.m. news (top of the hour, second story, thankyouverymuch). [click here to continue…]
Thanks to Bill Hudson, anchor and news reporter at WCCO TV (CBS) in Minneapolis, The 3/50 Project had its television debut, airing on yesterday’s evening news. Gotta tell ya…the results have been pretty immediate, if the registrations count on the350project.org is any indication. In two words?
Welcome, Minnesota.
In the piece, Bill mentions the site only being up since Monday; for clarification, the full site went up that day, including the analytics code that tracks how many hits the site has had. From Monday morning through midnight Wednesday, more than 3,700 “absolute unique visitors” clocked in.
If we look at hits (ie, including repeat visits), well….let’s just say we were way past 4,200. Holy cow.
I can’t do this one justice; you simply have to read what Seth Godin had to say in his blog Saturday. Be sure to catch that last line…you know…the one linking to The 3/50 Project.
Needless to say, I nearly feel off my chair when I saw it.
Building on a great idea from Alison Heath at Hardwood Artisans, I’m going to be tying media pitches for outlets around the country to small business closings in their communities (think: the gift shop down the street “going dark” next weekend). Short of suddenly becoming all-seeing or finding ten more hours in the day to search community news nationwide, that means one thing.
Well, can’t say you aren’t doing your part to spread the news.
Thanks to a whole lot of folks who believe in independent businesses and local communities, The 3/50 Project went into high gear yesterday, starting with the Gifts and Dec e-newsletter that so graciously included a piece about us (without me asking, bless their hearts). Next, I learned that Home Accents Today blogger, Mike Landfair, ran a piece too.
Suddenly, things lit up. Thanks to a plethora of bloggers, Twitter users, and a very steady stream of new supporters landing in my inbox, The 3/50 Project has grown legs and is running like a marathon pro. [click here to continue…]
Thought I’d post an update about what’s going on at The 3/50 Project website:
Well, it’s official. We’re now a virus.
I can’t do this one justice; you simply have to read what Seth Godin had to say
Okay folks. Time to fire up the group engine and make something happen. It’s time to get 
