In our staff meeting yesterday we discussed what we would say about our 15 MILLIONTH visit to our site...after all, it was happening late last night or early this morning.
We looked at each other, shrugged and laughed.
We remember how we got excited about 2 thousand people looking at our site in one day. Then we were elated when we cracked our first 100,000, and when we hit our first Million, it was just crazy to wrap our minds around.
But as we rolled quietly past our 15 MILLIONTH mark, we probably slept right through it. The millions before, we stayed up and caught screen shots. But you know how it is, after so many kids, you quit taking pictures, that's kind of where we are.
We no longer worry if people will read the website, after all there are 15 MILLION, 8 THOUSAND 6 HUNDRED and 28 clicks on the site right now, so we know we are being read.
We still have questions like, WHY do people STILL think we are related to those prehistoric things called a newspaper? No kidding. Last week we were contacted about 5 times for various reasons because people still think we waste our time printing our news on paper.
Who has time for that????
If you want news, you want it NOW! Not next week, not in 3 weeks, NOW, you come here!
If you want to know what's happening in your community, you come HERE FIRST! You don't care about what's happening in Oelwein, Waverly, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo or Independence, you want news about VINTON, so that's what we give you!
When it comes to advertising, we have found that those that ask us to advertise are more likely to want to be here. I'm not in your face every week begging for an ad. I figure that you have better things to do than to deal with a salesman bugging you. YOU know where the traffic is, if you want us to represent you, it's simple, email us at vintontoday@hotmail.com, give us a call at 202-4125 or drop us a note on Facebook. We'd love to have more businesses represented here, and whenever you're ready...
Lastly, as we talked in our staff meeting, we again were so grateful that someone had a vision of this sort of website in the community and also thankful for the talent it took to put this site together.
It's one thing to have a dream, it's another to make it reality. Again, we took a moment and thanked the Karr's for allowing their dream to become ours, and again were amazed at the ease with which this website works. I created a website for our church a few years ago from another company, and trust me, it was NOT user friendly. It made me once again say, "Thanks Wes, for making our site so easy to use and for making us look better with all of this technology stuff than we really are."
Today as we look at the numbers, again we try to wrap our head around how many 15 Million is. Just for giggles we ran numbers on other news sites in the area, from the local sites to the TV stations, and yes, Vinton Today is larger than even those!
We don't understand all of the hows or whys, but we know that we are simply doing our job, and trying to do it well, and our folks appreciate that.
So as we pass another mile marker on this exciting trip, we wanted to take a moment and thank all of our wonderful readers. YOU are the reason we are here. Thanks for your kind words and support in our annual fundraisers, you are keeping us here, and we really do appreciate it.
To our wonderful advertisers, we hope that our success has also been shown in yours. I am proud to have been a small part in directing all of this traffic your direction.Thank you, many of you, for being a steady backbone in our support system. Your quick payments each month keep the roof over our head, our computer screens on, and our stomachs fed so that we can keep doing our job, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you!
So as we try to decide what our next "big" mile marker is, we will simply continue to do what we do best, and keep in mind that all of you are why we do it. Thanks again!
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