Good evening to you all. Despite significant weakness in the markets during October, I am very pleased to announce that AGORACOM set a monthly record for unique visitors (149,385) and total visits (741,562). All of our traffic stats are tracked and reported by Google Analytics.
We attribute our October success to a couple of important factors. First, in keeping with our advice to pubco clients that marketing during turbulent times is actually quite effective, AGORACOM launched 30-second TV ads on BNN, Bloomberg and CNBC in mid-September. Using Google Trends, we saw an immediate impact with US searches for “Agoracom” sky-rocketing by mid-October. FYI, the anecdotal feedback has been tremendous from current and prospective clients who have seen the ads.
Secondly, comScore reported that traffic to financial websites has actually jumped as a result of market turmoil, serving as further proof that small-cap public companies need to maintain marketing during this period.
Thanks to our great members and our great clients for helping make AGORACOM a 2nd generation financial community in which smart investors and smart public companies can communicate in near real-time, without problems relating to profanity, spam, flaming, stock bashing and stock hyping.
Regards,
George
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Al, absolutely. Peter has played an important role here and his blog is off to a great start.
Regards,
George
Perhaps just a tiny bit might be Peter Grandich’s blog?
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