The BOB Has Another Record Month Jan 26, 13:24
With five days to go in January, for the first time we have exceeded 8,000 visitors in one month and had over 15,000 page views -- the BOB's best month ever.
The statistic that our web guru up in Munich, Roland Neubauer of Sport Media Services (BMW's web agency for sports marketing), says is most gratifying is the "average length per visit" -- it continues to hover around two minutes, which, he says, is exceptional in the web business.
It's a lot of work to keep the BOB going and fresh, but at the same time a lot of fun. Your support makes it all worthwhile. Thanks to all of you -- our loyal, long-time readers as well as newcomers -- for following the BOB and our team. And to BMW (especially Anne Rohstock) for making it happen, and to the other members of our team like Captain Craig Christensen, Jane Eagleson, Max Hoellerl, Gilles Martin-Raget, and Karen Webb who contribute ideas, stories and photos. Richard Gladwell of Sail-World NZ has also been a big help.
We promise our best efforts in the remaining months of our quest for the Cup -- on the water and off.
While we're at it, our thanks to Mr. Nicholas Stark, whom we don't recall ever having met, for his kind letter to Scuttlebutt (North America) earlier this week:
* From Nicholas Stark: In 'Butt 2263, I read the piece about Larry Ellison -
the USA's Best CEO. Interesting and revealing tidbit. But, what I thought
was even better, was following the link back to the BMW Oracle blog where
the Ellison piece appeared under the category "Cool People", and then
reading each of the stories about all the "cool people" who have been
blogged over the past two years. Excellent reading about a lot of nice
people in our sport who don't otherwise get much visibility. It's such
people who make our sport so great, and it was enjoyable to read about each
of them. Made me feel even better about our sport and the people it
attracts. Other AC teams, and other teams, events, and organizers within our
sport would be wise to emulate BMW Oracle's blog.
http://bmworacleracing.twoday.net/topics/Cool+People
The statistic that our web guru up in Munich, Roland Neubauer of Sport Media Services (BMW's web agency for sports marketing), says is most gratifying is the "average length per visit" -- it continues to hover around two minutes, which, he says, is exceptional in the web business.
It's a lot of work to keep the BOB going and fresh, but at the same time a lot of fun. Your support makes it all worthwhile. Thanks to all of you -- our loyal, long-time readers as well as newcomers -- for following the BOB and our team. And to BMW (especially Anne Rohstock) for making it happen, and to the other members of our team like Captain Craig Christensen, Jane Eagleson, Max Hoellerl, Gilles Martin-Raget, and Karen Webb who contribute ideas, stories and photos. Richard Gladwell of Sail-World NZ has also been a big help.
We promise our best efforts in the remaining months of our quest for the Cup -- on the water and off.
While we're at it, our thanks to Mr. Nicholas Stark, whom we don't recall ever having met, for his kind letter to Scuttlebutt (North America) earlier this week:
* From Nicholas Stark: In 'Butt 2263, I read the piece about Larry Ellison -
the USA's Best CEO. Interesting and revealing tidbit. But, what I thought
was even better, was following the link back to the BMW Oracle blog where
the Ellison piece appeared under the category "Cool People", and then
reading each of the stories about all the "cool people" who have been
blogged over the past two years. Excellent reading about a lot of nice
people in our sport who don't otherwise get much visibility. It's such
people who make our sport so great, and it was enjoyable to read about each
of them. Made me feel even better about our sport and the people it
attracts. Other AC teams, and other teams, events, and organizers within our
sport would be wise to emulate BMW Oracle's blog.
http://bmworacleracing.twoday.net/topics/Cool+People
)
Onward and upward: January has already been the BOB's best month ever. We will soon top 100,000 visitors since we started this blog just before Act 4 (!) in June 2005. We appreciate your interest and support!
Blog Team | by TFE
