[10/7/2008 SteppersUSA News]
Steppers Sites Facts
By Markie Bee
Buy Tickets Best Of Both Worlds Dance Extravaganza
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Here October is Breast Cancer Awareness
Month For Steppers Too -
Click Here New Email Address for Pluggers:pluggers@steppersusa.com Are
you getting the biggest bang for your internet advertising dollar? It's
a question every web site and newsletter owner that does advertising in
their publication asks in some form or another to any potential client.
Name recognition plays a key role in the equation... How many people
visit the site? Who visits the site? How often do they visit the site?
What is the Return on investment (ROI)? As the economy continues in its
spiral down through the depths of recession both nationally and
internationally, the real numbers count... not the sales pitch. It
amazes me what some people charge promoters to advertise to a very small
pool of potential customers (at least compared to SteppersUSA and
certainly compared to the larger market at large). One of my jobs as a
webmaster is to make sure "the numbers" are provided to my web clients.
One of the main tools I have been using in the last few years has been
Google's Analytics, which provides tons of valuable unbiased, raw data
organized in a manner which makes it easy to present the information a
web site owner needs to evaluate performance of their site and how their
advertising performs.
One key area of interest in these reports for those who do advertising,
is an area called "Referring Sites External Visits". It's extremely
revealing... It shows which sites are contributing to your sites
traffic, how many people came from that site, how many (and which) pages
they looked at, how long they were on the site, and how many of them
were new visitors (and much more but it's not my intention to hold
class, just to inform). I did one of these reports yesterday for one of
the stepping sites I work on. I was so intrigued with the numbers, I
decided to run the numbers over the same period of time on several other
steppers sites and I got the same result.. Not only do More people Visit
SteppersUSA in One Day Than Visit Than Any Other Steppers Sites
in an Entire Month, but SteppersUSA also sends more traffic to
other steppers sites than any other steppers website or newsletter on
the web. Sometimes it just feels good to pat oneself on the back when
you see the facts in print. Check out Seal's new remake of a
walkers classic standard below
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month For Steppers Too
If you haven't visited this site yet
the address is
www.stepandthinkpink.org and while you're there, sign up for the
monthly "Pink
Newsletter". Another Breast cancer web site run by steppers is
ABCAP.Org run by Ken Bedford click on the link in the ad above.
If you or anyone you know has any photos, footage or information about
or from any Steppers contests for the
History of Stepping Project,
I'd love to add it to what we have. It's Your History! OR If you have a personal recollection concerning stepping or if you care to help
with the
in any manner, please
Send us an email.
SteppersUSA.Com sells Steppin' DVDs from across the Steppers Community.
Click Here to view the listing
or
send us an email
if you would like to include your DVDs on SteppersUSA.Com
The SteppersUSA Daily News and SteppersUSA.Com are both
daily
publications which update continually. We accept and publish Steppers
classes and workshops, Daily events, weekly events, monthly events,
special events, steppers news, requests for information which we can't
answer but our visitors may have an answer to. All of this makes us the
most complete listing of Steppers information available anywhere. Send
your submissions and pluggers or flyers to us at
webmaster@steppersusa.com TODAY!
Please copy the message below and send it on to as many steppers as
you can please!
This is an open message to ALL steppers. Please share it
with as many people as possible.
As many of you may already know I started a new web
site for the benefit of the greater steppers community. It's called
History of Stepping Project. I wish to encourage you to add your
knowledge to the timeline. If you know anything about stepping, please
share this with the public on this site. We are looking for all
information related to stepping from it's beginnings to the present. The
information literally includes everything from clubs and bars which held
steppers sets and parties to contests and the participants and results,
to when different steppers organizations and classes started, who the
instructors were and are; Musical bands, and artists, DJ's, radio and
television personalities, Movies, videos, and photos… literally
everything stepping.
Creating an accurate historic timeline will go a long
way toward helping the community take the next step in its logical
progression as it continues to grow nationwide and will become a
valuable resource for all in the future.
Your input, your knowledge and your effort have made the dance what it
is today. Don't you feel your place (and your organization's) in the
timeline is well deserved? I do!
Please send an email to your members or readers inviting them to
participate. Place a link on your web site also please. All support is
appreciated!
The effort requires more than just posting the
information. The need for fact checkers, people willing to do some
research exists in this important ongoing project. Just a few minutes a
week can make a difference.