Meet iCommissions (siteMighty’s first partner)

Scot & NatalieFor those of you who don’t know, our offices are located in New Orleans. Far from the fervor of Silicon Valley or the pace of NYC, being a technology/Internet company in the deep south has it’s own set of challenges and rewards. One of the perks is getting the chance to work with people like the team at iCommissions.com.

We’ve been active in the affiliate marketing space for years, and have worked with iCommissions for a while now. When we made up our minds to start building siteMighty, we introduced the idea to iCommissions and without pause they committed to step up and help us any way they could.

Inviting their users to try and test siteMighty has proved to be invaluable as we learned (and continue to learn) a great deal about siteMighty from the user’s perspective. They told us what was working and what wasn’t which is exactly what we needed – honest, genuine feedback. Many of the features you see on siteMighty today have been tweaked, polished or suggested by an iCommission’s user.

iCommissions is located in Mandeville which is on the Northshore just across Lake Pontchartrain from us. We try to get up there as often as we can to talk about siteMighty, have lunch and drink in the crisp, lake front breeze.

We thought we’d post some pics from our last visit so you can get to know our good friends at iCommissions.com.

(Pictured: Natalie Yarbrough and Scot Rumsey of iCommissions.com)

Six Month Evaluation: The State of the Blog Post

We’ve now been blogging at VoodooVentures.com for just over six months, and we felt like it was time to check in and assess the state of our blog. It’s been a lot of fun sharing our thoughts with you on a daily and weekly basis. As things have progressed, we’ve learned a lot about ourselves and you, our readers, and we are excited to continue to improve moving forward.

First let’s start with some stats:

  • 129 posts – an average of 1 post every 1.7 days
  • 90 Comments – the most comments was 12 on the Shopping 2.0 Smackdown post
  • 40 community members from MyBlogLog
  • 9739 visits and 21447 pageviews from Google Analytics data
  • We have 35 subscribers through FeedBurner and the truth is we don’t know how many through our natural feed
  • Our Alexa Rank is 213,851 and has been as high as 90,000

The most popular posts have been:

The least popular posts were:

Finally, shout outs to our biggest readers and commenters:

In digesting all of this, some trends start to arise. We see that some of the topics on which we think we were breaking news should be left to the journalists, and that we should instead shoot for posts in which we have a unique perspective or an authoritative review. In other words, do we really have something to contribute to the conversation?

Later this week we’ll be posting about our plans going forward. While changes to our blogging will be incremental, we hope that they will continue to improve the quality of our content and engage our readers more effectively.

Here’s a preview of the questions we are asking ourselves:

  • Do I have a unique perspective with value to add or am I bouncing around the echo chamber of the blogosphere?
  • How does this forward our strategic goals as a company?
  • Would I gain something from this post if I read it elsewhere?

We also want to hear from you, our readers. We’d love to hear what you like and what you don’t like about our blog. We really appreciate all the commenting that many of you do as our goal is always to keep the conversation going. Now is the perfect time for you to tell us what you like and what you don’t as we evaluate our own performance.

Let us know, and don’t pull any punches!

Thanks, The Voodoo Ventures Team

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