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Absolutely great story and thanks for sharing. This sort of sharing is invaluable for those trying to start something. Nice site and I can see why it has gaine
by sparknlaunch12 15y ago
Absolutely great story and thanks for sharing. This sort of sharing is invaluable for those trying to start something.
Nice site and I can see why it has gained so much traffic. The biggest question is - how did you get this traffic?
Have you paid for any advertising? How much is driven from advertising or organic growth?
- derekflanzraich 15y agoThanks-- and glad you found it valuable! Our growth has been nearly entirely social, with the 60% driven by sites like Pinterest, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, & Twitter. The rest mostly comes from our syndication partnerships. Outside of some free trials from Google Adwords, we've never paid for any visitors... and we've never been covered by any major outlet either. We've grown 35% on average each of the last 5 months & it's all organic.
- sparknlaunch12 15y agoPretty impressive. Is your social driven traffic via your own profiles on these sites or users/readers?
- derekflanzraich 15y agoMix of both, we've got some pretty epic profiles-- but the majority comes from others sharing our stuff w/ their friends. Strong believer in this as a trend (Buzzfeed talks about this, too: http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/content-shared-close-friends-influencers/233147/ http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/content-shared-close-fr...)