We studied Google Analytics and mapped out the most successful posts on our blog all the way down to the least successful posts while doing the Get Your Blog On Blogging Challenge. We calculated by the amount of views and hits per post and were actually surprised by some of the findings. Check out which posts got your attention and which ones you passed over:
1. Valentine’s Day Cards Officially for Sale!
2.) Get Your Blog On Blogging Challenge One-On-One: Meet Brooke Burnett
It’s the last day of January which means that we are finished with the Get Your Blog On Blogging Challenge after posting this last post of the month! Posting every single business day was a huge challenge on top of managing client projects, meetings, and misc. business management, but we’re proud to say that we only missed ONE day of blogging throughout the entire challenge. We don’t even like to admit that we flubbed and missed that one day, but when we take a look at the month and realize that we posted 19 posts within 21 business days AND with one of those days being an official holiday putting us back at 20 business days, we’re back to feeling pretty proud of the accomplishment.
But who cares about how we feel about the challenge, we know all you really want to know is…who is the Get Your Blog On Blogging Challenge Winner?! Hint: It’s not us. Since the Get Your Blog On Blogging Challenge was our idea we had a little bit more pressure on us to make sure we lived up to the challenge. So, we think it’s only fair to award an outside participant the title of 1st Place.
Without further adu, here is the Challenge Participant Breakdown:
We recently finished up working with a fun client who asked us to create a custom wedding invitation suite for her upcoming nuptials. The full story of how the bride and groom met can be found below, but in short, they met in a bookstore and wanted to use that aspect of their history together in their Save the Date, invitations, etc. This was an especially fun project for us because we were able to add some outside of the box, creative, and fun details to the project which is always a plus for us.
We nicknamed this wedding suite the ‘Fairytale’ suite since that was the angle we attempted to portray in each element of the suite. We stuck to neutral and subtle colors (green, natural light brown) since the idea behind the suite was creative on its own. The Save the Date (below) started the ‘story’ off with the “The start of a happily ever after…” line at the top of the card and we created a vine graphic around the ‘Save the Date’ portion that is so often used in old fairytale books.
A round up of some of the latest, and somewhat unnerving, marketing and social media news this week. Is it just us, or are privacy, censorship, and monitoring tactics becoming more commonly used? It unsettles us a bit, but read for yourselves and let us know what you think!
Google’s privacy policy is changing on March 1st, 2012. Make sure you know what all the changes entail so you can make an informed decision on whether or not you want to stay with Google or move to a more secure email host and search engine.
Twitter will start to censor tweets depending on what country you live in and what the country’s regulations are.
FBI announces they are going to start monitoring social media by a monitoring tool. They have yet to find the monitoring tool but are currently looking at several options.
And on that positive note we’re off to get our weekend started! We’ll be back next week for our final two days of the Get Your Blog On Blogging Challenge! Expect posting statistics, final challenge results, most popular posts from all challenge participants, and more! Have a great weekend!
*Want to skip reading and get straight to shopping? Click here to visit the Blueprint Etsy shop where all of our Valentine’s Day cards are currently being sold.
We’ve talked about how we recently opened a new branch of Blueprint PR and Design that specializes in creative custom design (cards, prints, stationery, and event decor). We posted about the Christmas card designs that we unveiled in November to kick off the new Blueprint branch with a bang. We even posted about how well they were selling after a month or so of being on the market.
Now, we’re going to post about our new card designs for a popular holiday among romantics and lovebirds that takes place on February 14th…yep, you guessed it! Valentine’s Day cards!
Big Kiss Valentine's Day Cards - Set of 4
