First Anniversary of the Blog!

Hi Readers

24^th April is a big day for me. It was on 24^th April 2010 that I have started my blog and it is already one year since I started to blog. It has been an eventful year. The blog has picked up steam and has become quite popular. As on today I have had 22,068 page views and 172 followers. I have had visitors from more than 150 countries (This is only a guess, Google analytics only provides the top 10 countries’ page views and I hope they give me statistics of the other countries too. That would be very exciting. I could mark out the countries where my blog has been read on a world map).

The journey has been very exciting. Thanks to technology and Google I am now getting many readers from all over the world. I get a massive boast every day by seeing the number of hits and the countries from where the readers have accessed my blog.

A book named Marketing common sense has been published by my College, Siva Sivani Institute of Management, Secunderabad. Marketing common sense has 30 articles take from the blog. A second book is also on the anvil.

  

                                 Top Page views – country wise (Table 1)

No	Pages	Total views	Percentage
1	India	8,798	39.87
2	United States of America	5,003	22.67
3	Unites Kingdom	1,149	5.2
4	Canada	733	3.3
5	Netherlands	458	2.0
6	Australia	364	1.6
7	Malaysia	320	1.5
8	Germany	279	1.3
9	France	169	0.77
10	Italy	147	0.66
-----	Others	4,648	21.06
-----	Total	22,068	100

The above table gives very interesting insights. 70 percent of the views are from India, USA and UK. The Top ten countries’ page views account for nearly 80 percent of total page views. The rest of the other countries views account for 20 percent of page views. (Pareto’s law in action!)

                                        Top Blog articles (Table 2)

No	Name of the Posting	No of Views	Date of Publishing
1	Newspaper Advertisements	1,599	31-01-2011
2	Marketing terms:  TGIF, Pink Slips, WYSIWYG, GIGO	1,587	27-01-2011
3	Presentation tips for Marketers	1,259	19-02-2011
4	Best Marketing practices –USA – V – Universal studios	1,057	07-02-2011
5	More marketing concepts	1,055	14-02-2011
6	Cricket Fans – the fickle gods	538	08-03-2011
7	Unethical advertising	431	14-05-2010
8	Best Indian Sales promotions	330	28-01-2011
9	Recruitment and selection of sales personnel (Part I)	200	08-06-2011
10	Effective segmentation and positioning – Horlicks	189	11-02-2011

The top ten blog articles out of 245 total blog articles account for 37 percent of all page views. The top five articles are bunched very close and frequently change places. Newspaper advertisements is a very popular article followed by Marketing terms, Presentation tips for Marketers, Best Marketing practices and More marketing concepts.   

Thank you readers for making my attempt at blogging so successful. The next target is to crack the 100,000 page views in a year. With your active support I am sure that we can do it. I love your feedback. Keep it coming thick and fast. Tell me what you like and more importantly what you don’t. We can make this blog better – together.

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