April 25, 2011

First Anniversary of the Blog!



Hi Readers

24th April is a big day for me. It was on 24th 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
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Others
4,648
21.06
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             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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