Well it looks like the verdict is in and NeedInstructions.com is the very first official winner of Odesk.com site of the month. We have received 1407 votes and won a $1,000 oDesk credit and an Apple iPhone. I want to thank all the NeedInstructions.com members, Facebook and Myspace friends and lastly our Twitter followers! Without your votes we would not be number 1. Thanks everyone for voting!
Check out the Odesk article!
Hey guys as you know the blog has not been getting any attention or love. Now that Twitter is so widely used and how it allows people such as myself to micro blog it has been a blessing. But this blessing also has a curse it stops me from updating the blog, so I am so sorry for not updating my NeedInstructions.com peeps. I hope though you are following us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/NeedInst.
Also I wanted to notify all my NeedInstructions.com lovers out there that NeedInstructions.com was nominated to be the Odesk.com site of the vote. So I like to ask everyone if you love NeedInstructions.com as much as us please vote for us so that NeedInstructions.com can be Odesk.com site of the month for April 2009. You can vote at http://odesk.corank.com/. You also can find us under, “A Media Rich Information Website” Just click on the THUMBS UP and you have voted for NeedInstructions.com. Thanks!
We just created out Facebook and Technorati page so come check us out!
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NeedInstructions.com is now on Twitter. You’re probably asking yourself why I finally signed up to Twitter. Well, I recently attended a Social Media for Entrepreneurs and Start-ups meeting on 02/26 at Imagination Studios in NYC, and there where 4 guest speakers who where there which included Sonia Jairath from Metierlink.com, Maria Ogneva from Homeshopr.com, Jullien Sharp from Stylocreative.com, Juliette Powell from Juliettepowell.com and Melanie Notkin from Savvyauntie.com. All of these people suggested that joining Twitter would be a great idea. They all stated that this new phenomenon o Twitter has helped grow the web audience, so I figured why not give it a try. If it worked for all four of them it should work for me. So I ask all your Twitter folks out there to please add us at http://twitter.com/NeedInst.
I was recently was contacted a week ago by GetYourBizSavvy.com requesting an interview on myself and NeedInstructions.com. I must say it was a great experience to be interviewed by the interviewer Alex from GetYourBizSavvy.com. I ask you all to come and check out my interview and tell me what you think?
I hope this won’t be my last interview, because I love it!
Well a couple of you have been telling me the current “What is NeedInstructions.com” needs an upgrade. I also was recently speaking to a good friend of mine CEO Juan Vides of Techacs.com and he even stated a high quality video is needed for the site. After thinking about it for a short time I have decided to rerecord the video. So this Saturday I will be re-shooting the “What Is NeedInstructions.com” video at Ripley-Grier Studio in Manhattan New York. I am very excited about the re-shoot and I hope everyone enjoys the new video! I will keep you all posted once the new video is ready.
Well to help with the launch of the site, we have decided to create a Myspace page to help us promote NeedInstructions.com. So if you have a Myspace account, please add us as a friend at www.myspace.com/needinstructions_com. Here you will also receive updates and announcements on what is happening with NeedInstructions.com. Also for our Facebook friends out there, we will be launching our Facebook account to also help us promote the site. So stay posted and don’t forget to add us as your friend.
On another note, some of you may have faced an issue with the site in regards to our PDF instructions with certain browsers such as IE. Currently our developers are looking into this and should have the issue fixed soon. Thanks Chad, for letting us know about the issue!
Many of you have asked me, “Where have you been Chris?” Sorry for not posting any updates on the blog. NeedInstructions.com has been in Beta and I have been super busy with the testing. Also, I have made many upgrades to the site due to recommendations from the public. I must say that I am loving the upgrades, and I hope you all enjoy them too. Currently, the site is pretty much finished. We are fixing a couple of small issues but nothing too major.
I must say though, I am excited because we have hired sunstreaktech.com to help with our SEO optimization. NeedInstructions.com and I look forward working with sunstreaktech.com to help our site reach our SEO goals!
On another positive note, we have created the flyers for NeedInstructions.com’s first promotion and give away! Thanks a lot XSalt Multimedia Solutions for creating the flyer designs!
FRONT SIDE OF FLYER
BACK SIDE OF FLYER
Well after facing many development issues, our team has come to find out that many of our issues where due to our VPS provider. After giving our old VPS provider many tries to prove there VPS services can be the best, we have decided to cancel our services and move on to a new VPS provider. So far things are going great, and our developers have already confirmed that our code should be uploaded and ready by this week for our 1 month beta!
Well I just received an email from a good friend of mine. The email was a link to the article from the New York Post newspaper. The headline stated, “’HOW TO’ NEW GO-TO ON WEB.” This article was a well written article from Brian Garrity who stated how many people are now visiting “How To” Web sites, this is great news for NeedInstructions.com. Hopefully due to this type of news, once the site goes up NeedInstructions.com will be able to get the traffic that it needs to succeed.