GoMo News in Florida with Orange and Blog Awards Gossip

by: admin Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Rating: Sunny Orange space, man

So, this week I will be reporting out of Cape Canaveral. Orange has invited GoMo News to cover their Orange Developer Conference. I have my podcaster and my camera and phone and will try and blog my socks off – about anything new. I have about four interviews lined up as well that I will write up and all in all I am quite excited!
(Thank-you Orange and edelman PR for the invite and Georgie and Polly are in my category for best female PR gurus).

But if the food stays the same as it was last night, I might just forget blogging and keep eating. There was a seafood buffet in this Radisson Hotel and (OMG) it was super. But the hotel itself is queen of tack – there are 1970 style pictures in the restaurant and pineapples on the seats and everything is PINK.

But enough, on to something more serious… the Metro and Ask Best of British Blog Awards. There has been comment on Jason Bradbury and Wisew about us. People are saying that the blog is ugly and it doesn’t make you want to read. (Excuse me while I wipe my eyes and blow my nose, sniff).

Readers. We are sorry. When we launched GoMo on January 7, 2007 we didn’t really think about funky design only “ease to read” and “web search optimization”. We are a trade focused blog and not a swanky consumer one. We launched GoMo with a budget of GBP 200 and we plan to sell advertising moving forward. If you like or hate the style – please let me know.
I have to say that I do like it and in the short period of time 22% of our readers come back every day. We have 300,000 uniques and nearly one million page views. In three months - its not that bad.

… but we are going to re-do the design.

One Response to “GoMo News in Florida with Orange and Blog Awards Gossip”

Paul Ruppert Said:

Bena,
Look me up at Camp Orange, I’m there to. Coco beach is certainly the “Redneck Riviera.” While you’re there head towards Coco and the “Slow and Low Barbeque and Grill.” Finger lick’n, lip smack’n good!

B2B (back to biz, don’t let the critics get you down. Content and thought leadership is excellent, especially the interviews. Nice mix in the muse of multi media. Eye candy doesn’t bring the real industry pros back.
Cheers,Paul

Comment made on April 15th, 2007 at 6:20 pm