3-2-1 LAUNCH!

Today we kicked off Remembered.com in grand fashion!

We dropped a press release out to over 300 media outlets, and I hand submitted to at least 100 more magazines and websites. Fingers are crossed but traffic to the site is flowing. You can read the release on Yahoo here.  We also got our first article written by Sherrie Giddens of the St. Louis Examiner that you can take a look at here.

We've got a number of web ads about to come online. Right now we're focusing on areas of the US that have high median age populations, and we'll broaden based on ad-testing and success. All apologies to Dave Matthews band but here's a sample ad - tell me what you think?

In other interesting news. We got picked up somehow by KillerStartups.com and profiled as one of their great startup ideas. They rank the ideas by votes given by people on the site, so if you're reading this and haven't voted - please do so by going to the blue button on the top left of this page and clicking the + button.

Work on the shopping cart continues... Adolfo's been cranking into the odd hours to get it done. There's a lot of customization to do because we don't have a lot of products to offer - basically just two, and we don't ship you  anything so it's a matter of removing code to make it align with our offerings. It's performing well in testing, and we should be able to put it online in a few weeks. That said - everyone getting in right now basically gets the site for FREE. Hooray!

Poor Ivan has been working his tail off the past week to get the site ready for primetime. I'm sure he's losing his mind with every odd request I throw his way. He made a great breakthru with our HTAccess component so that the subdomains don't get duplicate indexed. This should go a long way to helping Googlebot crawl the site correctly without a ton of garbage displaying. Longer term, he's replacing our Invite component with something new that allows HTML emails to be generated. We've still got a problem with Remembered.com mails appearing in people's spam folders, but I think it's because we're new and not necessarily a trusted commodity yet.

It's been a heck of a week... and it's only Tuesday. Sheesh.

Andy & the Staff @Remembered.com

Getting closer and closer...

This week's meeting was a long one. We covered a lot of ground though. Let me hit the high points...

Adolfo is setting up the order/payment system using a new component that he found. We gave up on the previous component because it was actually too powerful for what we needed. We would have had to customize downward for our needs. The new one shows tremendous promise from the demo, but we're starting from scratch again. I hope we're able to get it integrated quickly.

There's a ton of cleanup work from the beta, lots of little things that would make the site better. Ivan and I have been running around fielding grounders and turning and occasional double play. On the development side, he's been diligently integrating a new "invite" component that would replace our existing on.

As for me, I got in a bit of a pickle with Google. I opened an Adwords account for the company, but when I linked it to Google Analytics, I was logged in with my personal email address. Hence our cost data is not being associated with the proper adwords account. Google support has not been very helpful in rectifying the situation. Somehow I suspect a language barrier is in the equation to slow things down.

Anyway - we're pulling things together. Hopefully a couple of weeks and we're ready to blast off.

AJ

Great Meeting Today...

We're close to adding our payment systems after going through a few different options out there. The gist is that credit cards = good and paypal = bad. Not sure how we got there, but I'm comfortable with where we are going. Facebook integration right now seems very difficult. They are always changing their game and it's hard to make a solid connection with an ever changing borg.

Nuff Said - I am goodnightin'

AJ

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