As the title says, the Customer Street Blog sees its 100th posting today.
On the 16th July 2007 I said goodbye to my old UFindUs blog and made my first posting on here. Up to this point I had spent the previous 10 months or so blogging about the exciting changes that were going on at UFindUs on various blogs. Some worked and helped us spread the good news quite quickly, like my Live Journal blog, others like the Xanga blog I had were rarely to be found anywhere even using very specific search terms.
The purpose of the blogs was to make sure that as a business we made ourselves a accessible to our customers and potential customers as possible, they also helped to create an open forum for anyone who had dealings with us to express their views, make suggestions or pass general comments. A big change for UFindUs at the time but definitely a change for the better.
On the whole I have achieved everything I wanted to with my blog. I have watched over the past 12 months as more and more people have found the blog, and through both blogging and my various excursions onto consumer forums, more and more people have become familiar with who I am and how to get hold of me if they need to. They have also become increasingly familiar with the values which both the UFindUs and CustomerStreet brands have come to stand for.
By the end of July 2007 the blog had attracted 151 viewings, by January the figure had reached just under 800, month by month my readership was increasing bringing us to today when it has ended up with approaching 1600 visitors so far this month. I often talk with other bloggers and we all seem to share the same passion for trying to beat our best day blogging. Mine was back in September when 144 people stopped by to see what was happening.
The success of the blog has spawned other blogs within the company which includes our SEO blog which has received some excellent feedback as well. Here’s to the next 100 postings.
Tags: Blogger, blogging, celebration, Customer Street, forum, Live Journal, More UK, reputation, Smile Local, UFindUs, Xanga
