Could You Use a Little Publicity?
Hey, did anyone see that movie Young Guns where Billy the Kid is walking around telling people “I’ll make you famous”? Yeah, great line. Of course, it really has nothing to do with this post, but did you ever get something funny like that stuck in your head?
Anyway, Woopra has a new PR Company called Blast Media, and they have been fielding our inbound media requests lately (and boy are we happy to have the help). Various members of the media have asked for things like:
“…examples of clients and how they are using Woopra to improve their Web site’s customer experience, or to drive more value when customers visit their site (like boosting conversions).”
If you would be interested in being spotlighted as a Woopra user, could you please do one of the following (or both):
- Upload a short video to any of the major Video sites (YouTube, Revver, Viddler, etc) explaining why you love Woopra in your own words, along with a description of your site and how it helps. (Please keep them in the 2-5 minute range.)
- Drop a comment below pretty much explaining the same thing, but in writing if you don’t have the ability to make a video.
Please keep in mind that your comments are going to be viewed by some of the largest names in the publishing industry, and they may actually want to contact you for a follow up or short interview.
By the way, one other thing. We may want to showcase some of your videos here on Woopra.com, and if we do, or if we see that any of you get contacted by the media, we’re going to send you a nice shiny Woopra T-shirt as a “Thank You” for your support!
So, if you can spare a few minutes to share your positive experience with Woopra, then Blast Media just might be able to “…make you famous.” Thanks in advance!
June 10th, 2008 at 12:57 am
I signed up for Woopra after seeing it on GeekBriefTV. I had just launched my website and it looked like a neat app. I didn’t know much about analytics at the time, but I knew I had to try it.
I run a small blog and forum (www.heatherwithaccountservices.com) devoted to taking down a telemarketing ring here in the US that breaks just about every state and federal telemarketing law there is. Woopra has been incredibly helpful to me in ways I could not imagine.
Woopra has enabled me to see where all of my visitors come from, enabling me to focus my attention on those sites where this particular scam is being discussed most, getting the word out about how to stop this scam.
Woopras real time tracking allowed me to see that the majority of my visitors were landing on a specific post on my blog, but not exploring the rest of the site. I was able to change around that post and as a result get visitors to check out the rest of my blog.
Woopras live visitor map let me see that the companies doing the calling visit my site daily. While that may not seem helpful at first, it is. After tagging them I was able to see that 99% of the (thankfully few) negative comments I received were coming from these companies.
Those are just a few of the ways Woopra has helped me. I may not have stories of huge sales that can be credited to Woopra, but it is playing a role in helping me, a first-time webmaster take down a group of greedy scammers. Thank you Woopra!
June 10th, 2008 at 6:59 am
YouTube Video on Woopra by PCTreiber.net. Sorry, bad english and so on.. my first video ever..
made fun so i do not care if it takes part.
go on like that, woopra.. i like it.
greetings,
Chris
June 10th, 2008 at 8:23 am
[…] mit Blast Media eingegangen ist und jene immer öfters nachgefragt haben, ob es denn nicht Statements von Woopra Usern gäbe, in denen klar und deutlich wird, inwiefern Woopra dem User geholfen hat beim Vermarkten, […]
June 10th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Chris and James - thanks for responding so fast! And Chris, you did a pretty good job if that was your first video ever! A lot of people are afraid to let themselves be captured on video, but once you do it a time or two it’s not so bad.
Thanks again for the support guys,
John
June 10th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Thank you very much for Woopra!
First video between door and a girlfriend who forced me to go shopping.. it could be better but it made fun and i really hope woopra grows and grows.
have a nice day
Chris
June 10th, 2008 at 9:57 am
I’ve only been running Woopra on my social network http://www.MohawksRock.com for 3 days now, however I have to say I have been absolutely loving it from several standpoints.
- Graphical Interface. Seeing the icons for referrers, the browsers, flags of countries is really a nice touch that other data-centric applications leave off as “eye candy”. However its highly functional when glancing at the screen. The whole thing is very nice, but that is my favorite touch that shows the rest of the thought that was put into the layout.
- Live View. Its very fun/informative to watch in real-time as users come onto the site and try to navigate around. There is also a sense of accomplishment watching 11 people with different country flags roam around the site.
- Referer. Combined with the live view (or even archived visits) seeing where the user came from, especially search engines and seeing where they made it, and surmising whether they received their information, is highly valuable. Running a website I want to make every visit be of value to that person, Woopra increases my ability 10-fold to make that happen.
There are many other features that I haven’t mentioned including tagging, notifications and live assistance/chat. I’m sure there are many others I have yet to find just getting started. After testing and understanding for awhile I look forward to possibly rolling Woopra out at work on our medical websites where it will help us gain even better insight on how to better educate doctors in emerging treatments for a variety of diseases.
Congratulations Woopra Team.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I’ve been running Woopra about a week on my real estate website for Century 21 Infinity at http://www.c21infinty.com and I gotta say I love it. The interface has a slick hi-tech feel to it and it’s very entertaining and gratifying to watch the users pop in on the live view and navigate around the site.
For our clients the navigation history and tagged users are a great way to add that extra something to their experience with us by being able to see what pages they’ve viewed and any properties they seemed interested in so we have a better idea of what they’re looking for before and after we contact them which gives us that edge in being the company that truly “gets them”
The start a conversation option is another very nice feature of Woopra that we’ve used to turn window lookers into clients. Some people come to our site and have spent hours browsing through and looking at properties and being able to send them a friendly message asking if they have any questions on a property can really break the ice and get them to go just that one extra step.
Our website is very fluid and constantly being updated, modified and added onto and as a webmaster the live view is also great in being able to see what pages people are currently looking at so I know not to make any changes to those pages while they’re in use!
I’ve added Woopra to my list of must haves for any website I run and will recommend it to anyone else with a website as well.
June 11th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Before using Woopra, I had no clue where my audience was from. My sites subject matter deals with model railroads and the popular scales and era’s vary greatly by region. In short I had no clue what to focus on.
Since using Woopra I have access to the geographical regions that are represented giving me the ability to focus on the popular subjects relating to New York, Pennsylvania, California, Ontario and Florida. I don’t have to worry about Europe as they aren’t viewing my site as much as I once thought.
Not only this but I have tagged my sponsors with events to find out what they are looking at when and how much. Now thats power in my finger tips and thats a fact.
Ron Pare
Owner of http://www.scratchbuildersguild.com
June 11th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
YouTube Video on Woopra by Evan Krueger.
I hope the video quality is good enough.
Thank you so much for this opportunity.
This is a really cool idea.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
I’ll post a video or story asap
June 12th, 2008 at 9:03 am
we use woopra on our site, it is great, the best is i can chat with the visitors,
if it would be possible to create a feature to give the possiblity also to the visitors to start conversation
that would open up a real social feature hidden in there already,
June 12th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
@Evan - Fantastic video!
Thanks very much!!!
John P.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
@wangjel - We do have the visitor chat function working in the lab, so it is definitely coming soon. Hang in there and when it’s fully baked we’ll release it so you guys can really go to town!
John P.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
I would post a video, but the product is not very useful for large sites right now. The 10,000 page view limit is a critical show stopper.
With a lot of pageviews, the product goes into untested grounds. It is unfair to comment right now on if woopra is either usable or scalable for large sites.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Why does everyone keep comparing Woopra to Google in terms of javascript load speed.
It doesn’t matter if woopra is a few milliseconds faster because people are not going to use is the only single page metric. They will still use Google, with woopra as an addition source.
google monitors trillions++ page views a day, while woopra no more then say (10,000 total sites X 10,000 page views per day = 100,000,000 a hundred million at most. That is if every site they activated max out there daily page views.
so we are comparing page load times for two completely different sized product. one main stream, one not out of beta.
But I guess if you do say good things, you do get rewarded. So I should just shut up now.
lets at least wait 6 months after beta to see how fast woopra responds to compare this statistic.
Great product by the way, I just can’t stand people that bend the truth.
June 14th, 2008 at 12:15 am
I’m loving the Woopra program. I’ve run a lot of different stats programs ranging from good old AWstats up to more recent things like Google Analytics & Piwik, but nothing has come close to the sophistication & detail of Woopra. The client app is brilliant, it’s like Bloomberg for site stats. My site is just my own personal tech blog, but I will definitely be recommending my freelance clients use this service.
Glenn Slaven
blog.slaven.net.au
June 14th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Since beginning to use Woopra several weeks ago, I’ve turned into a fan. It’s always open on my screen and I’m always watching who’s on my site. As a blogger, I want to know that I’m reaching my audience. I want to know to whom my work appeals and my goal is to reach a broad, diverse audience. Woopra enables me to find out who my users are and where they’re coming from in order to do just that.
My site is a small but growing blog (www.viewfromafarley.com). In the past, I’ve used various web analytics tools in order to find out just how popular my site is. Woopra takes analytics several steps ahead. On the analytics side, there are no features that are entirely new (many analytics tools allow you to see location or visit time). Woopra is unique in that it compiles this information in an easy user interface. A webmaster can see a visitor, view the visitor’s entire history on the site, and, most importantly, tag that user so the webmaster knows who they are when they return.
This allows a webmaster to be very involved in their visitors. They can see quick graphic representations of where visitors are coming from, charts of referrers, and boxes with keywords that are being used in search engines. It’s never been easier to find out who the target audience is and continue to monitor visits.
Especially for blog, having these features is amazing. Writers need to know their audience because it’s our job to write for our audience. Woopra makes this easy, and the chat feature makes this even easier. It’s amazing to be able to pick a random person and ask them what their thoughts on the site are. There is real interaction with the audience and I’ve gained some valuable insight from doing the online equivalent of man on the street.
Woopra is really reaching out to the community and constantly updating. I’m lucky to have the chance to use Woopra because it’s miles ahead of the competition.
Chris Farley
http://www.viewfromafarley.com
June 16th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
I learned of Woopra via Twitter, and once i saw it, i instantly signed up. I waited with my breath held for almost 2 weeks, until finally, my magic email from the big W came. I’d been using Google Analytics for a while, the only problem was, i couldn’t see who had come to my site until almost a day later. Hell, Steve Jobs could’ve come to my site and no one would’ve been any the wiser for 24 hours. I still use both Woopra and Analytics hand in hand, because they compliment each other extremely well. I’ve always got Woopra on hand, i installed it at school, my desktop, my laptop, EVERYWHERE. I use the Woopra Plugin for Wordpress on my site, http://www.gamersedgepodcast.com, and i must say, it works like a charm. No HTML or JavaScript code to put on the site, and no waiting. By far, the best feature of Woopra is the live view, i can see, who is on my site, NOW. I run a small podcast, and my small number of fans really like when that little chat window pops up and i say, “Hi”. Woopra is cross platform, clean, and reliable, and i think that services like Woopra are the next generation of Analytics.
Justin Gerard.
June 16th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Also, what kind of media is this, I.E, newspaper, broadcast, podcasters, bloggers etc?
June 17th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
@ Justin:
Thank you for your kind words and enthusiasm. As for the “publicity”, the article states the formats desired for people to share how they use Woopra. Is that what you wanted to know?
June 17th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
@ sambeckett:
Woopra’s limitation on pageviews is temporary, part of a restriction during the beta testing stage. Many of the people testing these speeds do not exceed those pageviews in general, so there is a comparison of apples to apples in those cases. Yes, these are early days, but the page loading times are still interesting data to compile for testing purposes. That’s the purpose of beta testing.
June 25th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
We’re a professional digital marketing and web design agency based in Nottingham in the UK. We came across Woopra because a module was contributed on drupal.org to integrate Woopra into the Drupal CMS platform.
As a company that not only designs and develops websites for it’s clients, but also manages them on an ongoing basis, our first look at Woopra not only intrigued us, but excited us too.
Firstly, the ability to manage multiple websites was the first thing to catch our collective eye. Currently, having to navigate from one client site to another in order to collect stats, monitor traffic and produce reports is time-consuming at the very least and incredibly unproductive at worst. We always strive to exceed our clients expectations in terms of speed of delivery and service but when we have a heavy workload, producing statistical reports is often the first thing to go to the wall.
All the sites that we build for our clients provide login capabilities for them and, in many cases, also allow our clients’ clients to log in too to contribute to forums, ask questions, access special areas of the site and so on. Being able to track these users and their activities will allow us to identify bottlenecks, problem areas and areas of most activity and interest.
Combine that with Click-to-Chat and the ability that it gives us to just drop in on our clients when they’re on the site, or on another member and provide immediate assistance and that so-vital ‘human’ element without the need to code the facility ourselves is practically a godsend.
We can see great possibilities for Woopra within our day to day work and we’re excited about the possibilities that it will literally change the way that we work at UnderDesign.
Regards
Patrick Nelson
Managing Director, UnderDesign Ltd
June 26th, 2008 at 11:27 am
@ underdesign:
Thanks so much for these brilliant examples of how you are using Woopra. It helps us make Woopra work better for you, and helps others understand the benefits. Keep them coming!
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:02 am
[…] Recently, John Pozadzides invited Woopra members to share videos, blog posts, reviews, and commentary about how they enjoy using Woopra and how Woopra works for them to share with our new public relations company, Blast Media. The commentaries were wonderful and gave us some great insights into how you use Woopra, and how we can make Woopra better. […]
July 30th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Virgil is very impressed with the Program and Vinnie is very impressed with Woopra as you will see in our video. Woopra with Vinnie and Virgil
Thank you as Woopra is really helping us track the visitors who visit our website!