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Emurse Web Resume Improvement (1 of 2)...

This past week, we rolled a whole new set of statistics out for web resumes.

Basically, it's everything you could dream of for keeping track of who, what and how people are viewing your online resume. We'll be adding a few more reports to the selection soon (like search terms), but the new 8 or so options should give people something to chew on for a bit. If there's anything in particular your looking for, drop us a note and we'll add it in. The engine was the work, dropping a new report in on a whim - eh.. not a problem ;)

Still cooking up those big changes in the kitchen. The first batch of cookies will hopefully be done in a week or two, the next one is a full on cake though, and will probably take a bit more time. Technology wise, we're pretty much all wrapped up. We're working on the work flow now though, which in our minds, is the most important part. Gotta keep that usability bar high ;)

The Netscape Effect...

"I love the free resume creation, but I still go to monster because I can search and apply to jobs through their website, but if you guys offered that, I would go stright through you guys every time!" (note: it's coming)

"Resumes constantly have to be revised and reformatted for various purposes. This seems to be the easiest way to organize the process I ever heard of. Good job."

"Allowing users to create urls to thier resumes is pretty cool. I could see how that would be a popular thing."

"I think it is great idea. Sort of like a 'myspace.com' for job seekers. Just sorry I did not think of it."

"No kidding! What a great way to post a resume! Particularly like the variety of styles that can be used. My compliments to the Chefs!"
If you can't tell these are all from Emurse.com, and not from my other project, where "PLEASE STOP VOTING ON MY eMAIL" seems to be the common theme of recent feedback (about, 7,000 times and counting...)

Celly posted our resume builder to beta.netscape.com right before the cut over. We may have been one of the first websites to truly get an idea of the "netscape effect" (as we were in the number 1 spot at the first 9am rush). Granted, netscape had some server issues that probably prevent us from taking on the full load of the PR-9 website, but dang.. For little old Emurse, it was quite a bit of traffic.

The day before Netscape, we were averaging about 4 sign ups a day. Yesterday, we had 710 sign ups (that's more than a 10% conversion rate). Today, we've had about 20 so far (it's noon, and we're no longer on the front page). Someone saw it and posted it to digg as well (by directly copying the netscape description.. nice). We're getting shout outs on different blogs around town, listed as a web2.0 service on buzz sites. Google went from finding 170 refrences to Emurse to 298 this morning (though, we did do a press release to boost our SEO not that long ago).

Granted, it's still small time, but for a sunday type of project, it's showing some great promise. Here are some tastey graphs. Unfortunately, I haven't downloaded the logs yet, so their relatively primative.