So that Emurse article by Kim Komando keeps getting picked up by a different metro papers. I'm not sure where it was yesterday, but a user mentioned to me that something ran in the Denver Post. For a site such as ours, getting paper coverage metro by metro is absolutely great. It helps us build mass in each of our target geographies. Something like the Komando article, which was unexpected/unsolicited, is a total blessing. Even a slight mention in an article, like the C|Net's Top Websites for Students, brings in a slew of traffic for us. I wonder if its directly proportional to how many words are written on us? ;) If we hire a publicity person, is that what they do? Get things written about us? No idea. Maybe one day we can have a "blog relations" person, with slight press responsibilities. I think that's probably more our speed.

Maintaining solid % growth day after day is a tough thing to do (linear and all), but between the excellent word of mouth and the coverage we've been getting, we're continuing to meet our goals. I think we've been spoiled by all of it to some degree. I heard the other day that Kiko, a site that garnered a ton of Web2.0 press within the community echo chamber, only had a few thousand users. Seriously?

I tend to remind myself that we're not really a web business. We aren't out to leverage the long tail or create a social network or do everything 100% automated. We're looking to fill the need of the every day job seeker, something that after 12 years, the web community has still failed to do. If we happen to strike a web2.0 chord along the way (like we've done with our use of Ajax), then rad. Bring on the hype. Other than that.. It's the traditional job seeking folks in Denver, reading their paper, that we'd like to attract ;)

Things are busy on multiple fronts.. Hoping to get 100% of the netscape.com traffic pointed to the new site soon (we've only taken on about 50% of it so far, bleh.)

Netscape link:

• Jason blogs about why the old netscape.com site was tossed.

Emurse link:

• I recently did some Q&A with C.M. Russell over at Secrets of the Job Hunt. The last couple of interviews I've done have simply come from people emailing me and asking. If anyone else is looking for information or content for a blog post, feel free to do the same ;) alex at emurse.com

Fun:

Podcast Interview:

First, last night I had the pleasure of doing my first podcast interview. Reid Morrow is a really bright college guy out of Colorado. He's a part of a entrepreneur blogging network called Mind Petals. The interview came out pretty well I think, skype either makes me sound like I have a much deeper voice than I do, or all the late nights have made me more of a man. I'm not sure yet. Either way, check it out and spread the love. Reid and the network he's on are going to do great things I think, as it's a topical, interesting subject matter and has a great college focus.

Traffic and Link Love:

So, anyway, Rafe Needleman wrote about us on his Web2.0 blog last night, which was just... awesome, to say the least. Next thing you know Wayjer posts it on digg sometime today (I'm not sure if I should thank Wayne, or slap him ;) j/k, thanks man!).. and well.. The cycle continues. Back on delicious and all over the blogosphere. The traffic we've encountered today is already about double what it was yesterday, which was a record day. We're having trouble keeping the servers going full speed, so, apologies in advance ;) Say a pray for server red, little guy is working his ass off.

We also finished the code for resume reviews late last night. We're going to do some testing on it and release it has a "preview release" (beta's soooo 2005). We're going to launch with paypal as the payment method, which I'm sure people will tool on us some for. But the fact is, it's incredibly easy to drop on and get going. We'll work out a more professional payment method shortly (already have tons of merchant code from the Atqui.com days), just want to research it properly and make sure we're getting the best rates. We'll go ahead and bend over for paypal for the shortterm. Expect resume reviews soon.

Here's a list of some of the coverage that's sending in the most traffic (in no particular order)

http://www.solutionwatch.com/442/emurse-resumes-improved/
http://news.com.com/2061-12572_3-6093492.html?part=rss&tag=6093492&subj=news
http://www.postbubble.com/2006/07/12/emurse-yourself-into-the-job-market/
http://del.icio.us/url/d4b3a198bb312aa10cb2c5a20716c89c
http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/app/emurse/
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/an-online-resume-service.html
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/07/11/emurse-resumes-web-2-0-style/
http://digg.com/software/Emurse_Create_and_Track_Your_Resumes
http://screeniac.com/2006/07/02/emursecom/
http://reidlevy.com/2006/07/13/reid-levy-interviews-emurse/
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/jobs/emurse-your-resume-186939.php
http://cssmania.com/galleries/2006/07/12/emurse.php (Mike's design skills got a 9/10 -- wow!)

More to come later, I'm sure :)

Keep spreading the love, we're working our ass off on this side!

UPDATE: The document conversion feature is a beast on the server under this kind of load. We're turning it on and off as we navigate through our traffic patterns -- it's temporary though, I promise ;) Working to get new hardware *stat*.