Thursday, March 18, 2010

State of the Chin

I am absolutely floored by the information that exists when it comes to web traffic, amazing. I apologize for the lag time between posts but I have been sequestered with a couple of top internet data analysts at one of the premiere companies in the field to discuss the overall activity of this blog, Trip's Chin Music. I signed a non-disclosure agreement so why don't we call this company "Poodle."

Anyway, the borls at Poodle shared some pretty interesting information with me about the people that seem to be enjoying Chin Music. [editor's note- I was told to use the word "borls" from now on, it's a combination of boys and girls, I had suggested "goys" but that was vetoed for some reason. Anyway, it's apparently very important that I appear to be gender neutral. No wait, that came out wrong, I'M not gender neutral, I'm all man. Which is not to say that being gender neutral is a bad thing. They just didn't want me to use the term boys because it implies that girls can't do data analysis, which might impact my "Bounce Rate." Shoot, did I say girls? I mean't WOMEN. Women can't do data analysis... No, no, nonono- I mean they can, of course they can. I'm just saying that that is how it would've come across and nothing could be further from the truth. Although there weren't any women in the room... there is no doubt in my mind that women ARE, in fact, capable of data analysis. And I would like to make it clear that I am in no way suggesting that Poodle is at all sexist. In fact the person that got me my coffee was a boy- MAN, the person that got me my coffee was a man. SOooooo, that's something. Wait a second...what were we talking about. ] 

But back to me. I found out more information about this site than you can shake a stick at. For instance, it turns out that people in every state in the union have visited Chin Music in the last month. Well almost every. Rhode Island didn't register, or Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, The Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho (although I'm not sure they are still a state), Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and the District of Columbia. Oh, wait and New Jersey.

WHHHHHAAAAAAT? Nobody in New Jeresey has checked out this blog? Are you kidding me? I didn't notice that before. My wife is from New Jersey. My in-laws called the Garden State home for the better part of three decades. It is the Garden State, right?  That's so weird I was just with the them the other day and they were going on and on about how witty and funny I am. They went on to say that in fairness to the rest of the family I should just sit quietly during meals, cocktails and small gatherings because everyone can access my thoughts on the world through the blog, located at TripsChinMusic.blogspot.com. They all talked about how they liked reading my blog with breakfast. Hhmm, seems strange that exactly zero people from New Jersey have seen the site?It just doesn't add- Ahhh, you know what? They do live pretty close to the Pennsylvania boarder so maybe they just pack up the ol' 1993 Macintosh LC III desk top and dial up the interwebs at a Barnes and Noble. They have phone jacks at Barnes and Noble right? Yeah, that's probably it. Phew, there's ALWAYS a logical explanation, sometime you just have to dig.

Anywho, I also learned that tens of thousands of people have visited the site, some for as long as three minutes and seventeen seconds. There really isn't four minutes of content, so that's totally understandable. I have also been getting some really interesting feedback from you, the readers. Some of you would like me to stick to sports, while others prefer that I focus more on entertainment and still a third group "don't find [me] interesting in person much less on the internet", feel that I, "write like a sixth grader without a spell chekker," and that I, "should cease and desist all blog entries to TripsChinMusic.blogspot.com or risk further legal action," whatever THAT means. Hey, thanks for the feedback and keep it coming.

With all of the interesting bells and whistles at their disposal, "Poodle Stat-alytics" can also pinpoint specific areas where the site is trending well. This is very complicated and will go over most of your less educated heads but the upshot is I have some pretty hardcore fans in the Tennessee area. Apparently I have really struck a chord with a group of speed-reading cyber cowboys because they visit tripschinmusic.blogspot.com everyday for hours...although I find it odd that hey are never on the site for more than 7 seconds at a time. Talk about diehard, those guy-als rack up hundreds of hits EVERYDAY! What can I say, they can't get enough of Chin Music I guess. According to my dedicated on-line advertising specialist, its very common for clusters of people to find your blog when it hits the right nerve. He also told me that most of those people happen to live in Tennessee.

You know my wife laughed, and might've cried a little, when I told her that I was going to hire someone who specialized in the maximizing the monetization of blog. For only $2.99 per click.Well who's laughing now? Originally I had wanted to do Google Ad Words but then this guy e-mailed me. Talk about the Universe working for you. Came right out of the blue. Anyway I told this guy that I wanted to pay for each unique visitor but he told me that uniqueness is overrated, the key word for the Cloud 3.0 is "sameness." He says that as welcoming as I may be to other  people's differences, my writing really works best for people that are more homogeneous. Now I'm not gay, but he must know what he's talking about because he is a fully licensed Internet Marketing Consultant.

So things are moving pretty fast over here in Roch-Vegas, we have a bunch of new, really cool, interesting stuff that is coming down the pi- well, I guess technically we have new stuff you will have to determine the level of coolness and interest. At any rate, thanks for visiting my little rant machine and stay tuned will make more.



But perhaps the most interesting thing that I discovered in this little State of the Chin Music meeting were the demographics that I have tapped into. For example I do very well in the "stay-at-home-mom" ages 27-45, the "out-of-work-dad" ages 35-49, and the "reloading-web-surfers" male 18-35. Once again I was surprised to find out that my best demographic is the "bandwagon riding, fair weather enjoying, success piggy-backing, coattail gliding sycophants" ages 26-54.

This explains all of the harsh criticism I have received over the last several weeks about

Unfortunately for people with integrity loyalty isn't optional. It's that kind of blind faith that forces me to list Mad Dog and Glory on my list of overlooked movies of all-time.

Eric Massa is my Congressman.

Baset Chaudhry at Trinity

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