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		<title>GayCities plus 1 month</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe that it has been a whole month since we relaunched GayCities and told the world about it.   I want to thank you all for the supportive emails and comments &#8211; while it&#8217;s hard work building a company, it&#8217;s nice to know that people have got my back.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t believe that it has been a whole month since we relaunched GayCities and told the world about it.   I want to thank you all for the supportive emails and comments &#8211; while it&#8217;s hard work building a company, it&#8217;s nice to know that people have got my back.</p>
<p><strong>Traffic keeps hitting all-time highs</strong> &#8211; Since the relaunch we keep having our &#8220;best traffic day ever&#8221; (this past Saturday hit yet another record).   And more importantly, now even the worst traffic day is better than the record high prior to the launch.   I like seeing that.</p>
<p><strong>Making progress on the ad front</strong> &#8211; with our ad network, we pitched and won (and are running) a deal to promote the city of <a href="http://toronto.gaycities.com/">Toronto as a gay friendly destination</a>.   It involves sponsorship on the site, media on our site and co-marketing.   We&#8217;re pitching the idea to a few other cities and a European country.   There is a business here <img src='http://www.scottgatz.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>Awaiting an amazing press mention</strong> &#8211; For our launch we got picked up by the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&#038;entry_id=27247">SF Chronicle</a>, <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/11/gaycities-tries-to-make-reviews-less-anonymous/">TechCrunch</a> (and re-syndicated on the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061200023.html">Washington Post</a>) and <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/gaycities-offers-user-friendly-glbt-travel-guide">Inquisitor</a>.  Now we&#8217;re waiting for an mention to hit in a HUGE publication.    I&#8217;m super excited about it, but don&#8217;t want to Jinx it until I see it in print.   Stay tuned&#8230;    </p>
<p><strong>Starting hiring</strong> &#8211; The workload has gotten too much to handle, so I&#8217;ll be looking to build up the team.   Initially I&#8217;m looking for a permanent part-time person to handle content updates/community management and for a full time jack-of-all-trades person to help run the business with me.   </p>
<p>Thanks again for all the support.    The rest of July we&#8217;re kicking off some marketing to small business owners, doing more marketing to consumers and setting up meetings with potential investors.   It&#8217;s gonna be a busy summer.</p>
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