This week while looking through our video sharing section “McVidz” I came across a video that one of our members had downloaded out of Iran about a woman “Neda” who was murdered by the Iran police force. For some reason a sniper had decided to shoot this peaceful protestor in the chest while standing on the sidewalk. Though graphic, I felt it should be kept up on our site to show the public what is really happening over there and how Iran is treating its own people. I wanted to make sure this video was viral and purchased the rights to www.nedavideo.com and www.nedamartyr.com to make sure anyone searching for this could find it so this young lady ‘Neda” wouldn’t be forgotten. Just as a warning this video contains adult content and is very graphic.

We have placed an ad back up on the eBay classified section to get the word out about the sale of our subsidiary Mobile Charging, Inc. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270414209472  . Our hope is of course a well funded green company or group of investors will see the enormous potential of Mobile Charging and run with it. While a great idea/plan we have our hands full with the launch of the McBidz mega site.

Today I have gone down and met once again with the producer of a local news station who is helping us put together a TV ad we plan to use on a regional level to get the word out about McBidz. The script was finalized and the images are being put to film at this time. I’m hoping to see something this week of the final project. Stay tuned!

Happy Father’s Day to all of our McBidzers out there! Have a SAFE & FUN day today! We are making great progress on our regional TV spot we are putting together with the help of a local news station. We have the script in hand and the updates are finished. Going into next week we are going to put a couple video images to go with the script and we should be ready to start publishing the spot on local and regional TV going into July! Getting the word out (and the great benefits) about McBidz is our goal and we feel this TV ad will be a great step in the right direction. I will update you as we progress and post the TV spot on McVidz http://www.mcbidz.com/mcvidz  once we have it in hand!

While reading through the current edition of Businessweek I noticed an article at the back from Jack Welch retired CEO of (GE) General Electric. This article was on Twitter and why Jack and Suzy Welch enjoy it so much. This had me thinking if they have heard of our newly launched www.McBidz.com website which had been made for the public to accomplish their entire online task in one place on the internet? So I decided to write in to the Welch’s new blog “Welch way” and to my surprise got a response back from the Welch Way manager Megan Burke. Megan requested more information on the new McBidz and we exchanged correspondence on what McBidz was about and our goals for the future.  To read more about Jack Welch you can go here to his biography on the Welch way blog http://www.welchway.com/About-Us/Jack-Welch/Biography.aspx .

We should have a rough draft of our planned TV infomercial here within the next several days. Working with a local news station experienced in this format we have high hopes of getting the word out to a broader audience about McBidz starting with the Southeast and working our way around the USA. Stay tuned for updates on this!

McBidzers I have been in talks with a local media station to work with us to develop a short infomercial outlining the benefits & advantages of the McBidz website. We strongly feel once the general public is informed of our existence they will become a part of our family. To this end we will be working on the script and layout of the infomercial in the coming weeks and start running the spot on a regional basis once finished. Stay tuned for more details in upcoming blog post!

McBidzers McBidz http://www.mcbidz.com/mcbidzers/profile/McBidz

McBidzers be sure to sign up on the all new McBidz social network named after you “McBidzers“. Once you sign up there are many ways to communicate with your friends and family such as the badge above which you can put on your blogs and WebPages to direct them to your profile.

Our viral marketing campaign has kicked off quite well in the last few days and we are closing in on 2,000 followers on our Twitter page http://twitter.com/mcbidz . We also have accounts on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=1796640597 (you must sign in on facebook first) and MySpace http://www.myspace.com/mcbidz be sure to add us to your friends/followers list!

For those of you who don’t do the social network scene check on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/38473626@N06/ and YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/mcbidz our video is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdsQbwXhT6o .

In the coming weeks will keep our campaigns going strong as well at looking into the possibility of doing an infomercial on a regional basis. We still have yet to iron out the details on this look for more information in upcoming blog post. Remember to spread the word and Digg us we you get a chance www.Digg.com !

As mentioned previously we have started a large marketing campaign to get the word out about the brand new McBidz. Our accounts have been setup as of yesterday and we already have about 1,000 followers on Twitter. Be sure to drop by and check us out; add us to your friends/following list on these websites: Twitter, MySpace, Face Book, Flickr, and YouTube. We are also asking our members to “Digg” us when they see something they think the public should take a look at; maybe it’s our McBidzers social network, McVidz, or any number of our free pages you think others would like. You can sign up and “Digg” us here http://digg.com .

After our initial launch of McBidz we had to go back and adjust some of our page settings including adding a free option to the classifieds. Now all of our sections have a free option for our new members. This week we have hired a Marketing/PR firm to start a large viral marketing campaign as well which will launch this Friday on most of the larger social networks and business news oriented websites across the web. Once this gets going the “Chuckster Tour” will continue along the East Coast as well featuring our mascot “Chuckster” and our street team to continue to spread the word on the McBidz website.

Our click through rates continue to remain strong for our new website. With our new marketing firm targeting our demographic and the tour ramping back up we look forward to a strong showing going into the next few months.

Our promotions in New York and Atlanta went pretty well and generated much needed traffic for the brand new McBidz. We continue to get pretty decent click through rates coming off our launch day on April 7th, but we have had to reconfigure several of our pages and during this work we have stayed online as not to interrupt our new members who continue to check out the site daily. Our programmers will be ready to wrap up the final updates to our McBidzers script this week. The “Chuckster Tour” will start to ramp back up as our street team and mascot have laid low while we have done some minor modifications to McBidz.

The next step is to continue to increase awareness of the vast McBidz possibilities to the general public.  I have laid out a street level marketing approach not only for the “Chuckster Tour”, but other high profile marketing stunts which we will have pictures of in the coming months.  Stay tuned for further developments and spread the word, BUZZ has always been our best source of publicity!

While we were running the promo in Atlanta, Ga. McBidz had a similar promotion running on our launch day in New York. This promotion was fairly large and encompassed most of the area in and around New York’s Time Square. We had prepared for this promotion about a month out to give us plenty of time for our Team leader “Annie” to receive all the promotional materials and gather her team together. About a week before the promo they started scouting the area in which to hang posters and give out flyers. McBidz plans to do several more promotions in and around the New York area this year due to the great feedback we received there.