McBidz will be launching with a tentative date set for April 7, 2009 @ 12:00pm. The countdown clock will appear on the splash page this Tuesday evening March 10th which will give a live countdown of this process. While the Chuckster Tour will happen it will follow the launch date and be ongoing through 2009. Our launch date promotions in place are set to appear in New York City with a large street team presence, Charleston, SC with limited guerilla marketing, and our ”Chuckster” mascot and street team members participating in street level marketing in Atlanta Georgia; this will all happen the day of the launch.

We have decided to push up the launch date before the Chuckster Tour due to our successful campaign of luring quality advertisers to our site which expect to see McBidz live as soon as possible. We have most of our promotional materials in hand and will start shipping these to our street teams around March 16th and update our servers to handle the anticipated load as well at that time. A press release will be issued at the end of March to announce this to the public at large.

For the last month or so we have been lobbying in the background for advertisers on the new McBidz website trying to get some national brands to sign on before we launched. While most of the companies have been interested the hard part was getting their attention while the site is still in launch mode and not available to the public, “our McBidzers”. We have steadily been building interest and have now acquired a whole list of both national and regional brands many of you will recognize and have placed banner ads on the site for these companies which I feel you will find useful. About 15-23 more are awaiting our launch to give us another look and decide whether to go with us and get their message out through our banner advertising program. In talks with our programmers & advertisers we have decided to limit the banners to two per home page on each of our scripts as not to clutter up the site with the exception being our Business Directory. The Business Directory of course is where our members will go to find various businesses for their service, personal, or business needs. Per our programmers they are pushing to use Google ad sense as well after the site has launched to give McBidzers the choice for useful content related to our site. This has yet to be decided and we may try a test run to see what our members think and go with feedback received.