I wanted to take a moment to wish all of our member “McBidzers” a safe and Happy Thanksgiving today.

McBidz continues to advertise on regional cable channels with great feedback so we will continue to run our TV ads in major cities accross the USA. Here are some more pics below from my recent vacation to the Carribbean!

Cozumel "Mexico"

Grand Cayman

Grand Cayman

Jamaica

Our webmaster performed the fix this morning on our “Youtube Uploader” on the video section of McBidz which I’m sure will make our regular “McVidz” people very happy.  Start posting those videos!

We continue to advertise on a regular basis so look for us on ESPN Monday night Football and Saturday night Sy-Fy (SCI-FI) channels in the Southeast. In addition to the BUZZ our members are spreading we are also using a large affiliate network to get the word out worldwide and you will see our numbers rise dramatically in the coming months both Nationally & Internationally with members and page views on all sections of McBidz.

I promised more pictures of my vacation so here are a couple more:

Sunset cruising towards Cozumel, Mexico

"Lighthouse" Cozumel, Mexico

 

"Dolphin Encounter" Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Ok McBidzers back from my vacation and have some great pictures to share which I will be posting for you this month so be sure to check the blog often for updates, several are below for your viewing! The day before I left for vacation I noticed no videos were posted by our regulars so I checked it out and our “Youtube uploader” has been down for over a week since I was gone. Our webmaster has been working with the original creators of the script to get that back online so that should be up and running soon so look for new videos once we get that updated.

Cozumel, Mexico

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Ocho Rios, Jamaica

As of this Saturday I will be leaving for a long anticipated 7 day cruise to Cozumel, Grand Cayman, and Jamaica. I will answer all emails directed to me when I get back and post pictures of my trip here on the blog so look for them soon after I return. If you have questions about membership or the site continue to direct those to our webmaster email on our contact page as he is available 24/7 to handle those inquires.

McBidz will continue our advertising here in the Southeast on ESPN Monday night Football and this week we are blitzing our TV ad on Spike as well. I’m currently working with several large affiliates and will update you on this as I get closer to an agreement with these national programs. The advertising in California went very well and we continue to see a large jump in traffic from the west coast so we are looking to target the Seattle area in the near future and possibly run the spot back towards New York early in 2010.

As we come upon the month of October McBidz continues its steady growth with over 11,000 page views in the month of September! This has grown substantially due to our advertising on TV in the Southeast and California. We see substantial page views and new users after our Monday night football slots in both territories. Our social networking continues strong as well getting the McBidz brand recognized with our followers approaching 20,000 on twitter alone.

California “Silicon Valley” will see another blitz this month in TV spots on both CNN & Fox news starting Oct.5th and running for two weeks along with our continued commitment to Monday Night Football slots in the Southeast & Sci-Fi channel on the weekends. Other regions being considered at this time for future TV runs are Washington, Florida, and New York we will keep you updated here on the blog and our social netwoking.

Stay safe and continue to maximize the BUZZ!

Hopefully everyone got through the Labor Day holiday in one piece! The McBidz site continues to see a steady increase in new “hits” and page views from all over the country due to our advertising both on TV and through our social networking activities. 

Our next TV blitz will be for two weeks starting September 21’st in Southern California and will be focused on CNN, Fox News, and Monday night ESPN football which has a huge audience. We also continue to run our ESPN Monday night football slots here in the Southeast as well to keep a presence. 

It was recently reported that Facebook, one of our key competitors, has an audience greater than the entire USA population and we are looking to convert those members to see the benefits of McBidz. So be sure to spread the BUZZ and DIGG us when you get a chance www.digg.com!

Well, another holiday weekend is upon us and I wanted to drop in and say have a FUN and SAFE Labor Day to our member McBidzers! As usual I will be at the beach with family partaking in BBQ, beverages, and trying to get some sun.

On the business side McBidz will be wrapping up our TV advertising blitz in the Southeast today, but will continue with Monday night football on ESPN and launch a new TV advertising campaign in California as of Sept. 14′th. Our social networking numbers & McBidz membership continue to swell so our viral networking and TV spot are doing the job of brand recognition!

My partner in crime “Krishna”, our senior programmer who has been working with me for several years now getting McBidz up and running has married and we would like to welcome her to the McBidz family. Everyone have a great Labor Day!

As discussed previously in the blog post McBidz is taking our TV ad to California where many high tech companies, websites, and interest in them are situated. Our focus area at first will be around the popular “Silicon Valley” Palo Alto area which is home to some of our established competition. Brand awareness is our biggest hurdle right now, if possible members don’t know about us they can’t enjoy the many benefits of the McBidz website.

We are going to ramp up advertising in California starting on the first regular season Monday night football slot between the Chargers and Raiders Sept. 14 and follow up with a two week schedule starting Sept. 21st. Most of the channels we have now running in the Southeast will be present along with Fox News which is very popular out West. McBidz intends to keep a presence in the Southeast as well running ESPN Monday night football slots through regular season games. We look forward to bringing the McBidz experience to the home of high tech!

Many of our members who keep track of the McBidz blog, the BUZZ circulating on Twitter, and our McBidzers forum were wondering what happened to our SYFY spots this past Sunday which we hyped several times leading up to last weekend. Well the SYFY channel was a new lineup for our coverage area and the cable company bumped them due to a glitch! They will be airing this weekend Saturday 9-11pm and Sunday 9-11pm 2 spots per night. I chose these times to coincide with new movies produced by the SYFY network which will be premiering during this time slot.

Our new two week run in the Southeast starts this Monday August 24th which will include a spot on NFL preseason football 830-930pm on ESPN the 24th and 31st. CNN and TNT will now run many of our TV ads during this period along with spots continuing on Comedy Central, “E”, SYFY on the weekends, and Spike. Look for most of these between afternoon prime times 3pm-12m with CNN running them all day long 6am-12m.

I will be looking into new regions to run our TV promo in during the next 3 weeks while we wind down in the Southeast. At this time it looks like California, but I will let you know when we decide where McBidz will go next with our advertising blitz. Don’t forget to DIGG McBidz www.digg.com !

Our TV advert continues to do very well going into our second week of rollout in the southeast. We will start a new 2 week cycle on August 24th which will cover the same regions we are running on now. Several updates to our channel lineup will be included such as moving our spots from Bravo & ESPN to CNN as well as moving TBS and USA slots to the very popular TNT network. The SYFY channel will now be included as well on weekends (Sat. & Sun.) running at least four times throughout the day.

Once the second two week rollout winds up for the McBidz TV spot here in the Southeast we will take the spot to cover California, especially around Palo Alto and surrounding areas. Many established websites are located around this central hub and are very popular with the tech crowd so McBidz should see a good showing once the BUZZ starts to spread! Other areas of interest being lined up for the McBidz TV ad are central Florida and upper New York locations I will post more on this once we get closer to the prelaunch of the spot in these areas. The McBidz website has seen a large increase in traffic once the ad hit the airwaves now to around a  thousand or more per day; repetition of the TV advertising in major markets and the BUZZ generated will increase this substantially after several months so keep spreading the word!