Posts Tagged → clients
Atheist Bus – Some Cheeky Insider Insights
I don’t really want to talk about fundraising on this blog. However, I can make an exception this time.
‘Atheist Bus’ has dominated my working day since launch on tuesday morning. We’re in the enviable hotseat where we can see where all the traffic is coming from, with our all our awesome dashboards of win. Here’s a couple of interesting tidbits I thought were worth sharing:
- BBC News is still the biggest referrer. Although they’ve now taken down the original link, since according to their jolly editorial team, it’s an advert. Yeah. OK.
- Google is next. Big G. No surprise there.
- Facebook is third. Also, not surprising. Facebook generates a huge percentage of mainstream social media, despite the cool kids trying to hate on it.
- A couple of blogs have produced quite an insane amount of traffic. We’ll cover those in more detail on the JG blog tomorrow.
- Quite a number of people have donated more than once.
- The helpdesk dudes have had to edit offensive comments all day, which is rare for our site.
- Nobody has fire-bombed the office yet.
- The new shiny expensive servers haven’t croaked.
I’m most looking forward to seeing what the digg effect looks like tomorrow.
More to come folks. I’m off to do a Quarry show in Kingston.
HBOS – On the Inside
Yesterday we dusted off our suits for the Bank of Scotland Entrepreneurial challenge which is worth about £35m in interest-free investment for the winners. Of all the times of the year to go to an event like that. You couldn’t script it any better.
Millions of words have already been written this week about the Lloyd’s / HBOS thing and thousands of jobs are disappearing, probably today.
It was fascinating to hear firsthand from pretty senior HBOS folk (who were mostly sales guys since it’s a clienty PR do) what it’s been like in the office this week. I think some of those who were there last night might be getting their P45s as I write this. They have no idea what’s happening whatsoever, and then when you contrast that with my own working environment, it’s about as far away as you can get.
I think the best quote came from the client manager chap who said:
What, you can actually wear shorts to work? Are you guys hiring?
The other highlight was the venue. I’ve not been to the Imperial War Museum since I was a kid, and eating dinner next to a Polaris missile is, frankly, epic.
Everyone was expecting the Gü Chocolate Puds guy to win. Some recruitment bunch won it in the end.
My takeaway was those of us who work in web, helping people do stuff better and solving problems, have it pretty good really.
Then we went home.
