The 100,000 visitor to DiscoverFerndale.com this month will arrive sometime today, December 31st. If only there was a way to identify them and make the screen burst forth with confetti and the sound of horns blowing. While this milestone has been reached during two other months this year, happening now, at the end of the year, seems a bit momentous.
But then again, it is really every reader this year who as helped create the crescendo leading to this milestone that deserves recognition and thanks.
DiscoverFerndale.com launched late in 2014 and since then has been an exercise in online marketing, editorial prudence and time management to draw the biggest possible audience to our advertisers’ information, which are often of interest and newsworthy in their own right. Something must be working because readership continues to grow month after month.
So thank you dear reader for being here and for rewarding the advertisers who underwrite this free community news source for you.
There is no dedicated advertising sales effort at Discover Ferndale. As a result, the majority of advertisers have taken it upon themselves to contact and request their advertising appear on DiscoverFerndale.com. That is unheard of and very humbling.
In addition, the great majority of advertisers continue running their ads month after month even though there are no contracts binding them to do so. Again, humbling and these things really drive doing everything possible to make this the Ferndale news destination for more and more people.
A big thank you to the handful of readers who have volunteered to financially support DiscoverFerndale.com. There was very little response when the call out for reader support was made earlier this year (so much so, the link was taken down to make room for other links), so to those who did respond, you are rock stars.
Readers and advertisers can look forward to continued growth and development in 2018 as there are several new content concepts in the works that will be rolled out during the year. When they do, readers will ultimately decide which ones deserve to be kept around and which ones do not.
So if you are the 100,000th reader this month, congratulations! Sorry there’s no confetti or blaring horns. But all DiscoverFerndale.com readers are worthy of the same recognition.
