Apr
21

RAB Reader Demographic Survey

By Joseph Pawlikowski

We take a short break from the baseball action to conduct some housekeeping for RAB. As you might know, we don’t make a ton of money with this venture. We can cover our increasingly expensive server costs with the meager revenue display ads bring and have enough to re-invest in the business (like our trip to the Winter Meetings). That’s fine and good, and if that never changes you won’t hear us complain (too much, anyway). Still, we’d like to see how far we can take this.

We’ll be right up front about this, so you guys know exactly what you’re getting into. The more money we generate from this site, the more time we can justify spending on it. That means, among other things, more in-depth commentary, more features, and fewer filler posts. Essentially, we’d like to turn this into a full-time gig, complete with clubhouse access. While we’re slowly moving in that direction, it’s not quite a reality yet.

One thing we can do to increase revenues is to sell advertising directly rather than using low-paying ad networks. To do so we need some information about our readers, which we can share in the aggregate with potential advertisers. No, your specific personal information will not be shared, as per our privacy policy. We just want to add up all the survey information and use that to entice advertisers. At that point perhaps we can boost our revenue and justify spending most of our time on the site. I think that’s an equation which benefits everyone.

So please, take a few minutes out of your day to fill out the survey. It’s only 13 questions, most of which are multiple choice. That minute or so of your life can prove invaluable to the future of RAB.

Take the RAB reader survey.

Another easy way to contribute to RAB: Support RAB through PayPal. We truly appreciate any time/money you guys can provide. It helps keep the site moving and growing. Just click the button below.



Posted on Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 at 11:30 am in Administrative Stuff.

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85 Comments »

Christopher says:

Done. Was a very short survey, taking less than a minute, for anyone who’s reading the comments before clicking through.

dan says:
 
 
Spaceman.Spiff says:

Done just for you Joe. No homo.

 
 
A.D. says:

There a demographic you’re weak on….the deck can always be stacked

Heh… Once again, not really looking for accurate poll results but for hoped-for poll results. You should go work for Zogby or something.

A.D. says:

You’ll be happy to know I didn’t vote twice this week, despite being given the opportunity.

 
 
 
 
pollo says:

Done. You guys provide a great service. Between this site+PAbe+Nomaas+CJ’s blog there’s no reason to visit anything else.

yankees=warriors says:

I used to think so (minus Nomaas), too. But if you like more anecdotes from the clubhouse, check out Kim Jones’ new blog. She’s a good writer, and she knows the players so well!
After reading her blog, I really regret ever having second thoughts about AJ on the team…he really rocks!

 
andrew says:
whozat says:

Chad Jennings’ blog. It’s the SW-B Yankees Blog link in the Beat Writers Blogs section to the right.

andrew says:

ah yea, my bad, I didn’t get that CJ was jennings. thanks.

 
 
 
 
jsbrendog says:

done. clicked on the paypal link and got an error window from paypal.

Damn. It’s the same link as the Donate button on the right.

jsbrendog says:

the donate one worked

 
 
 
Statler says:

What you guys do here is great, especially the minor league stuff. It’s something I don’t get anywhere else, and it helps me be a better fan. Kudos.

 
 
Andy In Sunny Daytona says:

After the survey, it said that I just adopted a child from China. WTF????!?!!!

 
Jake H says:

Done. Hopefully that helps you guys out.

 

The more money we generate from this site, the more time we can justify spending on it. That means, among other things… fewer filler posts.

There’s no such thing as RAB “filler” posts.

Every post is a gem, baby!!!

(Tommie = second greatest hype man in the business)

andrew says:

My only question is, who’s number 1? Billy Mays, or the Shamwow/ultimate chopper/prostitute assaulter guy?

Joey says:

Dick Vitale BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Andy In Sunny Daytona says:

In the immortal words of Sir Flava Flav,

“So get up get, get get down
911 is a joke in yo town
Get up, get, get, get down
Late 911 wears the late crown.”

 
 
Chris A says:

Billy Mays owns them all

 
 
Marsha says:

Done and I agree. No posts are fillers. Short ones sometimes have the most interesting info. And my second fav blog is Second Avenue Sagas!

 
 
RichYF says:

Done. Hope it helps.

Should have gone with more than a top 5 for blogs, but I skipped NoMaas.

daneptizl says:

It wasn’t supposed to be Yankee Blogs.

 
 
Thomas says:

Done. I’ll suggest this idea, every RAB reader should click on one ad on the site a day. It be an easy way to donate and I think the site would get a lot of money.

 

Done.

I told them I was a white male between the ages of 18-49 with lots of disposable income, very interested in Red Sox paraphernalia from the Yawkey Way Store, 7-Hour Red Energy Patches, how to lose 300 lbs. in just weeks without dieting, and making my penis bigger.

 
 

8. How many times a day to check River Ave. Blues for updates? *

A. 1
B. 2-4
C. 5-8
D. 9 or more

I would have appreciated having an answer E:

E: More than 9 times or more

“More than more” is pretty hardcore.

 
 
 
Joey says:

If pat answers anything but porn for his #1 other sites visited he’s lying!

steve (different one) says:

sleepingpills.com?

 
pat says:

Hahaha
1.redtube
2.xtube
3.xhamster
4.booble
5.youporn

xhamster was not at all what I expected :(

Drew says:

I don’t even want to know…

 
pat says:

Sadly, it’s not a Richard Gere/ Lemmiwinks tribute page

Joey says:

first thing I thought of was Mr. Slave and the hamster episode. South Park FTW!

http://www.planearium2.de/bild.....s-1024.jpg

pat says:

thats gotta be one of their best episodes ever

 
 
 
 
 
 
steve (different one) says:

i am very interested in CIVONY, whatever that may be.

I clicked.

Brings me to a registration splashscreen where I’m told to:

Save your land, your properties, and your lover NOW!

A world you have never seen before
A story has never been told
A campaign you really should fight with
A homeland you need to protect!

Sorry, I’m not playing a game that looks like was translated by the guys who brought you “All your base are belong to us”.

 
 
dan says:

Soon enough, the Yankees will be calling RAB the evil empire.

 
LiveFromNewYork says:

Done. I also suggest you guys start brainstorming for a book and write a proposal and send to agents while blogs-to-books is still hot.

Joey says:

You guys can go try to ruin someone’s life ala A-Rod and Selena Roberts (or whatever her last name is)! Sounds fun, huh?

jsbrendog says:

yeah ben, mike, joe, when are we gonna write that smear er i mean unauthorized bio on selena roberts and how she danced topless on bars in college and gave the whole journalism class beejs in the comp lab?

 
 
LiveFromNewYork says:

If they put a book together of comments on here it would be very funny.

 
 
 
Axl says:

I don’t appreciate how it specifies only if I clicked “No” for the being a student question for them to be interested in my career. What if I’m a full time employee who goes to grad school at night!!!…it’s the worst thing ever by the way…

 
steve (different one) says:

no wonder you’re so angry all the time.

just kidding. you’re right, it is really hard.

pat says:

It must be hard to keep up with being a graduate student these days. Go to recitation, check BlackBerry, update Facebook status, murder a prostitute, go to recitation, update Facebook status, Update Twitter status, Update Twitter status, rob a prostitute, plan honeymoon in at Mohegan Sun, purchase 500 TC sheets at Pottery Barn, Twitter, Twitter, murder a prostitute, Twitter, murder…

Tampa Yankee says:
LiveFromNewYork says:

I saw that comment on Gawker. Comment recycling?

 
 
 
 
 
Drew says:

Just finished the survey. It will be awesome when/if you guys get game and locker-room credentials.

pat says:

Then we can finally find out just how big Kim Jones’ penis is.

dkidd says:

her blog picture looks like john leguizamo in “to wong foo”

dkidd says:

i take it back. her blog makes me like her. she seems funny and cool.

pat says:

Yeah, my jealousy of her job often leads to meanspirited jokes. :(

“Yeah, my jealousy of her job penis often leads to meanspirited jokes.”

Fixed.

I didn’t want to go there, but you made me do it, pat, it was so tempting. You made me do it.

 
 
LiveFromNewYork says:

I liked the whole Andy Pettitte “Kim, can’t you see I’m with my family?” punk.

 
 
 
 
 
dkidd says:

i put

1. civony
2. civony
3. civony
4. civony
5. lohud

and my hard drive crashed

Thomas says:
 
 
Rafi says:

I tried to do it, but I couldn’t since I don’t belong to any social networking sites. Is there a way to make that question non mandatory so that I can help? If not, I can give you my info manually through email.

pat says:

Yup. Say that you’re a member of Lacebook, you’re on Fritter and SpySpace, and Snickr and ClinkedIn.

dkidd says:
 
 
 
jamie says:

select other, and when asked to specify just write none?

 
 
Cozimoto says:

Done. Keep up the great work guys!

 
Mark from Chicago says:

Done…happy to help you guys out. Your site is a God-send to those of us Yankee fans living outside of New York!

 
The Lodge says:

Any plan to post a synopsis of the poll results later on, Joe P?

J.R. says:

Yeah, I’d absolutely like to know the survey results also. Just out of curiosity. Would definitely appreciate you posting the results.

Yeah, I’d love to know the results too. Also, just idle curiosity.

Sincerely,
Dick Cheney and the NSA

J.R. says:

Aren’t you interested in who (or at least a general idea) it is you post with day after day?

jsbrendog says:
 
 
 
 
 

Possibly. It’s going to be compiled in our media kit, so it will be on the site in some way or another.

The Lodge says:

Cool, then we’ll all know what kind of obsessed idiots we collectively are!

 
 
 
Alex S says:

for the last question i put

1) OMG
2) RAB
3) IS
4) TEH
5) BEST!!!!1!!11eleventy11!!!

 
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