RAB Reader Demographic Survey
ByWe 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.
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Done. Was a very short survey, taking less than a minute, for anyone who’s reading the comments before clicking through.
yea for reelz.
Done just for you Joe. No homo.
Thanks, buddy.
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.
You’ll be happy to know I didn’t vote twice this week, despite being given the opportunity.
Lol, progress!
Done. You guys provide a great service. Between this site+PAbe+Nomaas+CJ’s blog there’s no reason to visit anything else.
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!
Link to CJ’s??
Chad Jennings’ blog. It’s the SW-B Yankees Blog link in the Beat Writers Blogs section to the right.
ah yea, my bad, I didn’t get that CJ was jennings. thanks.
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.
the donate one worked
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.
Done.
After the survey, it said that I just adopted a child from China. WTF????!?!!!
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)
My only question is, who’s number 1? Billy Mays, or the Shamwow/ultimate chopper/prostitute assaulter guy?
Dick Vitale BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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.”
Billy Mays owns them all
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!
Done. Hope it helps.
Should have gone with more than a top 5 for blogs, but I skipped NoMaas.
It wasn’t supposed to be Yankee Blogs.
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.
You’re not interested in the Clemens-McCready scandal?!?!?!?!?!?!
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I would have appreciated having an answer E:
E: More than 9 times or more
“More than more” is pretty hardcore.
+1
If pat answers anything but porn for his #1 other sites visited he’s lying!
sleepingpills.com?
Hahaha
1.redtube
2.xtube
3.xhamster
4.booble
5.youporn
xhamster was not at all what I expected
I don’t even want to know…
Sadly, it’s not a Richard Gere/ Lemmiwinks tribute page
first thing I thought of was Mr. Slave and the hamster episode. South Park FTW!
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thats gotta be one of their best episodes ever
i am very interested in CIVONY, whatever that may be.
I clicked.
Brings me to a registration splashscreen where I’m told to:
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”.
Soon enough, the Yankees will be calling RAB the evil empire.
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.
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?
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?
Yeah, she was a ho… FOR SHO’!!!
If they put a book together of comments on here it would be very funny.
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…
Agreed.
no wonder you’re so angry all the time.
just kidding. you’re right, it is really hard.
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…
IETC
I saw that comment on Gawker. Comment recycling?
Just finished the survey. It will be awesome when/if you guys get game and locker-room credentials.
Then we can finally find out just how big Kim Jones’ penis is.
her blog picture looks like john leguizamo in “to wong foo”
i take it back. her blog makes me like her. she seems funny and cool.
Yeah, my jealousy of her job often leads to meanspirited jokes.
“Yeah, my jealousy of her
jobpenis 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.
I liked the whole Andy Pettitte “Kim, can’t you see I’m with my family?” punk.
i put
1. civony
2. civony
3. civony
4. civony
5. lohud
and my hard drive crashed
Damn Lohud.
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.
or just lie
Yup. Say that you’re a member of Lacebook, you’re on Fritter and SpySpace, and Snickr and ClinkedIn.
fantastic
select other, and when asked to specify just write none?
Done. Keep up the great work guys!
Done…happy to help you guys out. Your site is a God-send to those of us Yankee fans living outside of New York!
Any plan to post a synopsis of the poll results later on, Joe P?
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
Aren’t you interested in who (or at least a general idea) it is you post with day after day?
meh
No, I am. Just being stupid.
Possibly. It’s going to be compiled in our media kit, so it will be on the site in some way or another.
Cool, then we’ll all know what kind of obsessed idiots we collectively are!
for the last question i put
1) OMG
2) RAB
3) IS
4) TEH
5) BEST!!!!1!!11eleventy11!!!
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