GreatestPokerRooms Blog » 2007 » October

It has already been 3 weeks since us coming online. We are progressing well within our initial plans but we do understand it may take up to 6 months to fully get noticed. We have not launched our public advertising as of yet because we are waiting for at least some of our adboxes to be populated by online poker and casino web site ads. It is our hope at this moment that at least a small number of publishers will see some value in our service.

As we are located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada we decided to try our best with some of the local poker companies. Steve Black, president of Suited Media Inc., was kind enough to be the first one to reply to our offer. With great interest in poker industry and great successes in the past, Steve Black and his colleagues have developed PokerSpace, a brand new community built exclusively for poker enthusiasts. Although their software is currently in alpha release (i.e. registration is allowed by invitation only), we are hoping to have the support of such a great innovative company once a full version of their software is released!

We have also received positive feedback from several other well known online poker and casino web sites. We are currently trying to assure our future publishers of our benefit to them. The main setback in this is that at this moment we do not have much traffic coming in on our site as we are waiting to go full out public. It will take us time and careful planning to turn this into a successful venture.

From now on, we will be posting our news, interesting poker happenings, and other articles on topics like traffic acquisition and entrepreneurship every week on Tuesdays. This will keep us organized and give you an incentive to come back to visit our site.

If you have any comments or suggestions please leave a comment and we will be glad to get in touch with you if needed.

It has taken a week but we are now available on Google search! We are currently picking out the best keywords that we should target for Greatest Poker Rooms and our content optimization for those keywords will follow.

Along with our progress report, we have started contacting companies to start publishing content and filling up our FREE adboxes. Once at least 30% of FREE boxes are covered, we will push forward with advertising to online poker and casino fans world-wide using the following marketing model:

1. YouTube - getting an amateur video clip covering main concepts of our web site shall prove as a clearly worth-while marketing tool. 
2. Facebook - it is THE greatest way to reach out to 18+ year olds; we will begin with cost-free viral marketing followed by paid advertising.
3. Poker forums - we will not let spamming get out of control and as such we will only participate in forums that will allow for our promotion to occur.
4. Bloggers’ community - we will conduct a trial promotion of our site to well known bloggers focusing on our entrepreneurial idea of No Risk, No Limit advertising, and of course emphasizing on publishers that we will have acquired by then.
5. Public link sharing web sites like Digg.com and del.icio.us - analysis is being done as to how to achieve the best results with such portals. For example, it is a known fact that links receiving 100 votes over span of two days will not do as well as a link that spots 25 votes over 15 minutes! We will post the strategies that will be implemented.

So long,
GreatestPokerRooms Team

It has taken a long while since the idea inception but we are now online. Most of the quirks and little bugs have been worked out. Now we have an exciting journey to look forward to in hopes of getting acknowledged for our work.

As we progress and acquire traffic, we will be periodically posting the things we try. We have made up a plan of action but so much depends on what we actually do that we decided to simply go along with it and get the best of what happens.

The goal of this project is to have fun, and to tell you honestly, we’ve already had so much of it!

Till soon,
GreatestPokerRooms Team