Merry Christmas!

We want to wish all our members a very Merry Christmas!  We’ve had an amazing year and added a lot of awesome features to SocialAdr.  We owe much gratitude to our members for recommending new features, helping test them, and of course helping to promote SocialAdr.

A look back at 2011

Here’s a few of the major SocialAdr events from this year:

• Twitter integration!
• Added the “Autofill” button to the “Add Bookmark” page to help save you time
• StumbleUpon integration!
• Reached milestones of 10,000 and then 20,000 members
• Added the ability to download submission history
• Google +1 integration!
• Submission limits can now be removed completely

A gift for you

As a special thank-you for your support, SocialAdr is giving everyone 100 free credits!

To get your free credits:

1. Login to your account or Sign-Up for an account if you don’t have one
2. Go to the Instant Credits page
3. Enter “Xmas2011″ in the “Coupon Code” field and click “Apply”
4. Click the “Buy Now” button in the 100 credit row

Wishing you great success in 2012!

Here’s what’s been changed:

• “Quick Tweet” page removed – so you are no longer able to queue up 5 tweets with the press of a button.  This is so that you’re forced to customize and review every tweet being posted to your account.  Sure, it’ll take more time to do your tweets now, but this should make them more desirable and meaningful.
• Sponsored declaration added – each tweet will now have one of the following added to it.  This is to make it clear to your followers that the message is an advertisement.
  • Ad:
  • #ad
  • Sponsored:
  • #sponsored
  • Promo:
  • #promo

We also strongly recommend that prior to hooking up your Twitter account to SocialAdr, you review the Twitter TOS and the Twitter Rules (specifically the section on Spam).  One simple practice you should follow is to also use your Twitter account for real, non-advertisement, unique messages, that don’t include links…in other words, don’t only use your account for SocialAdr or other marketing systems.

Here’s how it works:

• The 9,500th member gets 9,500 free credits (worth $187)
• The 9,600th member gets 9,600 free credits (worth $191)
• The 9,700th member gets 9,700 free credits (worth $193)
• The 9,800th member gets 9,800 free credits (worth $195)
• The 9,900th member gets 9,900 free credits (worth $197)
• The 10,000th member gets their account FREE forever! (worth up to $1404/year) AND 10,000 free credits (worth $200)

Read more about the contest details here.

So how does this benefit YOU?  Because the person that refers a member gets the same bonus that they do!  So if you refer the 9500th member, you also get 9,500 credits free.  And if you are lucky enough to refer our 10,000th member, not only do you get the 10k free credits, you also will have your current account comped for life.  Not too shabby, huh?

So head on over to the special page in our affiliate section where you can find banners, links, and pre-written email(s) to send to your list.

What does this mean?

Depending on the package you buy, you’ll get credits as low as 7/10 of a cent each!  Remember that each credit = 1 submission of your webpage to a social bookmarking site.

To take advantage of this limited time offer:

1. Go to the Instant Credits page
2. Enter the coupon code “holidays2010″ and click “Apply”
3. Select which coupon package you’d like and click “Buy Now” to the right, then follow PayPal instructions

* only 1 coupon use per member
* promotion will expire on Jan 1, 2011

Happy Holidays!

If you missed the email, we just wanted to let you know that we’ll be at Traffic Rock Stars this weekend.  If you haven’t heard about it, Traffic Rock Stars is a free virtual conference running all weekend, featuring big name marketers like Yanik Silver, Mike Filsaime, Jeff Johnson, and more.  They are all talking about how to drive big traffic to your website, so it’s definitely worth checking out.

Plus, like I mentioned, SocialAdr is being featured.  So you can come visit us at our booth, or tune in on Sunday morning to hear me talk about using social bookmarking to drive traffic to your sites.

Here’s that link: Traffic Rock Stars

On the edit bookmark screen, in the bottom right corner, you’ll see the box where you can enter the number of submissions you would like a bookmark to receive:

When choosing a limit, don’t forget that each site counts as a submission.  Setting a very low limit means that your bookmark might not even make it to each social bookmarking site once.

Once you’ve set a limit, it will show up in a couple of places.  First, under my bookmarks, we will now show you how many submissions you’ve received (instead of the old ‘share’ value) and what the limit is.  Looks like this:

And finally, we also show you on the bookmark detail page, so you can see it before you edit:

Once your bookmark has reached the submission limit, we’ll automatically pause it for you.  You can always go in and increase the submission limit and then un-pause it if you’d like to promote it more in the future.

We’re hoping that this new capability will let our members have much better control over exactly how their sites and pages are promoted.  Let us know what you think!

To tackle both of these challenges, we moved SocialAdr to a new web host this past week.  For the most part it was a smooth transition, although we do have just a couple of minor configuration tweaks that we’re getting cleaned up.  The one impact to our customer has been that the speed with which we’re able to process the bookmarks they’ve shared is somewhat decreased.  The work is still recorded and will be completed eventually, but it hasn’t been as timely as we’d like.

We’re leveraging the enhanced support capabilities of our new host to get it resolved and expect things to return to usual shortly.  For the long run, we’re better positioned at our new home to rapidly scale up as our user base grows.

It may be a week away, it may be two weeks away…but it’s coming!

Once the new year hits, expect things to pick up again.  But in the meantime, if you haven’t checked out this page on how to get the most out of your SocialAdr account, it’s definitely worth a quick read.  There are a few simple steps you can take to make sure that your getting the most bang for your buck.