Its been a week plus since my last post. Personafile is busy. We are clocking about 450 new members a day. We are generating thousands of page views per day and have added some server capacity to accomodate the demand. We've added about 1,300 new products across 6 manufacturers since my last post. That number doesn't include the member requested products, which run about 10 a day. We have been able to keep up with that, so if, in fact, you add a product request (the ++ button on a search results page) we should be able to get your product in Personafile within about 48 hours (and you will be notified when you request is completed).
We've also added a new section to our main website (some might call it the "marketing site" at www.personafile.com) called "Product Recalls". This can be found at: http://www.personafile.com/product-recalls.html. This section provides an overall summary of product recalls (most from the Consumer Product Safety Commission) and [i] links to associated products within the Personafile product database. Of course, members of Personafile don't have to proactively check- just add products of interest to your Personafile and Personafile Reports will take care of the rest.
We are just getting started with the product recall information. This section is going to expand dramatically over the next several weeks and hopefully it will be an aid to consumers everywhere.
Speaking of 'everywhere': about 40% of our membership is outside of the US. Obviously you all can read English well enough to get by, but several of you have asked for localized versions. In our case, this is a very hard problem and we don't intend to tackle it soon. The problem isn't just pages in Italian (to pick one), but product database changes for "localized" versions of products (where model numbers, etc. change from country to country). We've had some discussions about this but have not arrived at an approach or course of action. So we apologize for the rather "USA" look and feel to our system and hope you can get by for now.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Sunday, November 4, 2007
questions
With thousands of new accounts a day, its been hard to keep up with the questions that have been coming in. Below I've tried to answer the most common questions received from our members:
1. How do I invite others?
See the blog entry below. It details 4 ways to invite others to join Personafile.
2. How do I add a merchant/online retailer?
If we don't have a relationship with a particular online retailer, let us know by emailing us at support@personafile.com and we may be able to add it. This week we added 12 merchants; one (swanson vitamin) was requested by a member.
3. What are points and why do they matter?
Points are added to your acccount for various activities. Points accumulated determine your account level which determines your share of commissions for the products you buy. See http://www.personafile.com/iGain.html for more info on the [i] Gain Cash Rewards program and make sure you are enrolled in [i] Gain!
4. How do I add points fast? What point values do you award for various activities? What activities award points?
We are not telling... just kidding. There are about 50 different activities that add points to your account. We aren't going to reveal them all as we want to leave something to discovery. But here are some of them:
...and 10% credit for the points your referrals (invitees) earn. In other words, if you invite user X and user X earns 540 points, you earn 54 points. We call these "referred points" and they are totaled about once a day for your account. At the bottom of your My Profile page there is a section that details all referred points from your invited members.
5. How do you create your public page?
See the post below titled "your public page". For an example, see mine: http://personafile.com/pb. When you visit http://personafile.com/user you go to your home page (you must visit http://personafile.com/user/public to see your public page); when others visit http://personafile.com/user they go to your home page. All [i] links shown on your public page work as referral [i] links, so users that click on them and choose 'join now' will end up as a referred user.
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New Product today:
1. How do I invite others?
See the blog entry below. It details 4 ways to invite others to join Personafile.
2. How do I add a merchant/online retailer?
If we don't have a relationship with a particular online retailer, let us know by emailing us at support@personafile.com and we may be able to add it. This week we added 12 merchants; one (swanson vitamin) was requested by a member.
3. What are points and why do they matter?
Points are added to your acccount for various activities. Points accumulated determine your account level which determines your share of commissions for the products you buy. See http://www.personafile.com/iGain.html for more info on the [i] Gain Cash Rewards program and make sure you are enrolled in [i] Gain!
4. How do I add points fast? What point values do you award for various activities? What activities award points?
We are not telling... just kidding. There are about 50 different activities that add points to your account. We aren't going to reveal them all as we want to leave something to discovery. But here are some of them:
| Invite Another | 25 points |
| Accepted Invitation (invited person joins Personafile) | 500 points |
| Add a Product | 10 points |
| [i] link Visit | 10 points |
| [i] link Visits + Product Add | 50 points |
| Community section addition | 10 points (-20 for removed postings that are flagged) |
| Others... | various |
...and 10% credit for the points your referrals (invitees) earn. In other words, if you invite user X and user X earns 540 points, you earn 54 points. We call these "referred points" and they are totaled about once a day for your account. At the bottom of your My Profile page there is a section that details all referred points from your invited members.
5. How do you create your public page?
See the post below titled "your public page". For an example, see mine: http://personafile.com/pb. When you visit http://personafile.com/user you go to your home page (you must visit http://personafile.com/user/public to see your public page); when others visit http://personafile.com/user they go to your home page. All [i] links shown on your public page work as referral [i] links, so users that click on them and choose 'join now' will end up as a referred user.
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New Product today:
 | Apple - Mac OS X v 0.5 Leopard - MB021Z/A (Apple Mac OS X Leopard) |  |
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