A Slow Start

The First 24 Hours

Unique Visitors: 129

Subscribers: 10

Report on Our Progress

So in less than 24 hours from the initial launch of the CongressionalRevolution.com website it has gained 129 unique visitors, not a spectacular start, but certainly a fairly good start for a grassroots effort. It has gained 10 subscribers to its email list, which is also not a bad start, not a great start, but for a grassroots effort with no personality at its core to galvanize support, again, not a bad start. From this small core group, maybe a much bigger organization can be built, but it will certainly require additional effort from this core group of supporters, including sending email to friends and family and asking them to help with the effort.

The site recieved a fair amount of traffic from Digg.com, unfortunately the story was buried to obscurity as it made its way towards the front of the popular list, more likely than not it was buried by the current wave of online supporters for Ron Paul, who I suspect will be fairly disappointed following Iowa and New Hampshire, if history has taught me anything.

Of course what happens on day one isn't as important as what happens on day two and day three. So far on the second day, an article from this site that was dugg early this morning has recieved 6 diggs and is slowly climbing the political opinion pages at digg.com, and generating a little bit of traffic.

Unfortunately many of the visitors to the site left almost as quickly as they arrived. That may be because the video was on autoplay yesterday. That has been changed for today to see if it might not help slow people down, so that they will stay a while and learn what this effort is all about.

Tomorrow the cross-country promotional tour begins with two cars caravaning across the United States decorated with the CongressionalRevolution.com domain name, and the two drivers ready to pass out flyers. The trip will take the author of this post and his sister from Los Angeles to New York and will be documented on video tape for the YouTube account.

If you are reading this post, you can help spread the word by digging the featured article or any article on this site. You can also help by telling friends and family about this small, but growing movement with an email or in person.

We already have more hits today than we had at this time yesterday, so that is a good sign, but we als need the discussion to expand to blogs you participate in, and discussion boards as well.

Right now there are a few people pushing the flywheel trying to get it to move, so it is hard, but as more people join the flywheel, it will begin to move faster, and that is when this will get interesting.

Thanks for those who helped yesterday, please help again today.