Posted in Features & Enhancements on January 28, 2007 | No Comments »
We’ve just released two important new upgrades for accounts that have paid to have the ads removed. Now, when you pay to remove the ads from your map you also receive two additional benefits:
1) A custom url for your map.
Now you can choose your own url such as:
http://www.weddingmapper.com/margaret_and_peter
We’ve received quite a lot of requests for [...]
Posted in Getting the Word Out on January 23, 2007 | No Comments »
To help get the word out about Wedding Mapper I am creating a series of interesting wedding related maps.
Check out the first map in the series here: Top 10 Romatic Wedding Locations Map
This one is based off of this article from about.com, Top 10 Romantic Wedding Locations
Posted in Getting the Word Out on January 21, 2007 | No Comments »
We are trying to put together a press release to send out to people in an effort to get the word out about Wedding Mapper. We’ve been seeing some fantastic comments in the various wedding blogs and message forums, but they are a little too casual to include in a press release. So if you’ve [...]
Posted in Features & Enhancements on January 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve just added a few more custom icons to Wedding Mapper. This will probably be the last batch for a little while, but if you have an icon you’d like to see please let us know.
Here are the new icons:
Beer Mug
Bouquet
Camera
Car (blue)
Car (red)
Engagement
Ring
Rings
Shopping
Bag
Synagogue
Chapel
Posted in Important Announcements on January 17, 2007 | No Comments »
We’ve decided to experiment with image ads. The text ads are simply too subtle and are not getting clicked on enough. We will still be using a lot of text ads, though, to see if the difference is worth the added annoyance.
I hope this does not annoy people too much; we tried to keep it [...]
Posted in Getting the Word Out on January 16, 2007 | No Comments »
The great folks over at screeniac.com have created a very nice screencast of Wedding Mapper. I had intended to create a screencast myself, but I doubt I could have done nearly as good of a job. It’s a very nice demo and actually exposed a few minor issues that I have since cleaned up.
Check it [...]
Posted in Getting the Word Out on January 14, 2007 | No Comments »
What are people saying about Wedding Mapper? Here are just a few of the dozens of blogs and message boards that have already discovered Wedding Mapper:
http://www.weddingbee.com/2007/01/09/wedding-mapper/
http://talk.theknot.com/boards/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=20968448
http://talk.theknot.com/boards/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=21057937
(You need to scroll down for this one) http://boards.weddingbells.ca/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=1893793&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
So far so good. There are still hundreds of thousands of couples out there that have never heard of Wedding Mapper, [...]
Posted in Important Announcements on January 13, 2007 | No Comments »
If you are a local wedding vendor then you may want to sign up to be notified of the new services we are working on. The new service will make it easier for you to leverage the local nature of Wedding Mapper and promote your services.
The service will be great for all types of local [...]
Posted in Important Announcements on January 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m not sure if everyone realizes this, but we dropped the price to remove the ads from your wedding map to just $9.95. We’ve come up with some other ideas for generating revenue and want to make sure everyone has a great experience with the product. So if you wanted to remove the ads from [...]
Posted in Features & Enhancements on January 12, 2007 | No Comments »
We released the search feature today. It will allow your guests, photographer, florist, etc., to search for your map using your name or your fiancee’s name. So you’ll want to make sure your names are correct on your information page. You can get there by logging into your account and clicking “change title, date, etc.”.
If [...]
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