Oct
08
2013
0
Oct
07
2013
0

John Greyson freed – campaign closed

We win another one.  This campaign, which generated 8,314 messages to the Egyptian government, contributed to this wonderful news.

Written by admin in: Campaigns |
Oct
04
2013
0

Update on quarterly fund-raising appeal

Here are the totals for the first 3 days of October:

PayPal payments £2,831.53

Cheques £87.00

Bank transfers £66.00

TOTAL £2,984.53 (US$4,793.67)

By comparison, 10 days into the July appeal, we had raised only £1,843.72, so we’re up by 62% — after only 3 days.

But our April appeal did better, and we raised about £4,050 one week into the campaign.  We did ask people to donate $50 in April and only $25 today.

Maybe this time we’ll match that … if we can raise another £1,000 in the next few days.

Written by admin in: Fund-raising |
Oct
04
2013
0

Book sales – the story so far

We hope to have our third LabourStart book completed next week, so this is a good time to look back at sales of our first two titles.

Since the first book (on online campaigns) was published, we managed to distribute 959 copies, 40 of those this week alone. Of those, 696 were sold directly by CreateSpace and Amazon, 138 were office copies we sold, 65 were Kindle sales, and 60 were copies we gave away (mostly to large donors, our volunteer translators, and some journalists).

The French edition of that book has seen 91 copies distributed, 81 of them through CreateSpace and Amazon, and 10 direct sales.

The second book (on the global labour movement) has had 614 copies distributed, 463 of which were CreateSpace and Amazon sales, 103 direct sales from our office, 27 sales of the Kindle edition and 21 copies given away.

The total distribution of all 3 books so far is therefore 1,664 copies.

Written by admin in: Publications |
Oct
03
2013
1

LabourStart in Numbers – September 2013

Following up on popular requests (well, Derek), I’ve added some website stats this month.

These should be taken with a grain of salt — actually, a bucket-load of salt.

We are increasingly using Clicky to measure our web traffic and that’s the only system we use on the campaign pages.

The Clicky code has not been placed on every single page on LabourStart.org (the news site), but it should also give a good indication of the number of actual visitors to the live section of the website.

So, why is 1&1 giving a much larger number?

Hard to tell — some of that is, strangely enough, “internal traffic” from 1&1’s own servers, a lot of it will be robots and spammers.

Over time, we’ll put the Clicky code on even more pages on our site to try to make sure that we’re not missing anything, but we’re certainly not missing traffic to our home pages in the various languages.  (Except French, which only moved over to the new system in mid-month, and is therefore missing Clicky stats for the first part of the month.)

Starting next month, we’ll be able to compare, to note any increases if they happen.

Already, interesting to note fairly high traffic from countries which don’t play a big role in our campaigns, but seem to come visit our news pages — Indonesia and India in particular.  I can’t really explain the surge in interest from South Korea to our campaigns pages — it didn’t translate into people signing up to campaigns in Korean, though perhaps they were directed to a different language by a link somewhere.  (75 people from South Korea did sign the English language message to Ban Ki-moon.)

The most important day, all three sets of statistics agree on this, was Monday, 23 September — the day we launched our campaign targetting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.  Somewhere between 12,000 and 34,000 trade unionists visited LabourStart on that day.

New! Website traffic

LabourStart.org (1&1 statistics)

Total visits: 623,875
Peak day: 34,420 on 23.9
Page impressions: 1,845,122

LabourStart.org (Clicky)

Total visitors: 51,799
Peak day: 7,798 on 23.9
Where they come from:
USA – 9,789
Canada – 9,138
UK – 8,469
Indonesia – 4,665
Australia – 3,048
Norway – 1,733
New Zealand – 1,226
India – 1,021
Sweden – 935
Germany – 867

LabourStartCampaigns.net (Clicky)

Total visitors: 42,534
Peak day: 11,817 on 23.9
Where they come from:
Canada – 9,197
UK – 7,119
USA – 6,482
Australia – 2,561
Spain – 1,456
New Zealand – 1,363
Germany – 1,115
South Korea – 1,102
France – 1,091
Belgium – 1,074

Mailing lists

New! Total for all lists: 116,485

[This was 103,324 8 months ago – a net gain of 13,161 new subscribers, or 1,645 per month]

English: 83,741 [81,907]
French: 6,717 [6,443]
Spanish: 4,994 [4,905]
Italian: 4,004 [4,017]
German: 3,323 [3,312]
Turkish: 3,281 [3,283]
Norwegian: 2,472 [2,433]
Russian: 2,093 [2,051]
Dutch: 1,376 [1,377]
Chinese: 1,010 [1,011]
Finnish: 577 [577]
Japanese: 334 [334]
Arabic: 315 [313]
Polish: 282 [282]
Tagalog: 254 [254]
Portuguese: 247 [248]
Hebrew: 225 [215]
Farsi: 213 [207]
Swedish: 193 [195]
Indonesian: 163 [153]
Korean 154 [154]
Danish: 137 [137]
Czech: 88 [88]
Thai: 68 [68]
Esperanto: 61 [55]
Greek: 60 [60]
Hindi: 40 [40]
Slovak: 19 [19]
Bulgarian: 19 [19]
Creole: 13 [13]
Vietnamese: 12 [12]

Social networks

Twitter followers –

English: 10,266 [10,033]
Canada English: 2,289 [2167]
Canada French: 234 [219]
French: 187
Spanish: 59
USA: 31 New!
Japanese: 23
German: 15
Russian: 15
Portuguese: 7

Facebook –
Like LabourStart.org page (English):7,925 [7,832]
Members of LabourStart group: 5,936 [5,689]
Like LabourStart page (French): 340 [329]
Like LabourStart page (Turkish): 127 [126]
Like LabourStart page (Hebrew): 99 [97]

UnionBook –
Members: 5,627 [5,610]

LinkedIn – LabourStart group: 1,403 [1,383]

Union group on Flickr: 734 [732]

Website

Correspondents: 663 [670]

Oct
01
2013
0

New campaign launched in support of Toronto strikers

This one comes at the request of the United Steelworkers.

Written by admin in: Campaigns |
Oct
01
2013
2

Our quarterly fund-raising appeal – day one

Yesterday I mailed to 20,164 people who have supported at least 3 of our campaigns in the last 12 months.  The last time we did this, 3 months ago, we mailed to a smaller number (19,962) and got a considerably smaller response.  Last time, five days into the appeal, we had raised US$2,283.  Today, just 21 hours into the appeal, we’ve raised 57% more money — with US$3,594 coming in so far.  For math buffs among you, that’s $171.14 per hour.  If this continues for another 8 hours, and it’s unlikely that it will, we’ll raise $5,000 by this evening, which would be fantastic and unprecedented for us.

Written by admin in: Fund-raising |

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