Dear SoSH,
It's been quite a year--for the Patriots, for this forum, and for us at SoSH Football Central. Before the season we had no idea we'd be covering football in a formal way, much less covering a Super Bowl and, for that matter, actually having people reading it. We've enjoyed this project greatly, and are gratified by your responses and hope for even bigger and better things moving forward.
SoSH Football Central (or, Inside the Pylon, as we will soon be known) published over 400 articles this season by 25 different authors. We had another 25 folks helping behind the scenes ‒ editing, technical, marketing ‒ and we always had you, our loyal hometown fans.
We started out with about 800 page views per day; for perspective, SoSH (the board) gets 70 million a year, give or take a few. That base was you, SoSH, checking the site to see what was new. By late October we had our first really big day (8,000!) and kept adding dedicated, repeat visitors.
We had our first 25,000-page view day last week. Our work garnered mentions by Football Outsiders, a New York Times columnist, fivethirtyeight.com, Deadspin, Slate, and many others. And we kept adding readers.
The success of this project is because YOU have helped. It didn’t take long for us to notice people sharing our work on reddit, Twitter, or Facebook. New readers found and liked our content. Many of them came back for more. Sincerely, SoSH, we could not have done it without you. Thank you.
We’d like to keep this going ‒ and then some. We’d like to add and cover baseball, hockey, basketball, culture ‒ the best of SoSH. To do that, we need more of your help. We need great writers, grammar nazis, and busybodies to share links and tweet and post to reddit. SoSH has many great minds, and we want to publish them ‒ on any subject.
Thanks to AlNipper49, SoSHCentral exists. We didn’t build that ‒ Nip did. And we will all be forever grateful to him for taking the chance and footing the bill.
Running an online publishing site costs money, and SoSHCentral is no different. We have lots of big plans ‒ video, infrastructure, maybe even paying writers ‒ but we are a long way from self-sufficiency. To that end, we’re asking for your help.
If you are interested in donating or knowing more, please click here.
We truly appreciate how SoSH embraced our project and has made it grow. We hope you enjoyed it and learned a little about football. And we really hope you want to stay involved as we grow into other areas and become a powerhouse for intelligent sports discussion.
Thank you,
It's been quite a year--for the Patriots, for this forum, and for us at SoSH Football Central. Before the season we had no idea we'd be covering football in a formal way, much less covering a Super Bowl and, for that matter, actually having people reading it. We've enjoyed this project greatly, and are gratified by your responses and hope for even bigger and better things moving forward.
SoSH Football Central (or, Inside the Pylon, as we will soon be known) published over 400 articles this season by 25 different authors. We had another 25 folks helping behind the scenes ‒ editing, technical, marketing ‒ and we always had you, our loyal hometown fans.
We started out with about 800 page views per day; for perspective, SoSH (the board) gets 70 million a year, give or take a few. That base was you, SoSH, checking the site to see what was new. By late October we had our first really big day (8,000!) and kept adding dedicated, repeat visitors.
We had our first 25,000-page view day last week. Our work garnered mentions by Football Outsiders, a New York Times columnist, fivethirtyeight.com, Deadspin, Slate, and many others. And we kept adding readers.
The success of this project is because YOU have helped. It didn’t take long for us to notice people sharing our work on reddit, Twitter, or Facebook. New readers found and liked our content. Many of them came back for more. Sincerely, SoSH, we could not have done it without you. Thank you.
We’d like to keep this going ‒ and then some. We’d like to add and cover baseball, hockey, basketball, culture ‒ the best of SoSH. To do that, we need more of your help. We need great writers, grammar nazis, and busybodies to share links and tweet and post to reddit. SoSH has many great minds, and we want to publish them ‒ on any subject.
Thanks to AlNipper49, SoSHCentral exists. We didn’t build that ‒ Nip did. And we will all be forever grateful to him for taking the chance and footing the bill.
Running an online publishing site costs money, and SoSHCentral is no different. We have lots of big plans ‒ video, infrastructure, maybe even paying writers ‒ but we are a long way from self-sufficiency. To that end, we’re asking for your help.
If you are interested in donating or knowing more, please click here.
We truly appreciate how SoSH embraced our project and has made it grow. We hope you enjoyed it and learned a little about football. And we really hope you want to stay involved as we grow into other areas and become a powerhouse for intelligent sports discussion.
Thank you,
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