I have a favor to ask. A Christmas wish, if you like.
As you probably know, we have a video podcast on iTunes. One of the best ways to advertise a podcast is to get it to “float to the top” in the iTunes directory. In order for that to happen for Postcard Valet, we need to have a few ratings (more than 25, I think.) Now, we have no illusions that Postcard Valet will top the charts or anything, but it sure would be nice if it were to show up on the first page of search results in the travel podcast section!
So, if you’d like to give Oksana and me a wonderful – and super simple! – Christmas preset, head on over to our iTunes page, click “View in iTunes,” and rate our podcast for us! I’ll bet it’ll take you under a minute (maybe five if you want to leave us some constructive criticism, too)…
For those that take the time to do this for us, I would love to send you a South American thank you postcard in return; just email me your address afterwards and I’ll get right on it!
A couple notes:
If you don’t have iTunes installed, it’s a free download from Apple.
After installing iTunes, you’ll have everything you need to subscribe to our podcast. New episodes will be delivered to iTunes as soon as we post them – you don’t even need to have an iPod or anything like that!
After iTunes is installed, subscribing to our podcast is as simple as clicking the following link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=380887692
( If, for some reason, that doesn’t work, follow these directions:
1) Open iTunes
2) Click on the Advanced menu and select “Subscribe to Podcast…”
3) Copy and paste the same link into the box: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=380887692
4) Enjoy! )
And finally, you may have noticed a new Facebook widget in the sidebar over there on the right. The Postcard Valet Facebook page is Oksana’s new project and if we can 6 more people to “Like” the page – we’re at 19 now – it’ll unlock a few features (such as a custom URL) that she’s eager to implement. A click there would also be much appreciated!
It’s the day after Christmas, and I wanted to write a “thank you card” to everyone that “Liked” us on Facebook and/or rated or reviewed us on iTunes!
We now have 26 Likes on our Facebook fan page, which allowed Oksana to customize the URL. You can go directly there with http://www.facebook.com/postcardvalet now!
On iTunes, well… iTunes is being problematic. I may have picked the absolute worst time to request reviews there! The only review I can see is the one Oksana put up a couple weeks ago. I know there should be other reviews by now — some of you have emailed to let me know you posted one — but they’re not showing up (yet.)
In trying to track down why that is, a friend mentioned that “iTunes Connect,” a service that App developers use, is going to be shut down from December 23 to December 29. I hope that’s all it is and that we’ll see the reviews pop up right around the New Year.
Nevertheless, thank you all for taking the time to help us share our videos and blog posts with a wider audience. We really appreciate it.
P.S. If you intended to give us a Christmas present review but never got around to it, it’s not too late! We’re in Latin America, so it would be perfectly appropriate to procrastinate until January 6 when we’ll celebrate Three Kings Day! 🙂