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A start up...THE INSANITY

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What kind of company do you work for?
other
What is the name of your company?
Diehard101
What is your job title?
CEO
What is your job function?
other
Company Website
http://www.ifocusmedia.com
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Mark Heller's Blog

Mark Heller

So it has been a LONG while since I have blogged here is why

To get an idea off the whiteboard to launch is by far one of the most difficult things anyone can do. After experiencing this first hand with Diehard101.com I decided to take the site down for a while and refocus my efforts to making it work. This was a false start to say the least. I can't even count how much money I have loss, a lawsuit came and gone (I won), a couple of friendships were lost and what am I left with? A great idea that is what, I will not stop building the idea out, just a diff… Continue

Posted on December 27, 2008 at 10:44pm — 3 Comments

Mark Heller

when it rains it pours

So I went to diehard101.com today to check in on the amount of members we had signed up today. We are still getting a decent amount of visitors from the activity a couple of days ago and the bounce rate decreased by 25% from Monday to Tuesday.

I go to the site and I get a forbidden message, after my wife threw water on my face to have me come back I called my CTO and Editor in Chief. We don't know what took place, we thought the server crashed. That wasn't the answer, we still don't know what t… Continue

Posted on July 31, 2008 at 4:52am — 1 Comment

Mark Heller

Son of a BI*&H

Today we had our greatest day of traffic coming to the site EVER. One of my content writers wrote an article about Manny Ramirez and how he would fit in with EVERY MLB team in the league. He then went to the mlb forums and posted the article and we didn't sign up one person. We are 4 days away from our beta stage of the site and we missed out on over 1400 new people visiting the site today.

I am taking the positive out of it, we did one article and had 1400 plus folks come over to the site, the… Continue

Posted on July 29, 2008 at 3:24am —

Mark Heller

What seems like 10 minutes is actually 2 days! More insanity

I keep on trying to set aside a few minutes to come into this fantastic website and do some more blogging on a consistent basis and it is very frustrating for me not to be able to do so. I think about it and I tell myself okay in 10 minutes I'm going to sportsmarketing20.com and I am going to blog, give some people a few updates, maybe make a person or two chuckle a bit and give them updates on where Diehard101.com is. However, next thing I know it is 2 days later. Go figure.

So an update......… Continue

Posted on July 22, 2008 at 5:00am — 3 Comments

Mark Heller

Diehard101.com is in Alpha

It has been a little while since I last did a blog. I have been swamped with the ups and downs of trying to launch a brand new media property. Some great things have taken place over the last 7 days for Diehard101.com. We somehow were picked up by a few sports fanboards! What ended up happening is that our subscribers went from 100 to 200 in 4 days this last week! We had record breaking days for new signups, page views, comments, blogs and more importantly buzz.

Some members from a competitor c… Continue

Posted on July 5, 2008 at 4:35am — 1 Comment

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At 2:47pm on October 20, 2009, Jeremy W. Goldsmith said…
Hello Mark,

Thanks for adding me as a friend on Sports Marketing 2.0. I am getting used to this site. What have you appreciated about this social/professional conversational space?
At 7:17pm on August 26, 2008, John Donaldson said…
Hi Mark,

Sorry I haven't responded sooner, I am with a new company and been out of the loop on Sports Marketing 2.0 for awhile. Would love to chat with you in the future, not sure if I'll be able to make it to the Sports Marketing 2.0 conference in LA, but I am working on it. Let me know what works best for you.

John
At 9:51pm on August 17, 2008, Dan Wiseman said…
Send along some info to dan.wiseman@reebok.com. I am not the media guy here, but I can send along.

Dan
At 12:43pm on August 8, 2008, DW Berkley said…
I'd like to know a little more on the site...I'd be happy to contribute golf news, Pgh Pirate, Penguin and Steeler news since I'm right here.
At 4:55pm on August 4, 2008, Chris Becker said…
Mark,

I would be happy to talk to you about how I can help you with diehard101.com. How should we get in touch?
At 5:29pm on July 5, 2008, Ryan Guldberg said…
Mark liked the site, I think we'd be interested in doing some kind of link exchange with our communities.vintageauthentics.com site. We're like you just launched the community side of things.
At 10:55am on July 5, 2008, Jay Handler said…
Mark,

Call me at 864.704.5005 when you get a chance. I'd be happy to discuss ways in which SellPhone Marketing can help you use Text Messaging to build your business.

Thanks!

Jay
At 10:58am on June 23, 2008, Jay Cipoletti said…
Mark, call my cell (304) 610-7881 when you have a few minutes this afternoon. --J
At 9:56am on June 18, 2008, Matt Engel said…
Hi Mark,

Feel free to give me a call (414)828-6291.
At 7:50am on June 18, 2008, Chris Hershberger said…
Mark

Congratulations on your launch. I would be more than happy to discuss a soccer channel with you. Please let me know the best time to reach you and what number.

Best Regards

Chris

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