As you are aware, Commuto has only launched recently and while still in beta has had a few development bugs.  We have been working on fixing them as quickly as possible and hopefully you haven’t been affected by any.  As a thank you for giving us your time and patience we would like to announce our first promotion.

Commuto will be giving away a USD $250.00 gift card from Amazon.com to one of our members.  This is a random draw, but only those who are active will be included in our draw.  So please participate in your communities, add items to trade and see what’s out there for you to get.  Oh, and please invite your friends, neighbours and colleagues.  The more members we have the better the trade options are for everyone.

We’ll announce the winner on May 2^nd in our News Page.

As well, we are working on adding more options to our site that will make your experience much more interactive and enjoyable.  Stay tuned for updates.

Thanks and Trade Friendly,
Stephen

It finally happened. We got our first piece, or pieces, of publicity. I was checking our user count last night and saw a massive spike (for us its massive) of 76 new users. I immediately went to Google Analytics, one of my all time favourite website tools, to see where the traffic came from. Its incredible how useful Analytics is. Some days I spend hours just seeing where the traffic is coming from, looking at graphs, figures, stats and links. For a visual person like myself, this is heaven-sent.

The first mentions are below. They are from Trendcentral and FashionClub. I was actually very familiar with Trendcentral as is on my regular rotation of sites I read every morning, and I’m now familiar with FashionClub as well, which my sister would love. Thanks to both for mentioning such a young start-up.

The links to the articles:

http://trendcentral.com/Webapps/App/SnapShots/Article.aspx?ArticleId=7335

http://blogs.fashionclub.com/my_weblog/ecofriendly/index.html

Thanks again,

Stephen