Hey everyone!
Tip’d has been out for almost a week now. Let’s take a moment to recap the milestones we’ve hit.
Coverage, coverage, and more coverage
Not everyone understands Tip’d but we’re glad we’re still getting exposure. Over time we’ll make believers out of everyone. Check out the coverage we’ve gotten since launch day: Valleywag, Pearsonified, Neatorama, Cash Money Life, Tris Hussey, Networking Effectively, Journalism.co.uk, GearCrave, Five Cent Nickel, Net Hackz, The Inspired Economist, Clever Dude, Walyou, Insight Writer, My Retirement Blog, Free From Broke, Realm of Prosperity, Military Money Might, Me Financially Free, Tough Money Love, Consumerism Commentary, and Stop Buying Crap. Did you write about us? Make sure we didn’t miss your coverage by sending us an email.
Let’s integrate
Tip’d makes it incredibly easy for you to integrate our buttons with your content. All you have to do is add a single line of code to your single page post structure and you’re done. The code will automatically add Tip’d submission and voting button to the bottom of all your posts. If the post is already submitted, your readers can vote on it (directly from your site) and if it hasn’t been submitted they can submit it with just a couple of clicks.
Some statistics for you
It’s been almost a week since we made the beta announcement and here’s how we’ve been doing.
- 750+ registered users.
- 1000+ articles submitted, almost 10,000 Tips received, 600+ comments made.
Announcing launch partners!
There are three main components to any social site.
- The platform.
- The content.
- The community.
While we work on building the platform and you work on building the community, we’ve got publishers helping us with content. Please welcome the following unparalleled publishers as our launch partners. They have been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, BusinessWeek, Baltimore Sun, Newsweek, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, and other esteemed news outlets.
Blueprint for Financial Prosperity is a personal finance blog follows the finances of Jim, a young professional just trying to make it. On any given day you can read articles about how you can save money by butchering your own chicken, earn the most interest with high yield savings accounts and the best CD rates, and plenty more. Blueprint is updated twice daily and has been featured in numerous mainstream media outlets including New York Times, Baltimore Sun, and Business Week.
Read their coverage of Tip’d.
FiveCentNickel is a personal finance blog written from the perspective of a thirty-something family man. This site has been featured in a variety of mainstream publications including Newsweek and The New York Times. Frequent updates mean that you get a constant stream of financial tips and tricks. Topics covered include credit cards, debt reduction, online banking, investing, taxes, retirement, and more.
Read their coverage of Tip’d.
Since 2003, Consumerism Commentary has been a leading blog in the personal finance community. The author, known as Flexo, shares the details of his financial progress and provides insight and commentary on financial issues such as getting out of debt, managing money, and current financial events. Consumerism Commentary has been awarded numerous mentions and accolades from the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. Popular topics on Consumerism Commentary include consumer issues, the economy, investing, and banking.
Read their coverage of Tip’d.
StopBuyingCrap.com is a personal finance blog written by a twenty-something dungeon dweller. The blog focuses on sensible personal finance, proper usage of credit cards, and avoidance of crappy consumer products. You’ll also find tips on choosing online banking accounts, understanding FICO scores, and using the best tools to manage your finances. Blog posts ranges from the semi-useful “How to keep track of all your financial accounts” to the bandwidth wasting “How to stop buying crap.” Subscribing to the blog guarantees you to two worthwhile posts per year. Pretty sweet, huh?
Read their coverage of Tip’d.
Get Rich Slowly — recently named most inspiring money blog by Money magazine — is devoted to sensible real-world personal finance. You will not find any get-rich-quick schemes here. Nor will you find multi-level marketing fads or hot stock tips. Instead you’ll find useful stories about frugality and the psychology of money, as well as discussions about debt elimination and practical investing. And, of course, you’ll find helpful tips about starting an IRA or an online savings account.
Read their coverage of Tip’d.
Our launch partners have helped us with exposure by writing reviews of our site and reaching out to their communities, offering free advertising, and placing our submission buttons on their content. We cannot thank them enough and would like to encourage you to visit their communities for engaging content and and productive and informative conversations.
Also, if you would like to be a launch partner, please send us an email.
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Great news! Tip’d has a good future ahead of it.
Hi All,
It’s great to be featured here and be a part of the community as well. I have been following most of the blogs mentioned above, especially The Blueprint for Financial Prosperity and Get Rich Slowly. They have great financial advice to offer and are often the first to come out with great financial ideas. I look forward to Tipd becoming a great community to talk about financial news and advice.
Thanks,
Jeremy
Woohoo!
Keep up the great work.
That is an impressive list of partners! No doubt Tip’d will become a well-used social media platform.
Awesome site! Your partners are no doubt helping you reach your target audience. : )