PaintballX3 Magazine November 2013 Issue | Page 10
editorial
From the Prez
issue 60
11/2013
Welcome
Something to Build On
It’s that time of year when for
much of the paintball industry and
game begin to slow down a bit.
Companies that geared up for the
PSP World Cup are getting a quick
breather before the busy Christmas
season kicks into full swing. Most
tournament teams are taking a
month or more off before they begin practicing for next season’s early
events. And paintball fields in many
regions are already seeing a slowdown in attendance as the weather
cools.
But for us here at PaintballX3 Magazine there’s no slowing down this
season. In fact, we’re busier than
we’ve ever been right now for a
feed at our website and social me
outlets.
Some of these things have alread
been put in play and the early returns are very exciting for us. Our
readership numbers for the magazine, our website portal and social media have exploded the past
90 days and we believe this is jus
the beginning. In the past 90 day
we’ve seen our web portal (www.
PaintballX3.com) traffic nearly dou
ble, with the average reader view
ing 15 pages per visit, and spending more than 16 minutes per vis
on our site. This is just the tip of
the iceberg. We’ve also got a few
things up our sleeve that we’re no
“In the past 90 days we’ve seen our web port
ble, with the average reader viewing 15 pages
per visit on our site.”
number of reasons. Three months
ago we as a company decided to
put into play a strategy we had
been working on for some time.
This strategy includes revamping
our social media assets, redesigning
our magazines (we’re rolling out our
new look in January), adding mobile
apps (coming soon), hiring a news
and social media coordinator, retooling our Euro coverage and magazine
and employing a 24/7/365 news
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yet ready to talk about. But you’ll
be seeing these things added piec
by piece the next six months.
We are also expanding our worldwide coverage, our research team
our writer and photographer core
and our web presence. If you are
interested in joining our team, fee
free to email me at [email protected].
paintbal