Because of technical difficulties we had to cancel this weeks contest. If you have visited the site in the past 48 hours you would have noticed some errors on the site. We are working to fix the errors and the site should be fully functional by Monday night.
Site News
Proximity Search: This feature is soon going to be ready. I suspect it will be running by this Friday!
Google Maps: I have installed the software but this is what is causing the server errors that you are seeing on the website. We are working to fix this. Once the errors are fixed I will be able to map the restaurants at a rate of 15,000/day. So, it will take 5 days to map every restaurant in Canada!
Rewards: The rewards program is on hold until the proximity search and google maps are completed. Details will be announced at that time.
Sincerely,
Stephen Richardson
webmaster@canadafoodcritic.com
http://www.canadafoodcritic.com
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Weekly report
Just dropping in on this long Easter Weekend for a quick update. Yesterday (Sunday) we announced 12 winners for this weeks contests. All contests had participants so we will be running all 12 one more time. I will soon be upgrading the database of restaurants. When that is done I will post the additions and I will get all of last weeks reviews posted at the same time. I fell behind on that because of the server problems this week.
That's all for now, I am going to enjoy whats left of my long weekend!
Stephen Richardson
That's all for now, I am going to enjoy whats left of my long weekend!
Stephen Richardson
Sunday, March 16, 2008
First round of winners!
I have just completed the mailing to announce this weeks winners. You can find the list here:
http://canadafoodcritic.com/winners.htm
Two of my promotions where not as popular. The refere a friend feature http://canadafoodcritic.com/cgi-bin/birdcast/birdcast/birdcast.cgi
only had a single user. I am testing it for one more week. If people use it I will continue that contest, otherwise I will drop it. The other contest that was not so popular was the joining of the Canada Food Critic Face Book Group. I was hopeful that this would go over well because it provides a forum to comment on reviews and chat with other members. I will also continue this contest for another week but it its popularity does not pick up I may stop this one as well.
Other than that there is nothing new to report this week. I will have some big announcements in the next few weeks so stay tuned!
Stephen Richardson
http://canadafoodcritic.com/winners.htm
Two of my promotions where not as popular. The refere a friend feature http://canadafoodcritic.com/cgi-bin/birdcast/birdcast/birdcast.cgi
only had a single user. I am testing it for one more week. If people use it I will continue that contest, otherwise I will drop it. The other contest that was not so popular was the joining of the Canada Food Critic Face Book Group. I was hopeful that this would go over well because it provides a forum to comment on reviews and chat with other members. I will also continue this contest for another week but it its popularity does not pick up I may stop this one as well.
Other than that there is nothing new to report this week. I will have some big announcements in the next few weeks so stay tuned!
Stephen Richardson
Saturday, March 8, 2008
WE NOW RUN WEEKLY CONTESTS!
This was sent to our news letter but its worth announcing in the blog...
Canada Food Critic
Well, here I am working on my website on a Saturday afternoon! Not only that, I am sending out a news letter and I am bothering you! So, you know I must have a good reason! I do have a good reason, I am announcing my contest startup!
Now, this is going to be a great opportunity for all of you to win great prizes and they will only get better. Starting this week I am going to run 4 weekly contests. You can participate in all 4 if you wish. Here are the brief details...
#1) Be a member! If you are getting this e-mail you are already entered in contest #1!
#2) Tell a Friend! If you go to our site and use our tell a friend form (get it on the contest page) you will have a chance to win. Every friend you invite gets you one entry!
#3) Write a Review! Every review you write you will get a chance to win. Please write good honest reviews with real information that will help other members.
#4) Join our Forum! We want active members, join our forum and have another chance to win!
Now, what can you win! Well, right now I am giving away FREE VACATIONS to your choice of 1 of 19 destinations. You can get the full details on our contest page. Now, I must tell you there is a $15 redemption fee for the vacation and you must register your vacation in 30 days and use it in one year. The reason is simple, we want to know if your going to use it and if you are we need you to use it before we can no longer honor the vacation. Basically, when you register your vacation it will be honored for a full year.
I am excited about being able to offer this to the members of Canada Food Critic and I hope you are excited too. If this goes over well I will be working to find bigger better deals. But for now, get entered into these contests and win your self a vacation!
That's all for this issue folks, have a great weekend and get ready to win a vacation. If your like me and your watching another snow fall right now you likely need a vacation!
Sincerely Yours,
Stephen
Monday, March 3, 2008
Fully Loaded
Fully Loaded?
Fully loaded is what CanadaFoodCritic is tonight. The restaurant database is now 62620 strong. It is the biggest Canadian Restaurant Database online! I have rebuilt all of the pages and I have dropped all of the town with no restaurants.
What does this mean for you?
1) when you want to find a restaurant we will have what you are looking for.
2) when you browse our site, there are a lot fewer pages to move though.
At this time I am still working on a "proximity search" I want everyone to be able to enter a postal code and find all of the restaurant within X kilometers. This should be a very useful tool.
New Additions
The other thing that I am going to add to the site is Google maps. Yup, Google maps! Finding a restaurant in our directory is the easy part, finding it in your city or town can be the hard part. So, with Google maps you will get directions right here on our site!
I will be accepting reviews daily but I will only be posting new reviews every Sunday. So, if you get a confirmation e-mail and you do not find your review right away, check back on Sunday night or Monday morning.
Contests.....
Coming soon, its going to be big, its going to be huge!!!
Sorry no details yet :)
Stephen
Fully loaded is what CanadaFoodCritic is tonight. The restaurant database is now 62620 strong. It is the biggest Canadian Restaurant Database online! I have rebuilt all of the pages and I have dropped all of the town with no restaurants.
What does this mean for you?
1) when you want to find a restaurant we will have what you are looking for.
2) when you browse our site, there are a lot fewer pages to move though.
At this time I am still working on a "proximity search" I want everyone to be able to enter a postal code and find all of the restaurant within X kilometers. This should be a very useful tool.
New Additions
The other thing that I am going to add to the site is Google maps. Yup, Google maps! Finding a restaurant in our directory is the easy part, finding it in your city or town can be the hard part. So, with Google maps you will get directions right here on our site!
I will be accepting reviews daily but I will only be posting new reviews every Sunday. So, if you get a confirmation e-mail and you do not find your review right away, check back on Sunday night or Monday morning.
Contests.....
Coming soon, its going to be big, its going to be huge!!!
Sorry no details yet :)
Stephen
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