Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

Shannon Shark is the founder of MetsPolice.com, tweets as @metspolice, is an avid fan of Lee Mazzilli and Daniel Murphy, hates black uniforms and is the author of "Send The Beer Guy" available at Amazon.com. #imwith28
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The Mets would like to know a few things about you

On Friday the Mets sent out a survey.  I saved it until now because there was a football game or something and I thought you’d be distracted.

Here’s a sampling of what the Mets seek to learn:

How many games did you attend last season?

How did you get the tickets?  I picked Mets.com which lead to follow-up questions about how I got to Mets.com

Then, now pay attention here, how much did you pay per ticket last year?  I will come back to this one

Where did you sit?

How optimistic are you about the 2012 Mets season?

 Extremely optimistic
 Somewhat optimistic
 Neither pessimistic nor optimistic
 Somewhat pessimistic
 Extremely pessimistic
How many games will you attend this season?
Then a new section with some combinations…
“A Family Pack for $99 which includes 4 tickets in the Pepsi Porch, 4 sodas/waters, and 4 Hotdogs”
“A $5 ticket in the Promenade seating level for a midweek game”
“A $50 ticket in the Field Level for a weekend game”
A $20 ticket in the Left Field Reserved for a weekend game”
or the intriguing “A $200 Delta ticket with access to the field (Left Field) during batting practice.”
The survey mentions the Mets “have not committed to any of these ticket offerings for 2012.”
I think this is a neat survey and its good that the Mets are finding out what interests folks like you.  As for that “how much did you pay” question, I wonder if it is related to dynamic (variable) pricing.  Remember that one?  You know, Santana is pitching for the first place Mets and its 80 and sunny and the guy on the opponents is going for his 74th home run…ticket prices might go up that day.  Yeah, I know you forgot about that one.  That’s why you have me.

The Mets will introduce dynamic pricing for 2012 single game tickets.  The face value of single game tickets will initially be offered in March 2012 at prices at or below 2011 prices.  As time progresses, those prices may be adjusted on a real-time basis, either upwards or downwards, based on market demand.  The ability for the Mets to adjust prices throughout the season will provide all fans with a variety of pricing options.

However, the Mets will not price single game tickets in Season Ticket Holder areas below the Season Ticket Holder discounted prices.

The dynamic pricing system will be powered by Qcue, Inc., which provides dynamic pricing for live entertainment and sports teams including the Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago White Sox,Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals. In addition, Qcue works with clubs in the National Basketball Association and National Hockey League.

Like I said, I know you forgot about that one and that’s why you have me.  Sign up for the free weekly newsletter if you haven’t already.

 

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Have you considered advertising on the Mets Police?

If you’d like to advertise or are just curious who reads Mets Police, here’s the updated Media Kit for the end of January.  These are real numbers (via Google Analytics).  If you’d like me to impress you I can pull some of the other stat counters and give you some ridiculously high number that includes web-crawlers.  In terms of actual humans, we’re not Mets Blog, but we do OK.

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For 2011, Mets Police finished with nearly 1.2 million page views per Google Analytics.  Click on the images below for larger version.

For January 2012 Mets Police Google Analytics stats were

28,150 Visits
15,160 Unique Visitors
80,313 Pageviews
Although that was down from December 2011, January tends to be a slow month for Mets bloggers (it picks up in March) and the numbers compare favorable to January 2011 (below) with page views up 11.6% and unique visitors up 47% year to year.
22,023 Visits
10,251 Unique Visitors
71,913 Pageviews

 

Most readers are from New York City and thus can easily visit your local business.

According to alexa.com, “relative to the general internet population, 25-34 year olds are over-represented at metspolice.com.”

@metspolice is active on twitter (2526 followers as of February 5th) and has a Klout score of 52 with influence in the field of “New York Mets.”

The site has been mentioned in the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and the New York Times.

A 300×250 ad on the right sidebar can be purchased for $50/month by contacting [email protected]

There is also a weekly Mets Police newsletter which goes out to a subscription-based email distribution list.  The newsletter launched in January 2012.

The site does not accept gambling related advertising.

Mets Police is open to the idea of a title sponsor.  Other ideas can also be discussed.

 

 

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Blogger Super Bowl: The Cerrone Effect vs. The Lukas Effect

During the week I mentioned The Cerrone Effect which is when Mets Blog links to you and your traffic spikes (and frankly your GoDaddy hosting gets wonky, but I’ll take it every time.)  One time The Cerrone Effect (technically that was the Baron Effect) got me kicked off Adsense because Google decided I clicked my own ads.   Good luck arguing with Google by the way.  There’s a better chance of reaching the Queen of England.

However, there is also the Lukas Effect which can be just as powerful as demonstrated here.

Those spikes on the left are links from Mets Blog and the one from yesterday is a link from Uni Watch.

I share this in a desparate attempt to suck up to this two men hoping they get jealous of each other and link to Mets Police every day.  If you have a big ego and would like to link and see what kind of effect you have I’m happy to be linked.  Isn’t that right Huffington Post?

The Lukas Effect tends to last two days I have noticed.  I will report back tomorrow.

Oh and I used Super Bowl in the title to increase my SEO.  I might as well post a picture of Susan Komen while I am at it.  Shameless.