2016 Year End Progress Report

From the desk of Paul Stramer


Progress Report for 2016

On July 11th of 2016 I reported that we had 1003 subscribers to the automated mailing system for the two websites.  www.annavonreitz.com   and   www.montanablog.us

That figure has increased by about double in just about 6 months. We now have 2002 current subscribers who are staying with it. This does not count the additional 519 people who have taken a subscription for a while and have dropped out for one reason or another, or those who's email address was not deliverable.

So it took over a year to get to roughly a thousand people, and now just a half year to get to two thousand.



I know that these people forward many articles to their lists, and I know that some of those lists are substantial, but I have no way to know how many thousands of others are getting these articles. I do know this, however;  that the donations come from other countries around the world, as well as the US and Canada.

Your donations are helping to build our influence and exposure. The proof is the mailing list.

Last time I reported that we had 312 articles on Anna's website, and today it's now 441 articles.  This effort is turning into a huge database of information, and the number of comments on each article is growing steadily also.  I urge you to use the search boxes to find what you are looking for. Your IP address will not be recorded or used to match the search results on Anna's website.

Of course we wish our mailing list was a thousand times these numbers, so once again we are asking our readers to help us by forwarding the email notices of the new articles as they appear, and by helping us with our advertising budget if you can. http://www.annavonreitz.com/bannerads.html

We have added some products to the website here:  http://www.annavonreitz.com/order.html

A word about those products. I have not added up the total numbers for flash drives and DVD disks with Anna's website on them that we have shipped out, but suffice it to say the numbers are in the hundreds of drives and disks. We have also begun buying the US Civil Flag in lots of 10 at a time for the 3' X 5' flag, and have ordered and sold about 30 so far.

We also offered a Copper round in the design of a Second Amendment Medallion which is getting more popular now.

We are averaging about 10 thousand page loads per week, and we are still getting around 4000 new first time visitors each week between the blog and the website, which is encouraging. I had thought it might drop off after a while but there are still lots of people waking up and hungry for information.

As always, feel free to post any of the articles to your blog, or social media as long as it's posted without change or deletions, and please link back.

I want to thank you all for your support, and I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas.

All of you are in our prayers, and your donations are very much appreciated.

Paul Stramer  
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