Newspapers & articles for first euro year

EuroBillTracker · Post by **EuroBillTracker** » Sun Oct 27, 2002 11:03 pm

I think it's time we start emailing newspapers about eurobilltracker again. I expect they're starting to make plans about articles for the first anniversary...

Mr Euro · Post by **Mr Euro** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 7:18 am

Now that the site is back on line, we can discuss this thread. It seems a great idea. Anyone with good idea's???

I have one:

We send out a press-release (by snailmail) about what a succes the site is, how many bills we tracked so far, about the huge amount of information about the Euro and Europe in the forum. This should be send out before 20 december.

In the presskit we should also put some screenshots from the inside of EBT. Like pe Complete list-Notes (when there is heavy input), a screenshot of the diffusion, a screenshot of the stats....

And to finish it off, in the envelop (between the pages) we should place some x-mas-decoration like a glittering festoon cut up, so when the reader is gonna open the envelop his desk will be full of glittering stuff and he remembers it all day....

Ciao,
Mr Euro

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bhoeyb · Post by **bhoeyb** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 5:21 pm

Mr Euro wrote:And to finish it off, in the envelop (between the pages) we should place some x-mas-decoration like a glittering festoon cut up, so when the reader is gonna open the envelop his desk will be full of glittering stuff and he remembers it all day....

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Mr Euro

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I love your idea

Maybe they'll think it's Antrax powder. So we'll be on all TV-stations

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That's a genious idea to promote EBT

Skylimit · Post by **Skylimit** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 8:24 pm

I think the newspapers & magazines are allready preparing, so I wouldn't wait too long with the anthrax ... If you want some, I have some left from last year

EuroBillTracker · Post by **EuroBillTracker** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 9:36 pm

Ok, here's a press release I wrote a long time ago, would anyone like to make it better (and change the numbers). Don't forget press release have a style of their own so don't be too surprised...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 12, 2002
Contact : Philippe Girolami
press@eurobilltracker.com

EURO BILL TRACKER REACHES 50,000 REGISTERED BILLS IN 15 WEEKS TIME

Paris, France (April 12, 2002) - Eurobilltracker, the top euro bill tracking
site has announced that it is now tracking a total of over 50,000 euro bills,
registered on the site by users from over 20 different countries, mainly from
the euro zone.

"Although the top contributing countries (Belgium, Holland, France, Germany
and Finland) account for most of the notes entered, word has started spreading
to other countries such as Ireland and Portugal and we look forward to
welcoming users from all over the world" says website creator Philippe
Girolami.

The idea behind of the website is very simple : see how the new bills travel
around the world and give users a chance to find out where their bills have
been and where they go. A more scientific aspect of the site is the diffusion
section where monthly charts show how the proportion of foreign bills
increases with time in each country. In order for this to happen, users enter
information about bills they possess (value, serial number) and indicate where
they got each bill. If the bill is already in the database, then
previous users that have entered that same bill are notified via
email.

The success of the site in so many European countries is probably due to the
fact that the site was designed to be multilingual from the start. The site is
available in all euro-zone languages thanks to an army of translators who give
their time and assistance to the site.

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ABOUT WWW.EUROBILLTRACKER.COM

* Information about the eurobilltracker.com project is available at
http://www.eurobilltracker.com

* Diffusion of euro bills is available at
http://www.eurobilltracker.eu/diffusion

* The eurobilltracker website was inspired by the 4-year old Where's George
website (www.wheresgeorge.com) but hopes to go beyond its big brother. The
site went online on January 1st, 2002 to coincide with the introduction of the
euro in European countries.

* Project Statistics as of April 12th, 2002

2650+ users
50000+ bills
85+ double bill entries
20+ participating countries

Skylimit · Post by **Skylimit** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 2:10 pm

I would want to add : if you want to become an EBT-member,
please use this link

http://www.eurobilltracker.eu/index.php?referer=5603

wouter · Post by **wouter** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 3:37 pm

Skylimit wrote:I would want to add : if you want to become an EBT-member,
please use this link

http://www.eurobilltracker.eu/index.php?referer=5603

no you should use http://www.eurobilltracker.eu/index.php?referer=2950

EuroBillTracker · Post by **EuroBillTracker** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 7:14 pm

This would be out of context, a press release is a message to a media outlet, not a person...

Tiger · Post by **Tiger** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 8:32 pm

I think they were just making fun

I think your text is quite good, just update the values

BossaNova · Post by **BossaNova** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 11:48 pm

by the way, do you remember a Girl that said she was a spanish reporter asking for opinions/information about the Euro, here in the forum? did someone get in touch with her? we could have some more spanish users..

wouter · Post by **wouter** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 10:23 am

yesterday I saw there was a new posting in the spanish forum maybe that person could get in touch with some spanish press.

I think the text of press-release is ok just update it a bit and it could work really good

Skylimit · Post by **Skylimit** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 6:33 pm

BossaNova wrote:by the way, do you remember a Girl that said she was a spanish reporter asking for opinions/information about the Euro, here in the forum? did someone get in touch with her? we could have some more spanish users..

I remember this : a unique chance for a breakthrough in Spain.
Too bad, nobody bothered to get some conversation going there
(on the other hand, she could also have browsed through the forum)

EuroBillTracker · Post by **EuroBillTracker** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 9:00 pm

I've given it a try