The last few months, since our launch in February, we’ve been working on some mayor improvements. We listened very carefully to what our users came up with and we looked at the platform on we’re we would like to go in the near future. We defined a new and clear mission about what we want to achieve: Let you “Entering the world of serendipity”.

“Trip Essentials goes beyond search and entering the world of Serendipity (discovery). What’s the difference? Search is what you do when you’re looking for something. Serendipity is when something extraordinary that you didn’t know existed, or didn’t know how to ask for, finds you”.

I would also love to share some Analytics with you as well. Remember, we didn’t spend any money on (online) marketing! We’re amazed ourself’s that the website engages people and the amount of people using the website actively. Imagine if we would ever have enough money to spend on Online marketing .

An overview over one month*:

• 3.360 

Visitors

• 50.668 

Pageviews

• 15,08 

Pages per visitor

• 32,35% 

Bounc ratio

• 00:16:28 

Time on site

• 36,32% 

New visitors

*Feel free to publish these Analytics on you're blog.

Why are we announcing this information? Two reasons:

1. We would love you to tell others about Trip Essentials. Spread the word! Blog about us, tell investors (we’re looking), tell you’re friends and family and maybe even tell strangers about us on conferences or even on the street *lol*. And maybe start using it you’re self? Please let us know you’re thoughts…
2. Besides the fact that we made some changes on the User Interface and made a even more attractive (we think), we also added some new tool and features.

Overview of our tools/features:

http://www.tripess.com/explore/features.html

Perfect for round trip planning

http://www.tripess.com/ginogoossens/trips/camper-roundtrip-usa-canada-2009.html

Exploring

http://www.tripess.com/explore.html 

Interesting and active profiles at the homepage

http://www.tripess.com/ 

The first tripess.com ’widget’. Please do not add it to you’re Hyves account yet, it’s under approval

http://www.tripess.com/my/gadgets.html

Background personalisation (The famous Twitter bird )

http://www.tripess.com/ginogoossens/

Trip Essentials on you’re Iphone

http://m.tripess.com 

We’re on Twitter

http://www.twitter.com/tripess

I hope you enjoyed this update and that we can continue to keep you updated on tripess.com. And remember “Spread the word! Blog about us, tell investors, tell you’re friends and family and maybe even tell strangers about us on conferences or even on the street *lol*”. 

P.S. Coming soon: Tripess Open Social and OpenID (oAuth)