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Planet Berry News
March 17, 2010

Hello,

Total Fitness Renewable

Thank you all for the great feedback we have been receiving. We also appreciate the suggestions for future ideas and changes to the blog site (Planet Berry Blog) and of course the main web site you are all so familiar with.

Let's talk about the blog site for a moment. Over the past six months we have been approached and have accepted several new exciting content providers for all of you to learn from and share ideas. These new feeds are just that. They are syndicated articles on topics we believe add value to our site. One stretch that was a subscribers request, I might add, was a slightly different bend on the Fitness Side. We are now looking at the Media Famous for their contribution to being overall fit and well. So from time to time these feeds will show up with famous people from around the world all focusing on the topic of personal fitness.

The range of feeds is quite exciting. We have external agreements now with the Scientific community for Alternative Energy as well as the Medical community focusing on such important topics such as Obesity and Diabetes both Type 1 and Type 2. As we exit the end of our first 3 years since the launch in May 2007 we reflect back on those first few visitors and their contribution to the growth of Planet Berry.

When we first launched the site we had fewer than 10 visitors a day. Quite frankly I think it was all friends and family. We have a pretty small family as you can imagine by those numbers!! But we stayed the course. What started as a 10 page web site searching for the right mix of content and solutions / services we have now morphed our way to a very substantial portal.

Just this week we surveyed the site and found over 900 pages of content. Did we enter all this data and design all this content on our own? No, it was visitor contribution in the Forums and new affiliations like the syndicated feeds we are now receiving on a daily basis over on the Blog Site mentioned above.

Each week when we reflect back on the past 3 years (almost) we can't help but say thank you to all the friends and family who every day make this site a joy to manage. So here's to all of you on the eve of St. Patrick's Day.