OK, it’s time for the snow site goldensnowball.com to take the next step. I’m opening it up to local CNY companies for advertising opportunities. I’ll be calling several companies this week. If you think your company would like to advertise please get in touch with Patrick at 315-656-9703. The ad space is on a first come first in basis with only 2 spots on the top of each page and an undecided amount of ad space on the right hand column of each page. See the 2012 website visitor stats at bottom!
Most of our visitors are from CNY with a good portion of them visiting the site from the Syracuse area along with Rochester, Buffalo and Binghamton.
Our contest, as in the contest belongs to all of us in the CNY area has always gotten interest from most of the local media from the cities that are in the contest. Just to name a few which include;
Syracuse .com,
The Post Standard,
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Most of the local news stations
Buffalonews.Com and several others just to name a few.
Some of the National publicity that have mentioned or wrote about the contest include :
The Weather Channel – Live interview
The Washington Post
The Huffington Post
Late Nights with Jim Bohannon – Radio Interview
Saturday Night Live – Yes even Jimmy Fallon from SNL did a quick spoof in their news segment about the contest.
This just gives you an idea as to how popular our great NY contest is all over the area and country. This Click Here to get an idea how much the contest and site is talked about online , If you think your business may be interested in advertising please contact us using the contact page at http://goldensnowball.com/contact-us/ for more details including visitor stats or call at 315-656-9703 or by email at steb@twcny.rr.com .
Keep in mind that the 2011 – 2012 was one of the least snowiest seasons we have ever had. Normally the visitors are higher. Stats as of 12/18/2012
| Month | Unique visitors | Number of visits | Pages | Hits | Bandwidth |
| Jan 2012 | 8,303 | 17,267 | 33,326 | 246,007 | 7.51 GB |
| Feb 2012 | 9,341 | 17,704 | 38,330 | 241,616 | 5.52 GB |
| Mar 2012 | 6,955 | 12,939 | 34,917 | 175,999 | 3.58 GB |
| Apr 2012 | 3,710 | 7,467 | 26,977 | 92,024 | 2.41 GB |
| May 2012 | 2,113 | 4,603 | 46,308 | 71,614 | 989.10 MB |
| Jun 2012 | 1,569 | 3,066 | 17,338 | 30,857 | 876.45 MB |
| Jul 2012 | 1,470 | 2,790 | 11,256 | 23,890 | 1.13 GB |
| Aug 2012 | 1,857 | 3,373 | 10,965 | 23,044 | 917.60 MB |
| Sep 2012 | 2,018 | 3,692 | 14,506 | 33,004 | 1.04 GB |
| Oct 2012 | 2,493 | 4,418 | 27,405 | 52,428 | 1.80 GB |
| Nov 2012 | 3,014 | 6,025 | 29,196 | 69,596 | 1.94 GB |
| Dec 2012 | 2,660 | 4,847 | 17,160 | 52,984 | 1.50 GB |
| Total | 45,503 | 88,191 | 307,684 | 1,113,063 | 29.15 GB |
Thanks all 
Patrick DeCoursey