As I have noted here a couple times, we are in the midst of some rather large changes at Gameops.com. Aug 6th is our 10 year Anniversary on the web and to celebrate we have spent much of the last 6 months in a total rebuild of the website. Some parts are done, some are close, and others are still a few weeks away. The glorious vision of launching this new updated site on the day of the 10 year anniversary is slipping away, but we are very close so that slightly less glorious relaunch day is coming soon. With that bit of background I have a couple announcements/thoughts:

1. Starting today (Monday July 28th) I will be blogging daily (Monday thru Friday) until the new site launches. I do this to keep fresh content on the site and it’s also an August Anniversary Tradition. I start slightly early this year since this will be a temporary replacement for the monthly site content. The old site (which we are moving away from) is time-consuming to update….so I don’t want to spend time updating something that will be discontinued in less than a month. The blog is a more efficient way to add content and focus our efforts on completing the upgrade.
2. I wanted to give a shout out to two people for their tireless efforts on this overhaul. First is web-guru Scott from Memorize Media. Scott has been building a new site for us for months, customizing everything from logos to forms (or soup to nuts). Between our host throwing him curve balls and my whiny emails, he has managed to keep his wits and has built a great site. Second, Jenny Oblock (our “Summer Coordinator”) who has been the Queen of Cut and Paste as she has diligently transfered hundreds of pages from our old site to our new platform. She has been a tremendous addition both with our web project as well as our marketing efforts.
3. Our monthly email blast will be sent out later in August. It will note all the updated content as well as the discounts in The Store. (if you want to save $ in our store and get the update you can click here.)
4. Our monthly interivew will be with Dan Migala from the Migala Report. I spent an hour with Dan on the phone and the interview is probably the best we have done in 10 years on Gameops.com. The full interview will launch with the new site, but parts of this conversation will be included in blog entries in August.

That’s it for now. Thanks for your patience. I look forward to the relaunch and hope you enjoy the Blogapalooza in the mean time.

–Cudo