Survey Says!!!

Hi Everyone, Katie here.

We're very excited to share the results of our first annual reader survey with you! We've never done anything like this before and we're SO glad we did. Reading through the responses was HUGE fun!

We laughed, we cried, we learned... and one thing is for certain. We LOVE you. Everyday we're amazed that people stop by to see what we're up to. We're amazed at the kind and generous comments you leave for us. We're amazed that you care about us so much.

We hope you enjoy the cool graphic Glogirly made to illustrate some of the survey findings. We think that whether you're a purely a reader or have a blog of your own, you'll find some interesting and enlightening tidbits. 

At the bottom of the post, we'll share some of the specific things that we learned, a few plans for the future and the things that made us all leaky eyed. (happy leaky eyes.)

DOWNLOAD/VIEW INFOGRAPHIC PDF HERE
Special note to our fellow closet-geeks and bloggers...
If you download our pdf, there is a cool *tweet this* button activated at the bottom. 
If you enjoy the graphic, feel free to share it!

Suggestion #1:  Make it easier to read old posts.

GREAT idea! Just yesterday we did a little remodeling of our main menu bar at the top of the blog. Since we know that your top two GLOGIRLY Faves are "Funny Conversations" and "Waffles Wednesday" we've added a tab that you can just click to catch up on all of those posts. The tabs are called FUNNIES and WAFFLES WEDNESDAY. The posts will appear chronologically, beginning with the most recent. We'll be working on adding more things like that to make finding stuff easier.

Suggestion #2:  Make it easier to enter contests.

We saw this one coming! As a blogger, it's hard to figure out that perfect balance of ease and marketing. How to make entering a contest simple and quick for our readers and balance that with getting the word out and growing our blog and social media audience. We understand the more steps there are to entering, the less fun it becomes. We're going to shake things up and see how you like it. We'll limit some giveaways to just one comment per person, we'll do some that offer you an opportunity to earn more entries by sharing or following and we'll throw a Rafflecopter drawing into the mix from time to time. We welcome your feedback as we experiment!

Suggestion #3:  More Waffles?

Seriously???

Things that made us go WOW #1:  Facebook

We had NO IDEA that the majority of you find our new posts through Facebook. And 85% log on to Facebook every single day. Whoa! What this teaches us is that we should share more fun stuff there. Not just our posts, but fun photos that don't make it onto our blog, great things we find on other cat blogs, even just quick updates when something funny happens.

Things that made us go WOW #2:  Everyday?

We also had NO IDEA that the majority of you visit us every day we publish a new blog post, which for 2013 is every single day. This makes us smile really big.

Things that made us go WOW #3:  Our cup runneth over.

Many of you left comments for us in the final write-in section of the survey. You've touched our hearts in ways we can't begin to describe. It was VERY hard to choose a few comments to share...the more we read, the more we got leaky eyes. Many of you thanked us for sharing ourselves with you everyday. But we thank YOU for making us part of your day.

♥ I love waking up to my morning email from you guys :)

♥ Thank you for the many, many times you've put a much-needed smile on my face!

♥ Your posts are my daily smile and humor injection. 

♥ Glogirly makes my day!! You guys are original, always fresh with new ideas, fun stories and hilarious!!!! And I love what you do for shelter cats. Greatest cat blog!!

♥ Love you all so much. Your blog brings much laughter to my life...thank you so much for sharing Katie and Waffles with us.

♥ Beautiful photography and two obviously spoiled, gorgeous cats plus fundraising for rescue organizations? Perfect! Don't change a thing.

♥ You have the best photos of any blogger we follow. And Waffles is probably the most amusing cat we follow.

♥ Life is brighter with a Glogirly blog visit. GO WAFFLES (er...) GO KATIE!!!

V Is For Vet

Hi everyone, Katie here.

Well yesterday's pet psychic didn't see THIS coming. Either that or she was holding back.

I was abruptly woken from my peaceful slumber and stuck inside this carrier, against my will I might add. I could have sworn I had my kitty well-check at the vet just last week but according to my chart it's been a whole year.

I was in fine form and did not disappoint. The vet tech went straight for the armpit length suede gloves. The gloveless vet was living on the edge though as she looked inside my ears and mouth. Had I not been wrapped in a blanket like a burrito, I'm certain there would have been blood.

After the vaccination stabbing, I was allowed to retreat back into the carrier, out of reach and view of those grabby hands. Meanwhile Glogirly and the woman in the white coat were talking about calories and carbohydrates, giggling it up at my expense.

The good news is I'm down to a sleek and svelte 10.2 pounds and am no longer a contestant on The Biggest Loser. The bad news is I overheard White Coat tell Glogirly I only need 185 calories a day to maintain my girlish figure.

185???  Surely that must be a typo. This does not bode well for my freeze dried salmon habit.

Just a Couple Days Left to be Part of GLOGIRLY History!

Please help us be the best we can be by taking the 1st Annual GLOGIRLY Reader Survey. It's open through Wednesday, Nov 27 and we'll be sharing the results after Thanksgiving. ...when we wake up from our Turkey comas. 

Thank you so much for reading GLOGIRLY and thank you taking the survey! 

TAKE GLOGIRLY READER SURVEY

Thanksgiving Winners!

Hi everyone, Katie here.

We're very excited to announce the lucky winners of our Peach Industries Thanksgiving Giveaway! What makes this giveaway so very special? The winner has an opportunity to *gift* a beautiful kitty lounger to their favorite rescue shelter AND they win a cool t-shirt of their very own to keep.

Congratulations to Sarah from Minneapolis! 

Sarah has chosen Minnesota's Feline Rescue, Inc 

to receive a lounger of their choice. 

The sun is shining down on the kitties of Feline Rescue. Just last week we also learned that we had won 10,000 meals from Freekibble & Halo Pets for this deserving shelter!

But more than food, more than loungers, more than wand toys, laser dots and nip filled mice...
we pray for lots and lots of adoptions. Now THAT's something to give thanks for.

There's Still Time to be Part of GLOGIRLY History!

Please help us be the best we can be by taking the 1st Annual GLOGIRLY Reader Survey. The survey is open through Wednesday, Nov 27 and we'll be sharing the results after Thanksgiving. ...when we wake up from our Turkey comas. 

Thank you so much for reading GLOGIRLY and thank you taking our survey! 

TAKE GLOGIRLY READER SURVEY

Photohunt: *OVER*

WAFFLES:  Hey Boss, look up here!  I'm over you!

KATIE:  Well Waffles, I'm down here. And I'm SO over you.

Visit the Saturday Photohunt Blog to see upcoming themes and play along.

There's Still Time to be Part of GLOGIRLY History!

Please help us be the best we can be! By taking the 1st Annual GLOGIRLY Reader Survey, you can help us be the best we can be. ...and we're not talking about the Army!

The survey is open through Wednesday, Nov 27 and we'll be sharing the results after Thanksgiving. ...when we wake up from our Turkey comas. 

Thank you so much for reading GLOGIRLY and thank you taking the survey! 

TAKE GLOGIRLY READER SURVEY

Clash Of The Cute

Hi everyone, Katie here.

We haven't played Cute Clash for a while so we're dipping back into the cute archives to see just how loud we I can make you squee. May the best cute win.

ROUND 1:

In this corner we have ME. Classic tuxie beauty, turning on the charm with the patented *Upside-Down-Head-in-the-Blanket* Cute combined with the *Paw-Touching-Cheek* Cute. A Cute Double-Play.

ROUND 2:
And in this corner we've got Waffles. Nothing to see here. Just another orange cat.

ROUND 3:

Here's ME again. I call this one the *Paw-Prayer* Cute. I've combined it with the *Head-Tilt* and the *Don't-Leave-Me-I-Love-You-Eyes* Cute. Booyah! Triple Play.

ROUND 4: 

Here's Waffles again. Still just another orange cat. Playing with a wand toy. MY wand toy. Go sell your cute somewhere else. We'er all stocked up here. Game over.

We Want YOU!

KATIE:  Please help us be the best we can be! Take our 1st Annual GLOGIRLY Reader Survey. Share your inner-most thoughts. Well actually it's just checking a few boxes. 

WAFFLES:  But they're really important boxes!

KATIE:  It will just take a couple of minutes. 

WAFFLES:  And we promise it will be fun!

KATIE:  Just click the link and you'll be brought to our Reader Survey blog post. It's right here on the blog...not some icky survey site.  It will remain open through next Wednesday, Nov 27. Thank you so much!

TAKE GLOGIRLY READER SURVEY

Something Smells Funny

 KATIE:  Hmmm. I smell something funny. Something... orange.

WAFFLES:  Something ha-ha-funny, Boss?

 KATIE:  Definitely NOT something ha-ha-funny, Waffles.

 WAFFLES:  Hey, Boss. I smell something TOO!

KATIE:  Not anymore do you smell something! What did I tell you about smelling my –

WAFFLES:  Yeah, Boss. You told me something about something. I think I'm pretty sure it was something ha-ha-funny.

We Want YOU!

KATIE:  Please help us be the best we can be! Take our 1st Annual GLOGIRLY Reader Survey. Share your inner-most thoughts. Well actually it's just checking a few boxes. 

WAFFLES:  But they're really important boxes!

KATIE:  It will just take a couple of minutes. 

WAFFLES:  And we promise it will be fun!

KATIE:  Just click the link and you'll be brought to our Reader Survey blog post. It's right here on the blog...not some icky survey site.  It will remain open through next Wednesday, Nov 27. Thank you so much!

TAKE GLOGIRLY READER SURVEY

Waffles Wednesday: 2013 Annual (sort of) GLOGIRLY Reader Survey

Um, hi everybuddy. Waffles here.

So the Boss says I'm supposed to ask you really nicely if you will pretty-please fill out our first annual reader survey. Last week marked out 900th blog post and Glogirly thinks it's important to check in with our friends and readers to make sure we're giving you everything you want and love. ...well, except for lots of money and world peas.

Whether you wake up every morning with us or stop by every once in awhile (even you lurkers!) we'd LOVE to hear from you.

It's totally anonymouse, so we won't know who you OR your mouse is. And Glogirly says we're going to do a super fun recap post with an infographic and everything! She also said to stop groaning already because THIS infographic will be super cool. Not some boring old thing about going on a diet or visiting the vet. I bet it's going to have my picture on it too!

We're going to leave the survey open for a week in case you need to go play with a wand toy or use the litter box. But it's really quick, just 16 simple questions and you take the survey right here on our blog. If you read us on a reader or in your email, you probably have to click to our actual blog site (GLOGIRLY.com) ...I think. I mean, I'm just a survey monkey in-training. Is that why Glogirly calls me Monkey?

love,
Waffles, a.k.a. The Orange Survey Monkey In-Training

PS: When you finish, just click DONE. The survey will remain but your answers will be magically submitted. You might think you didn't really take it...but as long as you click the DONE button, you're golden!

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