Its a long time since my last post here. I have been working a lot running two projects at the same time. One of them is working with an upcoming Norwegain race driver named Stian Sørlie and the other project is obviously Managerleague, and I am happy to say - Both are going well. As always, Spinner is in charge of the game and community, and I am responsible for business development and making Managerleague visible in the right market places.

I stated earlier in my blog, that for every new partner, I would make a new blog entry . I have not kept that promise, and I am sorry for that. Our last partner is now a proud sponsor in the game with out me blogging about it in advance. Starting 2008 soon,  we have come to a point where we have to change our focus in regards to partners - We will not  sack our partners in any means, but we will change the way we cooperate. We need more income, and I will tell you why...

We have during 2008 nearly doubled the number of managers playing Managerleague, and we have nearly tripled the traffic. This is a fantastic growth and we are very happy for you playing ML and for helping us to grow further. But, this growth has led to new needs for hardware, line capacity and labour. We will within few months hire another technician to help us in developing ML further. So, the cost of running ML has increased a lot.

So how are we gonna make this happen? First of all, we will continue to grow and hopefully increase our revenue through this growth. We will not make ML more expensive to play. Growth in gaming revenue shall be from new players, and hopefully a little from non-paying existing players that converts. In addition, we have opened up for selling our sponsor slots and advertising on our front page. We have signed an agreement with a company that is in charge for selling this, as we do not have the time, network nor the skills to do so.

Furthermore we will work actively towards foundations and available grants in order to further hire skilled people do develop our market place and fantastic and beloved game. Hopefully we will find these oppurtunities, and be fortunate and lucky enough to get those extra funds.

I will also use this blog to ask for your help (again). Not only by referring your friends, releatives, neighbours and collegues to join and play Managerleague (keep on doing this too) but also to put down your own Managerleague Referral link (mine is: http://www.managerleague.com/index.pl?ref=2460) in your blogs, in forums, in your Facebook profile and so on. The more links we have out on different web-sites, the more this will help us grow through increased page rank on Alexis and Google, making us much more visible on search engines around the world!  This is the best Christmas present you all can give Spinner and me, and we have both put this wish on the top of our Wish List. (I will buy something to Spinner in addition with regards from the whole community).

We are grateful for all your help so far, and also very happy for you being there making Managerleague the best Online Football Manager Game in the world! Take care all of you!

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Chairman