Tip’d: Social Bookmarking For Financial Stuff

Exactly one month ago Tip’s was launched in beta. It works as a social bookmarking site covering financial news. Today they are launching officially as version 1.0, so it is worth a look if you are into financial news and articles.

Here are some statistics from the site, copied from the press release:

We have reached a short-term steady state traffic of 3,000 page views a day on the site and are sending 25-100 referral visits from a ‘published’ (front-paged) story to linked sites, a figure that’s higher than outbound traffic from most other niche sites. We are also approaching 1,000 email and rss subscribes, 1,800 members, 2,800 submissions,1,250 comments, and 24,000 Tips, all within the first 30 days. If you look at our Compete graph, our sustained numbers are already comparable to well established niche social sites.

Even if you are not on the financial niche, however, I think it is interesting to take a look on how the owners will keep promoting the site. After Pligg (an open source social bookmarking software) was released, niche social bookmarking sites spread like wild fire. Few of them managed to gain critical mass and stay active for a long time though.

Do you think niche social bookmarking sites like this one have a bright future, or after a while people will just head back to Digg and Reddit?

Daniel Scocco on November 18, 2008 Subscribe to our RSS Feed

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12 Responses to “Tip’d: Social Bookmarking For Financial Stuff”

Steven Snell on November 18th, 2008 5:01 pm

I think the best niche social media sites will have a good future because they’ll have a strong, loyal audience. But the rest of the sites that aren’t actively managed and promoted will have a hard time ever growing an audience.
SATISH -- Technotip.org on November 18th, 2008 6:24 pm

Some unique and useful feature(s) will make new social bookmarking sites successful.
Sam Duvall on November 18th, 2008 6:36 pm

The downside is that soon it will be flooded by credit and loan spam posts. :/

Although I hope that wouldn’t happen or that you have some kind of strategy against it.
Ryan McLean on November 18th, 2008 6:48 pm

Looks pretty interesting. I will check it out seeing as my site is kind of financial
Adventurous Wench women tours on November 19th, 2008 4:43 am

In their website it says “Tip’d, a social media site for finance, investing, and business topics”.

“Finance”, “investing”, and “business” are very broad subjects to be considered niche.

I would have to agree with Sam on the spam and all type scams.
SEO Genius on November 19th, 2008 1:06 pm

Yeah indeed I do, I have been saying this for the last couple of months after the creation of “Sphinn” and its effect upon social media marketing as well as several others this is most definitely the way forward.
Nick Stamoulis on November 19th, 2008 1:49 pm

It will be interesting to see exactly where the social bookmarking and micro blogging will be in the near future.
Monevator on November 20th, 2008 5:38 am

How did I miss this one? My main blog is all about money and investing, so this is a great tip for me, thanks.

On a design note, I really like the colour scheme and look of Tip’d… almost a sort of ‘library’ look. Looks like web 2.0 colour schemes and bouncy rounded boxes finally passe for new sites? Have to say personally I think it’s not before time.
Missy (from G34 Media) on November 20th, 2008 4:39 pm

It all depends on marketing. If Tip’d is marketed correctly and continuously it might do well.

Also it will help if community aspects are encouraged and marketed.
gendut on November 21st, 2008 12:48 pm

thank for recommended the tools….great tools
Joshua Dorkin @ BiggerPockets on November 23rd, 2008 7:44 pm

We run a social bookmarking tool for real estate as a part of our BiggerPockets.com social network, and must work diligently to prevent the constant spammers from posting their garbage. These sites certainly have to be properly marketed - our community of almost 25,000 members still needs some prodding to get more involved. It is a process, and we hope the Tip’d site finds much success as a finance bookmarking platform.
laptop on November 24th, 2008 3:45 am

i like this post. some good information.