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We are not shy about our use of generative services for graphic creation, we have never claimed we drew or made the designs physically ourselves, we use services that are FREE, as we have no financial backing for content on our page.
We are aware of the impacts of AI, and have asked for...

Halloween is past, Christmas is pending.
Time to change gears and start on Christmas map and getting requests in to get that map up to snuff for the season.
Hoping to get any map/webpage issues fixed so that we don't have further issues in our next holiday season, as long as we can...

Still cruising along, adding more, and more

Watching page traffic spike over and over, and wild WILD weather across the PNW
Mom nature was sure throwing a fit, from the coast to Spokane and all points in between. So many folks had significant damage to their displays due to...

Well, it's something... we have gotten media attention of Macaroni Kid and Voice of the Valley, and a mention by the Everett Post, so it's something.
We hope we can get some major media coverage, we need the growth and exposure as we have started to stagnate on growth on our social media...

Mid way through the month, map and page are doing great, getting more attention in the media, local news and radio have made mention of us and our endeavors so that is nice.

We hope for more extended coverage for the next holiday season, to help the page grow even further.
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This year Halloween traffic to our page and map is crazy..... over 40k visits in the last week.... What have I created.....I am glad we have new systems in place, I would not have been able to manage this on my own without a functional page and the sponsorship that brought it to life
We are...

I really don't know what the heck is wrong with people and world today that finds these behaviors acceptable at any level.....
But we are continuing to get reports of displays being vandalized or items stolen (many of these issues have happened before they were on the map BTW)
Damaging...

This year to save us time and headaches, we've limited the amount of commercial displays we have listed,

1. Most are not family friendly
2. Did not see too much interest in them
3. Providing Free advertising to a For-Profit business with no gain for us
4. It's a lot...

Well, map and socials are keeping us busy this season

OVER 200 confirmed map entries in the first week! This is amazing.

We pride ourselves on having a confirmed map every year, not every mapper that has a map of haunts physically updates every entry each year, and some...

3 days into October and the map is exploding, this is amazing 115+ confirmed entries SO FAR.... and we have the entire month to go still.....

with some minor tweaks to the webpage, and forms, and the map, everything is moving smoothly

This is going to be a great year...