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September 12, 2007
Go around the room
Today, our feed odometer rolled over to 100,000 subscribers. Crikey! We are flabbergasted to have reached such a number.
Thank you, thank you.
As any blog proprietor will tell you, the inherent anonymity of blog subscriptions presents a fundamental challenge to understanding the makeup of one's readership.
You know about us, but we don't know much about you. It's almost like a bad date, because one of us just keeps talking and talking without asking any questions like, hmmm, your name for starters.
So enough about us already. Tell us about you. In the comments section of this post, introduce yourself and tell us:
- Who are you?
- What do you do?
- Where are you based?
- What led you to this blog?
In the process of answering those questions, feel free to link to your blog, your company, your product or your dog, if you'd like. Give yourself a shout-out.
And dinner's on us.
Update: The Feedburner odometer goes up, the Feedburner odometer goes down, sometimes by significant margins. According to our friends at Feedburner, big downward swings in numbers, like what we saw a day after our 100k, are usually due to technical problems with blog bundlers reporting their subscriber numbers to Feedburner, which aggregates the results into the odometer.
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Live in the DC area, a passionate technophile marketer (www.linkedin.com/in/jer979) with a few blogs for work [channel marketer at Microsoft]- http://blogs.msdn.com/maamktg and personal (www.jer979.com) as well as appreciating companies that make it easy for customers to talk about them (http://blog.megaphonemarketing.biz)
I don't remember which blogger I read who pointed me to you (I've been reading for a while...and had a post about me on the Church blog [see 'Fiber is in the Details'], but it was definitely a blogger reference.
Keep up the good work guys (and thanks again for the book from last week's contest!)
oh..and congratulations on the 100k mark!
I'm a 31 year old loan officer (now) with an entrepreneurial mind. I intend to be a Loan Officer about 36 more months, God willing, and then I will get in front of the curve.
I'm into you guys, and Al Reis. I've enjoyed a lot of what you've said, and I've decided to position my self as a mortgage lender TO Realtors...
...that can close in 9 calendar days 100% of the time.
I'm a product development chemist, an mba student (online at ASU), and a mixed media artist.
I believe your blog was bundled with others in some sort of small business package when I first started using Google's feed reader. But I kept reading it, while some of the others I unsubscribed from, because you consistantly come up with comments that make me think, and therefore learn, on at least one, and often many, of my layers of interest.
MBA Blog - http://mba.pumpkin12pm.com
Art blog - http://www.artbybethrobinson.com/journal
I'm 31 years old, half czech / half swedish, M.Sc. in business administration living in Sweden and Denmark and working with marketing on the Internet. I'm extremely interested in customer satisfaction, word of mouth, buzz, viral, and.. ..well, marketing on the Internet in general.
I blog myself, and I've been following your blog for a long time as well as read both books. Thank you for all the inspiration and insights!
I also subscribed to your feed via Google reader - I bring it down into my small business section and have found many of the articles interesting. And they have helped me take a second look at parts of my business. www.demiccs.com we primarily sell products on eBay all sorts of home decor and giftware we are working to expand out into many other channels.
Thanks
Michael DeMicco
www.demiccs.com
Hi, my name is Bob and I'm based in Memphis, TN. To pay the rent, I work for a large non-profit, but the things that really get me going are e-marketing, web design, social media and the such. I currently blog about these items at www.onehalfamazing.com.
Its more than likely that I found this blog through a number of the other blogs that I read on a daily basis revolving around some of the same subjects.
If anyone is in or around Memphis and would like to get together to discuss any and everything marketing, feel free to contact me through my website.
Hi Y'All!
My name is Saul Colt and I write a blog called "The Smartest Man in the World" over at www.saulcolt.blogspot.com
Saul!
Hi,
I'm a sales and marketing consultant from Kentucky and I subscribed a long time ago, after following a link on another blog.
My blog gets a tad over 2k visitors per day, so I only need to multiply my readership by 50 to catch you !
Thanks for asking us.
My name is Chris Reeder. I am a Software Developer full time for ACS Technologies. I live in Florence, SC and actively involved at South Florence Baptist Church. I have two blogs:
100,000 dedicated readers! Major newspapers would kill for that kind of loyalty. Congratulations. I've been reading for a long while now, and I'm always getting pointers from you guys. Your ideas about the customer equation are fabulous.Cheers!
About me: I'm the managing partner of a 13-person organizational communication firm that's based in Philadelphia. We help HR communicate with employees. The company is called iFractal: http://www.ifractal.com
I also blog about HR issues at KnowHR Blog: http://www.knowhr.com/blog
Cheers! And continued success.
Chuck Warnock, pastor of Chatham Baptist Church in Chatham, VA. Your "church of the customer" name drew me in, but I'm interested in why people respond to certain brands, companies, and products. Churches face challenges similar to corporations -- how do we get heard, and what do people need? I blog about culture and community engagement at http://amicusdei.com, in addition to my "Confessions of a Small-church Pastor" blog at http://chuckwarnockblog.wordpress.com. Keep up the good work!
My name is Kevin Behringer. I'm from Whitewater, WI...about an hour from Milwaukee. I am finding my way through the marketing world and trying to find where I best fit. My passion is for new marketing and social media because of the results I have seen from it primarily in my personal life.
My blog is at www.flyovermarketing.com where I (not as often as I should) take on marketing thoughts/issues from the view of a 29 year old in the midwest.
Hi,
I'm one of your anonymous subscribers :-). I'm a semi-enthusiastic artist who keeps meaning to sell her creations instead of giving them away. I blog about things that occur to me at Tempyra.com. I subscribed to this blog via a google blog search not long after my boyfriend started his own business making computer games (www.theirongaia.com) and I became interested in how small businesses work. I particularly liked your "Friendraising before fundraising" post!
My name is Craig Johnson. Have a small branding & design house in East Atlanta called Matchstic. We have a lot of fun and have recently learned a ton from you guys on how to create customer evangelists of our own.
Congratulations on 100k! Wow!
My name is Scott Ganyo and I lay claim to the titles of actor, entrepreneur, and computer expert. Currently I hail from the Indianapolis area, but I'm looking at moving "up market" in the entertainment arena, so Los Angeles may be in the cards.
I have a personal website (http://scott.ganyo.com) and blog (http://scott.ganyo.com/index.php) that is read by probably nearly 0.1% of the number of folks in your subscriber base!
I don't remember how I got here, but I'm interested in personal and small business branding - so this is an interesting place to be! Thanks!
I won your book in a contest sponsored by inbubblewrap.com. It's one of the few marketing and business books that I read over and over. I always seem to get something new out of it each time I read it.
Your ideas and advice are invaluable for me as the Creative Director for small web design and development studio in Kansas City, MO.
Keep up the good work!
Greetings! I'm Michael Grant, based just outside Austin.
I run a translating agency and am in the process of creating an export agency.
I also write three blogs: BluDanuBlog at blog.bdanube.com, for "official" company communication; EuroBubba at eurobubba.com, a more personal blog with the mission of promoting international collaboration among entrepreneurial businesses; and GlobaLocal at globalocal.blogspot.com, for anything that enters my poor distracted mind.
I don't remember what originally brought me here, but I've been enjoying reading this blog for several months now.
I am Brian Reich; Director of New Media at Cone Inc (www.coneinc.com) a brand and cause marketing strategy and communications agency in boston.
I read the book, loved it, struck up a conversation with Jackie, and actually was fortunate enough to interview her for a book I wrote (entitled Media Rules! - http://www.amazon.com/Media-Rules-Mastering-Technology-Audience/dp/0470108886/ref=sr_1_1/105-1375704-1922808?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189453725&sr=8-1) which will be published later this Fall.
My Name is Colm Flynn. I run a debating website which can be found at http://worlddebating.blogspot.com/ and I'm based in Ireland. I came across your site through an article in another blog. I'm afraid it's been so long I don't recall which one. Congrats on reaching 100K readers. I'm only at 51 so quite some way to go :-)
My name is Jon Burg, I'm on the Emerging Channels/New Media/Digital Innovations team at Digitas, a leading global digital media and marketing shop.
I blog over at http://jburg.typepad.com/future and I'm based in NY.
I first came to your site via a recommendation from Greg Verdino - another New Media blogger.
Congrats on reaching this huge milestone. As a lifelong tech and marketing enthusiast, I've been enjoying your perspectives for quite some time. Keep up the great work!
I'm a new entrepreneur based out of Chicago, who just started a t-shirt business FireSnake Designs - http://www.firesnakedesigns.com/. I found your site when scouring the web for entrepreneurial blogs and on ways to better please the customer. Congratulations on the success of your blog.
[Raises hand] “I’ll go next. Congratulations Ben and Jackie on hitting100K. That is an awesome milestone!
[Who are you?] “My name is Doug Fleener.”
[What do you do?] “I'm also a speaker and consultant. We work almost exclusively with retailers to help them improve their customer experience to create sales and loyal customer advocates.”
[Where are you based?] “I am outside Boston in Lexington, MA. We're known for that shot heard around the world? Or at least in England”
[What led you to this blog?] “I don’t remember how I came across your blog but the great name hooked me right away. I find your message and books about citizen marketers absolutely right on. This is why we’re so focused on getting retailers to deliver more memorable experiences. Reminds me of the Bonnie Raitt, Let’s Give Them Something To Talk About.”
[Our Blog] “Retail Contrarian at http://www.retailcontrarian.com”
[Our Company] Dynamic Experiences Group at http://www.dynamicexperiencesgroup.com”
[Free Dinner] “We’ll buy YOU dinner to celebrate 100K. Again, congratulations!”
I'm a serial entrepreneur / blogger. I have a blog about my experiences in starting up a new business. I try different marketing tactics and experiments and log my findings on the blog - http://mybizexperiment.blogspot.com/
I'm an Internet Marketing specialist and business analyst for a web marketing and design firm called ISL (www.isl.ca) based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I've been a subscriber since the launch of Citizen Marketers, which I just finished reading yesterday. Great read! Thanks for the insights. I read about the book on Seth Godin's blog. ...And congrats on the 100K milestone!
