I thought this was a tough week for the Get Rich Slowly auditions. The first round was pretty good, but I was really disappointed this week.
Jason: Zzzzz …. Make some controversial statements about a hot-button issue. I'm not really buying it.
Neal: went from wearing a suit to blogging about his suit. Complete and total trainwreck. "I’m a bit of a people pleaser by nature." - duh, we already knew that. Stick to blogging about mutual funds.
Lynn: I fell asleep while reading this one.
A.J. Clark: Yawn...
April: I was looking forward to this one all week since I liked her first post. This was not as good as her first entry, but it wasn't bad. It was an intro article to something I already know about, so it wasn't very useful for me personally. But I think she has potential, and I still like her.
Baker: I like him, but I just didn't get this one at all.
Karawynn: wins "most improved entry of the week", definitely better than the first one, but still not really good enough.
I guess anybody can write one really good post, but not everybody can write one week after week, let alone every day. I now have a whole new appreciation for professional bloggers. Imagine the stress that would be involved in having to write one or more good blog entries every day, just to put food on the table. At some level the idea of outsourcing blogging as I suggested last week is totally unworkable, because anybody who is a good blogger can just go independent where they will make more money. They don't need to work for an owner who is taking profit from the top. This is probably why there is so much difficulty in finding a staff writer - the best candidates are already taken, and already own their own blogs.
The best post on GRS this week was JD's post about clotheslines. I hope he comes back and starts blogging full time again, because I miss his blog, and now I am having a lot of trouble envisioning a "post-JD" GRS. I have no prediction any longer what will happen next, or who will be selected.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
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One thing I'm curious to know is exactly how many subscribers do they, that is, TSD and GRS really have. I'd also like to know how many I really have, but consider this. I "typically" get 10-30 comments on a post and they typically get 40-120 comments on a post. I have 1500 subs. If we scale, they should have 6000, not 60000. Who knows? How many page views do they get per month? Why is this a well-guarded secret? How much clothes is the emperor really wearing. The reason I'm wondering is that by doing what is essentially transferring a number of readers to a new blogger but under the old name, how long are those "6000" people going to stick around?
The only writer I really found interesting was Baker and I already read his blog, so this was of no value to me.
I am interested to see if JD sticks with this if his numbers start declining. I agree with Jacob that this could be a bad business decision.
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