This is where you come to get a better idea of who you're working with, who you hired, who you're thinking about hiring, or to answer the perennial question, "just what is he thinking?"

Does your company have a pulse, or no?

Wed, 06/17/2009 - 22:24 — jeremy

Today I had somebody refer to a blog comment I made as a...well, I can't really figure out *what* he was trying to say. It was odd, though, and vaguely insulting. Then I reviewed the blog for the company I can only assume he works for. Seven months, no updates...WTF?

Rule one of the blogosphere: commenting isn't participating. Blogging is. So if you comment more than you blog on your corporate communication vehicle...you're an idiot.

Can you build relationships thousands at a time?

Wed, 06/17/2009 - 19:29 — jeremy

Really, can you build meaningful relationships with thousands of people at once? No? Didn't think so...even if you get really nuts & say, "well, prostitutes can serve dozens of clients per day..." exactly. Even if you whore yourself out to the max, you *can't* develop thousands of relationships per day. It's impossible.

Is there anyway to find common ground?

Fri, 06/12/2009 - 23:44 — jeremy

Look, I don't cold call people. However, they email me, call me, etc, etc...sometimes, I do cold email people (sorry). So...my strategy is this: I offer something, easy to figure out what the value is (site gets 4.9 million visitors...? there's some value, there).

And then I make the pitch...and, thanks for your time, if you're not interested, I'm sorry to bother you.

If you pitch me...and, I'm not interested, I'll outline a few ways I'm willing to work with you...or, tee it back to you, to offer up some other ideas on how *I* can help *you*...because, after all, you asked.

Local search startups are screwed

Mon, 06/01/2009 - 23:38 — jeremy

Let's see, from Yahoo alumnis:
Goodrec (Mihir Shah)
Center'd (Jen Dulski)
Krillion (Joel Toledano)
Yelp (well, Vlado Herman isn't a co-founder, but, he works there & he's a great guy).

Then you have a lot of overlap with...uptake.com (formerly Kango) started by Yen Lee.

So...it'd seem the Yahoo alumni that have jumped into some form of local search far outnumber the Google alumni ;)

However...sorry, but, well, this chart says it all for most of these:
http://www.quantcast.com/centerd.com
(and even better):
http://www.quantcast.com/goodrec.com

I realize that some of the language on my blog can be offensive to some: if that's you, don't read it.

Tue, 05/26/2009 - 20:15 — jeremy

The reason I don't promote this much? While I enjoy sharing my thoughts...I'm not trying to *promote* them. I'm giving people an opportunity, if they would like, to learn more about how I work, how I think, etc...

...what I'm not doing is trying to build buzz or awareness or drive traffic. To do those things, well, I'd have to start with a better more usable template at the least, right? I'd also have to do something about categories, tagging, etc so that things were truly "findable" on this site.

When the last one leaves, close the door, lockup and turn out the lights

Tue, 05/05/2009 - 00:33 — jeremy

Wis.dm never got back to me about our generous offer to help with a transfer of their members to FunAdvice that I put on their blog. Sigh.

People who belong to a community will not be happy when it goes away and I offered a logical ending: transfer that community, whole, to a site with compatible features, caring management and a bright enough future that the new members wouldn't feel like they were just boarding the titanic.

What did you want my phone number for?

Mon, 05/04/2009 - 16:09 — jeremy

Somebody showed up here looking for "jeremy goodrich phone number"...seriously, if you need my number...well, I'm not going to give it to you unless we're already in business. Just shoot me an email.

And no, this isn't the right domain to send me email via...there isn't a mail box here. So if you DO send to this domain, don't hold your breath waiting for a reply, as you won't get one.

What flattery, searches and referrals for my name both shot up in the last 24 hours

Fri, 05/01/2009 - 18:05 — jeremy

Look: this blog is here so you can get a better idea of who I am. What I do. How I work, etc.

Yes, some people have said "I can't believe Goodrich would do that" over the email thing. However...most that I've seen didn't leave a name, didn't have their resume online...

....and, I'd be willing to bet lunch at any restaurant in the world that *none* of the people who made, essentially, a bunch of disparaging remarks on my character have ever met me. I have two kids, a wonderful wife...and, my father in law is a vice president of a country.

Urbanspoon acquired, interesting stuff

Wed, 04/29/2009 - 15:34 — jeremy

I read today that urbanspoon was acquired by IAC. To me, this makes perfect sense and here's why. I read about it, hadn't used it, but a friend about a week *after* I read about the application on Iphone was using it in front of me & saying how awesome it was...well, shucks. He doesn't read all the latest internet hype, so, there must be something there.

Personally, I'd call it "real world value"...eg, the application makes sense and it provides a service that executes flawlessly against it's premise: use it to find food near you, and the app will figure out your location, for you.

Status check eight months later, did it pay off to hijack my brand?

Fri, 04/24/2009 - 15:58 — jeremy

Back in September, 2008 (roughly eight months ago now) some asshole decided to try to "anchor text spam" their site for our brand name. I just checked our stats & as their "quantified" I have a pretty good idea of their numbers:
Us - 3.7 million last month, this month, 4.7 million (wow).
Them - 1.7 million last month, this month, 1.7 million

Now when they did this, we were only slightly ahead of them...however, in the last eight months, we've opened a decided lead of this scumbag.

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