Aug 062012
Hiring vs. Promoting – and a Must-Read Blog
Hiring vs. Promoting – and a Must-Read Blog
I have to admit that I have a bit of blog envy when it comes to Fred and Brad. We all started blogging roughly at the same time over 8 years ago (Brad and I the same day, Fred a few month before), and both have hugely large audiences compared to mine. I don’t care all that much — mostly I blog for me and for my company, not for any other reason. But one of the things I admire about both their blogs, particularly Fred, is the size of their *active* audiences. (Both of them tell me not to worry about it when it comes up in conversation — as they say, they write checks to people for a living, which makes them instantly interesting to many!) When I write a guest post for Fred, as I do once in a while, I realize he must average 100+ comments per post. Now that’s a community.
OnlyOnce has a good solid readership, and at least a handful of really active readers who are more or less like-minded entrepreneurs. But alas, not more than a handful. Of this handful, Daniel Clough (who I’ve never met in person – he is in the online gaming space in a UK-based company, I believe) is one of the more regular readers and commenters and also writes his own, very thoughtful blog. Daniel wrote a great post last week on the topic of hiring from the outside vs. promoting from within. As I commented on his blog, I couldn’t have written it better myself. It’s an important topic, and Daniel’s parsing of it is excellent.
Hey mate, you need to fix up the link to feld.com
Thanks – will do ASAP.Matt
Wow, I didn't expect this… I appreciate the compliments on the post and the link Matt.
I'm also very impressed with the community at AVC (it's sheer size and the overall vibe). Wasn't aware of feld.com, but I am now
I have low readership and almost non existent commenters but admittedly my post frequency and quality is pretty inconsistent – I'm going to work on that over the coming months. For me, blogging is more a form of therapy than anything else – it helps me get out what's in my head and having some time to think about it and give it some structure simply helps me make sense of it. And if it's helpful to others, that's awesome too.
It's a pleasure to be one of the handful of active readers and commenters of onlyonce
Your blog is excellent. It should have a bigger audience!Matt