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Although I never became a fan of John Reese's BlogRush widget – having placed it on my site and removed it after only 2 days – I was still sorry to hear that due to “dreadfully low” click-rates across the network, John announced on October 29th that the BlogRush site and widget would be shut down. <\/p>\n
Just in case you missed it, here's the email John sent to BlogRush users. <\/p>\n
After careful consideration, we have decided to shutdown the BlogRush service. If you have the widget code on your blog you will need to remove it.<\/p>\n
When BlogRush launched in late-2007 it spread like wildfire all over the Web. Thousands of bloggers were talking about it and the service exploded to become one of the fastest growing free services in the history of the Web. During the first year of the service it successfully served 3.4 Billion blog post headlines and the BlogRush widget could be found on blogs all over the world; even up until the moment we closed down the service.<\/p>\n
BlogRush didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t grow without its fair share of problems \u00e2\u20ac\u201d from security issues to abusive users trying to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgame\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the system to much lower click-rates than expected. We also had some problems with trying to fairly control the quality of the network, and in the process made many mistakes in deciding what blogs should stay or go. All of these issues, ultimately, limited the service\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s full potential.<\/p>\n
Our team worked very hard to try and build a service that would truly help bloggers of all sizes get free traffic to their blogs. This was our primary focus. Not once did we ever try to monetize the service with ads or anything else. BlogRush never made a single penny in revenue. We wanted to be able to help our users FIRST and then worry about monetizing the service later. Unfortunately, the service didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work out like we had hoped. (It happens.)<\/p>\n
I want to say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thank You\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to all of the great bloggers that at least gave BlogRush a test to see if it would work for them. We sincerely appreciate you giving the service a try.<\/p>\n
We have received several offers & inquiries about acquiring BlogRush, but we are choosing not to go that route. While many might think this is crazy, we truly feel it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcright\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 thing to do for our users. Believe it or not, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not always about the money. In fact, BlogRush will have lost a small fortune when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all said and done, and it was by choice. There were many things we could have done to monetize the service but we wanted to make sure it was going to benefit our users first.<\/p>\n
Last but not least I want to say that I hope the failure of this service doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in any way discourage other entrepreneurs from coming up with crazy ideas at 4AM (like I did with this one) and from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153going for it\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to just try and see if something will work. Without trying there can be no success. And as we all know, ideas are worthless without action. The Web wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be what it is today without entrepreneurs trying all sorts of crazy ideas.<\/p>\n
On behalf of the entire BlogRush team, we wish the best of luck to everyone with their own blogs, ideas, and crazy ventures.<\/p>\n
Sincerely,<\/p>\n
John Reese<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You win some, you lose some… that's life in the entrepeneurial lane. John makes the point as follows:<\/p>\n
“I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve become a successful entrepreneur (online since 1990) because I am not afraid to fail. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had many ideas that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work, and this one certainly won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be the last.<\/p>\n
I know that my overall success is a direct result from taking action and trying a lot of things. THAT is the real secret to building wealth.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Or, in other words, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. <\/p>\n
On that note, I'm very curious to see what John comes up with next! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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