{"id":289,"date":"2007-05-22T03:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2007\/05\/more-nice-words-in-the-blogosphere.html"},"modified":"2007-05-22T03:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T10:39:00","slug":"more-nice-words-in-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/more-nice-words-in-the-blogosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"More nice words in the blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtheavenue.com\/2007\/05\/gillins_new_inf.html\">Renee Blodgett<\/a> for her kind words about <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New Influencers<\/span>. She admits she hasn&#8217;t read it yet, but expects it to be great. Now those are the kinds of critics I like!<\/p>\n<p>The prolific Rob Enderle also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macnewsworld.com\/story\/fhEtUsz5k9cHSA\/Microsofts-Fake-Patent-Scare-Engadgets-Apple-Fiasco-Googles-Brand-Rules-Product-of-the-Week.xhtml\">said some very nice things<\/a> about the book in his TechNews World column, which is widely syndicated. My thanks to him, also.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit to having developed a fascination with the Amazon sales ranking over the last couple of weeks particularly as <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New Influencers<\/span> has moved into the top 10,000. I tend to check it every few hours and my mood can vary according to whether it&#8217;s up or down.<\/p>\n<p>I guess my mood varies a lot, because the book has run the gamut from 1,500 to 70,000 in just the last week. Its rank can easily move 30,000 places in a day. I looked around for an explanation of how the ranking works and found an interesting one on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/expertarticles\/2006\/06\/15\/navigating-the-amazon-sales-ranking\">Web Pro News<\/a>, but the bottom line is that it&#8217;s Amazon&#8217;s little secret and no one outside of that company really has a clue.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more importantly, no one has figured out a direct correlation between the sales ranking and actual book sales. Perhaps this is why my publisher refuses to pay any attention to it. And I try to ignore it. I can quit whenever I want. Really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Renee Blodgett for her kind words about New Influencers. She admits she hasn&#8217;t read it yet, but expects it to be great. Now those are the kinds of critics I like! The prolific Rob Enderle also said some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/more-nice-words-in-the-blogosphere\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[761],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-4F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}