{"id":2021,"date":"2007-10-10T09:28:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T16:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2007-10-10T09:33:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T16:33:32","slug":"bye-bye-blogrush-you-might-suck-but-at-least-youve-got-sucking-down-to-an-art-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2021\/bye-bye-blogrush-you-might-suck-but-at-least-youve-got-sucking-down-to-an-art-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye-bye BlogRush: You might suck, but at least you’ve got sucking down to an art-form"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I installed the BlogRush widget<\/a>, Tom Royce<\/a> teased me that it’s exactly the kind of thing I don’t do. That’s true, and that was why I did it, because, as much as I might trust my instincts about goofy net stunts, it’s always possible that I’m wrong.<\/p>\n

Not this time. BlogRush just plain sucks. I’m sure the developers are working gamely to produce the product they should have built before they launched it, but I don’t care. From my end, I rack up thousands of exposures they can never possibly deliver back to me — not that any of those turn into hard clicks anyway. As I might have foreseen, the BlogRush widget is like a commercial on television, instant eye repellant.<\/p>\n

It’s off the sidebar. I have a downline of folks who followed me into this maze of twisty, turning passages, all alike, and I leave them to keep their own counsel. BlogRush may be doing something for somebody. It ain’t doing anything for me. And now it’s gone.
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Technorati Tags: blogging<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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When I installed the BlogRush widget, Tom Royce teased me that it’s exactly the kind of thing I don’t do. That’s true, and that was why I did it, because, as much as I might trust my instincts about goofy net stunts, it’s always possible that I’m wrong. Not this time. BlogRush just plain sucks. 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