It really is too bad to see good ideas that just don't work out. Of course we all have to try several different concepts and get all the luck in the world behind us before we manage to find the few great successes!
Ryan McLean
· 1 year ago
That it is. But, at least it lasted as long as it did. Maybe they'll come back with something even better. I'll guess we'll have to wait and see.
steve@weightlossweapons.com
· 1 year ago
My site was dropped from blogrush after the first round of cuts that they did last year ( I didn't have 10 posts up at the time) so I never really had a whole lot of experience with the program.
I will say that I have a lot of respect for John for at least trying something like this as well as being able to admit that it has failed.
Maybe something bigger and better will come from the lessons learned about blogrush.
Ben Tremblay
· 1 year ago
Yeah I saw that yesterday and I think it's sad for him because that surely was a great idea he had. Anyway, we all fail and that's OK!
We all try like 10,000 different ideas and some will fail. In fact most of them will fail, that's just the way it is.
Tushar Dhoot
· 1 year ago
It was really big of him to give all that money, first to make and maintain it, and then secondly to not sell it. He could have made a small fortune at least, but he didn't.
Fritz
· 1 year ago
I was using Blogrush on a site for 3 months and saw not one visitor from it. I honestly think the concept was flawed from the beginning.
Bill Masson (WWAH)
· 1 year ago
The concept was right in princple but there were just to many spamming issues to resolve. You have to admire John Reese for giving it a go.
Dot Com Dud
· 1 year ago
It's a shame, BlogRush was a noble idea and was created with good intentions but it just didn't deliver the results people hoped for. Hopefully it laid the ground work for something better in the future though.
Miha
· 1 year ago
Sad to hear it! I still don't get it why John is not keeping the project alive or just let somebody else care about it?
Trevor
· 1 year ago
I just commented on John Chow's blog about it.
Some people might have good success with it, but not me. I'm not really that disappointing to see it go.
Mike Huang
· 1 year ago
They could've sold this if they would've just ended it early...
-Mike
Andre Thomas
· 1 year ago
Why sell something when you know it's obviously going to fail? Do the potential buyer a favor and keep the failed project to yourself.
Johncow
· 1 year ago
I agree, especially when you consider that investment put into it and then the amount he would have had to ask for it... this is not just a website to sell but would have been much more complicated.
LeMelon
· 1 year ago
Yeah, I was sad when I got the email telling me it was dead :-( Cow - how many visitors did you get from it overall?
David Cheong
· 1 year ago
What I believe most is, every human being on this planet do fail, and it could be for some reason, the most important part is, failing doesn't mean its the end of the world, I'm sure they will stand up again and bring a better, and great idea.
Bryan Bliss
· 1 year ago
I'm curious before I install this cool looking comment milk plugin on my blog if its working as well as you hoped. Are you getting any readers reporting their comments are being lost? I posted a comment here in this post a while ago and dont see it. Is the comment lost or awaiting moderation? I like the contest management options and am planning a contest soon.
thanks and take care, Bryan
Normal Joe
· 1 year ago
I installed blogrush in the beginning because I thought it was a nice little widget. I quickly removed it after a while, not because I didn't like it, but it was big, took up space, and I didn't see much from it.
It was a great idea, and we all have things fail, that's a great failure if you ask me, with how many folks had it on their blog!
sean
· 1 year ago
blogrush looked good to me. what ever john reese does next I personaly will be looking out for! he makes things look so easy
vectorian
· 1 year ago
sorry to hear that :cry: !!! it was a great concept
Vishal
· 1 year ago
i predicted this would happen the day it launched :). call it simple math and fuzzy logic. visit this url to learn why and how i made the prediction if you are interested to learn something that may help you in the future, or may be not. whatever. here's the link -
Blogrush is dead for a long time, just like Entrecard was a waste of precious time. I don`t see the widget on that many sites anymore..Not something to worry about.
Codrut Turcanu I Blog for Prof
· 1 year ago
yeah man, it happens all the time... good he acknowledged it and had the guts to tell it like it is.
Mounted Deer Antlers
· 1 year ago
Is there a similar product to this that is still around? I never got a chance to try this.
Riyanne
· 1 year ago
I see some similarities between Entrecard and BlogRush. Both wanted to help their users before monetizing it. Too bad BlogRush didn't reach the monetizing stage :(
Steve
· 1 year ago
You know, there could be an info product in the failure. I recall a text I had to purchase for a college marketing course that was composed of several short case studies whose central theme was business failure.
having been down the road of business failures more than once...the faster you get your wounds licked and your ego bandaged, the faster you will see the sun rising for a new venture.
Who was it that said that which does not kill us, makes us stronger?
Larry
· 1 year ago
Sorry to see it fail, But heay that's business. at least he tried. We all have lost in one venture or another.
Edward
· 1 year ago
I installed Blogrush in the beginning too. But removed it after a month.
I always thought that the links didn't have enough characters in and so people didn't know what they were clicking on and so wouldn't click. A ticker style widget would have been better imo. Everyone placed the widget way to far down the page too.
If I had an offer for a failing idea I would have sold it :lol: .
htcmobile
· 1 year ago
it seems that you use dofollow!It not esay for a blogger to have the courage to dofollow
GrabPowerfulCashTactics
· 1 year ago
BlogRush is a great concept that had a lousy result period. May it rest in peace now.
hiep
· 1 year ago
i like your blog
Lance Jepsen Author of Interne
· 1 year ago
I would go as far to say that failures are the only way we really learn. When we are down in the valley, that's where most of the learning takes place. That learning in the valley is what makes you rise up to the top of the mountain. At the top of the mountain, very little learning takes places. Small businesses start out in the valley. If they are successful they rise up to the mountain top. Once at the mountain top, they become stagnant within the corporate culture.
John's most valuable asset was not BlogRush or any other business venture. His most valuable asset is time for time is the stuff life is made of. Admitting failure and letting something go as fast as possible is the key to success. Cutting your losers short and letting your winners ride is something all of us need to be doing on a regular basis. The worst thing you can do is to waste your valuable time trying to make a market where there is none.
Salwa
· 1 year ago
You have to admire John Reese for being man enough to decide it's time to call a halt to Blogrush. I don't doubt that we all have failures we could share and not everyone would be comfortable doing so publicly. He deserves respect not only for doing so, but for the good intentions behind the project.
notouch
· 1 year ago
It is not good news for blog and website.
InvestorBlogger
· 1 year ago
Seems it's not the only dead thing around here...
InvestorBlogger
· 1 year ago
Of course, I'm meaning EntreCard. I just had two blogs removed and wrote and told them I thought EC was a waste of time. So please remove me!
Kenneth
Internet Marketing
· 1 year ago
It was indeed an excellent blogging network. Sorry for them.
However, we still got MyBlogLog!
Steven B.
Roberto Montanez
· 1 year ago
I started blogging two months ago and I hear about blogrush. They were the first network I join. The experience was very good. It a little disappointing that they shutdown. Moving on to the next one.
Ecko
· 1 year ago
What a pity! I think BlogRush is a good idea, but it doesn't work well. Just wanna say, good bye BlogRush...
Ralph
· 1 year ago
Did everybody die around here or something?
UniqueBlogger
· 1 year ago
Anybody alive? John Cow?
SlamBlogger
· 1 year ago
Very unusual to go so long without any updates around here...was the site sold again?
tivitune
· 1 year ago
i'm not like blogrush. So, i never care about them anymore. :evil:
All Comments
I will say that I have a lot of respect for John for at least trying something like this as well as being able to admit that it has failed.
Maybe something bigger and better will come from the lessons learned about blogrush.
We all try like 10,000 different ideas and some will fail. In fact most of them will fail, that's just the way it is.
Some people might have good success with it, but not me. I'm not really that disappointing to see it go.
-Mike
Cow - how many visitors did you get from it overall?
Are you getting any readers reporting their comments are being lost?
I posted a comment here in this post a while ago and dont see it.
Is the comment lost or awaiting moderation?
I like the contest management options and am planning a contest soon.
thanks and take care,
Bryan
It was a great idea, and we all have things fail, that's a great failure if you ask me, with how many folks had it on their blog!
http://www.successonline.in/the-rise-and-fall-o...
having been down the road of business failures more than once...the faster you get your wounds licked and your ego bandaged, the faster you will see the sun rising for a new venture.
Who was it that said that which does not kill us, makes us stronger?
I always thought that the links didn't have enough characters in and so people didn't know what they were clicking on and so wouldn't click. A ticker style widget would have been better imo. Everyone placed the widget way to far down the page too.
If I had an offer for a failing idea I would have sold it :lol: .
John's most valuable asset was not BlogRush or any other business venture. His most valuable asset is time for time is the stuff life is made of. Admitting failure and letting something go as fast as possible is the key to success. Cutting your losers short and letting your winners ride is something all of us need to be doing on a regular basis. The worst thing you can do is to waste your valuable time trying to make a market where there is none.
Kenneth
However, we still got MyBlogLog!
Steven B.
John Cow?