Comments on: Guest Post: Successful blogging, The Hockey Stick and Exponential Growth

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:26:19 +0000

Thanks Srini! You rock.

By: srinirao

srinirao — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:41:35 +0000

Sid, glad to have connected with you and I hope you’ll keep visiting. I think your interview is going to be of tremendous value and I look forward to seeing the feedback tomorrow. Also enjoyed the guest post and it’s a good reminder for all of us to keep at it.

By: Sid Savara

Sid Savara — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:30:04 +0000

Hi Srinivas and readers =)

First off a big thanks to Srinivas for posting my article – I appreciate you reaching out to me for the interview, and for letting me write for your audience. Thanks so much for what you’ve done for me, and what you are doing for other bloggers and your readers.

@Gordie, great point about the beatles – perhaps one of the most famous of all “overnight” successes

@Jenny Thanks =) I love collecting quotes. To the point about the hockey stick, it’s used a lot in discussions about tech startups – Twitter for example was relatively unknown until (if I have my history right) they really exploded when people used it at the SXSW conference

@Dave – I have seen the same trend with my blog. Articles I wrote a year ago when I had no readers now get visitors every day via google, or from old links

@Janice – thanks so much for the compliment. I think you will really enjoy the discussion I had when Srinivas posts the audio tomorrow. I think both of us learned a lot from each other, and there’s (hopefully) some interesting points for readers/listeners to take away as well!

@Srinivas – Thanks again for posting this and the interview, I had a blast!

By: Janice Robertson

Janice Robertson — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:57:36 +0000

Hi Sid,

I really enjoyed this post. Still got lots of struggles to go I suspect but your words have given me hope that I might just get there in the end! or at least I will enjoy the journey nevertheless! Thank you. Very inspiring.

By: Srinivas Rao

Srinivas Rao — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:49:40 +0000

@Dave: I think there is a real compounding effect that happens when you have been blogging for some time. You make that jump almost in the second half of your blogging career. I find now that it takes me about 15 mins to write a post and much longer doing other stuff.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:20:41 +0000

I’m starting to see it older articles on WIAW get picked up now. It’s cool checking into my stats and seeing something that hasn’t ever gotten much traffic all of sudden getting dozens of hits. This is order of magnitude increase.

At some point, I expect to articles pop up with hundreds of hits. Then thousands.

It might take a while, but I think it will happen eventually.

By: srinirao

srinirao — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:09:36 +0000

Sid: Thanks for posting here. I think everybody is going to gain tremendous value out of your interview tomorrow. I know I did and have already started implementing many of the things you mentioned during your interview.

@Gordie: I think that part of Outlier was fascinating. 10,000 hours is not something many of us get an option to implement into most activities as adults.

@Jenny: I think it’s going to be interesting to see when you hit your Hockey Stick because I’m confident you will.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:26:55 +0000

I love this. I’ve never heard of the hockey stick reference, but it makes absolute sense. Great quotes as well. I especially enjoyed the overnight success quote. Thanks for this Sid!

By: Gordie Rogers

Gordie Rogers — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:05:11 +0000

Hi Sid,
Nice guest post. I think the ten thousand hours is prerequisite in most cases. The Beatles are a classic example where there marathon sessions of playing in Hamburg before they cam famous helped them hone their live playing.