Comments on: Why I Am Selling This Blog, and How You Can Be The Next BusinessPundit

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:15:00 +0000

Rob, will you send me whatever information you’re sending other potential buyers? I’ve bought several websites and blogs before, and I might be interested in this one as well.

By: Michael Wade

Michael Wade — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:15:27 +0000

Rob, I am very sorry to hear this. You have been a leader and an inspiration and your readers always knew that you respected their intelligence. Best wishes on all of your endeavors.

By: ajayprabhu3

ajayprabhu3 — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:07:14 +0000

Well,Rob,I’m quite agree with you when you say its hard and difficult task to write everyday something new,original,informative and thought provoking as well.I would say your articles were little bit of everything from time to time thats why it has value…

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:10:04 +0000

Rob –

Best of luck to you in your future venture. Businesspundit has been one of my favorites for many years now. Thanks for being a source of inspiration to me, you’ll be missed.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:16:36 +0000

I just realized this is the only blog I still (eagerly) read every article in the RSS feed for. Looks like the reason why is many of the reasons for selling you described above!

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:24:48 +0000

Rob,

I think a lot of your readers would appreciate it if you arranged for the new owner to keep readers updated periodically on your activities. I know I’d be more likely to keep reading after you’re gone if that were to happen, and I’m probably not alone. Perhaps that could be some added value for a potential buyer – a bunch already in place readers who won’t leave once the site is sold.

By: Nerio Vakil

Nerio Vakil — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:44:45 +0000

Rob,
I think you’re doing a terrific job in sharing such a lot of “critical” information. There are blogs and there are blogs. I can understand what you’re going through….I used to send out a newsletter every week at one time and when I stopped, many recipients were willing to pay for me to continue. But it had to be done and I stopped. You’ve taken a call but I feel it may be for the wrong reasons. My advice is that you should not pay too much attention to Technorati’s ratings. Your blog isn’t meant for the masses…..it’s for a special audience and let me tell you your’s is one fine blog and if you’ve decided to stop, the blogosphere will be a bit poorer.

By: Mike Lambley

Mike Lambley — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:55:44 +0000

Rob, you will be missed. I hope you find writing is a lot of who you are. I read a lot of big name columnists who only write once a week or even less often but I still read them like they are a Christmas morning gift!
Best of luck…and I will follow you to your new domain!

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:00:05 +0000

Ironically, I wouldn’t mind the writing and worrying about SEO and all, as opposed to being actively entrepreneurial, but in my case I can’t make the money off of it… or not fast enough. That and I can relate to the desire to write what I want, rather than what I should.

Writing something daily is hard, and actually can require a surprising amount of supporting time. When I recently got an idea what paid blogging for a blog network can actually pay, I was surprised it was so low. Yet not surprised, because there’s pressure on the revenue side.

Anyway, your decision makes sense to me.

By: maureen sharib

maureen sharib — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:45:41 +0000

“The problem is that this blog is actually worth a decent chunk of change (low to mid 5 figures) so if I stop posting, that value will diminish over time.”

Can you explain your valuation process?

Maureen Sharib
Telephone Names Sourcer