New Blog Milestone - 10,000 RSS Readers
It’s amazing what a little competition can do to a RSS count. At the start of this month, my FeedBurner counter showed 8,585. Today, it’s showing 10,315 RSS readers. Not bad at all.
I noticed Shoemoney pulled out the big guns yesterday with the announcement of $13,000 in prizes for his RSS contest. That post ballooned his RSS counter to a impressive 12,591, from 10,833 at the start of the month.
Shoe should be worry. You figure he would pull massively ahead after that kind of announcement but when the FeedBurner chicklet updated last night, I gain more new readers than he did. I am now trailing by just 28 readers. I fully expect to take back the lead after tonight’s update.
This Friday, I’ll be rewarding some prizes to readers who subscribed to the RSS by Email. There are five pages on the Million Euro Wiki up for grabs as well as two copies of An American Hedge Fund and two $25 Barnes & Noble gift cards by Shaun Carter. In addition, Team Tutorials has offered a $100 New Egg Gift Certificate. All will be given away this Friday. subscribe now to enter. Good luck.
*Update - As I predicted, I have taken lead back from Shoemoney. 
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I’m pulling you for you man!!
Reply to this commentPulling what?
You’ll win this John although you may have to make your design somewhat uglier. Shoe’s got the wood on you there as I wouldn’t want to visit that web page every day.
Reply to this commentwow now is 10999
just 1 more and 11k!! That is amazing..
Reply to this commentI’m pulling for you man!!
Reply to this commentcongratulations on the 10,000 count! You’re blog is better than shoemoney’s
Reply to this commentBoth are good
Reply to this commentJohn’s has less spelling and grammar mistakes. And no foul language.
Reply to this commentShoemoney has voice, in my opinion.
Reply to this commentjohn has his typos every now and then. theres actually one above.
Reply to this comment“John’s has less spelling and grammar mistakes” hmm this is your first priority reading a blog? I thought the “Information” is the first priority
Reply to this commentWOW congratultions Johnchow! Could you share some tips when this competition is over (not from the e-book).
Reply to this commentReferring to the sneaky, post someone else’s feedburner chicketlet to gain more subscribers tactic?
Yea, how do I know your not using my chicktlet as your 11K RSS readers John? Oh thats right. Because I don’t have 11,000 subscribers. YET
Reply to this commentYay a commenter with a sense of humour
Liked this one…
Reply to this commentCongratulations on 10K. It’ll be interesting to see how high you can get it.
I was wondering what happened to the blog challenge from a couple of months ago. You know, the one where you were going to start a new blog annonymously and try to make it proffitable. Is that still ongoing or did it get put on the back burner?
Reply to this commentIt’s still going on. The blog is up and running but I’m not doing much with it right now.
Reply to this commentI’ll buy it off you. Send me an email if you are interested. Congrats on the milestone btw.
Reply to this commentWell, you have been kind of busy
I hope you stay with the project and make it work. That would make for an ebook you could make a fortune on. Not to mention shutting up all the nay-sayers.
Reply to this commentI’d also be interested in buying it.
Reply to this commentSend me an e-mail if you want.
And congrats on the 10k readers.
congrats - fantastic achievement
Reply to this commentThat is just an amazing number of subscribers.
Reply to this commentI saw the spike in RSS when you started the competition…. I think it just over 8,000… and now over 10k!!! you have blitz shoemoney. btw his also started putting together a competition as well.
I’m going for you John.
Cheers,
Reply to this commentCarlo
I noticed he is advertising. I logged into payperpost today and saw his opp for an RSS contest. He’s actually paying to get the word out
Reply to this commentEverything counts when there is competition
Reply to this commentIt’ going to be a busy last 10 days by the looks of things!
Reply to this commentpretty sweet, much better than my 36… maybe we can have a competition next month, though no way i can take 36 to 1000 in one month…Click For Nick dot Com - Make Green Save some Dough
Reply to this commentJohn, I’m doing an interview on a local TV station tomorrow about technology and the internet. I’ll throw in a mention about your RSS contest.
Reply to this commentCongrats John!
Reply to this commentDang this is close!
Reply to this commentGood job John!! Hey Israel stay on the tread mill and quit trying to eat up everybodys blogs by buying up everything. thx.
Reply to this commentI’ll take $5 on John …
Reply to this commentSo what are the stakes in the contest again?
Reply to this commentCongrats !!! You guys are rocking.
Reply to this commentI think Shoemoney will win this because of the $13,000 in prizes.
Reply to this commentYou can’t know for sure. It will be close !
Reply to this commentAlthough I am only envious about the large number of subscribers, considering that shoe and john are both encouraging people to subscribe effectivley numerous times - is the gain a real gain or just fudging the numbers, cause I can easily create a feedburner chicklet saying 20,000 without much effor at all - without going through all of this
Reply to this commentbut then everyone will know that you are cheating
so it is not worth
Reply to this commentBetween the two blogs, I find John’s content more interesting and entertaining.
Reply to this commentI am one of the 10k subscribers!
Reply to this commentCongrats John, that is just amazing!
Reply to this commentAs I predicted, I have taken the lead back from Shoemoney. One short of 11,000!
Reply to this commentAnd as I said, without that annoying popup. Just don’t place that popup please
Reply to this commentNot to worry. You will win. All the best wishes for your win.
Reply to this commentCongratulations, I think this is going to go right down to the wire though!
Reply to this commentGood luck John with the contest.
Reply to this commentTight! you got it goin’ now!
Reply to this commentSorry John, but some of your number are wrong. You are ahead just by percentage (You gained 13.8% users and he just 12.2%), but he gained 122 more users than you.
Where did you get your starting numbers? Feedburner says that you had 9063 Readers on the 1st October.
As usual, you can check the numbers on my blog.
Reply to this commentWe agreed with what FeedBurner displayed at the start of the month. http://www.johnchow.com/john-chow-vs-shoemoney-rss-competition/
Don’t know where you got the 9063 readers from. I was at 8585 on Oct 1 and Shoe was at 10833.
Reply to this commentOk. I will correct my stats. BUT you both are mistaken. I mean you decided to take 30th sept as starting date then.
The stats on my blog comes from feedburner. Check here:
http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=http://feeds.feedburner.com/JohnChowdotCom&dates=2007-10-1
http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=http://feeds.feedburner.com/JohnChowdotCom&dates=2007-09-30
As you can see from the links, the number is from the day before. Tell this to Shoemoney, maybe you need to clarify this or you can fight about it at the end of the contest
Or just leave it like that. It’s not that important when you start..but when you end should be very important. Use Feedburner date to get the right end date.
Reply to this commentCongratulations John, you are almost on 11k (10999 right now) and what I like more is that you don’t use an annoying popup that asks users to subscribe to your RSS feed burner.
I really hope you will win this competition without being annoying
Reply to this commentCongratulations!!!
Reply to this commentwell shoemoney has hit over 13000 subsribers, can you see still see hi m?
Reply to this commentThe contest is who can get the most NEW subscribers, not who has the higher count.
Reply to this commentI am the reader of both blogs and I don’t know who to support…
Reply to this commentJohn. That should be obvious.
Reply to this commentIt is a fierce fight! With 10 more days to go, it will be interesting to see the number to hit 12000 or 13000 or even 14000?
Reply to this commentHaha, congrats! That’s really awesome.
Reply to this commentWill this RSS face off go to injury time? It looks like both of them are using some tricks, contests and so forth in order to beat the other one. I like this! hehe
Reply to this commentWon’t these contests that push up RSS counts reduce quality of your RSS readership? I mean if some of these are self-updating type RSS’s readers that would show up in your count, then they would dilute the ad value of the RSS readers.
Reply to this commentcongratulations on the 10,000
Reply to this commentWow, that’s awesome. Keep up the good work!
Reply to this commentI don’t know, I heard rumors that shoemoney has a surprise $10,000 grand prise drawing, I think this would probably draw a lot more members considering your odds are like 1:300 or in that range of winning.
Reply to this commentWow, 8,000 to 10,000 is quite a jump in not even one full month. Congrats.
Reply to this commentI already signed up. Otherwise I would have gone for you anyways!
Reply to this commentI have subscribed long ago. Should I subscribe it for the second time?
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