Revving up at Blogcritics--Ten Million!

Entrepreneur Eric Olsen is very proud--justly so--that his brainchild, Blogcritics, has been so successful. And today he gets to brag about a big number--just like McDonald's started doing back in the early 60s. The Blogcritics benchmark is TEN MILLION unique visitors. And he says they're going to get that many AGAIN in just the next 6 months! Ah, the magic of compounding (once the bailiwick of financiers on interest rates, and now the happy cry of Internet marketers).

Eric has made this Internet review site a roaring success, building relationships with Amazon and all kinds of publishers of music, books, and videos. He has something like 800 folks who write reviews and opinions, and the site was recently designated a trusted news source on Google.

No small potatoes. Congratulations, Eric, and all my fellow blogcritics. Read Eric's post here.

P.S. By the way, I know when McDonald's started counting because for a brief period my dad owned a small franchise operation that sold soft ice cream--and hamburgers--and we kids worked there and heard stories early on about the competition--McDonald's, about three-quarters of a mile down the road--selling its hamburgers for fifteen cents. "How can we compete?" our dad would strategize, as another one of us kids made ourselves a double burger with extra cheese and a chocolate shake with extra chocolate. Poor dad. When you hire family, your profits can go right into their stomachs.