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There’s no prize for second best!

by Shayne Tilley

At SitePoint we’re blessed with an ability to get great insight on what people think. We have a great forum, customers review our products all the time, I’ve mentioned Twitter before, there’s Google news and so on…

One style of coverage that very hard to miss is when your compared against the competition. What’s even harder to ignore is when you’re ranked number 1!

So what does this tell us? Perhaps that just one person, on one blog thinks we are the best, or maybe that generally we’re heading in the right direction.

The real lesson here is that you must find time in your day to actively seek and listen to what your customers are saying. Look for trends and be prepared to change. At the end of the day if you’re offering a product or service, what YOU think doesn’t matter. It’s your customers that will ultimately drive success.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 2nd, 2008 at 1:58 pm, contains 156 words, and is filed under Web Pro Business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. The views and opinions in this blog post are those of its author.

This post has 6 responses so far

  1. Tyssen Says:
    June 2nd, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    I must be out of touch: I didn’t know all the sites on that list. :(

     
  2. ShayneTilley Says:
    June 2nd, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    They missed a few IMO too. But happy to be number 1.

     
  3. banago Says:
    June 2nd, 2008 at 5:22 pm

    Keep it up SitePoint :)

     
  4. ShayneTilley Says:
    June 2nd, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    Thanks banago

     
  5. Possibility Says:
    June 3rd, 2008 at 12:03 am

    Congrats! Great to see.

     
  6. kronikmedia Says:
    June 14th, 2008 at 11:26 am

    I have recently started using sitepoint’s forum and blogs. I not only find participation useful but also find that any contributions made are easily picked up by search engines and portals.

     

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Shayne, otherwise known as the "Marketing Guy", joined SitePoint in May 2007. He's always thinking of new, creative ways to put SitePoint products into the hands of more people.

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