I was at a book signing tonight to see James J. Cramer – Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life:

  James J. Cramer – Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life
December 05, 2007 7PM
@ Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Union Square
33 East 17th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-253-0810
Book reading/Book Signing
Get a signed copies:212-253-0810

 

The event was also mentioned in The Street and added to my last post about the Sub-Prime Mortgage Rate Freeze and the Florida Fund Collapse, both of which James Cramer mentioned in his talk and book signing tonight.  

I enjoyed listening to Cramer though I'm not sure if he's right about everything he mentioned, or not; but he agrees that Real Estate, buying a home, is a losing money proposition and will continue to be, for at least the next 18 months, if not longer.

I decided to start an additional blog – one that I can have more control over – a blog where I'll complete what I start here, in some cases. 

I posted there for the first time today – Thanksgiving – My first post to Eye Metrics – Marshall Sponder, Blogger.

The new Blog's name is www.eye-metrics.com and while I could also think of it as www.my-metrics.com (which I just registered).  I guess I'm like Frank Sinatra, and I want to do my own metrics, my way.  I'll find a unique slant, and a way to combine, fully, my Art with Web Analytics in a way, that perhaps, I hold myself back from doing here.

When I saw a Google Alert on my name just now and found myself at Bloglist: Marshall Sponder in Practical ECommerce; I almost forgot that I gave an interview to Practical ECommerce about 9 months ago (and totally forgot about it). 

Actually, the interview with me was published in July, but for some reason, I didn't find out about it till now – when Google Alert picked it up.

Me, earlier this year – actually this is a photo I like (decide to use a group portrait from the evening I met Craig Newmark at a Mediabistro Blogger Party and masked out those surrounding me – I guess I have my reasons)

Well – here's the interview http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/528/Bloglist:-Marshall-Sponder/ 

BTW, if you want to see what company I'm in, look at the other interviews that Practical ECommerce published - here are some of the more notable one's from my perspective – Interview: Oneupweb CEO On The Future Of Search, Interview: Microsoft Exec on Future of Software, Jeremiah Owyang is on my WAA Social Media Committee Interview: Ecommerce Implications From Social Media while Andrew Goodman is pretty well known in the SEM industry Bloglist: Andrew Goodman as is Rand Fishkin in the SEO Community (which I'm also part of) Bloglist: Rand Fishkin.  Who can forget about Jakob Nielsen (even when we want to) Bloglist: Jakob Nielsen.  I used to get Yaro Starak's email Bloglist: From SEO to Self Development but ended up finding it didn't really fit me – still, he's interviewed here too.  Also Anne Holland from MarketingSherpa, a woman I've met a couple of times briefly – Marketing Tips From Marketing's Sherpa and Craig Newmark, who've I've met earlier this year Craigslist.com's Craig Newmark while Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne is a brand that I keep running into – even if I've done no work with them up till now.   Chris Anderson, who wrote the Long Tail was also interviewed – Wired Magazine's Chris Anderson while GoDaddy's Bob Parsons: We're Only Seeing the Tip of the Iceberg is famous for his GoDaddy domain and the Superbowl.

Ok, I'm in good company – just wish they told me about the post earlier – I'd have promoted it over the summer had I known – oh well, better late than never.

I took a look at Practical Ecommerce traffic stats as compared with my own blog, Webmetricsguru.

It looks like Practical Ecommerce gets about as much traffic as I'm getting now on Webmetricsguru.com (70,000 – 90,000 visits per month) if Compete.com is not too far off. 

Since my blog gets and has gotten very good traffic for a Web Analytics Blog  getting interviewed here, is an honor and I'll be reading Practical ECommerce regularly ongoing.

Anyway, I am glad my Interview with Practical ECommerce was just published…and on Thanksgiving…what more can a blogger ask for?  Ok, they didn't actually publish it on Thanksgiving – but since I found out about it today, to me it's like it had been published on Thanksgiving.