Get over to Recruiting.com and take a look at their new site. I love how Jason Davis and crew continue to set the standard and innovate us all to greatness.
I have been reading Good to Great recently, and found one of the anecdotes in there interesting. Great companies sometimes get out of markets because the competition is poor. They define great markets by great competitors. If this is the case (and I think there is a lot of sense to it) then Recruiting.com continues to define recruitment blogging as a great market. They are truly in the "rising tide" business and it is an honor to be in the water with them.
Congrats Jason, Jason Goldberg and the entire Jobster crew. Great job!
Rec
about Good to Great, have you checked the point made by BusinessPundit at
http://www.businesspundit.com/50226711/why_good_to_great_isnt_very_good.php
on why it's not very good? It's a good reminder on critical reading.
See also the entry about the book "Hard Facts, Dangerous Half Truths and Total Nonsense" at:
http://www.businesspundit.com/50226711/hard_facts_and_half_truths.php
Posted by: curious visitor | September 12, 2006 at 07:50 PM
Curious -
Great comment and link. Just read both the articles, and I agree with them both. But neither article debunked my thought that good markets have strong competitors. So I'll stick with that thought until evidence shows me otherwise.
Thanks for stopping by Curious. Look forward to your thoughts in the future.
Jeff
Posted by: Jeff Hunter | September 13, 2006 at 12:27 PM
The new R.com site looks pretty sharp, though I find the interactivity a little confusing in a way that I don't find Digg confusing. It may just be me though.
Regarding markets defined by competition, you know this is a point I sort of agree on. For me though, a market filled with slow buffalo is a perfect place. You know there's demand there because people are already buying products. You just have to figure out how to enter it in a different way.
Posted by: Colin Kingsbury | September 14, 2006 at 07:10 AM
Colin -
Long time no speak. A pleasure to have you visit once again.
Given your comment re: slow buffalos I can see why you are in the ATS market. Do you envision yourself as a Lakota, carefully culling the weak from the heard, or more of a Cody, leaving the endless plains littered with competitors?
Posted by: Jeff Hunter | September 14, 2006 at 10:56 AM