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Behind The Firm List Blog
Success is sometimes a mixed blessing
I'm not saying I don't appreciate it when people link to my site or give me good press, I quite
appreciate it. It's one of the best feelings, to know that someone likes your work enough to refer someone else to it. And The
Firm List has thrived on word of mouth. Nearly 60% of firms adding themselves to this site are from word of mouth of some kind.
Today my site was mentioned in the forums of a site for web designers/web masters. It's not the first time this has happened.
But this was quite a large site it turned out. And when one of the site owners saw the link (I believe, I am piecing this all
together from circumstantial evidence) he then submitted his firm and then was nice enough to mention my site in the newsletter
they send out to members of the site.
In the space of about 30 minutes, I had about 40 firms submit themselves. In the 4 hours or so since the newsletter went out,
I have seen 110 firms submit themselves. That's quite amazing. I've been averaging about 300 or so firms a month for the last
year or so. This will certainly bump that number up.
Thank you very much... oh, and for those of you curious, the site is: SitePointForum.com.