FranchiseFool & Web 2.0: Raising possible Doubt

I’ve been noticing something funny.

WordPress.com keeps an eye on a statistic called Referrers: “People clicked links from these pages to get to your blog.” (It’s an incomplete measurement but it’ll do for now.)

• In the last week, FranchiseFool reached 28 countries (Google searches: Jan 20-26).

I don’t care much about the numbers of page views, although every month has seen a positive growth since I started in February 2008. Still, December 2008 was 4,028 views; January probably around 7,000 views. This may or may not be anything to sneeze at. I’ve never traded in volume goods or ideas.

You may notice that I do not allow any form of advertising because I think it’d distract the viewer (and me, for sure) from the central message of FranchiseFool which is:

1. You’re not alone,
2. There are lots of people out there who share your uneasiness about franchising, and
3. many do not have enough technical knowledge to know “why” but are keen to learn.

Mine was always a very narrow focus, a niche market: Those dissatisfied with the normal caveat emptor or all-franchisees-are-stupid thought-terminating clichés (words used to stifle debate by people intent on covering up their guilty feelings) that pass for industry expertise.

As soon as I debug my son’s webcam, with your help, we’ll show what Web 2.0 can do to a house of cards. After all, if what I say is untrue, then what possible danger could we pose to a multi-trillion $, transnational empire?

Immediate Questions Arising (re: below of Referrers per Day)?

1. Why is Poland so interested in FranchiseFool?
2. Please someone tell me why one post, lebensunwertes Leben: A Life Unworthy of Life, “outsells” the 2nd most viewed post (Symbols: Strength through Unity) by a factor of 13.9 to 1 (8,783 v. 633)?

			January								%
			20	21	22	23	24	25	26	Total	Total
1	pl	Poland	3	2	172	40	9	5	1	232	46.0%
2	it	Italy	3	4	10	25	11	1	9	63	12.5%
3	uk	UK		1	18	7	2	5	3	36	7.1%
4	nl	Netherlands		1	24	3	2	3	2	35	6.9%
5	es	Spain	8		8		1	2	5	24	4.8%
6	ca	Canada	3			4	6	2	5	20	4.0%
7	tr	Turkey				11	2	2		15	3.0%
8	br	Brazil	1	1		8		2	2	14	2.8%
9	be	Belgium	1		3	2	3		2	11	2.2%
10	cl	Chile				9	1			10	2.0%
11	at	Austria					2		3	5	1.0%
12	ch	Switzerland		1		1		1	2	5	1.0%
13	mx	Mexico		3					2	5	1.0%
14	de	Germany		4						4	0.8%
15	fr	France		3			1			4	0.8%
16	ei	Ireland			3					3	0.6%
17	ar	Argentina		1					1	2	0.4%
18	in	India				2				2	0.4%
19	kr	Korea						2		2	0.4%
20	py	Paraguay				2				2	0.4%
21	tw	Taiwan					2			2	0.4%
22	za	South Africa							2	2	0.4%
23	bo	Bolivia							1	1	0.2%
24	dk	Denmark					1			1	0.2%
25	hn	Honduras					1			1	0.2%
26	jp	Japan						1		1	0.2%
27	pe	Peru							1	1	0.2%
28	ve	Venezuela		1						1	0.2%
		Total	19	22	238	114	44	26	41	504	100.0%