To be honest I never even heard of BlogRush.com. The first time I heard of it, was on it’s last day. However it sounds like a pretty cool tool. It was used by ten of thousands of bloggers the problem was they never had a clear business model to monetize the service. I read the press release about it shutting down and they elaborate on how they wanted to make a great service for users and not annoy them with advertisements. But it makes clear sense that if you offer a great product or service for free, users will expect there to be some type of advertising associated.
I can’t think of a single popular website that doesn’t have some type of monetary revenue stream attached. John Reese the founder is clearly intelligent and came up with a great idea used by many popular bloggers, but he must be missing some basic business sense if he couldn’t monetize it enough to pay for itself.
What I understand even less is that they didn’t even sell it to another company, they just shut it down. What would be more of a disservice to its users? Showing them ads or removing the service altogether, I’d have to say the latter.
Check out www.blogrush.com and read the actual notice from John Reese.
Oh boy Ace. Blog Rush sucked.
Hundreds of page views on my blog == Blog Rush credits == Your posts shown on other people’s widgets. And then after all that, no one even clicks on the widget posts.
Waste of time.