To my steadfast and loyal readers (yes, there are a few) and those that amble by for whatever reason:

I see I am coming up on my 1000th visitor. In a previous post I commented that some popular blogs get that many each hour. I do not necessarily strive for a similar popularity but popularity can breed a true community and the valuable, candid interactions that come from it. I would say that this is my aim, to have a community of readers who find the content herein valuable enough to add to it with comments, links to other relevant content, or to debate with me and the blog’s community about whatever seems important to get right, to improve or discard if need be.

YOU can help and in doing so, win the aforementioned “fabulous prize”.

The prize: for the 1000th visitor I will give “one day of free consulting” on whatever topic he or she chooses. And I will do the same for the 2000th, then 3000th, and so forth.

No further obligation and I won’t put an expiration date on the offer. I figure if you have taken time to subscribe and participate then I hope to maintain a relationship with you for the long haul.

You can help by doing what you already do, which is subscribe to my blog. You can help even more by passing along the link to my blog and recommend it to your friends (no enemies, please ). More readership increases the sharing amongst the community and will increase the velocity of my awarding the “1000″ prize and with it your chances of winning!

OK, is the prize self-serving? Perhaps. I’m a small business person and I’ve got to earn a living and feed my family and this is (hopefully) an acceptable way to do some promotion along the way to building a better blog community. You can of course tell me if you think otherwise !

Thank you for your support in the meantime watch this space for the announcement of visitor 1000!