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Ever Wonder How Many RSS Subscribers Seth Godin Has?

Posted by John Saddington on Apr 15, 2009

I woke up this morning and randomly wondered that too. So, I set out to find out.

Apparently, Seth has 263 thousand followers, as of today. Wow. That’s a lot of subscribers for a blog, let alone a blog that’s updated by just one single person.

Congrats Seth, that’s monumental.

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But there are a few other interesting points of note, the first being that daily his figure fluctuates around 5k followers a day. It brings an entirely new perspective when we complain and moan that our individual RSS subscriber count drops 10 or *gasp* 100 or so.

In addition, his day-over-day increase is about 500-1,000 followers. Not bad. Most of us are lucky if we can secure 1 or 2 more a day.

But there’s encouragement here: It proves that solid content can provide consistent growth. We have to remember that Seth, at one point in time, was another “drop in the ocean” of influence. His first post (on his current blog) is from January 15, 2002.

Yea, he’s been doing this for awhile.

In an age where we glorify the quick build and mega-groundswell we have to remember that the “marathon” race is probably a better model to be considered in terms of growth.

We all start from zero. You only have “up” from there.

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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12 Responses to “Ever Wonder How Many RSS Subscribers Seth Godin Has?”

  1. Phillip Gibb
    Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 1:11 pm

    good grief.
    OK, I have now subscribed to Seth's blog. I am a drop in the Seth RSS Ocean.
    yes I know, it's ridiculous that I had not subscribed already since I am reading his book,
    but we all have our weak points.
    I am pretty stocked with my 29 readers – u guys rock.

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    • human3rror
      Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 1:13 pm

      stocked? or stoked?

      puaha.

      Reply
      • Phillip Gibb
        Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 1:17 pm

        stoked.
        Seth is over stocked in RSS subscribers.
        Or is he, considering how many internet users there are.

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        • human3rror
          Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 1:20 pm

          seth is small beans…

          ;)

          Reply
  2. Jim
    Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    Where's Uncle Seth? He's usually chimed in by now? Maybe he's evaluating you on your funny scale!

    Reply
  3. Michael Hyatt
    Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 8:29 pm

    What tool did you use to find out how many subscribers he has?

    Reply
  4. Andy Darnell
    Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 1:07 am

    Wow. I too would like to know how you checked out his subscriber stats

    Reply
  5. human3rror
    Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 1:09 am

    http://churchcrunch.com/2009/03/07/ministry-perfo... <~~~ Feedcompare

    Reply
  6. myhatt
    Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 1:41 pm

    I'm not sure how I missed it, but THAT is a great post with a number of wonderful resources. Thanks!

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 2:24 pm

      Thanks Mike! Tweet it if you love it!

      ;)

      Reply

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