Hardcore Maker's Schedule

I appreciate your point. It's a good data point for me and I'll take it to heart.

I don't write press releases or hire PR consultants. I don't try to create a voice in my writing. I write exactly as I speak. This style is the same I used on humbledMBA.com for the past two years. I view my audience as entrepreneurs (both on humbledMBA and for 42Floors). There will certainly be some that don't like my style, but I've chosen to error on side of being myself. It may turn some off, but not being myself would get us nowhere.

With that said, if what I say inappropriately offends you or anyone else, I would take that quite seriously and use it as reason to reevaluate how I interact with people.

That depends on their brand, and who their customers are. I, for one, find it refreshing.

I am looking to move my company's office and wanted a good way to search for places, so I went to 42Floors's site this morning. I found a couple of reasonable offices on the map, clicked on one, filled out their few things the site wanted, and then the page said "a representative will contact you shortly" and I had no further way to take any more actions to actually find or view any offices. Now it's 4:15pm on a Friday and they still haven't gotten to me, but I can just go to Craigslist or wherever and email people straight away and go look at offices with very little delay.

In short, I can't tell what value the site is supposed to offer (it certainly doesn't seem to be helping me find an office).

So I think they have bigger problems than the way they open their blog postings. I would say that shit isn't real enough yet...

Are you going out of your way to look sanctimonious?