US contractor Champions our cause.
For more than a quarter of a century I have been engaged as a business-to-business journalist on a variety of national and international construction and demolition magazines. And there were times in that 25 year period when I got the very distinct impression that I was talking to myself. Each month, we would send out our printed magazines to tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of people who each greeted the publication over which I had sweated blood and tears with a simple “meh!”.
Which is just one of the many reasons that we chose to put DemolitionNews.com onto the Internet. No publication is complete without an engagement and interaction with its readership, and we have been delighted with the level (and quality) of the comments we have received both here and on our Forum sister site.
But occasionally, just occasionally, we receive notice of an even greater engagement with our audience; and it is these occasions that make this job worth getting out of bed for.
Monitoring our site traffic, as we do with an almost religious fervour, we noticed a spike in traffic emanating from the blog of Terrence O’Rourke at US contractor Champion Environmental Services, Inc. Now Terry is a good friend to us here at DemolitionNews.com and has provided us with some very useful insights over the past few years. But we were intrigued why we were suddenly receiving so many hits directly from his site. So we checked it out, and this is a taster of what we found:
“…Mark Anthony of “Demolition News” has become an invaluable resource concerning an exhaustive number of issues related to the demolition and environmental industry. His insights span the European landscape then pierce across the Atlantic with empirical precession.
While I have yet to meet Mark Anthony in person, our evolving friendship echoes an epistolary tradition visa via the advantages of technology, namely, the Internet….”
For the sake of modesty, you can read the rest of what the ever-eloquent Terry has to say by clicking here.
But, in closing, many thanks for your kind words Terry; and to everyone else, please keep those comments – both negative and positive – coming.
