{"id":1127,"date":"2005-02-03T16:43:59","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T21:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/quicksand_repor"},"modified":"2005-02-03T16:43:59","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T21:43:59","slug":"quicksand_repor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"Quicksand Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=450,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/bookstats.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"370\" height=\"328\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/images\/bookstats.gif\" title=\"Bookstats\" alt=\"Bookstats\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visitor stats are doubling thanks to your spreading the word about <a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/2005\/02\/danger_quicksan.html\"><strong>Danger &#8211; Quicksand: An Unconventional Guide to Surviving Corporate Employment<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/2005\/02\/danger_quicksan.html\">.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Even more encouraging is the number of downloads. Over 200 people downloaded Danger &#8211; Quicksand during the first 30 hours.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: More than 500 downloads in the first week. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Watching the power of blogs in action is an amazing experience even though I write about it all the time. Thank you for your continuing support!<\/p>\n<p>I am working on getting a paperback version out in the next thirty days. The price will be $19.95, and for the first 500 copies, I will personally sign and inscribe an appropriately encouraging message to whomever you request, and I will include FREE SHIPPING. Ordering details to follow.<\/p>\n<p>My marketing at this point is very basic:<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you know someone who has gotten fired &#8211; have them buy this book!<\/p>\n<p>If you know someone who is worried about being fired &#8211; have them buy this book.<\/p>\n<p>And for the other 18 percent who are happy in their jobs &#8211; have them buy this book and put it away for a day when their cubicle starts tilting toward the exit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, feel free to <a href=\"http:\/\/stlawrence.to\/danger\/danger-quicksand.pdf\"><strong>download<\/strong><\/a> the book and use it. I still have server capacity to spare. If you have any problems, or better yet, any success stories, please let me know. I&#8217;ll include them in the final book. One more thing, I have updated the download so it shows the page size of the finished book.<\/p>\n<p>Keep those cards and letters coming&#8230;.. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Tag:&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/corporate_quicksand\" rel=\"tag\">corporate quicksand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitor stats are doubling thanks to your spreading the word about Danger &#8211; Quicksand: An Unconventional Guide to Surviving Corporate Employment. Even more encouraging is the number of downloads. Over 200 people downloaded Danger &#8211; Quicksand during the first 30 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1823,1831],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-ib","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}