I am a Blogger and Kaizen Consultant. Who are You?
I am a blogger, kaizen consultant and small business owner. I speak Japanese and English and a couple of other languages not as well. I write these articles because I believe that if more people learn about kaizen good things will happen.
Who are you? Why do you visit this blog and read our articles?
What I do know is that the readers of this blog come from many countries. In the last week people from more than 40 countries visited this site.
About 90% of the visitors were from .biz, .com, .net, .org, (could be from any country) or .us, .edu, .mil (primarily American) domains. Apart from the .com and U.S based domains, readers from Australia lead the pack with a solid 3.69% turnout. I’m keen to learn more about what’s going on Down Under with kaizen.
Canada comes in ahead of the United Kingdom, which is a bit of a surprise, eh? Readers from industrial powerhouses Germany and Mexico make the top 5. What’s happening with kaizen in Denmark? Readers from that country have been in the top 10 consistently. I know shamefully little about Kenya but there appear to be a few readers from this country eager to learn about kaizen. Go Kenya!
These numbers are “sessions” or unique visitors to the site. If you visit this blog 4 times in a week those are 4 sessions. So if you are in one of the minority 10% countries, take a look at the number of sessions, subtract the number of visits you make in a week, and if the remaining number is greater than zero that means there is someone else in your country interested in kaizen and Lean manufacturing.
In the 16 months or so since we launched this blog the readership has grown steadily to where now we average over 550 per day with peaks days over 850. We have had visitors from more than 90 countries to our humble website since the beginning of this year. It makes me happy that we have visitors from so many places want to learn about kaizen and Lean manufacturing.
There are approximately 200 countries in the world. Each country may recognize a different number of countries for various political reasons. For instance the U.S. recognizes 192 countries at the moment. We’ve reached readers in about half of the countries in the world.
A special thanks to all of you who have e-mailed, posted your comments or asked questions. The comments function has been active for 5 months and there have been some good discussions and feedback.
So back to my original question: who are you?
We have created a short survey that asks four the questions “What do you do?” “What languages do you speak?” “Why do you visit this blog?” “What would make this blog more interesting for you?”
If you fill out the survey I will share the results.
Thanks for reading.
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Comments
John,
To provide some feedback.... Although I do not agree with some of your blogs we do use them at our SMT meetings. In the last while, due to your frequency of blogs we actually have very short daily meetings to discuss lean issues. If I may, I encourage you to keep up the blogging on a daily basis as it adds to our SMT meetings.
Best regards,
Jim
Posted by: Jim Sady - June 6, 2006 09:35 PM
Jim,
Thanks for the encouragement. I'll do my best. I'm always happy to help keep meetings very short.
Jon
Posted by: Jon Miller - June 6, 2006 11:11 PM
I visiting because I need to learn about Kaizen and How to take it to the Operations level in an effective way where the need is to create a Win-Win situation !!
Posted by: Victor or Yogui - June 24, 2006 04:34 PM
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