I want to hear from you

Hi,

Happy Easter/ Bunny/ Spring/ Chocolate weekend my friend.

Fresh off the back of my Wednesday Rant, which caused quite a stir among some of you, I embrace all of you my loyal readers as we enter the long bank holiday weekend.

For me it’s always a big one as I race the local bunny hop, a big race in the area that happens to be hosted by my tiny village.

There is one aim, as there has been for the past 10 years, and that is to be the first local resident home.

I’ve achieved that in 8 of the last 10 years and have 8 bottle of wine to show for it*. I’m not sure if it might be a step too far this year, but as with anything in life, I’ll approach it with 100% effort and see where I get to.

*I don’t drink wine, but always go down well in raffles.

It’s the most grueling running event I do in the entire race calendar. Think pain, the type you feel when a stakeholder asks you to ‘rubber stump’ a contract for a new supplier Procurement has had no idea even existed.Here’s me, this morning on a recce of the route, negotiating and getting ‘potentially’ electrocuted on one of the many natural hazards across the course. :-)

Anyway, less about me, more about you.

I want to tell you you are such an important member of this community. And our Procure Bites community is growing fast.

There are now close to 8,000 subscribers and followers on the Substack App, from well over 100 countries across the globe.

I’m intriguingly and disproportionately successful in Australia and Brazil, so if that’s you…a special thank you!

A significant number of you also support me financially by paying the annual subscription with all the benefits that unlocks.

I see writing and creating content for Procurement as my 2nd job now (I really want it to become my 1st job) so every single paid subscriber helps make that dream become a more realistic prospect.

This payment also allows me to expand my research and invest more time and money to create valuable content. And many of you also engage as part of the 55,000 followers who now keep my content thriving on LinkedIn.

Thank you. Seriously, I don’t underestimate it.

But there’s no point having a community if we cannot tell each other what we think about how it’s run.

So, because of this growth, because of your support, I wanted to take a moment to hear directly from you —what you think about this Procure Bites, what you want to hear more about, what you want to hear less about, what you like, what you don’t like, what you want to change.

So, today, I’m launching the first survey in what will now be an annual check-in with you —to ensure you can all feed directly into, and influence, the community (beyond the comments, e-mails, and discussion).

All of your responses, like all your e-mails, will be read and digested so we can hit our goal of 10,000 subscribers, and then 25,000 subscribers as soon as possible.

To take part in the survey, to share your views, just click on the button below. It will only take a few minutes and will help me ensure you get more of the things you want and less of the things you don’t.

Your views really do matter to me —please be as honest as possible. I won’t be offended. And, of course, I will share the results in the coming days and weeks.

Lastly, I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you and yours a happy and peaceful long weekend (theist or atheist, you are all my people).

I think we’ve all deserved a rest ahead of what looks set to be an enormous year for Procurement —and a vintage year for content creation nerds like me!

Best wishes, Tom

Procurement Protagonist, Author of Procure Bites (Bunny Hop Champion Elect!)

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