Hey Danny – its been a while since you visited Australia – SES 2002. You could have some R&R, contemplate the future, and enjoy the Australian lifestyle….
Whatever you choose – count me in.

Danny,
I’ve been attending tech conferences for 25 years and the SES NY last year was my first for one of your events. It was a fantastic experience and I encourage you to “do your own thing.” I’ll be there if you do.
You’ve got a great brand and now is the time to leverage it.
What ever you do good luck!
-JayW

Danny,
You left out a career on the front of the box of Cocoa Pebbles. I’m shocked you haven’t heard from Kraft/Post on this!!!

I started a business several years ago. Getting that business on its feet was tough, and took a lot of work, as well as a lot of learning.
Eventually I left that company and started a competitor. Only this time I knew the industry better, I had contacts, and I had already learned my mistakes. It took me about two months to build up what had taken me two years the first time.
I think you will find that it is easier than you think. Besides, cutting out incisive from having any say in what the ‘Danny Sullivan brand’ represents may be a good thing. Get the corporate out of messing around with the purity of the services you try to offer.
You take the audience and the loyalty, and incisive is left with a name. And you know that as soon as you start a new site, a great percentage of folks are going to update their in bound links from SEW to your new site, and switch their paid subscriptions from SEW to your new site.
My advice… Start the new site. Incisive had their chance, and they blew it. Take ownership of your brand back.

Hi Danny,
I am relatively new to SEO, I have been following you around for a while in your posts, at SEW, SES, I can see you are very much appreciated in the Internet Marketing Community.
Just wanted to wish you luck in your future, what ever it is going to be, you’re right in taking the time to think about it.
Thanks for all this giving to the Internet Marketing Community.

Danny, you once again show readers that you don’t sell your self. (when you don’t want to join an SEM company).
You built a name and you’ve built a reputation as well as clearly positioned yourself in the industry. This is why I think people respect you and this is why you should have no problem achieving further success. Now it’s just a game of choosing the right path.
Good luck.

We all know you are top shelf and as for this “It’s one hopefully I can continue doing a bit longer.” well I say, don’t stop intil you drop:). I look forward to seeing whats next but I do wish that you would do one thing before hand…… Take alittle vacation time for you and the family man and smell the roses:). Later Mate.

Danny, there’s a few issues with such a move that everyone will compare you with your previous ventures, associate certain actions to ‘sour grapes’, and if your next move doesn’t pan out, they’ll pan you.
I was on top of one industry in the early 80′s and moved elsewhere, same situation in the early 90′s, as IMO the worst person to compete with is yourself because your second verse could be worse than the first and they’ll all claim “he’s lost it.”
Just my $0.02 worth as I move on and try something new.
Good luck no matter what as it was great to be a part of SES San Jose this year.

Of course you should do it youself. I think SEW went messy the last couple of years and I rather read your blog and visit your conferences. I mean what is SEW without both Gary Price and Danny? Times are a-changin’ and better move forward. I think we’re hordes of readers that will stop monitoring SEW and follow you. Forget about Incisive, we’ll support you.