I found an article on Dr. Mercola’s website titled: 12 Surprising Signs You’ll Live To 100
One of the “surprising signs” is:
You embrace techie trends
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Writers. Photographers. Cartoonists. Artists. Puppeteers. Historians. Coaches. Designers. Musicians. Singers. Entrepreneurs. And many more.
Blogosphere is filled with so much talent.
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In addition to making money, most bloggers want two things.
Unfortunately, both depend on the actions of others, and those “others” are often fellow bloggers.
Today’s Lesson
When bloggers make the rounds to other blogs, they’re mentally asking themselves questions and/or making choices. For example,
As blog authors, we can help make those decisions easier.
Such as,
Did we end our post with a question? Or does our post appear so “complete”, it sends a subliminal message comments aren’t welcome?
Does the commenter have to register or jump through hoops to pass the security features of our blog? Or have we made the process of commenting as simple as possible?
Are we including buttons which take our visitors directly to Twitter, Facebook or StumbleUpon? Or do we expect them to “figure it out” on their own time?
Does is hold value others can benefit from? Is it grammatically correct and void of typos? Are the facts correct?
Are we using excerpts and the “continue reading/more” feature? If so, does this feature make it easier for our visitors to read our blog posts?
Or does sharing our post require additional work on our readers part?
Or are we assuming our visitors are mind readers?
Truth be told, we can’t/shouldn’t expect our visitors to read, comment on, AND promote our blog posts each time we publish something new.
Just like with us, their time is limited.
If we’re lucky, they’ll do one; comment OR promote.
But usually not both.
Today’s Assignment
If you could only pick one, what would it be?
To receive comments?
To have your post promoted on a social media site?
I’d love to hear why you picked what you did.
P.S. This post was inspired by what social media consultant Vered, shared in her comment on the Call Me A Hypocrite post:
Thank you Vered.