Email a New Reader of Your Blog
Darren Rowse has been offering Tips for blogging: "Create a great impression upon a brand new readers to your blog by choosing a commenter that is new and emailing them to thank them for their comment. It might not sound like the most profound tip but I’ll let you in on a secret - this is one of the main strategies I used to build up ProBlogger’s audience a couple of years ago."
Good tip, Darren. Beth Kanter does it too! I like to welcome new bloggers as well, and give them a boost in initial traffic.
Technology stewardship is not all about the technology. It is how we use it. Finding ways to engage people is part of that process.
And as they say, what goes around, comes around!
posted by Nancy White at 3:34 PM
4 Comments:
I try to do this but every now and then I miss someone. I'll try harder.
And welcome back Nancy. I'm glad Blogger has begun to cooperate. If it hadn't, I was going to fly north and force you to change software. We've missed you.
I believe in that gift community concept .. and it works.
I try to respond to every commenter, usually in email and sometimes in the comments too. For today, I don't have an overload of comments, so this practice still works.
I used to respond to every comment. Then sometimes I felt I had nothing more to say than thank you and it sounded, well, forced.
The other challenge is not knowing if people come back to read other comments. We still don't have good tools/shared practices around this on every platform.
But I do feel the reciprocity and responsiveness is really useful.
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