Comments on: Ask a Question – Rediscover Your Blogging Groove Day 6

By: Chris @ Martial Development

Chris @ Martial Development — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:07:31 +0000

There is much more to blogging than just writing posts... Are you reading enough to become a good writer?

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:09:45 +0000

By: Tim Peter

Tim Peter — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:55:08 +0000

Great post, Darren. I decided to kill two options with one post. I told the story by asking the question, "What's stopping you?"

By: Millionaire Mommy Next Door

Millionaire Mommy Next Door — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:57:01 +0000

I like the idea of using polls. Any recommended online tools for setting them up?

In “How to Make Money Management a Family Affair”

http://millionairemommynextdoor.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-to-make-money-management-family.html

I asked the following questions:
How do you feel about sharing your personal income with your children? Do you have any other family-friendly books or games relating to personal finance that you’d recommend? Do your kids receive an allowance?

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:43:28 +0000

I like this idea, but I need a little extra traffic before I can use it (I just started the blog around two weeks ago). My question would be, “Would you consider doing reviews of blogs of your users?” For example, I’d like to know how my blog is.

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:08:18 +0000

Once again you pushed me to quit procrastinating on a post I’d had in the planning stage for a couple of weeks. I’m preparing to write a long term (possibly several years) series for my site Financial Options reviewing investment strategies, trading platforms, broker/dealers and other tools in a variety of investments. I have several questions for my readers as I prepare for this and today I asked “What is your trading strategy?” in this post

http://financial.tom-hanna.org/?p=766

I’ll also be looking to readers for “What do you trade?”, “Who’s your broker/dealer?”, “What software do you use?” and “What’s your favorite research tool?”

Oh, and my strategy – make enough from writing the series to pay the losses until I find a real winning strategy!

By: ciken

ciken — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:12:38 +0000

i like your tips using the Pool tools…thanks.. i have more idea now..

By: marquis

marquis — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:00:14 +0000

This is a great tip. Thanks Darren.

Do you like sports?

http://alltalksports.wordpress.com/

By: Deb

Deb — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:31:37 +0000

Here is my question as a poll.
http://gscottage.blogspot.com/2007/07/poll-junk-drawer-contents.html

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:37:31 +0000

Mine is in the form of a poll. It is called, “What kind of Camper are you?
http://possumliving.blogspot.com/

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:02:32 +0000

I have been reading your blog for about a year and a half, maybe two years. It’s really interesting. You always write excellent articles. You continue to dazzle us with your pillar series again and again. I’ve been reading this series about rediscovering your blogging groove, but have been very busy this past week. Only today have I had a chance to actively participate in the blogging groove series. Today’s post on my blog is a question about how bloggers go about deciding what they will write in their next blog article:

http://www.probloggersmatrix.com/how-do-you-decide-what-you-will-write-on-your-blog/

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:44:06 +0000

I think that I’m in a group of smaller bloggers that will ask a question of readers and not have any response in the comments at all for a week or more. Even though it’s a little frustrating I still like asking questions, because at heart I’m pretty curious about how other people do things.

By: Mt Hood Blogger

Mt Hood Blogger — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:50:29 +0000

Great thought, very provoking. I have always been nervous about asking questions, for the reasons that you mentioned. Mostly because I didn't think that my readers would answer. I have a pretty good traffic count on a daily basis, but most of the readers don't participate. But, I took the challenge, and plunged in with a question for my readers. It's not really a question everyone could answer, I pretty much blog in a niche, but we'll see what happens! Here's the question: What is Your Favorite Mt Hood Spot?

By: Christi

Christi — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:56:15 +0000

Great post Darren, I’ve been reading your blog for about a year now, but rarely participate in the conversation. I’ve been blogging for about two years, but recently started a new blog and have very few readers so far. But decided to go with the question post as you suggested, and see how it goes! Here’s my link:
Why Do You Blog?http://bloggingwriter.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-do-you-blog.html

By: JennyHow

JennyHow — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:47:30 +0000

hmmm, this method is truly useful. I feel that asking for opinions are a good way to bring interactivity in the blog and allows the readers to express their view points. When my blog is getting quiet, I will try to come out with some question posts to get the readers talking:

http://www.jennyhow.com/should-you-blog-if-english-sucks/
http://www.jennyhow.com/are-they-more-female-or-male-in-the-blogosphere/

By: Jason (blogAGLOCO.com)

Jason (blogAGLOCO.com) — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:41:04 +0000

Good post, I definitely need to check out the rest of this series and apply it to my blog.

I have been using a poll on my blog ever since I created it; I enjoy answering a quick question with stats and thought others might too.

I have tried asking a question in a post before, but have gotten little results.

I will be back for some other helpful information later, keep up the hard work Darren.

By: Arpit Tambi

Arpit Tambi — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:49:37 +0000

Hi there

congrats for being featured on BusinessWeek

lots of wishes

By: india public relations

india public relations — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:48:47 +0000

Hellow Darren
At the last Problogger group writing project, i wrote about tips for bloggers to get media publicity by getting in touch with journalists themselves, among other tips. Now the question I pose is should we call a journalist directly on their mobile phones, or should you go through the board numbers?

Some think it it too intrusive while other journalists are okay with it. Well lets see the answers from the readers.

http://www.indiaprblog.com/2007/07/should-you-call-journalist-on-mobile.html

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:13:55 +0000

Great tip, Darren! Love the doo, BTW! LOL.

Here’s my link:

Survey: Your Name or Fictitious?

http://www.eversmall.com/index.php/survey-your-name-or-fictitious/

By: Ramkarthik

Ramkarthik — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:56:35 +0000

Hi Darren. I wrote a post few days ago called The Right Time To Show Your Blog's Stats. It arose many questions through forum and emails. So I thought of creating a poll. I don't know whether it is coincidence that I created a poll and saw my feed in which you were asking us to ask people questions. So I created a poll and you can see it here: Poll: When Will You Display Your Feedburner Subscribers Count? Thanks.