Comments on: Email a New Reader of Your Blog

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:20:46 +0000

I am a long time reader, first time commenter on this excellent website. First of all congratulations on a superb site. I’ve spent countless hours trawling through your advice :-)

My only question so far is, using Blogger like I do, how on earth do you get people’s email addresses? I would say only about 10% of commenters leave email addresses, maybe less. In fact the only ones I can think of are people who have websites of their own.

Would be interested to hear how you suggest a solution, other than move to Wordpress!

Thanks. Jonathan.

By: server

server — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:42:14 +0000

Amazing tip. I love your blog

By: Bethany

Bethany — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:50:26 +0000

What if this is a new blog and I don’t even have 1 comment yet?
I love this ideal but no one has commented or emailed me yet.
What to do then?
Thanks!

By: Tim_H

Tim_H — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:36:58 +0000

I know this is long after the fact, but this is a quality article.

By: Maiken Jepsen

Maiken Jepsen — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:54:39 +0000

Love your blog!! Can’t wait to learn more tips from you about blogging.

By: Beautyshells

Beautyshells — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:18:37 +0000

I found your site on google, great site, keep it up. Will return in the future. Submitted this post to Google News Reader.

By: firmanwy

firmanwy — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:21:49 +0000

Leave a comment to other blog as my experiences is a thing to do to get a better blog popularity.

By: Sortin'ItAllOut

Sortin'ItAllOut — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:49:28 +0000

I thought I left a comment here-but I can’t find it. Anyway-I ran into a little problem with the first tip-email one reader of your blog. How do I find their email addresses? And does it count to simply reply to their comment on your own comment page?

By: Sortin'ItAllOut

Sortin'ItAllOut — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:38:59 +0000

This is a great idea–day one email a visitor–I’m going to do that right now.

Thank-you!

By: Tim (@Twalk) Walker

Tim (@Twalk) Walker — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:02:28 +0000

Darren — I’ve been doing this regularly, and I can confirm that it works very well. People marvel that you took two minutes to dash off a little line.

As for dismissive responses: I think that this approach works *exactly* like a merchant’s efforts in the offline world: you advertise and market yourself to bring hundreds or thousands of people into your store, but once they’re in the door . . . it’s personalized attention that’s going to bowl them over and keep them coming back for more.

The good merchant never scorns the lone customer.

By: cnaizheng

cnaizheng — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:55:15 +0000

Thank you for this tip. It seems so simple but in this day and age of non communication, a little personal touch goes a long way.

By: Shae

Shae — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:18:19 +0000

Thank you for this tip. It seems so simple but in this day and age of non communication, a little personal touch goes a long way.

By: suresh

suresh — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:06:53 +0000

I am going to day 2 .

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:53:35 +0000

Good tip. I emailed one commenter and one who has been a guest post We’ll see what happens.

By: margie

margie — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:19:38 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks again, many months later, for this great tip. It has been BY FAR the best thing I ever did as a blogger, and definitely helped with readership and with general good will on the net. I now have readers who tip me off to stories, etc. which often lead to good posts. And as simple as this is, I am not sure I would have thought to do it if I had not read this post … another great tip from ProBlogger!

By: thisblogwillpaymymortgage

thisblogwillpaymymortgage — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:32:28 +0000

Thanks for this series. As a new blogger, this is golddust. CHeers

By: Tim Broder

Tim Broder — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:26:32 +0000

When I was starting up my blog I had read in a few places that for very young blogs it is better to have comments turned off. The reasoning behind this was readers might come and see 0 comments everywhere and just leave off the bat.

Now I am wondering if leaving comments off was a bad idea? (they are still off)

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:31:51 +0000

Hey Claus,
I guess one main reason could be, that people will have problems finding you.
try a search for som keywords and google, and see if you pop up on the first two to three pages.
If not spend some time reading this blog (or even plus some others) looking for entries about “SEO”, “search engine optimization”, “creating valuable content”, “getting traffic” …
If nobody reads your posts, nobody can comment, right ;)
gl
Kim

By: Claus

Claus — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:51:30 +0000

Obviously my first comment got lost somehow, so here it’s again:

My problem with all of my blogs is that I don’t get comments I can answer in the first place! :-(

My present blog:

http://grafomatic01.twoday.net/ [in German ]

This one’s on graphics/post-production. No comments, so I decativated the comment function (as in my previous blogs).
I’m asking myself what I’m doing wrong?

Here are some older post I wrote in English (and in my “older” blog):

http://artificial.twoday.net/topics/Film+und+Fernsehen/?start=10

Can anybody give me a hint?

Thanks,

Claus

By: Claus

Claus — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:10:09 +0000

P.S.: I forgot to mention that I deactivated comments in the meantime, mainly out of frustration.

Claus