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By: Hisham Abboud

Hisham Abboud — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:14:15 +0000

I’m new to blogging. Thank you for the valuable tips. I just discovered problogger.net and have been educating myself quite a bit. Thanks!

By: 5 Powerful Techniques to Help Your Posts Stand Out

5 Powerful Techniques to Help Your Posts Stand Out — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:01:45 +0000

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By: stephanerd

stephanerd — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:44:56 +0000

As I catch up on all my ProBlogger reading…awesome post! The steps you lay out here will aid bloggers in creating an close-knit online community (in addition to the raving fans). Connecting with readers — being able to say something they can connect with on a personal level — is one of the main reasons I write, both online and off.

I also want to give a shout-out to Jeff’s excellent comment: “Isn’t it critical to become good at turning them into participants and not just fans?”

Sounds like community-building to me!

By: jordan widel

jordan widel — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:51:02 +0000

This is such great advise
I’m gonna go try and get some raving fans!!

By: Kelly DuMar

Kelly DuMar — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:55:57 +0000

Okay, I’m a raving fan – this is the second of your articles that I’ve read and I’m really applying your advice as a new blogger. The suggestion that jumps off the page to me in this one is using a signature. I haven’t done this, but will now. Thanks, from Kelly!

By: Silky

Silky — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:09:03 +0000

Cheers for the response, Skellie.

I think we’re calling the two faces of the same coin a different name, if you know what I mean.

By: 66tx

66tx — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:02:42 +0000

I think Darren start out as your reader before turning into your raving fan when you started guest blogging for him.

By: ernesto

ernesto — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:56:25 +0000

This entry really help me a lot especially I am a new blogger

By: great008

great008 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:55:24 +0000

Great points there proman!!!

By: Ivy

Ivy — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:47:06 +0000

Skellie, another great article. Finding a balance between writing “unplugged” and professionally has always been a challenge. I used to work as an editor and news always had to be factual and without bias. Now that I’m blogging which is a very personal publishing medium, it is difficult to transit mentally from a “news writer” to a “humane writer”.

I have to admit though, that the blogs that have made me smile are the ones when the writers have been truly authentic.

By: Max Bian

Max Bian — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:05:10 +0000

Thank you for this informative post. I just started blogging about photography. I have spent a lot of time working on the posts but I have very few comments on my blog. This article gets to me think what I should be thinking when writing my blogs.

Thanks.

Max

By: Dmarie

Dmarie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:40:58 +0000

Nice post. Coming up on my 3 month blog birthday, I’m seriously looking at how to personalize and make my content unique, in the sea of blogs. You’ve given me food for thought. Thanks.

By: Skellie

Skellie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:09:00 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, everyone — I’ve read all the comments so far.

@ Silky: I’m sorry the headline jarred with you, but it reflects what I was trying to say more accurately than ‘write with personality’. It’s about situating yourself as a fellow human being first — letting your readers know that you’re not just a mind plugged into a keyboard. You have a life, a family, experiences, you’ve made mistakes, you’ve achieved successes. ‘Writing with personality’ is just one small part of it.

@ Mike King: On the surface, it seems that the very act of blogging is giving without hoping to receive, but we do hope to receive: we want our blog to be popular, to get links, to get subscribers, maybe even to make money. I think true giving is about not viewing readers and visitors as a means to an end :-).

By: Phamen

Phamen — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:04:45 +0000

Wonderful post. We need to attrack more readers to become our fans in order to be successful.

By: Jason A Clark

Jason A Clark — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:29:03 +0000

Fantastic article. We all need to work harder at turning our readers into fans. Hope you don’t mind, but I submitted it to BloggingZoom.com.

By: Shawn Farner

Shawn Farner — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:07:50 +0000

I look forward to actually following this and other good pieces of advice this time around. I think a good way to make readers feel important is to remind them that they are probably smarter than you – that’s my plan.

By: Mike King

Mike King — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:59:13 +0000

This is a great post with a lot of valuable ideas with a real way to implement them in your blog! I personally like the idea of giving more than you take and I’m kinda surprised by this for any blogger. Aren’t bloggers generally giving a lot of time and value away without much expected in return? To me, that is the whole point of blogging (maybe not the case for a pro-blogger though? I know, separate discussion)

Every post that follows this advice will certainly earn a lot of respect and continue to grow your readership. I also think there are a number of things to AVOID doing to transform your readers into fans. Often people post news articles, controversial ideas, or posts just to spark arguments and emotional responses while these can attract a lot of attention sometimes, its not all good attention and can send some readers elsewhere if the items are off topic and not delivered in an objective way. So not delivering annoying, bad or inaccurate content is just as important when to convert fans to readers.

By: plonkee

plonkee — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:51:26 +0000

It sounds like my mum was right – I should just be myself and the people worth knowing will like me anyway.

I’m really attached to all the readers that I’ve interacted with, and I hope that comes across in my blog.