On Listening to Those That Make Your Blog What It Is

Listening to your blog community

A couple of weeks back, I sent an email out to my subscribers asking about blog comment systems. The main gist of the question was centered around which option readers preferred – the WordPress native system, or third-party options like Livefyre and Disqus. The reasoning was simple – while I might provide the original content, [...]


Quit Treating Your Blog Readers Like Second Class Chumps

Blog readers and chump bloggers

Bloggers are a breed apart from many other online outlets. That’s not meant in a grand or condescending way – just that it takes a very different mindset to be a blogger, and one that stays the course. Of course, a large part of this success comes from the readers a blogger attracts. These readers [...]


Why This Blog’s Community Rocks

Thank you, Danny Brown's blog community

A blog’s community can be many things. It can be long-term subscribers; it can be first time visitors. It can be “only” readers; it can be regular commenters. It can be every day attendees; it can be folks that visit once then read every other post from a feed, never to visit the actual blog [...]