Of my favorite blogging stories is that of Jada Selma, who, after years of trying to create successful blogs was not really getting any traction on them, joined with another blogger Jane Hanson, to create a blog called Simple Green Smoothies. You may have heard of it.
One of the things that Jane and Jada did brilliantly in the early days was to really pay attention to serve their readers. Jada spoke at World of the take-home messages that really stood out to me from her message was the phrase, choose love over metrics. That really resonated with me because it’s so easy to choose metrics over your readers and to forget that on the other side of your reader number are human beings. Today, the challenge is designed to remind you of that as much as anything else.
I want you to pay particular attention to one of your readers today.
It may actually be more than one, but that’s fine. Just start with one. I’ve tried this many different ways over the years, as I’ve tried to love my updated 2024 mobile phone number data readers to death, as I’ve tried to make them famous. Some of the things that I’ve done have been quite big. I’ve ran meet-ups and I’ve had competitions. I remember one time we ran a competition here in Australia with a local tourism board to fly 10 of my readers from around the world to spend a few days with me here on the Gold Coast and on the Great Barrier Reef. That had a big impact on those 10 readers. They actually flew around the world to hang out with me and to get some training. That’s a big way of doing it.
I know here in Australia, there are bloggers who run meet-ups and have morning teas with their readers. At our events here in Australia last year, we tried to do some surprise and delight with our readers and we chose a couple of readers to fly down to . Paying attention to readers in that way has a big impact and we saw it as we spent time with those bloggers.
You may not be able to do something quite on that scale.
Start small, build small little actions will most likely continue to grow even after the into your weekly rhythm of blogging, and it can have an impact. A few ideas that you might want to try.
Firstly, you might promot agb directory e a comment that a reader made into a blog post. If someone’s left a really good comment that’s insightful and useful, doesn’t have to be long, don’t let it just be wasted on the few people who chance upon seeing it in the comments make it into a blog post. Highlight your reader’s wisdom in some way. Put them in the spotlight.