11 Ideas to Breaking Writers Block Through Fixing Readers Problems

Maybe you have had writers block? If that's the case – you aren't alone. Nearly every blogger I’ve ever requested has accepted to getting it at least one time!

Below is a few practical tips about how to break through it (together with a little homework to action it).

Lately I had been talking to a blogger of the ‘how to‘ type blog who explained that he’d been battling during the last couple of days with approaching with items to talk about.

We talked for 15 approximately minutes about a variety of things he could do in order to break with the problem only one that people stored returning to was the thought of determining problems to resolve for his visitors.

“Each problem has hidden inside it an chance so effective it literally dwarfs the issue. The finest success tales were produced by individuals who recognized an issue a switched it into an chance.” Frederick Sugarman

It isn't brain surgery but nearly every time I sit lower to create any blog publish on my small blogs I begin by determining an issue which i or my visitors have and continue to write a publish that solves this problem.

In my opinion – whenever you solve an individual's problem you will create an impact upon them and also have every possibility of them considering you (as well as your blog) the next time they are available facing an issue.

Solve enough problems with time for an individual and you’ll locate them returning again and again… and getting others back together too.

Obviously for many writers determining an issue that visitors have is simple however for others approaching having a problem each day to resolve is harder. 

Within my ‘31 Days to construct a much better Blog’ e-book  Day 16 is about fixing a visitors problem as well as in it' share 7 methods to identify these complaints.

Here’s the titles (I write more about each one of these within the e-book but hopefully only the game titles provides you with some clues):

Solve Your personal problems (what problem did you've got a couple of years ago that you’ve solved?)Search for questions searching recommendations (what individuals do a google search for to reach in your site can provide experience)Evaluate internal searches (make use of a tool like Lijit to trace the interior searches in your site)Request Visitors for his or her Questions (operate a survey, poll or perhaps a focus group with visitors)Check other Sites inside your niche (the questions people request on forums could be particularly good)Use Social Networking to collect Questions/Problems (this can be a gold mind – just perform a explore your subject)Request Family and Buddies (the folks surrounding you will frequently provide you with great applying for grants this)

Here’s four more tips about how to identify problems among your visitors that I’ve not discussed formerly:

Personally, i discover that approaching with ‘problems’ to resolve is simpler done whenever you reserve 30 minutes approximately and develop an entire heap of these. Reserve time for you to ‘Brainstorm’ or ‘Mindmap’ the issues your visitors may have and develop a listing of these to ensure that you’ve always had a way to obtain them when you really need to create a publish. I would also recommend that you simply create some type of system for taking and recording the issues the thing is your visitors getting. I've got a folder inside dropbox which i constantly am adding notes that contain subjects, questions, problems etc which i could talk about eventually. I understand other writers use physical notebook computers while some use applications like Evernote. As you’re writing posts be looking for tangents or questions you request yourself while you’re writing. I frequently discover that when I’m writing a publish that you will find ideas striking me which i can’t use in the publish that I’m writing but that may be best to perform a followup publish on – capture them!It's a lot more than alright to return for an concept that you’ve discussed before to construct upon. In lots of ways that's what I’m doing with this particular publish. I required 7 ideas I’ve discussed before above but am also adding new material into it based on what I’ve learned since writing formerly around the subject.

For those who have writers block I challenge you to definitely reserve 15-half an hour to take a ‘problem hunt’.

Choose a few of the 7 places I mention above (the best is beginning with determining my very own past and offer problems) and find out the number of you are able to develop.

By doing this you’ll be also creating a listing of posts write.

Tell us the way you use comments below!

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What’s Your Response to the Retirement of Google Readers?

Yesterday Google introduced the retirement of the Google Readers RSS readers product.

I’ve tweeted just a little about this but thought it may be interesting to determine the response of visitors for this news. it appears a minimum of many people are worried (with 1000's signing this petition already).

For me personally it's annoying to get rid of the RSS readers which has explore my daily reading through of recent content on the internet – however what's of greater concern in my experience may be the impact it might have upon blog readerships.

Before I interviewed ProBlogger and dPS readers Google Readers was the #1 readers for signing up Nourishes among our visitors. While you will find a number of other options available and a lot of our visitors will without doubt change to another RSS readers I think that many will simply give on RSS.

Before I checked ProBlogger’s Google Statistics stats around 7.5% in our traffic was considered ‘Feedburner/Feed’ traffic. In no way nearly all our traffic – but significant (a lot more than originates from either Facebook).

While not every one of the 7.5% of traffic would be the consequence of Google Readers it’ll be interesting to determine the amount of it's once Google switch them back in This summer!

Would you use Google Readers? If that's the case are you going to stop reading through Nourishes or are you going to switch to a different readers (if that's the case, which)? Like a writer are you currently concerned that lots of your personal visitors is going to be lost because of the retirement of Google Readers?If you are concerned – what steps are you going to take to try and ensure visitors transition with other methods for following site?

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20+ More Bloggers to Watch: The Readers’ Choice

It’s been nearly a month since Bloggers to Watch in 2013 was published. We had a fantastic response, including some compelling recommendations via the comments section and around the web.

Image courtesy stock.xchng user saavem

This post presents all the bloggers that people have highlighted over the past few weeks.

If you want to read a genuinely very funny Dad blogger then you can’t beat Mark Richards.  The blog has only been live for about three months but it is fast getting a strong following in the UK. It’s a mix of current posts (Mark’s kids are all teenagers now) and flashbacks to when they were younger and the only thing he had to worry about was whether they’d eat their carrots. Highly recommended to all parents.

via Charlie Plunkett

Jacob King loved Matthew Woodward.  He said:

Guy is a beast. Teaching so much about link building some of his stuff I don’t even want to share.

What do you guys think? Have you ever come across a blog so good that you wanted to keep it a secret?

I’d also include Tsh Oxenrider of Simple Mom. She’s been around a while, but I’m always eager to see where she goes next.

from Tara Ziegmont

One blogger I really enjoy is Katie from Wellness Mama. She’s a health and nutrition blogger, but does a great job of getting readers involved with her posts.

via Shea

“An older blogger who is an accomplished and wise writer. He blogs regularly at The Happy Seeker. I highly recommend checking him out!”

via Dave Rowley

She’s a fitness fashion trend expert and women’s active lifestyle blogger. Bianca is the creator of MizzFIT.com where people can find fitness fashion and health & wellness news. She’s truly inspirational and empowers women to work out, feel sexy and how to live an active, and strong life.

via Emily

Alison Elissa Horner had some great suggestions:

I really like Brooke Castillo’s blog. She doesn’t post super regularly, but her simple, direct posts remind me of this quote.

“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.” -Czeslaw Milosz

I’m also a fan of Jenny Shih’s blog.  She has thoughtful posts and tips for being an entrepreneur. She’s an excellent teacher because she walks you through new ideas step by step.

Mara made the following recommendation:

Three women, including myself, were asked to speak as we’ve each had great success in less than two years. We’d love for you to check us out:

Therese from the Unlost had a couple of interesting ideas:

She highlighted her move-lah concept has an idea to encourage people to take action: “All my products are payable– in full or in part– with “Move-lah,” the world’s newest form of currency, which is designed to help people move and take action on the concepts they’re learning.”

She also recommended Nicole Antoinette as a “smart, witty, and, well, funny” blogger.

Eden Riley, one of this year’s bloggers to watch, recommended we keep an eye on Karen. She said that the blog was:

one of the best and beautiful blogs ever, written by buddhist monk and mother Karen Maezen Miller. Run to her words—I did.

R Siemienowicz recommended that we check out…

…the visual diary of photographer, illustrator and author Garance Doré. He said she has “the best and most genuinely arresting voice among #fashion bloggers.”

I recommend you read her recent article where she explains the philosphy behind her blog.

There were also three useful blog posts curating interesting bloggers:

No list post can ever cover all niches and communities. Bloggers vary widely in age, race, and gender. Having said that, there were two types of bloggers that people sought recommendations of:

examples of Asian bloggersbloggers aged over 60.

Do you know of any interesting bloggers in the above demographics? Or do you know of a niche/community that you feel isn’t represented enough in the wider blogging community?

Let me know in the comments. It will help shape the type of bloggers that I feature here throughout this year.

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Blog Design for ROI Rule #5: Engage Readers On Archive Pages—Fast!

This guest post is by Gab Goldenberg, author of The Advanced SEO Book.

The purpose of a blog archive page, such as a category page or even the blog homepage, is to maximize the average number of blog posts read by any visitor. The more visitors read on each visit, the likelier they are to become loyal readers and stay loyal.

To maximize the amount of our archive that visitors read, we need to know what content will best engage them and how best to display that content.

That’s what we’re going to cover in today’s post, the latest in our series on blog design for ROI.

First, let’s look at the assumptions inherent in the classic debate about how to display posts on an archive page.

This question assumes certain things, and it’s important to point them out.

First, the question assumes that we can use either full posts or excerpts, but not both.

This is the case in traditional archive page layouts (typically single-column layouts), where every post is shown the same way, i.e. full posts or excerpts.

That doesn’t have to be the case, though.

Eurogamer offers a great example of a twin-column layout. Here’s what their 3DS archive page looks like:

One easy-ish way of showing both full posts and excerpts is to imitate Eurogamer’s twin-column layout. You then program one column to offer full posts and the other to just show excerpts.

(From a technical perspective, I realize that two columns could be styled by the same CSS, as with Thesis theme. What I mean by two columns is that the layout uses separate code blocks that will be styled differently and given different functionality.)

Another assumption of the “full posts or excerpts” debate is that all visitors to an archive page want the same thing.

I can tell you from my own experience that this isn’t the case.

When I was starting in SEO, I spent untold hours and visits poring through SEOBook.com’s blog archives, looking for useful tricks and ideas. I obviously didn’t go back to read the same thing every time—I kept digging around the archives for different material.

Similarly, other bloggers may be searching for the link to a post they liked so that they can link to you. Make this easy for them!

First, make a strong first impression on new visitors by displaying your top hits.

If your site is new, you can call them Editor’s Recommended Reads or use language like, “New to {BlogName}? Start here.”

This is an increasingly popular practice because of its utility to new visitors. As we saw above, Eurogamer lists recently popular posts on their archives page.

37Signals’ blog Signal vs Noise also feature popular posts in a category, but theirs come from across the entire timespan of their archive:

The flip side is that you can’t just show your hits in the archives, because some people may be there to find other content, as I explained above.

In addition to popular content, also show your recent posts, but make navigating the archives fast and easy.

Help returning visitors get the most out of your archive with these tips:

Give visitors control over how many posts are shown on your archive pages, and if possible, save their preference for next time. Don’t limit people who are navigating deep into your archives to viewing ten posts at a time.Offer paginated navigation (i.e. numbered links like “1, 2, 3, 4…”) to your deeper archive pages even at the top of your Recent posts column for returning visitors.Use AJAX to load posts or further archive pages in the same category (e.g. links to pages “1, 2, 3, 4…” ). This will speed archives’ load times.

(For those who don’t know, AJAX is a programming technology that lets you load additional content on the page you’re viewing, without requiring a new page load. AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML. Regarding SEO, since Googlebot is only learning to read Javascript, you’ll want the code for those with Javascript disabled to be a regular link to the URL of the post or archive page.)

Now that we’ve covered what content to show on an archive page, let’s go back to our discussion about full posts and excerpts to understand why the archives are a great place to use AJAX.

The primary advantage of displaying post excerpts over full posts is that you can make more posts visible at once. If the first or second post isn’t enticing, you might still get a click on the fourth or fifth post, without forcing the visitor to scroll.

At the same time, post excerpts clarify the post’s subject. This compensates for vague or ambiguous titles, which will draw fewer clicks if displayed without the excerpt, or clicks from visitors who misunderstood the title and click the Back button. Potential readers can make more informed choices whether or not to read the post, thanks to intro text.

The disadvantage with post excerpts is that they require extra page loads, slowing visitors actions down and making them leave your blog faster.

Full posts help visitors avoid extra page loads. If we use full posts, and visitors like the first thing they see, then we’ve got an advantage over post excerpts, since the visitor saves a page load.

If visitors aren’t interested in reading the above-the-fold-content, though, they need to scroll. And the more they need to scroll (e.g. due to long posts, obscure titles, a lack of clear beginning- and end-points for posts, etc.), the likelier they are to lose interest and leave.

The longer it takes a user to read something interesting (not only to find it), the more likely they are to leave. We need to help them find something fast and load it fast.

Use long excerpts for popular content and short excerpts for recent content.

Let’s assume that we know from traffic stats which posts are the most popular posts. This means there’s low risk of a visitor not being immediately engaged by these hit posts, so there’s a good argument for using full posts. Scrolling isn’t likely to be a problem, since the first or second post has a good chance of engaging them.

However, we haven’t eradicated the risk that someone won’t want to read the first one or two posts. This is especially so for returning visitors who may have liked our top hits last time and are now back for more.

Therefore, it’s best to use longer-than-normal excerpts for top hits. The excerpt aspect limits scrolling for people who don’t want to read the first posts, while leaving less to load via AJAX for those who do chose to read them. Full posts are not ideal but they’re still okay, especially for short posts.

In contrast to popular posts, there’s relatively higher risk in displaying the full text of recent posts. Sometimes, recent posts include great material, but sometimes, it’s ordinary material.

So your display of recent posts should definitely be limited to excerpts that are shorter than your top content.

Once someone indicates they want to read a given post, we need to serve them the post as fast as possible. That’s why using AJAX to load post content is great, because we can just load the body of the post, without wasting time by reloading everything else (the header, sidebar, footer etc).

Facebook makes use of AJAX for these reasons, when you get to the end of the content that was initially loaded. This is what some people call the “scroll forever” presentation.

Your blog will receive returning visitors and new visitors, and your archive page layouts need to accommodate both. Here’s how to help with that.

Use two content columns on your archive pages, one for popular posts (or editor’s picks if your site is new) and one for recent content.Use longer excerpts for the popular content and shorter excerpts for the recent material.Make the archives’ navigation fast and easy, by: loading posts and “next” archive pages (i.e. pages linked to as ’1, 2, 3, 4') with AJAXoffering navigation deeper into the archive right at the top of your archive pagesgiving visitors control over how many posts they see on archive pages.

As a post-script, I’d encourage you to show authors’ pictures on archive pages, as well as on individual posts. If a reader enjoys works by a particular author, seeing their picture will increase the likelihood of them clicking through from the archive page (or stick around and read if they’re coming right to the individual post).

If you liked this post, check out the others in the series: Rule #1: Prioritize The Opt-In Form, Rule #2: Highlight Your Key Content, Rule #3: Show Your Community Love, and Rule #4: Make Posts Easy to Read.

Gab Goldenberg wrote The Advanced SEO Book—and you can get a free chapter here. Gab and Internet Marketing Ninjas, the folks behind the Blog Design for ROI series here on Problogger, are offering to mail you a free print copy of the Blog Design for ROI guide as a small book. Get your free copy from seoroi.com/blog-design-for-roi/ .

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Get More Blog Readers Using Lessons from Email Marketers

This guest post is by Alana Bender.

Bloggers could probably stand to learn a few marketing tips from email marketers.

For years, email marketers have used all kinds of demographic email lists to build up customer bases. They’ve created lists aimed at women aged 40-plus, with kids, driving a family car, and working part-time from home. And there’s a list targeted to reaching those professionals who work in a particular field of industry or service. Another list for guys in their 20's who are single and spend $500 a year on electronic devices.

Acquiring or developing these lists is the first step for a good email marketer. But it takes a bit more than that. Email marketers (or in-house writers) must be skilled in the practice of writing great subject lines (sound familiar?), catchy copy (know what I mean?), and an offer to buy (comments, please?).

Then they have to wrap their message into a great email marketing design, one emphasizing Buy now buttons and with a mobile-optimized view that’s readable on both Android and iPhone. Without a compelling visual to back up the content on offer, a particular marketing promotion might fall flat.

As it stands, email marketing isn’t fading away as a marketing tool. In fact, it’s likely growing in usage. Internet research firm eMarketer points out that email volume and revenue increased over the previous year. And customer retention and acquisition are leading priorities for marketers.

What does all this have to do with blogging, you might ask? Well, the same touch points that make customers respond to emails are the same touch points provoking your readers to comment on a post and/or email.

Simply put, customers reply to emails because they’re interesting and relevant to the customer. If a customer regularly purchases school supplies from a local small business site, the likelihood is that this person will be open to new, interesting emails about new school-focused items.

The same goes for blogging. If you write regularly about a topic that amasses a large amount of comments, why not return to that topic (if possible) on a monthly basis? You have proven the relevance (check) and interest to your readers (check) of that particular topic. Come back to it.

As a pro blogger, ask yourself these questions:

How do I reach my customers (readers)?Where do I look for new customers (readers)?What tools do I use to retain these current readers, and what tools do I use to find new readers?What can I learn from pros in the email marketing business?

If you’re unsure of how you’re building your base of readers, or you’re just blogging away happily without an idea of how to gain new readers, then maybe the lessons of email marketers will apply. That’s what we want to focus on in this piece.

There are email marketing tips that easily transfer over to your blogging strategies, to help build readers, find sponsors, and grow advertising. And, with the ease of email marketing software programs, you can learn how to create a great-looking email to help find new potential readers, and use repeated emails to turn an interested reader into a daily subscriber.

Let’s look first at creating a smart email marketing list for small business or blog sites. How can you get your site out to interested readers or customers using good email marketing practices in the most effective way possible?

In the presentation mentioned above, eMarketer suggested several key ways that email marketers can increase their success with finding new customers and retaining existing customers.

Personalization helps build relationships. We all want emails to be personalized to some extent. Sure, it doesn’t always mean, the Dear (Your name here) email will be fantastic every time, but it beats a completely anonymous email send.

You can do the same thing with blog posts. Address a topic you absolutely know is near and dear to your readers’ personal interests, or be open and transparent on your own blog about a personal issue that you feel might be applicable to others.

You’ll see that getting to the core of an issue at a blog can be a boon for social media pass-alongs and comments at your site.

Good email marketing software can help develop a professional and effective marketing campaign, to help you win over new readers for your blog. Most email software packages feature options to allow you to design and create an attractive email. You can fully import already-developed landing pages from your site right into the email template or use one of the email templates to create a new design.

Draw in new blog readers with pictures, video clips, background images and audio clips in your emails.

Can you customize landing pages at your blog? Sure you can. Offer a special deal or discount to existing readers (or use new subscribers) on a personalized landing page the reader can go from a link in the email directly to a page for the discount. One-on-one communications rule here.

Have you ever found who reads your blog, and more importantly, why they read your blog? Take a chance to survey readers once or twice a year to get to know some general knowledge about who they are, what work they do, and why they read your blog.

Learning why a large portion of readership cares about what you do can inspire you to blog more frequently about issues that matter most to readers.

Let your blogging tone of voice be unique (all your own) and uniform (consistency is key). When readers see that your blog has a good release consistency, that it’s well-written, and more prepared than not, they’ll respond to your blog’s direct emails for special offers and joy.

As bloggers, we all know the value of a consistent readership. Our readers not only keep us on our editorial toes, but help to serve our content with tips, ideas, and suggestions throughout the year. So it makes sense that we should continue to look for ways to keep existing readers on board, while using techniques from email marketing pros to acquire new readers.

How is your blog working to acquire new readers? Are you using customizing your email content? Are you developing special landing pages for new and existing readers for discounts on reports and case studies? Can you use your reader data to bolster your editorial efforts? Let us know in the comments!

After getting my Computer Science degree in NorCal, my interest in writing about technology took over and I started freelancing for various blogs and publications. I love the beach and Apple products!

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Get More Comments: Know Which Posts Make Readers Talk

This guest post is by Caz Makepeace of y Travel Blog.

As a travel blogger, there are many different types of articles that we write. We like to help people to get inspired, get informed, and to get going. We know that not every article we write will get the same response in regards to social media sharing and comments.

You really need to understand which ones will get the better responses, and why. This will help you to know how to write your posts the most effectively.

After I have finished writing a post, I have a fairly good idea of the response I’ll get via the comments.

A lot of posts we write provide travel tips and information people need to go to a specific destination. These types of posts are therefore relevant to a specific group of people, and are time-sensitive to the point at which they want to travel there. As a result, the comments for these types of posts are low.

Our other styles of posts are my travel thoughts and inspiration posts. These usually target those issues that are relevant to all travellers and are designed to inspire my readers into action. These always get a great response.

I have been a traveller for many years, therefore I know how my readers think and feel. Travel has a certain culture attached to it. I write about that culture and my readers connect. They see a friend in me—someone who thinks like them. They become inspired and excited by this, and so want to comment and share their thoughts on the same topic.

To get a high comment response, you just have to think and feel like your reader. Allow them to see you as their friend who understands them, and talk about issues that are relevant to them.

Caz Makepeace believes that life is all about the memories and inspires others to travel and make their life a story to tell at her popular, y Travel Blog. She also owns Mojito Mother, a blog aimed at putting the mojo back into a mother’s life, where she shares her experiences as a mother and a woman following her own dreams.

How Awe your readers to take Action

This guest post is by John Jacob of Jeevan Blog Networking 101.

You have traffic.

You have a large number of people that read your blog posts every day.

What you want to do with these people?

Ask them to subscribe? Comment? Read?

Quite simply, you want take them action, right?

And how are we going to do?

Yes, of course: with different strategies. In this blog post, we take a glance to some strategies of "awe" your readers to take action - to subscribe, comment on or do anything.

If you are looking for the definition of the word "horror", you get something like this:

AWE: A sense of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.

Note that I have underlined the words, respect and awe. These are the feelings that we need to take care of. In other words, you want to create a feeling or an emotion, of respect and wonder in the minds of your readers.

And how exactly do that?

Think about it from a perspective of normal life. That you read the fiction? How the authors of fiction to create a sense of wonder, of your mind? Through twists, the dramas and the wonders in history.

In other words, they give you something unexpected.

The same thing goes for your blog. You can awe your readers by giving them something that they don't expect to you. Today, the action you take is based on you, your blog, and your blog is in the popularity race.

The best way to answer this question is to ask your readers with surveys and polls. But there is something you can do: analyze your competitors. Take a look at the blogs of your competitors. What is different from your blog have? It is the quality of the content, design, layout, writing style?

You can also analyze the blogs that you read out your niche. What is it that makes you want to read these messages? It is creativity used by the author? Identify what makes these popular blogs and decide to do the same for your blog. But, when it comes to do so, do better.

In other words, are designed to similar success, but strive for something more.

We all know the standard way for your readers to comment on your blog messages: write quality content include calls to action and the realization of gifts. The trick to do this successfully is to do differently.

The first reason why I love surprise gifts is because you can get more than less. Here's how it works:

To encourage comments, tell your readers for the next 5 months, you provide two or three gifts for the best comments.

Now, here's the best part: you do not have to make gifts each month. Choose the month you are going to give your gifts randomly, but don't say that your readers. You can encourage comments and you will surprise readers when award you the giveaway.

The gift should inspire the horror itself - make extremely generous and valuable to your readers. The comments themselves and your answers, should help to create a sense of horror if you approach them the right way.

It works the same way for the gifts randomly; the only difference is that you don't tell your readers that you want to make a gift to all the - until you announce the winners of the first.

When your readers see the announcement post, they will have a strong motivation to leave comments "better" more frequently (relative to the technique of random gift). Again, this allows foster a sense of admiration to your readership - and encourage them to act.

OK, admit it: you want to subscribers. You want customers who are faithful and who are willing to buy your products and those that recommend you.

Here are several techniques that can help:

On your landing page, of beautiful screenshots that illustrate your offer include: Include the screenshot of the design of the email, the first page and the Table of contents of your ebook, or screenshots of weekly e-mail advice automatic - regardless of your subscription provides, show images of it. The objective is to awe your readers so that they feel that they will be absent from the great things if they do subscribe. Just do not tell them, show them!Conduct of exclusive gifts for new and existing subscribers: Here, you want to do two things: make gifts for existing subscribers and new subscribers, separately. This will be easier for you to do if you can sort by your subscribers by subscription date (Aweber is a tool that you can use here). And if make you gifts, include screenshots in your landing page!Make your beautiful landing page: On your landing page, you want to impress your readers with the design and words. Experiment, analyze, learn and tweak your landing pages. Bring out the rest of your blog.Include testimony and comments: These could be your customers, subscribers, friends, and even popular people in your niche. You want to highlight all these things - create the dread by making your readers feel you are an authority.Give something, even if they do subscribe: Don't hate readers for subscription do not; on the contrary, share and care. Here is something you can do. All we have seen out of pop - ups. Use them for your own good. Imagine that one of your potential subscribers was not impressed simply click on the button to subscribe. What can we do? Give something useful. For example, if you offer your ebook to subscribers, then gives a handful of chapters to potential subscribers. Keep one thing in mind: you want your potential customer to read, be surprised by it and then subscribe to your list. For example, include the subscription link in this gift.

It is important to have great content. Kind of marketing and networking. But that's not all. You must invest time in each small step. You want your blog and your brand stand out from the other, in content, design, layout and all the elements. Play with it. Experimentation is the best way to learn how you can create a sense of admiration in the minds of your readers. And this is what you want to do. Inspire awe, encourage and develop the action.

Editor's Note: later today, we present another method to increase conversions on your blog, this time through your about page.

Jeevan Jacob John is a young blogger who blogs about everything what is related to the construction of a better blog. If you like what you read here, then you should probably check her why you should give A Damn page.
You can also find him at his blog - the Blog of networking 101.