Are you as frustrated as I am about increasing blog readership?
May 7, 2008 12:26 PM Subscribe
I work with a group of scientists in Cambridge, MA, USA and we have been studying the Blogsphere, it's effectiveness, and potential solutions to help bloggers easily and automatically get additional readership and potentially monetize their blogs.
If you blog, would you be so kind as to answer 8 questions? We would love to hear you comments. The questions are in the extended portion of this posting. (click More Inside)
The survey questions are below or answer online at:
GlowPost Survey online
------------ Survey Questions ----------------------
1. How long have you been blogging?
2. Why did you decide to blog? (for fun, for profit, to market products/services, to become a subject matter expert in your field, for personal reasons, other)
3. Are you seriously trying to generate money through blogging?
4. How do you feel about your blogs growth in readership or would you like more? (happy, unhappy, frustrated, content, other)
5. What actions have you taken to increase your readership?
(examples: newsletters, social networking, rss feeds, trackbacks, blog commenting, Google Adwords, advertising, other etc)
6. If your blog readership did not increase sufficiently in the next year, will you stop blogging?
7. If a service existed that automatically brought new readers to your blog who were interested in your content without requiring any additional effort on your part, would you this be of value to you?
8. What value would you place on it (i.e what would you be willing to pay monthly to increased your readership) (values $0, $1 to $5, $5 to $10, $10 to $15, more)
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If you would like to hear more about this project as it comes to fruition, feel free to send an email to "info at cambridgerad dot com" and we will keep you posted.
Thank you,
Ken
The survey questions are below or answer online at:
GlowPost Survey online
------------ Survey Questions ----------------------
1. How long have you been blogging?
2. Why did you decide to blog? (for fun, for profit, to market products/services, to become a subject matter expert in your field, for personal reasons, other)
3. Are you seriously trying to generate money through blogging?
4. How do you feel about your blogs growth in readership or would you like more? (happy, unhappy, frustrated, content, other)
5. What actions have you taken to increase your readership?
(examples: newsletters, social networking, rss feeds, trackbacks, blog commenting, Google Adwords, advertising, other etc)
6. If your blog readership did not increase sufficiently in the next year, will you stop blogging?
7. If a service existed that automatically brought new readers to your blog who were interested in your content without requiring any additional effort on your part, would you this be of value to you?
8. What value would you place on it (i.e what would you be willing to pay monthly to increased your readership) (values $0, $1 to $5, $5 to $10, $10 to $15, more)
------------------- end of survey ---------------------------------
If you would like to hear more about this project as it comes to fruition, feel free to send an email to "info at cambridgerad dot com" and we will keep you posted.
Thank you,
Ken
This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not what ask metafilter is for. -- jessamyn
Response by poster: Now why do you say that? It is an interesting comment
posted by glowpost at 12:32 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by glowpost at 12:32 PM on May 7, 2008
Response by poster: Well, I am all ears. Tell me how I am "doing it wrong". please...
posted by glowpost at 12:34 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by glowpost at 12:34 PM on May 7, 2008
Wait, everyone. Didn't you hear that scientists are involved?
posted by true at 12:35 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by true at 12:35 PM on May 7, 2008
Response by poster: ah, so you are saying I have chosen the wrong place to post this? I can retract it and repost if necessary.....your recommendation?
posted by glowpost at 12:35 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by glowpost at 12:35 PM on May 7, 2008
Response by poster: Wow, that didnt take long for someone to make the "science crack" :^) Maybe true would be so kind as to educate while the stone is tossed.
posted by glowpost at 12:36 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by glowpost at 12:36 PM on May 7, 2008
Buy banner ads to advertise your survey, don't do it here.
posted by cowbellemoo at 12:37 PM on May 7, 2008
posted by cowbellemoo at 12:37 PM on May 7, 2008
This thread is closed to new comments.
posted by googly at 12:28 PM on May 7, 2008