Alert the proverbial two birds that the proverbial one stone is headed in their direction.
Stone #1. I feel frustrated when I see great posts/articles that I’d like to put in front of your smiling faces. Frustrated because I don’t feel right about posting a new post for each and every great brainstorm I want to put in your mental forecast. After all, if anyone subscirbes to the e-mail or RSS alerts, they’d get a tap on the shoulder with each one – and tapping someone on the shoulder for one or two links doesn’t set pretty with me.
Stone #2. I want to pull the readers out of their RSS readers and invite them in. I think of people who are ”inside” RSS readers as people who are ”inside” cars - it’s like looking out into your driveway and seeing company….but they never get out of their car.
I’m just being honest here, we all want people to join us on our blogs – so, giving them incentive to do so seems like an idea whose time has not only come, it’s gone. So I’ve been trying out a few things on my blogs – like news scrollers. I put a Mental Fitness news scroller on my Mental Fitness Blog – and it has gotten a lot of great feedback.
An even bigger hit has been the Food TV schedule and rotating recipes on my Cooking Blog.
The Self Help Alerts I’ll publish in the sidebar will be the best blog posts and articles I’ve come across. Information that will help all of us as we demand the most from life by first demanding the most for ourselves.
The last post listed in the alerts is especially good (about Positively Hating People). So good, in fact, that it was the first time in a very long time I looked for a “Print This” button on a blog post. I wanted to make a copy for everyone I know to read.
Yep. That good.
Joi
