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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Pros and Cons of Interviewing Bloggers on your Blog
For some people bloggingis a way of life; they like producing content that stimulates conversation while also informing readers about a particular topic. In order to stay motivated, a blogger must get traffic by producing quality content and practicing tried and true techniques. One of these techniques is to interview another blogger or an individual who has authority in the same niche as you to provide a different perspective to your readers, which adds value. While this technique is effective, there are also some costs that go along with it. This article will go over the benefits and costs of interviewing bloggers for your blog.
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Pros
As stated previously, one of the main benefits in interviewing bloggers for your blog is that your readers get to hear a different voice than the one theyre used to. While you’re the one asking the questions, the bulk of the content will be transcribed in the voice of the interviewee. This gives your audience real insight into what a person is thinking and allows them formulate opinions based on how another thinks, not just you. The immediate benefit to this is that your readers will feel like your blog is a place of discussion and exploration rather than a dictatorship ran by a person behind a computer.
Another benefit of interviewing bloggers on your blog is that you get real-life contact with the person if it’s a face-to-face interview. If start corresponding with other bloggers in your niche and become friendly, these good feelings go to a different level once you meet and chat about the issues. What this does overtime is allow your name and blog pop up in that person’s mind whenever they encounter something dealing with your topic, giving you a great lead source.
Cons
As with most things that produces a benefit, there is a cost to it. One of the costs of interviewing bloggers to your blog is that you may simply be a poor interviewer. Having good interviewing skills is different than knowing about a topic. So if you have poor interviewing skills and your readers discover this it will bring down some of your authority. If a person can’t ask the right questions to a person, will they be able to ask the right questions about a topic? This line of thought can lose your readers.
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Another cost to interviewing bloggers on your blog is that you can ruffle some feathers with your peers. In order to get traffic, one must network with others so that they can exchange links, guest posts, and other things. If you interview a person and it turns out that you have an agenda or that your lines of questions go into unpleasant territory, knowingly or unknowingly, then you can lose the trust--or worse respect--of that individual. Being able to gracefully navigate a variety of topics and issues is a requirement for interviewing.
Conclusion
While there are benefits and costs to interviewing bloggers on your blog, the former outweigh the latter. You can’t be scared of what might happen and forego the benefits that could happen.
Author Bio:
This is a guest post written by Tarun Jaitely, He is a blogger and writes about Make Money Online, Blogging, SEO, Reviews. He recommends you to check out his latest review about sensational wordpresstheme from MyThemeShopon his blog.
Friday, January 30, 2015
The 30 day blog fitness challenge
At work, we recently started the 100 day burpee challenge. The rules are simple: on the first day, you do 1 burpee, on the second day, 2 burpees, on third day, 3 burpees, and so on up to day 100. If you miss a day, you have to make it up the next day: for example, if you miss day 50, you have to do 101 (50 + 51) burpees on day 51. The point of the challenge is to increase general fitness (burpees use the entire body), develop good habits, and learn the virtue of consistency.
When Adam Nash found out about the burpee challenge, he laughed at me. Im not sure if he was put off more by the word "burpee" or the sight of me jumping around like crazy next to my cubical. As a response, Adam, along with Mario Sundar, proposed a different challenge: a 30 day blog fitness challenge. The rules are, again, very simple: write one blog post, every day, for 30 days straight. If you miss a day, you have to make it up the next day. The purpose of this challenge is analogous: develop mental fitness (writing uses the entire brain), develop good habits, and learn the virtue of consistency.
It sounded nice until I realized that Im supposed to keep pace with:
Im unquestionably the dark horse in the race, but I have a few tricks up my sleeve.
And so, dear reader(s), prepare yourselves for 29 more consecutive days of blog posts, featuring exciting topics ranging from Crossfit, to game mechanics, to open source software. Oh, and burpees.
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Suffering through burpees near the end of a workout at the 10 Crossfit Games NorCal Qualifier
When Adam Nash found out about the burpee challenge, he laughed at me. Im not sure if he was put off more by the word "burpee" or the sight of me jumping around like crazy next to my cubical. As a response, Adam, along with Mario Sundar, proposed a different challenge: a 30 day blog fitness challenge. The rules are, again, very simple: write one blog post, every day, for 30 days straight. If you miss a day, you have to make it up the next day. The purpose of this challenge is analogous: develop mental fitness (writing uses the entire brain), develop good habits, and learn the virtue of consistency.
It sounded nice until I realized that Im supposed to keep pace with:
- Adam, a VP of Product, who already has a very active personal blog (1.7M hits!) and is a regular on the LinkedIn Blog
- Mario, whose job title involves the phrase "Chief Blogger" and who isnt exactly a slouch on his personal blog
Bring it on.
Im unquestionably the dark horse in the race, but I have a few tricks up my sleeve.
- The fact that almost no one reads my blog is a benefit: I can afford to write crap and no one will notice.
- I have a very high pain tolerance. See burpee video above.
- I fully intend on cheating. Meta-posts of this sort are just the beginning.
And so, dear reader(s), prepare yourselves for 29 more consecutive days of blog posts, featuring exciting topics ranging from Crossfit, to game mechanics, to open source software. Oh, and burpees.
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