The ever-helpful Copyblogger handed me a big slice of humble pie in his post, "Do You Make These Mistakes With Your Blog?" I've made every single one of these mistakes at some point. Read it, think about it. This was my most glaring error:
"Do you use user-unfriendly RSS options that you bury at the bottom of the page, and leave out an email subscription option altogether?
"I can only label this as a disease of the blogging mind. You do all that hard work to get everything else just right, and yet you rely on people to remember to come back on their own? That’s just self-destructive. Paging Dr. Freud!"
Instead of calling my psychiatrist, I urge you to look up in the upper right hand corner of this blog, there is a very special option, "Enter email below to subscribe." Sign up today and receive two free writing posts a day, delivered personally by a computer program from me to you. No spam, no distractions, just posts.
Don't waste anymore time clicking on my site. I'll send you my posts instead. America is all about apple pie, self-improvement, and community spirit, and so is The Publishing Spot! Therefore, you should be patriotic and subscribe...
Ahh... patriotism. Always a good hook.
Subscribed! :)
Posted by: Brian Clark | July 3, 2006 12:43 PM | Permalink to Comment