12 Tips To SNAP Readers Out of Passivity with Calls to Action
The vast majority of visitors to your blog are paralyzed by passivity.
They never comment, they don’t vote in polls, they won’t subscribe to your feed or newsletters, they won’t buy the affiliate products that you recommend, they won’t email a friend about your blog, they won’t vote for you in social bookmarking sites and most of them will never come back.
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Depressed? You’re not alone.
Some days it gets me down that readers can be so passive too.
In this post (a part of our crafting blog posts series) I’m going to share how using Calls to Action can significantly increase the interactivity on your blog. I’d also love to hear what you have to say on the topic.
The Problem of Passivity on Blogs
I still remember early in my blogging expressing my frustration to another blogger. At the time my main concern was that while I was getting a lot of visitors, so few of them left a comment.
He responded to me with a question that was like a SMACK to the side of the head with a BRICK - it was so simple yet stupidly I’d never thought of it. He said:
“Do you ever ask for comments?”
He went on to explain to me a ’secret’ that copywriters have known for ages - ‘Call to Action‘ - if you don’t call your readers to action they are far less likely to take it:
If you want people to comment, invite them to do it.
If you want people to subscribe, don’t assume […]
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