Two Tips on Landing Interviews for Your Blog
Last week on Twitter I had a discussion with a number of followers about landing interviews with other bloggers as a way to generate interesting content for your blog. One of the responses I had via a direct message from a follower was:
“I’m too shy to approach big bloggers for an interview - do you have any tips?”
Two ideas come to mind:
1. Don’t just approach ‘big’ bloggers
While many successful bloggers are willing to do interviews you might find you have more success if you target mediums sized blogs initially. While there is nothing wrong with aiming high - some bloggers are more likely to do an interview with you if you can show them a few other interviews you’ve done you might have more success.
2. One question interviews
One of the best ways to get even larger bloggers to respond is to keep your interviews very simple. The fewer the questions and the easier that they are to answer the more likely you are to get a response. Take this to the extreme with a ‘one question interview’ - a single question that is answerable in a few sentences.
You can then present the answers in a couple of ways:
1. As a single post - combine all the answers to the same question in one post. In this way you get a post that is quite long and explores the topic in a variety of ways (hopefully).
2. As a series of posts - I’ve done this a couple of times […]
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