Comments on: Your Customers Are Busy Too

By: Terry Tay

Terry Tay — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:51:06 +0000

Wade…I think it depends on who’s weekend it was and what happened on that weekend…lol

No Max…That isn’t an invitation to start posting what you did and ate this weekend

~Terry

By: Wade

Wade — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:59:07 +0000

It depends on the content. I wont read a novel on someone’s weekend, but I will read a long post on something MMO or computer related. John Chow has been posting about is Ad:tech trip. I am really bored with hearing about his trip. I couldn’t care less on what they had for dinner. All I want to hear about is the tips and insight for making money online.

By: Terry Tay

Terry Tay — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:18:16 +0000

I agree Kaykoa…I will read a 1000 or 1500 word post if it has something that interests me or I will benefit from. For instance, I don’t mind reading the long posts on this blog.
~Terry

By: Mike Huang

Mike Huang — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:35:41 +0000

Interesting post, great read of the day I might say. Keep up the good work!

-Mike

By: Kaykoa

Kaykoa — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:17:31 +0000

Excellent points made in this article. I was surprised that you never used the word “concise” in this article. I feel that sums up your message here. In such an information-noisy world we have now, conciseness is REALLY IMPORTANT.

However, I don’t think that means that 1000-word posts are unwise; it’s a matter of how concise they are and how well they hold the attention of the reader. For instance, I recently wrote a 1259-word article about Inspiring your workspace in 7 steps and it works because it’s logically and concisely arranged.

Look at very successful bloggers like Steve Pavlina, he has been very successful and his posts are almost always over 1000 words.

To me, what’s more important is being concise as well as knowing your audience. If you know your audience, they will *want* to read an in-depth post.

By: Terry Tay

Terry Tay — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:07:28 +0000

I like to read this and a few other blogs not only for the info, but to take a break from actually working. Sure time is money, but I don’t want to be working from the time I wake up until the time I go to sleep.

Also, I don’t mind if there are blogs that have a bunch of posts everyday. I will skim the titles and read what interests me.
~Terry

By: Alex at Net-Entrepreneur.com

Alex at Net-Entrepreneur.com — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:46:53 +0000

Hi Max!

This is very true, especially the blog posts’ length.

At some point, every blogger will have a substantial amount of subscriptions in his RSS reader, and unless you have something extraordinary, there is no way he is going to read your 1000-word article!

This is a sure way to loose attention, commentators or gain more meaningless comments.

I try to keep my posts 300-500 words long, for the same reason.

Cheers,
Alex

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:01:51 +0000

Max, I had bloggingexperiment.com bookmarked, I hadn’t checked it in a while…until recently. I spent hours digesting the information in your posts. BloggingExperiment has become my must read blog. Finally, a blog that’s giving straight forward, real world advice.

My only fear for the new BloggingExperiment was that if you were going to feel obligated to post everyday the quality would suffer. Soon, we’d be reading what you had for lunch for today.

So, I’m happy to learn that you will be limiting your posts, keeping up the quality. I think the misconception that you MUST post everyday or your readership will suffer is hurting many quality publishers. I think a few years ago that was true, before people could just simply check their RSS aggregator, etc.

I’ve actually given up on many blogs that have this mentality…the biggest being that guy that posts about his lunch daily…sheesh.

Anyway, great job, you have a loyal reader.