You have got to understand there's high tech, there's low tech, then their's me, no tech. If your in the third group, as I am, do not despair. I wrote this just for you.
COMMENTS WANTED
We all want comments on our blogs and websites, because it shows we're engaged with our online community. Hold on, not so fast, do you honestly remember the last time you were engaged? I mean old school engagement, wife, kids, house, dog. That was eazy compared to this.
NOW YOU WANT THEM - THEN YOU DID'NT
So here we go again, older but none the wiser. We're going to up the ante and get engaged online. That just sounds weird, scary, and dangerous, but everybody's doing it.
BEG NO MORE
I will assume you have given up on begging for comments from friends, family and co-workers. Friends ignore you, co-workers avoid you, and family has disowned you.
DO NOT DESPAIR
Today I'am going to show you 5 hacks to this scary but necessary step to engaging your online community. Steps to get you out of the literary weeds and back on the course.
WRITE RIGHT
Conventional wisdom is to write something thoughtful, compelling, and life changing. It never works, I tried that once. It's not enough to get your commenter, a grizzly bear so to speak, out of hibernation.
DINO-MITE COMMENT
Even worse our potential commenter may be the apex predator of apex predators that's right the T- Rex of commenters and their little short arms just can't quite reach the comment button.
ENRAGE TO ENGAGE
That's right you got to make him good and mad. Make him want to devour you. Turn you into literary confetti. He's on a mission now to seek and destroy. A real call to action.
1 LOW HANGING FRUIT
You just need to misspell a word. This is probably the way you will get your first comment . I told you it would be eazy. Enjoy the low hanging fruit. As you get better at writing this will get harder to do.
2 CAPITAL OFFENSE
Just as it says, misuse CAPITALIZATION, commit a lesser crime like punctuation or do some misdemeanor with , [ ] ; ' / ?. This should bring out the comment police.
3 YOU'LL NEVER WORD IN THIS TOWN AGAIN
Misuse a word ( like using there when you mean their ). I think I have already done that. I can never get it write right. That's two-to-too bad.
4 PULL OUT THE BIG GUNS
If you actually have to write something to get a comment. Write about something superficial. Nothing thought provoking, because provoking just isn't nice. Write about who shot JR not about who shot JFK.
5 BE SINCERE BUT SUPERFICIAL
On second thought nobody knows who either of these are. Write about something contemporary like what the Kardashian's are wearing or not wearing.
6 ( A bonus ) I HAVE NO COMMENT
If you've made it this far and still have no success. Short of standing on a street corner with a sign saying will work for comments. ( it won't work don't ask me how I know - I have no comment ). There's just one possibility left. We're going to have to get techy, we're going into the belly of beast. Into your settings where no blogger goes and returns. (at least not on the same day).
INTELLIGENT DESIGN
Maybe I spoke too soon, if you found this post helpful, you probably should despair.
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