26 Aug 10 Secret of Running a Contest and Getting Torrents of Visitors to Your Blog
Winning has emotional value. People love to win prizes, and more than the actual price they win, it is the feeling of winning defeating everyone else is what motivates people to participate in a contest. You can capitalize on this, and get more and more people to your blog.
Starting a contest is not a big deal, and nor it takes a lot of money to run a contest on your blog, contrary to what most blogger thinks. You need to just be creative in the prize that you offer to the contest winner. It could be either cash prize, or funky new gadget (ipad, etc.), or it could be the product, services, or consultation that you offer as a paid product.
If you do not want to go through the process of creating and running a contest then you can also think of sponsoring a contest. This, for many bloggers, is the best thing to do, especially for the new bloggers, as they do not have sufficient traffic or network to get more visitors.
2 types of contest you can run
Content-led contests
This is a kind of contest in which your visitors will have to spend some time creating some kind of content (comment, guest post, reviews, etc.). To participate in this type of contest, a visitor will need to spend good amount of time, so the reward should be comparable to the time spent in creating content.
Click-led contest
Promote my blog, retweet my posts, share with your friends, etc. are the examples of click-led contests. In this kind of contest, the visitors do not need to spend more than 5 minutes in order to participate in the contest. This could be a big crowd-puller, as not everyone enjoys the idea of writing for some other blog just to get a chance to win contest.
With this, we will bid adieu only to meet next time around with more information on contests and types of contests you can run.
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20 Apr 10 Research Shows Teens Love Texting More Than Calling
According to a research conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, it was found that the US teens prefer text over cell phone calling for daily communication with their friends. Cell-phone calling was at number two in the research.
88% of total teen cell phone users and 72% of all the teens in the United States use their cell phone to send text message — it is a sharp rise of 21% in the number of teen texters in the last 3 plus years, which was 51% in 2006. And 54% of the US teens are daily texters, I.e., they send text messages daily. In recent years, the cell phone penetration among teens (12 to 17 year olds) has also increase from 45% in 2004 to 72% in 2010.
Teen Texting data
Among all the US teens who send at least one occasional text message to their friends:
- 50% sends more than 50 text messages a day, or 1,500 text messages a month.
- 1 in every 3 sends more than 100 text messages per day, or 3,000 text messages a month.
- 15% of teens who indulge in sending text messages, sends 200 texts a day, or more than 6,000 text messages a month.
- Boys typically receive 30 text messages in a day, whereas, girls receive 80 text messages every day.
- On an average, teenagers between 12-13 years of age send and receive 20 text messages every day.
- On an average, teenagers between 14-17 years of age send and receive 60 text messages every day.
- On an average, girls between 14-17 years of age send 100 or more text messages every day, or 3,000 text messages a month.
Teenagers’ love for texting is evident from the above data, but to get more detail, see the image below.
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10 Feb 10 Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 5
A good talker, a good entertainer gets lots of friend compared to the one who keep him to himself. People make befriend people who can entertain them, inform them, and with whom they look cool when hanging out. I will tell you how to make your blog do all these in this post. Let’s not waste any more time and learn the trick.
Attract with your headline
A Headline is like an opening sentence that people use to strike conversation with their friends. The quality of an opening sentence (headline) gives the listener an idea about what is to come in the conversation. The more attractive an opening sentence will be the more glued your listeners will be.
Communicate intention with a sub-heading
If your headline failed to get the attention you sought, say one more sentence and make them know your intention behind the headline. You can use sub-heading to clarify the purpose even when the headline is powerful. A sub-heading helps you retain the interest of your target audience. Use it judiciously.
Make your read R-E-A-D Your Blog
How good will it be for your blog if people coming to your blog and leave it even without caring to read it. It would be devastating, isn’t it? If you are facing this problem with your blog then ask yourself why is it so? Is it because you do not have anything new to say, or is it because you do not know how to say it? You also need to check your writing style and find out if it is suited for the topic you are writing about or not. Not every style is suitable for all types of writing.
I have shown you the areas where problem may persist, which puts off your friends (visitors). Read into these tips and see what you need to do to make your headline click, sub-heading explain, and blog-post attractive.
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