Momentum of the Muse

Welcome to Part #4 in the Effective and Efficient Posting series. Today we will be examining how to get your readers to write your posts for you.

How do you make your readers provide the content?

• Invite them in for guest posting. Self-explanatory. Chances are they will only be willing to do this if you have a large readership because guest posting is mostly done for publicity/money/favors for friends. In the third case, a friend in need is a friend indeed. Remember that. Oh, and by the way, would anyone like the privilege of guest posting on this blog? If you don’t have an Alexa tool-bar, then I’ll have you know I’m ranked only behind google. If you do have an Alexa tool-bar, then … never mind.
• Do a survey or quiz. This is great because it can be a two parter. The first post invites reader to take part in your survey or quiz. The second part will address the findings. Make sure that your survey is on a worthwhile and important topic – like Carrie Harris’ survey on what she will do in the event of famousness. This is a question that we should all be asking ourselves regularly.
• Simply ask a question.

Do you use a reader to follow blogs, or go au naturelle? Why or why not? What do you like/not like about them?

I read today over at ProBlogger that only 11% of the population use RSS.

Please share with us in the comments section. Let’s all debate this pressing and crucial question.

See? Easy as pie. That was actually three entire questions, not one, although I’m sure you were able to count that yourself. Don’t forget to answer them, either, because this one can be a two parter as well, in the same way that the survey method can be. A following post can address the findings.

Be sure to check out the rest of the series:

• Post #1: Quote Compilations Will Save You Time (And Effort Too!)
• Post #2: Using Holidays to Maximum Advantage
• Post #3: Leveraging Link Love