To Bloggers: Be Humble
Unless you’re one of the rare “cult personalities” on the internet, people aren’t reading your blog because of you… they’re reading it because of what it can do for them. An All About Me blog is fine, but not if you want more readers. What we do and think isn’t nearly as interesting to potential readers as it is to us.
The above quote is from Be Humble, the second of the Seven Blogging Virtues published by the excellent Creating Passionate Users site.
(Of course, when I read that first line about “cult personalities,” I couldn’t help but think of TraderMike and Maoxian!).
Trader-X said,
March 19, 2007 @ 2:16 pm
I thought of Trader-X!
: )
Bubs said,
March 19, 2007 @ 8:37 pm
I enjoy the all about me blogs. You’d be suprised how many people are interested.
Will said,
March 19, 2007 @ 9:26 pm
X- Sorry for leaving you out of that main post… I just took it for granted that we all know you have the cultest of cult followings! How many times have we other guys heard, “Oh yeah? Well, Trader-X says…”
Bubs - I enjoy the all about you blogs as well