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1. Go out of your way.
2. Make things easy for them to talk to you, then engage in discussion.
3. Direct and guide visitors to where they can go to ask a question, like that bright, shiny new email logo to the right 
4. Sign up for all the social networking sites you can mange to get ahold of. Then add them to ping.fm to reduce the amount of time you spend using them.
5. Find people in your niche and comment, comment and comment (sincerely).
6. Print business cards and hand them out to people at any chance.
7. Write guest posts.
8. Create videos.
9. Start a contest.
10. Give things away and make it easy to share.
11. Offer and take free advice.
12. Be yourself!
13. Have fun!!
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Get CONNECTED with your audience: 1. Go out of your way.
2. Make things easy for them to talk to you, t.. http://tinyurl.com/4gueoy
I really need to do a video or 2. As for the other stuff I try to do these thing but even coming up with a good contest is probably not that hard just needd to work on t I guess.
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@Bruno, Contests are awesome and can be so easy sometimes to run. I have a new one coming up starting tomorrow.
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I recently took the captcha off my comments due to many negative complaints about it.
Having fun is the key. If you don’t like blogging then it becomes a chore and you won’t do it.
Not only read other blogs but put their advice into practice. I had no idea about ping.fm! I do now and it will be put in use immediately.
Thanks Josh.
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Great advice, and it’s not easy to retain readers, and it’s very more difficult to turn readers into active participants even contributors. These require careful planning and good execution.
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Just about every post I write has “What do you think?” or “Have any other ideas to share?” at the end…sometimes I get good responses, other times i feel like nobody reads my blog(s) despite the good traffic numbers & adsense clicks. The video thing I haven’t gotten into yet – with 2 little kids running amok its hard enough for me to sit & watch them, let alone make one!
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I agree with start a contest, thats the easiest way to attract blogger to take part. Personally I have take part in many contests.
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the point number 13 is one ofthe most important. if you are not able to have fun then what is the point?
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I was thinking about getting business cards, thats a great idea. Thanks!
I love the point of being yourself I am sure you can’t fake that.
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Great points. I have been following most of these apart from making a video. Never really thought about that, thanks for the mention!
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Salwa, about the video, its not as easy as it sound. I read an ebook that you need to have the right background and lightning as well. Can’t be too bright or too dark for people to view.
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With that big ‘email me’ sign, definitely no one could missed that.
Yeap, contest is a good way to engage with the audience
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“Have fun and be yourself” those are the points that we tend to forget and become too serious.
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@wiehanne, I agree with you.
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I love to comment more rather than doing video. I have not do video before. No plan on doing that in future.
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Same here, Sherry. The video comment seems to be fun. But, I’m too lazy to do that.
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@wiehanne if someday you are not lazy and willing to try buzz me. I love to see your video
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@wiehanne are you going to have contest in your other blog?
@Sherry
Yeap. It’s been keeping me busy for the past few days.
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@wiehanne I see that you contest has started.
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Yea, thanks for being part of the sponsor.
Contest is fun~!
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@wiehanne it’s fun to sponsor and I am hoping that will boost my blogs.
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yea, i’m hoping the same too
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hoping for the best for us.
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Very useful tips, thanks. Good article and I will put some of these into practice.