Improving Communication
August 17th, 2007 by Carl Thomas.Nothing spiritual here. Just some advise from a tech guy.
Can your readers contact you? You would not believe the people you will come into contact with through your blog. If there is no way to contact you, you can’t believe it because you won’t come into contact with them. Get a contact form. Here is the one I use. I am simply amazed at the number of blogs that give you no way to contact the author. It is a sure fire way to tell the readers that you are here to talk and they are there to listen. No conversation desired.
If you are new to blogging and wonder why nobody ever comments on your blog make sure they are able to. Do you require people to register to leave a comment? Unless you are running the New York Times (who by the way does not require registration to comment) this is not going to happen. If you had a contact form I would have sent you a note telling you to turn off the “require commentors to register” feature, but you didn’t have one.
And for those of you that maintain a church website: Is the location of your church clearly spelled out on an easy to find page? Nothing demonstrates small vision like having a map of your church that says “we are on the corner of Johnson and Peach.” What you are telling the world is, “If you don’t know this intersection, you would not be interested in our church.” There have been church sites that I went to that I could not even determine what country they are in. At the very least your church contact page (please tell me you at least have that) should have the address of the church, a phone number, and a contact email address.
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