Some people just want the blog content sent to their email and that’s it. Like, RSS for email. Others don’t want the post updates because they have their own rss readers or just like coming to the blog, but would like additional content – which is why I have Aweber.

For those who just want the blog posts, I want to honor that and not bug them with broadcasts and information they aren’t primarily signed up for.

I do have a question about why you separate your Newsletter content from your Posts Updates? I receive both, but why not have your readers subscribe once? Are you tracking something besides who downloads your E-Book? K.

You inspire me too – more than you know.

Cheers,
Olusegun

I have escaped 9-5 too but i still work almost has hard as my businesses cannot run without me at the moment.

No, I didn’t study human psychology…but I’ve always been interested in it from a business/marketing point of view! Thanks again, and I hope to hear from you again soon!

I guess i’d have to step up too!

Cheers,
olusegun

I totaly love this. I’m hooked to your site as from this moment on. Great post. I have linked to you already.

i guess you do all your writing alone right?

How i wish i could have more time to write too. I totally love it – more than 16 hours of the day, there is no electricity in my city (Lagos, Nigeria).

Did you study human psychology or something. YOU ARE ONE TRAFFIC MAGNET (screaming )

Cheers,
olusegun

Anyways, it’s always a pleasure to provide some info that may help others. Thanks for stopping by, as always! Cheers!

You have a great system here and I have taken notes – if I can implement but a portion I will have improved my business plan.

Thanks for all the good stuff!

best……………..valentina

Thank you very much for sharing!

Rod

Trying to avoid shamelessly plugging lol – but I wrote an article on the topic the other day and came the conclusion that it really doesn’t matter about your article length. I’ve seen posts from 200 words up to 3000 words. I think you just say what you have
to say and the providing it good quality, the rest will work itself out.

So word counts isn’t an issue, what is important is to get the point across in the article.

Cheers,
Vincent

Creating content is honestly my biggest flaw and my greatest strength. It takes me forever to think of an idea, however when i do i usually blow it out of the water.

I never really thought of planning out what type of blog post i would write before i did. I think i’ll try this in the future.

Also it just dawned on me that “asking the reader” posts could really create great community and relationship.

Once again, Great post!

-Matt

But I needed those paragraphs to get from A to Z on a given topic, and I don’t want to scrimp on what needs to be there. Magazines do this, and it always seems like they’re missing so much information. Of course I don’t want to add filler either; I hate that.

Sometimes, a topic lent itself to a series (Part I, II, etc.) but some of those parts went long as well. I have a list of several posts that will be like 5 paragraphs only, but they belong in their own post I think. I think the content will be compelling to my audience, so maybe it’s ok it varies in length.

Thoughts?

I always keep a Blog Post Writing Guide, a single sheet bullet point list, in front of me as I’m learning how to do this. I am writing several “pre-launch” posts so I have content when the site goes live. It’s teaching me a lot, and you’re helping me add to this list both directly and by example. By the way, do you have blog post length guidelines you use, such as word-count ranges?