31 Day Blog Challenge ~ Day 23

Today's Challenge ~ Call to action.


Our challenge today was to write a post to call our readers to action.  This could be done in several ways.  Ask for comments, make a poll, ask readers to follow you, suggest a product, or a long list of others.


What I realized is we do this a lot in our blogs.  Some of our recent posts in this challenge has been to ask for feedback and comments.  We have even asked our customers to support a local charity and support local businesses.


I love to get readers involved in our blog.  This is the way, I feel, you form a true bond and get them to open up to what they want to see and do here.


So loyal readers ~ Tell me ~ How do you get readers to open up to you on your blogs?  What has worked well in the past?  Feel free to leave links so that we can all see what you have done.


I am officially calling you to action!

31 Day Blog Challenge ~ Day 13

Todays Challenge ~ Go Shopping!

Well back to school is just around the corner so I almost jumped on this one then I read a bit further.  What they wanted us to do today was look at what was drawing customers to the shops.  I decided I could use our own shop and my personal retail experience to do this so I decided to forgo the mall today.

We have been working on different marketing ideas not only for our blog but for our store.  We have had some success and some failure in both so far and we are learning from each.

The main thing is to have a good hook to draw people in.  I have found with my blog posts if I can make the title interesting folks will stop in and take a look at what we are talking about.   The same way with our sign out front.  See The Name Game for a look at what we do with our sign to draw folks into the shop.

So today I will look at my future posts to see how I can create a hook or interesting title that will get people to want to read.  This does not always have to be a funny title or bizarre but it could be something that is relevant to my customers and/or fellow bloggers.

To see how this challenge started and where it's going click here.