I know 2 posts in a day is an overdose. But this is not really a post. Its a promotional campaign. Hit my blog as many times as possible. I got a moral booster. And may be that will get the best out of me some day. Right now all that's coming out of me is cough (eeeeeeeeeeewwww!!!)
Most products have the cost of failure built into the price of the product. For example, a film. When a film gets made, there are so many things at stake, that the all these risks are covered by the premium on the ticket. If a film ticket was prices simply by dividing the cost + profit by the number of people watching, it would be pretty cheap. Or consider for example, the price of a car. The insurance premium that the manufacturer pays is built into the cost of the car. Or say a doctor, who conducts very risky operations get paid highly...and now you ask what's the point?? The point is, this doesn't happen with a farmer.A farmer faces all the vagries of nature or monsoon. Alll his risks are unmeasurable and unpredictable. But does he get to decide his pricing? Why does market not behave perfectly when it comes to agriculture? Why doesn't the theory of high risk - high return apply to agriculture? How does a farmer hedge his risks then is the main question! The answer as I ...
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You got this one right - hit counters tell you when the readership is waning and thus when you need to effect a "change" - as in - write a new post :P .. or liven up the blog somehow.
Other things that helped me increase my readership were to keep exploring new blogs every once in a while; even post comments on those blogs - as a result, that person vists ur blog. In many cases he/she may like ur blog and recommend it to his/her regular readers!!
A corollary of the above is that exploring blogs of people you dont know increases ur readership to a greater extent than exploring blogs of people known to you. Reason? Regular readers of a friend's blogs may be regular readers of your blogs too.
And finally, as I found out the hard way :-(, one more essential task to increase readership (even retain readership) is to respond to comments on old posts. If you dont read and respond to readers' comments, that reader is less likely to return.
Anyways cheers to ur morale-boosted blogging (whatever on earth that is :p)