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How to Warm Up Your Blog Readers to Become Fully Engaged
Welcome to Episode 112. Today I am kicking off a mini-series of podcasts that are designed to help you to move your readers from being cold towards you and your blog, to being fully engaged towards you and your blog.



I’m going to talk about the benefits of getting your readers warmed up, and walk you through a series of steps to do that.

Then over the next four upcoming episodes I’m going to get strategic and tactical and give you some practical exercises that you can do to help move your readers through these four stages.

In the sixth episode, I am going to give you some case studies and examples. Go to iTunes and subscribe to the podcast, so you don’t miss any episodes in the series.
In Today’s Episode - How to Warm Up Your Blog Readers and Make Them Raving Fans

Why readers may be cold towards us

Blog readers can be incredibly distracted
They might be a bit suspicious of us
They are just clicking links in a Zombie like state
Short attention span


Benefits of warm readers

Readers that have warmed up to your blog return again and again
This reinforces your brand and makes you more memorable
Warm readers contribute to your site and comment or answer asks questions
Builds social proof
Share content and help to promote
They trust us and take action on our calls to action


How to warm up our readers

Steps readers need to go through to get to this point




The 4 Stages for Warming Our Blog Readers

Challenge: Readers that are completely unaware that we exist. Objective: Get their attention.
Challenge: The readers are not interested. Objective: Get them interested.
Challenge: They are about to leave our site. Objective: Get their connection, or else they are gone.
Challenge: Our readers remain passive. Objective: Get engagement.

 Where Is Your Weak Link?
I’m going to get into these tactics in the next episodes. Before I get into them I would like for you to ponder the question of “where is your weak link”?

You may have had success with one or two of these tactics, so we want to focus on getting all of these stages working towards your blog.
How did you go with today’s episode?
I would love to hear your feedback of where you think your weak link is. I would also like to see examples of how you have overcome these weak links.

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Update: Here's the next episodes in this series:

Episode 113: How to Get More Eyeballs (iTunes)
Episode 114: How to Covert First Time Visitors Into Readers (iTunes)
Episode 115: How to Get More Subscribers (iTunes)
Episode 116: How to Get More Reader Engagement (iTunes)
Episode 117: Case Study: How one Blogger Created a Simple Funnel to Make $28,000 (iTunes).

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