Comments on: My Article for the SFWA about Personalization http://www.mlvwrites.com/2009/07/my-article-for-the-sfwa-about-personalization.html Monica Valentinelli: Author, Game Designer and Consultant Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:06:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Check Out the New SFWA Website and My Article! http://www.mlvwrites.com/2009/07/my-article-for-the-sfwa-about-personalization.html/comment-page-1#comment-3230 Check Out the New SFWA Website and My Article! Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:30:57 +0000 http://www.mlvwrites.com/?p=981#comment-3230 [...] While you’re checking out the new website, you might want to read an article I wrote for SFWA about personalization in online marketing. [...] [...] While you’re checking out the new website, you might want to read an article I wrote for SFWA about personalization in online marketing. [...]

]]> By: Tracy http://www.mlvwrites.com/2009/07/my-article-for-the-sfwa-about-personalization.html/comment-page-1#comment-3194 Tracy Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:14:45 +0000 http://www.mlvwrites.com/?p=981#comment-3194 That's a pretty interesting article. I thought of a question, though, and that is: how do you lure someone to read your blog? I read several authors' blogs, but they are all authors whose books I enjoyed BEFORE reading the blog (Neil Gaiman and Charlaine Harris, for example). Now I follow them, and get excited about the clips from their new books -- but I'd be unlikely to read the blog of an author I'd never heard of. And in contrast... I have never read any of John Scalzi's books and am unlikely to do so. I read his blog because the blog is entertaining, and got there through recommendations of friends. They didn't recommend his books -- they recommended his website. So that's a different angle on the problem. That’s a pretty interesting article. I thought of a question, though, and that is: how do you lure someone to read your blog? I read several authors’ blogs, but they are all authors whose books I enjoyed BEFORE reading the blog (Neil Gaiman and Charlaine Harris, for example). Now I follow them, and get excited about the clips from their new books — but I’d be unlikely to read the blog of an author I’d never heard of.

And in contrast… I have never read any of John Scalzi’s books and am unlikely to do so. I read his blog because the blog is entertaining, and got there through recommendations of friends. They didn’t recommend his books — they recommended his website. So that’s a different angle on the problem.

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