So you want to know what I spent a good chunk of my Friday morning at VerticalResponse doing? You won't believe it. Let me start the story.
When I ordered Movable Type, the software version of Typepad, they requested my email as my username. I get it, we do it too. But when I found that Typepad was better for us for the time being, I registered for it and they wouldn't let me use the same username for two different products. A bit of a flaw for Six Apart, but I get that these things happen when you buy a company. Hey Six Apart, put two products purchased under my username in the database when you get a chance. I should walk over and tell them, they're right up the block :-)
So what did I use? My Yahoo! email address. The address I RARELY check. It's the one I use for the things I don't really want, or to test campaigns. We all have one, I even PAY extra for it.
To my surprise, 40 people had emailed me since about October! So you guessed it, I spent hours Friday replying back to as many of you as I could, hopefully with the info you requested. Apologies for being so late folks.
Now you all know I love email, but the beauty of blogs is that now readers become involved. And for those of you who did email me you all had great questions, and they could have been commented on by many different people giving you many different perspectives. I've even been known to comment on a comment!
So, please, I encourage you all to comment. Just click on "Comments" under the post you want to talk about. If you don't feel comfy with it, I get it, go ahead and email me, I changed my email address so I'll get it and I'll try to respond in a more timely fashion. But I do post comments every single day they come in.
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Posted by: ellaela-qz | December 14, 2008 at 03:58 PM
Good question.
In Typepad, can you reverse the order of comments ? I find that "newest first" (like you use) confuses the hell out of me. YMMV.
Posted by: John Hyde | January 30, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Thanks for reading Juliet, and thanks for the comment. Keep them coming!
Posted by: Janine Popick | January 29, 2008 at 08:36 AM
As a blogger using the Movable Type Platform, I understand where you are coming from. The struggle of getting good comments is one faced by all serious bloggers. Reader Comments encourage a discussion between the reader and the blogger. I epecially enjoy reading a discussion between two bloggers that spans across two separate blogs. Great Job on the success of your Marketing Blog. It is a winner. It provides readers useful and practical information to implement and tailor to their own needs, without much efffort.
Juliet Sallette
Posted by: Juliet Sallette | January 29, 2008 at 07:46 AM
Followup emails are a blast from time to time. When turning on an address that has not been used in a while. Akin to opening up a time-capsule of sorts :-) It's great to add comments to a blog. I'd love to get more of those on some of the 4 blogs that I run. Have not found a great method yet to get people reading those things, even with worthwhile content. You can't please all the people all the time, and figuring out just what they want...not happening easily.
Best,
Michael Murdock, CEO
Posted by: Michael Murdock | April 09, 2006 at 08:04 AM