{"id":1390,"date":"2008-01-24T16:15:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T22:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/01\/who-reads-blogs\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T16:13:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T22:13:38","slug":"who-reads-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/01\/who-reads-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Reads Blogs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Wheeler has a good article on the ERE website today titled What Makes a Blog Work?<\/a>\u00a0 There is excellent information within the article if you are looking to start your own blog (something I strongly encourage).<\/p>\n

A survey published last fall by Forrester’s Charlene Li <\/a>indicates that “24% of Gen Yers read blogs, which is twice as often as the 12% of Gen Xers (ages 27-40) and three times the 7% of Young Boomers (ages 41-50) that read blogs.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Those types of stats are always fascinating to me.\u00a0 After that, Wheeler provides 4 tips that all have merit:<\/p>\n
Short and Fun<\/p>\n
Personal<\/p>\n
Story-based<\/p>\n
Authenticity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He expounds on each point with insight.\u00a0 I recommend you read the entire thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kevin Wheeler has a good article on the ERE website today titled What Makes a Blog Work?\u00a0 There is excellent information within the article if you are looking to start your own blog (something I strongly encourage). Here is a juicy tidbit: A survey published last fall by Forrester’s Charlene Li indicates that “24% of Gen Yers read blogs, which is twice as often as the 12% of Gen Xers (ages 27-40) and three times the 7% of Young Boomers (ages 41-50) that read blogs.” Those types of stats are always fascinating to me.\u00a0 After that, Wheeler provides 4 tips that all have merit: Short and Fun Personal Story-based Authenticity… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[251,250,252],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-mq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}