Comments on: Getting Blog Readers to Convert – Say Hello to PAT

By: Blogging Leads to New Skills

Blogging Leads to New Skills — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:38:18 +0000

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By: One Knockout Comment Strategy for Your Blog

One Knockout Comment Strategy for Your Blog — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:46:05 +0000

[...] Most bloggers never do this, so if you do it, you will be way ahead of other bloggers in your niche (who are all gunning your audience’s precious attention) [...]

By: Erica DeWolf

Erica DeWolf — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:30:20 +0000

Great content! This will definitely come in handy when considering future conversions.

Not so sure I like the slidecast for this topic. For more visual concepts it would probably work more effectively.

But I wasn’t familiar with SlideShare before, it might come in handy in the future. Thanks for the heads up!

By: James Chartrand

James Chartrand — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:31:15 +0000

@ Michael – Let’s you and I be rebels

But I hear you on the shiny new toy. I’m the same

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:20:22 +0000

@James: Well, lucky for you my blog is mostly text. I love learning new stuff and screwing around with it. Maybe seeing if there’s a way bloggers can use it. Text is still the workhorse, but it doesn’t sound very exciting if I were to announce that in 2008, I was going to write more text posts.

By: James Chartrand

James Chartrand — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:32:22 +0000

You know, I love your posts. I really do.

But I hate videos and slide shows. I know they’re the new “in” thing for people who don’t like text and all, but…

I wish there was a way for people to post these and give the written version, too. Because there are plenty of people who like text better.

By: Jay F.H.

Jay F.H. — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:41:05 +0000

Haha…no I wasn’t going for the weirdo from SNL either. It was just a little conversation demonstrating permission, attention, and trust.

Great idea with the whole SlideShare thing, I can see myself reading alot more blogs if they were actually read to me.

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:29:39 +0000

@Walt – Thanks, I’m going to write about SlideShare soon, and SlideCasting, specifically (or, maybe I’ll do a SlideCast on it, duh). I thought about getting a picture of the SNL Pat character, but I didn’t relish getting a DMCA notice from the NBC lawyerbots. Also, a sexually ambiguous weirdo isn’t exactly the metaphor I was looking for!

By: Walt Goshert

Walt Goshert — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:22:08 +0000

Jay… Are you thinking about that “PAT” from the Saturday Night Live skits?

Michael,Kudos… you appealed to my inner PAT… and sold me on SlideShow.

Walt

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:52:49 +0000

@Jay – some interesting things going on in your head, man.

@Heather – Thanks, although if you go back and look at it again carefully you will notice there isn’t a single bullet in the whole thing. I hate bulleted point slide shows–they are so lame. I have vowed to never use them! A great resource for creating better presentations is Presentation Zen.