3 Ways To Provoke A Response Without Endangering Your Soul
April 29th, 2008 Categories: Christian Blogging Tips
What’s the extent that you’re willing to go to in order to provoke your readers to respond to your Christian blog articles? Are you willing to say something outrageous? Are you going to do something crazy on video? I’m not necessarily against any of these tactics, provided that what you’re doing on your blog glorifies Christ.
Here are three cool ideas for something you can do that will get readers involved without getting yourself struck by lightning in the process:
1) Write an outrageous headline. If you still haven’t learned lesson numeral uno, it’s easily summarized by saying, “The headline is king.” If you’re still not sure about what is and what is not a good healine, click here. Now that we’ve got that hammered out, stretch yourself and write something outrageous that will evoke a response. A good example would be “Three Reasons Why You’re Not As Smart As You Think.” Everybody and their brother is going to read that article, and you still haven’t allowed old Screwtape to gain any ground.
2) Use an outrageous photo. Here’s a good example. Don’t get carried away with this. Keep it sanctified.
3) Challenge somebody. I love a good, old-fashioned double-dog-dare. And, from my blogging experience, it’s a pretty effective way to solicit a response from your readers. A good example might be if I said something like, “I double-dog-dare you to click on this link and watch an outrageous video about the best church in the entire world.” See how easy that was?
Seriously, we have to be careful with the “shock and awe” type of blog in our genre. We must glorify Christ in all we do, but we still have to be interesting enough to build readership. Why? Cuz my baby-mamma needs some cash. Just kidding. The Lord has given us all the opportunity to influence others on the internet. Creating some buzz could be your way of stewarding that opportunity.
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