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Blogosphere Trends + Effective Calls to Action

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Even if you’re not selling anything (yet), you still want your audience to take action by commenting, interacting, sharing, Facebook “liking” your post, watching your videos, attending your events, etc. You know that most of your readers are lurkers, but how do you lure them out to become an active part of your community?

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Blogosphere Trends + Encouraging Comments

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This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). You may have heard the stat that for every 100 people who read your post, only one, on average, will leave a comment. The fact is, most of us are lurkers by nature. Lesson: Ask for comments.