I remember watching a sales video with a slick American salesman’s voice introducing himself as ‘the person’, but when I sat on a webinar with the guy he turned out have a slow Indian accent. Not what I expected and I was kind of put off from him and his products.

Regards
Andi

Denise,

You may be right about that. I suppose it depends somewhat on the reader and how into blogs they are, if they blog themselves, etc.

I do think giving them a specific call to action helps focus the direction of their comment (unless they chose to go a different direction with it, as I will admit I sometimes do).

Thanks for your comment, Rebecca. I tend to think that it’s not that people don’t know what to do, it’s that it doesn’t occur to them because there are hundreds of other things screaming for their attention. By asking for the comment, you’re bringing it top of mind where they can make a conscious decision to act or not. Blog on!

This really showed how much difference the call to action makes. It’s almost like people didn’t know what to do since I didn’t flat out tell them!

Thanks for stopping by, Walt. In my experience, most bloggers don’t include a call to action, yet that is the key to making your content work for you…blog on!