Mr Seth Godin himself is passing along a few thoughs (56) to get traffic to your blog, check it out interesting.
Still in one of his recent posts, Seth explains why he is not taking comments, although I may understand why he is not, from my little not really visited blog compared to his, I will say,my first recommendation to get traffic is: ACCEPT COMMENTS...if blogs open discussion, then the starting point is to accept comments, so feel free to comment, either positively or negatively...
Discussion is the key to progress, no? Of course, I really respect Seth and his thinking, still I have an opinion, and I really think comments help blogs to grow...If you do have comments, feel free to share them here!
By the way, I am offering to all to take Seth's comments here, ready to Listen! :)
When I wrote on my blog today about who people don't comment on blog, I had no idea this conversation (around the net!) was going on BUT I can tell you that I agree with you.
I may never achieve that God-like marketing guru level of achievement but I will always be thrilled to pieces when someone comments one way or another about my post(s) - I believe that when I don't need to hear from other people, I will be to far removed from people to be useful - even needed. :-)
Tammy
Posted by: Tammy Ames | 06/07/2006 at 10:57 PM
Agreed, sometimes who knows we will be experts, maybe we already are...but not yet gurus! :) so we can listen to grow, thanks Avinash.
Posted by: Laurent Flores | 06/06/2006 at 12:21 AM
Laurent: Perhaps the difference is that we have not achieved the Expert / Guru / Leader / Thinker / God state yet and Seth has. So we find it more meaningful to accept comments and have that intelligent exchange (to learn, to engage in a conversation with others we would never meet etc) but he does not have to. :)
I agree with you that Seth's blog is quite valuable, even without the "listening" component enabled.
Avinash.
Posted by: Avinash Kaushik | 06/05/2006 at 04:24 PM