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Or maybe not.
We haven’t had any blogger interviews lately! The reason is simple. We have spent months coming up with 5 base questions and 5 questions that are specific to the blogger we interview, that takes lots of time and research on the interviewers part. But we have found that even though we only send these interviews to bloggers that have signed up, so many never get around to returning the interview filled out, or some do weeks later, which leave huge lag times in between them.
Our goal would be to have at least one a week, but it seems we need 20 sign-ups at a time to get 4 published and its just too much for me to ask that of any interviewer. So, instead, we have been focusing on boutiques that are eager to get the word out during their giveaway posts for our interviews on our blog.
In the new year, we have decided to start a weekly post on bloggers we recommend to go visit for the day. We will recommend blogs and specific posts if we find something that stands out. Additionally, on Wednesdays, we will full time be running a Wordfilled Wednesday where you recommend YOUR favorite posts in our Mr. Linky.
This will allow us to still talk about bloggers, but not rely on interviews coming back. If you have any other suggestions on how we can go about promoting bloggers aside from the above changes, please let me know, I love new ideas.
Trisha
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Sounds good to me. Honestly, the featured blog every week was too much for me to read. I like it monthly.
I love the idea of the Mr. Linky on wednesdays. But I think there’s already a “wordfilled wednesday” that tags scripture to a picture. Kind of a spinoff version of “wordless wednesday.” But your idea is wonderful.
If you decide that you’d like to interview another blogger, I’d love to try the interview form. It sounds interesting. Have you thought about simply publishing your interview questions so that bloggers can answer them and send their answers you at their convenience? That way there would be no time pressure for those interested in being featured, and you would be able to stock up on interviews. You could also pick and choose which ones to publish.