Since this site is about appreciating readers, what better thing to talk about than how to appreciate readers, right? While you can appreciate readers by giving them prizes, you can also treat your readers better by taking extra steps to interact with them in order to not only show appreciation, but to actually appreciate.

5 Ways to Appreciate Your Readers

Before I proceed, I would like to thank Ronald for helping me with all the points in this list and for coming up with some of them. Following is a list of 5 basic, yet important ways you can appreciate your site readers:

1. Interact with readers outside of your comments area

   One of the best ways to appreciate people is to communicate with them outside of your comments area. E-mail them, talk to them via an instant message, or if you feel like it and the other person allows it, call them to have a small chat. You talk to new people outside of parties in order to make friends. Why not talk to your readers outside of the comments area also to show that you are genuinely interested in communicating and knowing about them?

2. Follow up on your reader issues

   If someone comments on your site regarding an issue they may be having, try to solve their issue even if that person does not return to your site to comment later on. For example, when some people responded to my post about being disconnected from dial-up ISPs, many users commented and emailed me asking for help or for clarification over some things. Some of them never contacted me again, so I decided to contact them myself and see if their problem was solved. We communicated via e-mail and they never returned to my site, but at least I felt good since I helped them sincerely without expecting them to comment on my site more. Why did I do that? Because I want to be treated the same way too.

3. Treat all readers equally

   I have talked about this point repeatedly like a tape recorder. You should try to respond to all your blog readers equally, whether or not they agree with you over some point. For example, if you usually like responding to people who agree with you with detailed replies, you should also try to respond with detailed replies to people who disagree.

4. Promote your readers

   This is one of the best ways to appreciate your readers. You should promote and help your readers by talking about their blog or simply them in your posts. You do not need to focus only on your top commentors; pick someone randomly and start talking about them. Show everyone that you know who your readers are and that you like something about them. If you can sincerely talk about the good points of any person in the world without expecting anything in return, you will never have to live a day without someone’s respect. I guarantee it.

5. Take requests and follow through

   If you ask your readers to give you input on something, you should listen to their responses and react accordingly. Asking someone for their opinion does not mean you are obligated to respond to them, but making people spend time writing out their thoughts and ignoring those thoughts repeatedly is bad.

Those are, among many other ways, 5 important ways to appreciate your readers more than simply saying “Thank you.” Anyone can have good intentions and say “Thank you” without doing anything more, but doing extra things shows that you are willing to spend time to appreciate your readers.

Do you have any point that should be added here? How do you appreciate your readers? Please leave a comment below with any thoughts or opinions, I would really appreciate it. Thank you for reading.

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