What!! How would that apply to blogging? How do you involve people, to participate in your blogs?

As the saying goes: 

“Put yourself in other people’s shoes!”

If you had to `walk a mile in their shoes’ you may start to understand their problems, needs and desires. What turns them on and what they don’t like to see read or hear about. 

Getting to know your `customers’:

How do you get to know people? Do you just look at them and hope they will talk to you? How do you make friends? 

• First take more interest in other people and what they do. Watch their behaviour and speech patterns.  
• Find out what interests them most. What are their hobbies, skills and talents?
• Do you also like doing those things?  Things that you both can relate to, and could build a friendship on? 
• Friends support and help one another. So there must be a beneficial factor in your blogs, to help others too. 

How much research do you do before setting up your own website? 

What size shoes are you wearing?

Once you know what people like most on the internet: 

1. Could any of your skills and talents fit in with that? And be used to help others?  
2. Consider how this can be done. Draw up a plan of action, so you can `walk-the-talk’. 

When your `shoes’ fit the bill, their needs, you have a foundation to build on. 

How smart looking are your shoes?

• Are your `shoes’ stylish and sensational? How dramatic is your opening image to you blog? 
• Is there enough impact, for people to stop and take another look? 
• How dynamic and impressive are your titles and sub-headlines of your blogs? 
• Would people want to buy `shoes’ just like yours? That is, buy into what you are saying, doing and selling. 

How often do you wear your shoes?

How often do you post your blogs? Are you coping? What can you manage? One blog a day, three a week, one a week? The more you do, the more you trend, and in the case of Steemit, the more you earn. 

How far can you spread yourself? 

For me, I post three times a week. Why? Quality means a lot to me. I like time to do research, think up and groom my blogs. 

And because I’m an artist, I need time to paint pictures. Some of the paintings I use within my Steemit blogs. Oil paintings take longer to dry (between layers) than watercolours. Also, I have an art website (www.adafagan.co.za) which also needs my attention. 

So I’m wearing many shoes. 

How many shoes do you wear?

• If you want to write and post one or more posts a day, you obviously need supporting staff? In that case, hire people who can do what you can’t do or haven’t time for. 
• How many topics can you think up and write about? Having a life full of experiences, makes you a more interesting person. And the more skills you have, the more you are able to help others. 

Do you change your shoe styles and colours?

For example: Been an artist, I change brushes, to put more expression in my brushstrokes. Contrast of smooth blended areas and textured areas, gives paintings emotional impact. 

In writing your blog content, you use different speech patterns and jargon terms, to get people’s attention and increase their interest. 

So what is the style of your shoes? With each outfit you wear it’s like setting a fashion trend. So people wonder what `outfit’ you’re going to wear next!  

You may wonder:

Why describe how to blog using `shoes’? 

• Often the usual direct approach is too concise and boring. There is no room for reasoning or use imagination to be able to conceive a new concept. 
• But saying it in different ways; opens up another dimension of thought… somehow it strikes and clicks in one’s mind… and a new concept is born, as a wow-moment. Because we all see, perceive and pick up on things so differently. 
• If people can relate to it, it’s more likely to touch the heart. Whatever touches the heart will be remembered much longer, than what is generally accepted as an accustomed fact. 

Conclusion: 

So been unique in the way you write your blogs and express yourself, makes them more interesting and effective.