10 Tips to Add Personality to Your Blog
August 9, 2008 · Reading Time: 1min 12sec · Print This Article
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Branding is an integral part of any product. A dimension of branding is product personality. Simply put it, if you asked someone to imagine your product as a person, they could without much difficulty.
Your blog should have personality too. That’s one of the key differences of blogs and regular websites: the blog speaks with a certain ego.
With that, here are my 10 tips to add personality to your blog:
- Have a colour scheme to your blog. Colours help to increase familiarity, and people tend to like things that are familiar to them more than unfamiliar stuffs.
- Put a picture of your face on your blog. To your reader, it’s comforting to know that you’re human.
- Put a tagline or slogan below the title. It’s like small talk after the big speech (title).
- Have a style of writing that is not too formal and fits your blog culture too.
- Encourage and respond to comments in the comments section. Engage in the commentary.
- Use “I” when it becomes personal. Use “We” when you can share the success with your readers.
- Add a graphic signature after each posting. Here’s a sample by lorelle: lorelle.wordpress.com
- Relate your daily experiences in your blogs where possible. Readers love the ability to peek into your life sometimes.
- Have humour. A little sarcasm once in awhile can do some magic.
- Ensure that it’s easy to figure out how to contact you. My own standard is that it should take only 1 click to get to a page where I can reach you, regardless of which page I’m at. It’s like customer service: I want to be able to press zero and speak to the operator at every number option I land myself in.
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