Ask your readers what THEY want

[ses5909]

Have you ever asked your readers to tell you what THEY want to read about? It's a great way to get ideas for posts as well as to let your readers know that you CARE what they want.

[Cedric]

In my GoodBoyGoneBad, alot of people told me that they wanna see me doing crazy stuffs, which sometimes I fulfilled their dreams. :P As for my new blog, don't think I can easily allow them to tell me what to do because it's a niche. And speaking of that blog, I am so grateful to have joined TBE, I learned a lot of things and I was hoping to make a banner telling people that I learn a lot through TBE but my photoshop skills is ... super awful. :(

[Michael Martin]

I have, but I haven't gotten great responses from that.

Instead, I get my most specific reader ideas whenever I post about one topic, and then they ask a question about something related to that topic in the comments. It seems that the post triggers them to ask that question they'd forgotten they wanted to know the answer to. :)

As well as that, I get my ideas from judging how readers reacted to different posts. At this point, I have a fairly good idea of what styles/topics etc. have gone down well. It's not perfect, but over time that will get better and better, allowing me to continue writing targetted articles.

[goldfries]

my readers usually ask for topics, if not then it's part of their post that inspires a new topic.