Push this Button… or the Kitten Gets It

Push that button … or this kitty gets it!

Push that button … I dare you.

Push that button … because it’ll make your prettier and you’ll have whiter teeth … and lose ten pounds while eating dark chocolate! [Not really]

Push that button … pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaase.

OK, I’ve tried threatening, challenging, enticing, and begging … here’s why I REALLY want you to push that button.

Today is my blog subscription drive day.

Pushing that button and subscribing to this blog with one of these incredible feedreaders Subscribe with Bloglines Subscribe in NewsGator Online will allow you to keep up with CCP more efficiently.

For instance, today, as it is now officially 1 a.m., I have 5 articles scheduled to be posted. [Yes, I don’t have a life and really need to go to bed.]

According to Bloglines, I have 27 feedreader subscribers. On NewsGator, I think I have 6.

I’m pushing for more of you to start reading this blog through one of them! Call me greedy, call me selfish, but I put a lot of time into this blog and I don’t want you to miss it.

In fact, you should subscribe to all the blogs you read, like this one and that one, especially the blogs of those who have answered my 5 Blogging Questions [list here].

It’s “an inbox for your Internet.”

It’s the best, easiest, fastest way to read blogs!

It saves defenseless little kittys! [Not really.]

I kind of talked about feedreaders in How to Read a Blog for Pastors, but I just wanted to host my own version of a pledge drive, like K-Love or Air1 does, only it’s a “feed drive.”

So push that button, get a free account at one of those feedreaders, and subscribe to this blog and this one too. Oh, this one as well. Yeah, and you might as well get one for this one too.

… and REMEMBER, there’s a kitty at stake here!

[And, NO, honey, you can’t have a kitty! … not even if YOU push that button.]

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WARNING: An actual lesson involved here …. this post could easily go into the Blogging 101 for Pastors series as an example of how to teach your readers, and in the process accomplish some of your goals.

It took me a long time of actually reading a bunch of blogs before figuring out I could read them real quick like, just by pushing one of those big orange buttons. That big orange button looked nice to me, but I didn’t have a clue what it did. Now it saves me mucho time-o of reading the 25-plus blogs I track.

One of my goals on this site is to get you to come back to the site and read more on a regular basis. I don’t want just one quick visit from you … I want you to come back, participate through commenting (click below), maybe even buy a domain name and web site hosting from me and see what I have planned for CCP. (Probably more posts on why not to have cats as pets, for example.) And one way to do that is to get your “subscribed” to my blog. Blessings, friend!

October 25, 2006 · Filed Under Church Marketing

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3 Responses to “Push this Button… or the Kitten Gets It”

  1. Craig (mars-hill) on October 25th, 2006 6:46 am

    Cory, I’ll be one of the unspecified readers on your feedburner stats…And can I request a full feed rather than the abbreviated version. I would eat dark chocolate for that ;)

  2. Cory Miller on October 25th, 2006 7:57 am

    Craig, well, that kind of defeats one of my goals for the site … the idea is — scan the headlines, click on the ones you want to read in full. A lot of sites I subscribe to do that similarly.

    Readers, weigh in … what would you like? An appetizer or the main course? Vote by commenting on this post. :-)

    I’ll count Craig’s dark chocolate as 1.

  3. Ariel on October 25th, 2006 3:45 pm

    I let my readers have full RSS content, but partly because it makes for more indexing and tracking, as various bots scan blog feeds.

    That, and I’m just a nice guy. ;)

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