What is feedback? Why feedback is important for a blog?
Feedback refers to the opinion expressed by customers about your products, services, blog or website. The opinion can be either positive or negative and one has to accept it wholeheartedly in order to improve. Feedback helps to bring about a change in order to improve the current situation and avoid repeating the same mistakes in future.
Feedback is very important for a blogger and it can help them build better blog and blog posts. You may think that you have written an excellent blog post but the feedback suggests otherwise. The only option left is to start from scratch and rewrite blog post. The result would be an excellent blog post but writing the blog post involves huge investment of time. You have to find a method to get feedback at the appropriate time so that there is no need for rewriting the blog posts. This is just one example, let us look at the importance of feedback to a blogger in detail.
1. It helps you to improve
You need to listen to your customers in order to improve your blog or design a product that your customers need. While designing a product customer feedback at several stages of development ensures that final product is one that solves their problems and meets their demands. Customer feedback helps you understand the changes you need to bring about in your blog in order to make it better. A blog without feedback is a dead blog that cannot survive and flourish for long.
2. It helps measure effectiveness of your blog
Customer feedback will help you understand the effectiveness of your blog. Ideally, as a blogger you should have more feedback that is positive and less negative feedback. Conducting regular surveys help you to measure the level of satisfaction of your readers. You can use online surveys that are free to use or multiple-choice question to get feedback from your readers.
3. It gives feeling of togetherness
It is important to make your readers understand that they are very important for you. Asking for a feedback from them gives them a feeling of belonging and importance. This will help them become more loyal to your blog because the audience feels they have something to contribute to your blog. Large communities develop when sense of togetherness grows inside the hearts of the audience. This is a win-win situation for both parties.
4. It keeps us going
Feedback is similar to motivation. Every blogger needs motivation to keep himself going. Feedback helps to encourage you and gives guidance wherever needed so that you can constantly keep improving. When you are stuck and need inspiration feedback helps you to choose the right track and evolve.
5. It gives you data set for future use
Every business needs data in order to make decisions. Blogging is similar to running a business. To make accurate decision you need data from trustworthy source. Getting feedback directly from readers helps you in this case. Mistakes are common if you are using inaccurate data for decision-making process. Based on the feedback you can decide whether to introduce a product to sell on your blog or make improvements and delay its release.
Getting customer feedback is essential as a blogger. Regular feedback is necessary in order to improve your blog. How often do you ask for feedback from your readers? Do you encourage feedback from your readers using comment section of the blog? Please share your experience by way of commenting on this blog post.
