The Pro does it for money, and therefore it’s really the customers taste and frequency that decides his level of income. Therefore he have to do it much more for his audience, and much less for him self. And in order to do this he must listen to and follow his audience very carefully.

No one is more right than the other, but I think that the Pro makes much more money.

Yours
Pete

PS: I do it mostly for money…

I can’t argue with you about whether or not I have misinterpreted your post because I can only read what you write and the statement above tells blog owners to write to specifically gain more readers and thereby I conclude that “gaining more readers” becomes more important than keeping the uniqueness of the blog.

If changing your writing from what YOU want to write about to what YOUR READERS wants to read isn’t equal to “letting subscribers dictate your content” then please try to explain to my why that is.

But to be fair I might not state that you ADVICE people to change what they write but merely that you are encouraging them to do so to attract more subscribers. Is that fair to say?

First I would like to say thank you for the mention of Balkhis and putting your thoughts on the table.

I didn’t advice people to change their blog entirely. I only asked questions that were asked to me by many bloggers. Blogs are usually started for a reason. Like I started mine to share my experience and tips. No, I will not change it to what my readers want. I will change it the way I like it.

You just have to be yourself and I agree with you on that one. I think you might have misinterpreted my post. My point was not telling users to change your blog so you gain more subscribers. It was why your RSS readers subscribe and what you can do to improve. Having freebies and Giveaways is entirely upto the blogger. Wanting or not wanting RSS Subscribers is also entirely upto the blogger. It is their personal choice which they have to make. Just be yourself.

No they should not change their blog because their users want them to.

I just thought I should add that in because it is a different thing to have an opinion but an opinion that was led by a misinterpretation is another thing.

If I had a blog whose only purpose was to earn money, I would do everything to get more subscribers and more visitors. But I’m not.

My blog, is where I write what I think is exciting. It would be stupid to change the whole blog, or big parts of it, just to get some new subscribers.
Because if you totaly change what you are writing about, then some of the ‘old’ subscribers and loyal readers would flee because it didn’t interest them anymore.