A Daring Online Business Blog Post?

Can you write a valuable blog post made up entirely of questions?

I think i can, but will you give me your opinion by commenting below once you finish reading it?

Should we begin? I’m ready, are you?

How’s your business going? Is it doing as well as you used to dream it would? Do you think you could improve it right now?

If you were forced to, what could you do right now that would move your business in the right direction? Are you willing to commit to doing it today? If you are willing, will you write it down right now, so you don’t forget?

Do you procrastinate? Why do you think you do it? Do you really enjoy the activities you do instead? If you had to choose, would you say it’s a fear of failure, or a fear of success? Could it just be a bad habit?

If procrastination was just a bad habit, would you be willing to create a new habit of being action oriented instead? If so, can you commit to doing that one thing that’ll improve your business (the one I asked you to write down) as soon as you finished commenting on this blog post?

Do you think this is an interesting experiment so far? Are you getting value out of it? Should I assume if you’re still reading you are? Should I continue?

Have you ever stopped and thought about how much you already know? Can you imagine how different your life might be if you applied everything you already know? Could blog posts like these that just ask questions (instead of telling you more to know) help you use more of what you already know? If so, do you think you might see more blog posts that are made up of just questions like this one?

Do you think if you share really good content with your prospects they would immediately buy more from you? What if they already had enough? Don’t we all have enough already?

Well, if good content isn’t enough to get people to buy, what does get people to buy? Don’t you think people buy to solve a problem or problems? So, what if your content helped your prospects understand their problems better and showed them how your product or service solved it? Do you see how much more effective this sort of content would be?

Have you ever read the Internet Business Manifesto? Isn’t that what I did when I wrote it?

Are you clear what problems your product or service solves? While I’m sure you know a lot about what you sell, how much do you know about the problem it solves?

Do you know more about the problems your prospects experience than they do? Don’t you think you should? Because if you did, couldn’t you write great content that helped your prospect better understand their problem? And wouldn’t they trust and like you more because you knew their problem so well?

Then when you told them about what you offered and why it was the best way to solve their problem, don’t you think a lot more of them would buy it? Are you now going to learn more about your prospects problems?

Would you like to know how I learn more about my prospects’ problems? Do you want me to tell you in my next blog post? If so, will you tell me that in the comments below? If not, would you tell me what you do want me to write about in the comments below?

So, what do you think? Would you believe me if I told you this was one of the easiest blog posts I’ve ever written? Does that matter to you anyway?

Should I write some more posts like this? Would you be willing to read them if I did?

If you had to guess, do you think more people will like this or hate this? Won’t you know after you read the comments below?

Before you go, can you do two small favors for me?

  1. Would you tell me what you think (below)?
  2. Can you tweet this, tell others, and ask them what they think to?

Should I say thank you in advance?

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    Hi Rich,

    I find the concept of asking question quite brilliant.

    My questions to you are as follows:
    Are you still smoking? Do you smoke in front of your children?
    Why do you smoke? Do you find it smells nice? Do you know that 443,000 Americans will die this year from smoking related illnesses? Does this worry you? Why do smokers of cigars think that it is not as dangerous as cigarettes? Have you thought of quitting? If the answer is yes why haven’t you quit? Knowing the dangers to you health and damaging affect to your self esteem why have you not yet stopped smoking?
    If you say you enjoy it let me ask you one more question ok? If you enjoy it so much would you like your children to smoke? If the answer is No Defintely Not – Why not? I rest my case – do you agree?

  • http://www.strategicprofits.com Rich Schefren

    Wow… But my answers may surprise you. Yes I still enjoy smoking cigars. No I don’t plan on quiting. No I can’t imagine my daughters smoking cigars. And yes they are safer than cigarettes since you don’t inhale. But thanks for asking.

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    Hmmm… that’s like saying that a knife is safer than a gun. But they’ll both kill you. Carcinogens are cancer causing chemicals(toxins), it doesn’t matter if you inhale or ingest, toxins cause your DNA to mutate. Cheers ~ Frankie

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    Very thought provoking. It just goes to show that just when you thought you knew what you were doing there is always room for improvement. I know many of the questions are what we should be asking but do we ask them enough?
    I would suggest that anyone new to internet marketing would be wise to make a list of those questions and continuously use them it will definitely imnprove your business.