I read a post of yours, it made me think
It really doesn’t take a tremendous amount for me to subscribe to your blog. Blogs are (generally) free, there is no paper for me to discard of afterwards, I can put it into a folder in Google Reader. I come by new blogs constantly as a product of using Twitter. If I arrive and read a post and you make me think, you open my eyes to a new way of seeing things and the focus of your blog interests me, I’ll subscribe.
I notice you updated your blog, within the last week.
If you are the occasional blogger, I may still subscribe, but I’ll likely only occasionally check the feed. If you want to keep me engaged you need to feed me that good content–a la Chris Brogan, a la Seth Godin and a la Valeria Maltoni–they get read because they write.
You asked me to…
Maybe not directly but you put a big fat button there that says “subscribe.”
Your blog has a seksi design
Not that I won’t subscribe to a twenty-ten WordPress blog, I just don’t believe that you take it as seriously.
You came to my blog, read a post and subscribed
Blogs are actually a social network. I subscribe to my reader’s blogs, especially if they leave comments. They show me respect, I do the same for them.
Why don’t I subscribe to your blog?
Your posts are too long.
You don’t use headings.
You reference people but don’t ever provide backlinks.
You are crabby and cynical and spend more time tearing things down than building them up.
I don’t have time to read nasty people with no consideration for the reader.