How many people respond personally to comments they get on their blog?

One person who is super good at replying by email is Rowan Simpson, who not only replies, but totally smashes open the myth that YOU are too busy to reply personally (Rowan was one of Trade Me’s Founders and has invested a good chunk of his money and time after the sale into other businesses as well as a growing family) - if he’s not too busy to blat out an email, I guarantee you aren’t either.

I always rave to people I know about how cool it is that he took the time out of his day to respond, especially because I already feel like I get a massive amount out of just reading his blog, so I just thought that it may be a good idea to tell the whole world.

Rowan, I apologise if you now get inundated with comments from my millions of readers who want to test out my email theory ;)

It did however, get me thinking about how blogs can be a tad impersonal and it’s always nice to send a quick email as well sometimes to let people know you’re not just doing it to boost your readership or to backlink to your blog etc etc. It’s just good etiquette.