Alli has a post up called "The Pros and Cons of Cupcake Blogging" where she writes:
Cupcake blogging isn’t all icing and sprinkles. There are also some strong disadvantages to this style of blogging – if there weren’t, everyone would be posting short, pop-in-your-mouth blog posts, right?
To me, the biggest disadvantages of cupcake blogging is that you might be leaving your readers wanting more. There’s something to be said for building anticipation for your blog posts, but if you never truly leave your readers satisfied, they might stop coming back.
Let’s say, for example, that you are my absolute favorite blogger in the world. You have a site full of content that I devoured the day I found you. So, with no more archive to read, I patiently wait for a post. I wait. And wait. Finally, my RSS reader shows that you’ve finally posted something new. I head to your blog to excitedly read it…and it’s two paragraphs long. Don’t get me wrong, it was yummy. But I was hungry. It’s like when you’re expecting a slice of cake and someone gives you one of those miniature cupcakes. As tasty as it might be, you wanted to stuff your face with cake. What you got was disappointing.
It's an interesting post about blogging in general and audiences and niches.
Others, from Cupcakes Take the Cake and elsewhere, feel free to chime in in the comments. For me the biggest pro of cupcake blogging is getting to meet so many other passionate cupcake bakers and bloggers (second biggest pro is getting to eat so many delicious cupcakes). Biggest con is not having enough time to keep up with all the fabulous and beautiful cupcakes that are out there!
And for the record, I don't mind leaving all of you hungry. Cupcake blogging often makes me hungry for cupcakes...occupational hazard I'm willing to risk!
Cupcake blogging isn’t all icing and sprinkles. There are also some strong disadvantages to this style of blogging – if there weren’t, everyone would be posting short, pop-in-your-mouth blog posts, right?
To me, the biggest disadvantages of cupcake blogging is that you might be leaving your readers wanting more. There’s something to be said for building anticipation for your blog posts, but if you never truly leave your readers satisfied, they might stop coming back.
Let’s say, for example, that you are my absolute favorite blogger in the world. You have a site full of content that I devoured the day I found you. So, with no more archive to read, I patiently wait for a post. I wait. And wait. Finally, my RSS reader shows that you’ve finally posted something new. I head to your blog to excitedly read it…and it’s two paragraphs long. Don’t get me wrong, it was yummy. But I was hungry. It’s like when you’re expecting a slice of cake and someone gives you one of those miniature cupcakes. As tasty as it might be, you wanted to stuff your face with cake. What you got was disappointing.
It's an interesting post about blogging in general and audiences and niches.
Others, from Cupcakes Take the Cake and elsewhere, feel free to chime in in the comments. For me the biggest pro of cupcake blogging is getting to meet so many other passionate cupcake bakers and bloggers (second biggest pro is getting to eat so many delicious cupcakes). Biggest con is not having enough time to keep up with all the fabulous and beautiful cupcakes that are out there!
And for the record, I don't mind leaving all of you hungry. Cupcake blogging often makes me hungry for cupcakes...occupational hazard I'm willing to risk!
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