Guest Author - Jim Fortune

I need your help. As I stated in an earlier article, I decided that I needed to set up a readership poll that will help me understand my reader universe and what the universe is looking for at http://wine.bellaonline.com. The survey is called a "One Minute Survey" and it only has eight questions. The first two questions are pretty easy and they are required. Question 1, are you a member of Bella Online? Question 2, are you female or male? O.K. I will leak question 3. Have you ever posted a comment or question to the wine forum? It goes on from there. Over half of the e-mail I get is from guys. So, is that because most of my readership are male or is it because guys are the only ones to send another guy an e-mail. Also, I am curious if my readership audience have joined the Bella Online membership roles. I am just curious. Mostly women post there.

You can tell me what price wines you drink, what kind of articles you would like to see, you can even tell me where to go. Well - not exactly. What you can do is tell me the direction I should take with the wine website at Bella Online. This is kind of like telling me where to go in a nice way.

I will leave the readership poll article and the readership poll itself up for three months - June, July and August. The readership poll will end on August 31st. Of course you might be interested in knowing how you can do a readership poll like this for your own website or blog. You can get more information about it here:
One Minute Poll . I was surprised at how cheap it was for the service and what you get.

After you take the poll you can see the results of the survey as of the day you take the poll. You can also not take the poll more than once. Once I get the results, I will post another article in September letting you know the results.

I have never done one of these before so I am sticking my neck out a little and it may get chopped off. If it does, it does. The link to go to the Readership Poll is right back here.

Thanks a lot for completing the survey

Until next time, let me know what is on your mind, and how you are doing, O.K.?

You can send me your questions or comments on my bio page. My next article will be out shortly.

Jim Fortune - the Bella Online Wine Guy