I’ve been wondering for a while just who the readers of this blog are. I know some of you because you comment regularly and I visit your site to get to know you, if you have one. But, I want to hear from everyone- especially you lurkers! 
What do you do in life? Are you all bloggers? What are your biggest challenges and how can I be of help to you? I decided to hunt around for a survey plugin that would help me to find out, and found a great one called Survey Fly. If you’re ever looking to run a survey on your site, I highly recommend it as it has been SUPER easy to use.
Anyway… on to the questions – will you take a minute to answer them? There are only a couple of questions and I would really appreciate your input. If you don’t have time right now, will you bookmark it to come back to later? Be careful with pressing the Enter key, by the way. I should have set up some of the fields as bigger text areas and unfortunately can’t change it now that it’s running. The Enter key will submit the survey. Sorry about that- I’ll do better next time! Thank you!
Long time reader and admirer of what you do.
Vivien at Inspirationbit recently asked me a few questions, which tell a little more about me, and I’ve linked to her kind blog post through my name.
Nice idea to ask lurkers to comment. I know quite a lot of my subscribers, but I’d love to get to know those who haven’t yet introduced themselves.
just filled out the survey. Great idea by the way!
Actually, I found the form frustrating. The text box wouldn’t flow past the first line, and a triggered the ’submit’ button. Grr.
@Brad – that’s my fault I guess. I should have set them up with larger fields. Annoying that it triggered the submit button though… sorry. :\
Just filled the survey form. I was not expecting this BTW, but was a good one. And thanks for being so much caring about your readers, really appreciate it!
Heh! So far looks like I am in the company of other humans; no aliens commenting here yet!
I just filled out the survey! In short, I am not a full-time blogger, and usually only blog about food and places around the world (since I usually travel quite a bit). I live in Pune, India. Cheers!
I’m a part-time website builder in the UK, holding down a full-time eCommerce marketing job. I’m not a designer as my website will attest, so look to sites like this for design guidance and inspiration.
Hi Randa. I just filled out the survey form. Had to do it twice (by clearing out the cookies in my browser), because the first time it submitted the form when I pressed Enter to type a new line. Why don’t you use a textarea field instead of the tall input field that’s getting confused as a textarea? This way people can press enter to type a long answer on multiple lines. Also, you should consider having a wrapping text in your textareas in the survey.
Also, was wondering how come you’re not asking your readers to provide links to their websites/blogs?
Great idea to get to know your readers better. I should come up with smth similar on my blog.
P.S. Now I see why David’s comment is showing up with my avatar
looked so weird when I first saw it here.
@Vivien – good points all. I wish I had set it up differently with longer text areas. Unfortunately, there is not an option to edit the type of fields now that the survey is running, and I’d need to start over, so I think for this one I added a comment in the post and in the survey.
I didn’t ask for links because I wanted people to feel free to say whatever they wanted.
Hi, I am a first time reader to your blog… Really nice, I must say. I was introduced here by a close friend..
I am a part time student, and web designer.
Keep up the good work
I’ve just did the survey. I think actually majority people will not do a long survey. Anyway I’m a blogger. I just blog for my life record.
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Nice post.. I’m a student, a blogger and also a freelancer. Keep on your good works..:)
Just filled out your survey. I am new to your site so my answers may not be that helpful. I am the political consultant/wahm.
Hi!
I’m glad I browsed through the noFollow list of nic’s blog, otherwise, I wouldn’t have stumbled into this blog. Me, Bong, and my better half, Jennie, are newbie bloggers. Great blog and we’ve subscribed to get the latest. Thanks.