Results of the Survey

I was thinking that it be would good for me to post the results of my survey a few months ago.

If you remember, I had asked my list of thought-of-the-day subscribers (close to 15,000 people now!) to answer a few questions.

See below for the interesting results.

1. What do you like seeing at happypublishing.com?

Quotes      95.33%
Articles     37.38%
Personal adventures     26.64%
Book reviews     22.90%

2. What would you like to see more of?

A daily quote by email (ie. not just 2 days per week)      71.29%
A great free ebook full of top-notch quotations     50.72%
More top-10 lists of quotes on the blog     33.01%
Product reviews (ie. motivational books, videos, etc)     29.67%

3. How often do you like seeing the thought-of-the-day by email?

7 days a week      34.27%
Monday to Friday only     23.94%
3 or 4 times; random is ok with me!     21.13%
Twice per week is fine     20.19%

(note: this is why I keep talking about sending out a quick quote each day; the majority of people want me to email more often than my current schedule of twice per week)

4. I am thinking about reviewing some self-help type products for sale. If I occasionally talk about products for sale in the thought of the day, what would you like to hear about:

Inspirational non-fiction books (ebooks)      41.12%
Motivational posters     38.32%
Motivational software, like calendars and planning/goal tools     32.24%
Inspirational music     30.37%
Inspirational fiction books     25.70%
Inspirational recordings, podcasts, speeches, videos     25.70%
Nothing, I don’t want to hear about anything for sale    23.36%
Make money online or work from home information     21.03%
Lose weight information/products     14.49%
Dating subjects     5.14%

I find a lot of these last answers very surprising, don’t you?  I will be starting “sections” of this blog to report on a lot of those areas…over time.  Look up in the top right area of this blog, under “Pages”.  I already have the “motivational posters” (link removed for now) and “motivational videos” section.  Lots more work to do!!

Any other suggestions?  Feel free to share your comments below.

-Shawn