Eat Sleep Publish survey results

As promised, I’ll give a quick rundown of the results I collected from my reader survey.

For those of you that missed it: I put together a quick survey in Google docs that asked four questions, in order to help me keep Eat Sleep Publish on the right track. I’ve been experimenting with some changes recently (link posts, anyone?), and I thought it’d be good to get a sense from you, the readers, of how the changes were working and whether or not I need to backpedal.

First, the easy results to show—lovingly charted in Numbers:

The takeaways from those results, of course, are: I need to seriously consider dropping the link-style posts, if a little more than a strong plurality of my readers don’t like it. I’m still a little bit on the fence myself, so I may go back to the once-a-day format that I’d been using up until recently.

As for market research, I certainly can’t put anything together for free, so if I do go down that road I think I’d look for some happy medium where a certain amount is available for free, but if you want the full data set, etc, you’d have to pay for it. That might actually be sustainable.

As for the other two questions (why you guys are reading this blog), it’s pretty clear that people are here for what you’d expect: coverage of, and opinions on, the changing news industry.

I was trying to get a sense of whether people were more interested in coverage or analysis, and from what I can decode the majority of you are interested in the latter. This lends itself to the longer post format, as well.

In any case, thanks to everyone who dropped their answers in the form. It really is helpful!