Could teaser posts be the next big thing on ActiveRain?

Richard, I'm not a fan of teaser posts neither although I see the need to establish another platform to publish posts.

I won't click through because most of the time it doesn't open in a new window, and I'm taken away from AR.  

I suppose a good approach might be to make your post just that. A post. There should be value that can be obtained and leave the reader going away enriched more than when they arrived whether they choose to move onto something else you wrote or not. If you have something valuable to offer then that can lead the visitor to go get more from you.

Richard, I tried this on one post this week. I didn't get much response from AR members but that's okay, I didn't expect to. It's still too early to see if I've gotten any additional traffic from that to my site. Time will tell.

Richard, I think some of us might be thinking about weaning ourselve from the Rain and want to draw people to maybe a Wordpress blog?  I think we're going to see a bit more of this.

Richard - I think it makes sense when trying to drive traffic to our websites even if it is a bit annoying.

I do write teaser content for my neighborhoods because I don't want all of the info on this particular platform. 

When I see teaser articles, I usually won't click through.  It's one thing if, for example, it's a newsletter with 10 articles, and only the first paragraph or each is shown; then I'll click through to read the entire article.  But if I click through to read the article, I expect the entire article to be there.

I know of one author on AR that does this all the time.  At first it annoyed me too, then it annoyed me a little more.  I get it, but why not have a call to action at the end of your blog here?  What's the difference?  My thoughts may change in the future, but as of right now I'm annoyed by it.  

I've never been a fan although that's how most sites work. Lately, I've taken to ignoring articles I might have previously read.

Hi Richard - I was waiting for your "click here to read the rest of the article"!

Richard, if I click a link that leads me away from AR, I immediately hit the back button, after all I'm on AR because I want to be on AR.

     Richard, I am not sure about this one.  It is similar to "clickbait" headlines that take you a story that has nothing to do with the headline.

Richard, not a bad idea. In a time where so many forces are battling for our attention, teasing the audience with the promise of information and then delivering on that promise, might be a worthwhile tactic.

Richard - I have to admit I haven't really seen too many on Active Rain - and to be honest I'm guessing I'll feel the same way about having to click click click to get to what I want. I know that 'all roads lead back to our website' but I'm just going to have to experiment.

Give us an example of this please. thank you have a great day talk to you soon. Looking forward to seeing an example. 

Good Evening, Richard:  I can see both the good and the bad here.  I think it will be interesting to watch- to say the least, for it could very well herald a bit of "splitting" if a number of folks prove the "teasers" successful.

I see this, though: a number of folks surely have multiple blogs, etc as I do with Wordpress, Instagram, tumblr, YouTube and others, folks might look to evaluate things a bit more closely to discern which platform is the more successful.

Taking what you said regarding "what's the real intent?" of sorts, I can see some folks learning that ActiveRain might be most valuable to them solely as a pass-tbrough if sorts.  If it's more lucrative and/or beneficial for folks to be active on other platforms and funnel visitors toward that platfom from ActiveRain versus "living" on ActiveRain alone, you can't really blame anyone for taking advantage of that.

Can hate the game, but respect those playing it if all is legal and above-board.

Depends on it the tease is valid I guess. If it brings me to something stupid then I'm history. If it proves interesting or true to what was the tease then I would think that it was clever and great marketing.