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Best podcasts about article writing

Latest podcast episodes about article writing

Prosperous Coach Podcast
316: The #1 Visibility Approach for Coaches

Prosperous Coach Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2025 8:30


Find the FULL TRANSCRIPT for this episode and other resources for coaches at ProsperousCoach.com/316.Related to this episode:#47#222#292#296Most coaches will need a content approach to nurture their future clients. This is called generosity marketing and it's still the #1 visibility approach for coaches.Sadly, much of the content coaches put out is unoriginal so it doesn't help the coach stand out and attract ideal clients.The 3 main content delivery methods paired with social posting are: 1.     Podcasting + Guest Podcasting 2.     Videos, such as YouTube and Lives on Socials3.     Blogs and Article PlacementTo make any of these approaches work well for you, you'll need to be clever about driving traffic to your client-winning website from the content and have smart conversion processes set up there with tailor-made offers for one unique audience.What are the secrets to enrollment-inspiring content? Let's talk about that. And grab my free guide called 5 Rules To Write Better Copy For Your Coaching Business. Thank you! Rhonda Hess helps new coaches leverage their zone of genius into a profitable coaching niche and launch with confidence. For VIP step-by-step support apply for Rhonda's VIP Coaching Business Breakthrough Program here and she'll be in touch to invite you a discovery call. Or if you're stuck on your coaching niche, grab a Nail Your Niche Strategy Session with Rhonda here.

The Delhi Public School Podcast
CLASS 6 ENGLISH Article Writing DPS Nacharam - CBSE

The Delhi Public School Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2024 1:43


The Three Month Vacation Podcast
Re-run 7 Storytelling: Why Fairy Tale Endings Are Unnecessary for Article Writing

The Three Month Vacation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2024 25:45


Wandering Aimfully: The Show
207 - We found a solid article writing process

Wandering Aimfully: The Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2024 44:12


Last week, we shared a plan of action from an SEO Expert we paid. It included writing articles, competitor pages, and a user-generated content strategy. How did we do with that plan? Tune in to find out!Writing informative articles is not our favorite thing, BUT, after working on the task for a week we feel like we found a good groove. In this episode, we share the process and the tools that made the writing process much simpler. We also go over our competitor page strategy and how we used Framer to make the job easier for us. Jess Cooks Garlic Bread: https://www.thisjess.com/sourdough-discard-garlic-pull-apart-bread/SEO Article Tool (aff link): https://bit.ly/jasonfrase Framer (aff link): https://bit.ly/jasonframer ***⚙️ Give Teachery a try today for free! Looking to create online courses with a platform that lets you customize everything? Give our course software a 14-day free trial at teachery.co

INspired INsider with Dr. Jeremy Weisz
[Top Agency Series] Scaling a Content Agency With David Tile of Article Writing Co.

INspired INsider with Dr. Jeremy Weisz

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 78:10


David Tile is the Founder and CEO of Article Writing Co., a rapidly expanding content creation agency in North America. He has a proven track record of transforming businesses by providing top-quality content that significantly improves their SEO ranking, enhances websites with compelling and industry-relevant blogs and website copy, and drives successful email campaigns. David's expertise extends beyond content creation to transforming emerging entrepreneurs and C-suite executives into thought leaders. Before establishing Article Writing Co., David served as the Chair of Marketing & Engagement of Sunnybrook Next Generation and as a research analyst at Northstar Research Partners. In this episode… In the present digital era, where AI is taking the world by storm, running a successful content creation agency is challenging. So, what growth strategies can you learn from someone who's successfully grown his agency during this time? Despite the competition, David Tile, a content marketing and SEO expert, has found a way to grow his agency by leveraging the strategy of acquisitions. By acquiring other companies, businesses can expand their offerings and reach new markets, all while gaining access to new talent and resources. David shares his journey of scaling a content creation agency through acquisition to serve as the ultimate solution for busy executives to build their brand online through high-quality content that significantly improves their SEO ranking. Listen to this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz as he welcomes David Tile, Founder and CEO of Article Writing Co., to discuss how he grew his agency. David discusses the genesis of Article Writing Co., its hiring process, SEO and content marketing strategies for growing a business, and growth through acquisition.

The After Hours Entrepreneur Social Media, Podcasting, and YouTube Show
JAY FELDMAN - How to Use Cold Email and AI to Sell More

The After Hours Entrepreneur Social Media, Podcasting, and YouTube Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2024 24:54


Jay Feldman is an expert in lead generation and cold outreach. With a focus on reaching out to potential clients through direct messages via email, social media, or phone calls, he teaches and implements a scalable and affordable method of generating high-quality leads. As the head of a successful agency with 65 staff members, Jay's proven strategies have earned him accolades and a track record of achieving $10,000,000 in sales.Focusing on the art of cold outreach, Jay emphasized the importance of providing value in the initial outreach rather than directly pitching sales. He highlighted the effectiveness of personalized outreach using AI-generated content to engage prospects and build trust, as well as the significance of technical setups such as DNS records to avoid the spam folder.Additionally, Jay showcased advanced applications of AI, including automating video production and using ChatGPT to write articles for lead magnets. Through his practical examples and strategies, he demonstrated the potential of AI in streamlining lead generation efforts and enhancing customer interactions.Takeaways:Provide value first. Leverage personalization to engage prospects effectively.AI can empower lead generation processes.Connect with Jay FeldmanWebsite: leadgenjay.com/freeConnect with Mark SavantInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/marksavantmediaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-savant-ba777145Timestamps:00:00 Introduction to the power of AI and cold outreach in lead generation.03:45 Leveraging personalization to engage prospects effectively.07:12 Importance of staying out of the spam folder through technical email setup and value-driven outreach.10:58 Exploring innovative ways to automate video responses and article writing through AI.14:30 Conclusion and key takeaways for optimizing lead generation strategy with AI.

Aviatrix Book Review
AN21: Journalist and Author Kathy Mexted talks about the transition from article writing to longer form biographical sketch for her book Australian Women Pilots

Aviatrix Book Review

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2023 7:24


In this portion of my Writers' Room interview with author Kathy Mexted about her book Australian Women Pilots, she talks about learning to trust her voice, put herself into a story, and present a subject in longer form to write this collection of ten biographical sketches of pioneering women pilots throughout the last hundred years of Australian aviation history. Thanks so much for listening! Stay up to date on book releases, author events, and Aviatrix Book Club discussion dates with the Literary Aviatrix Newsletter. Visit the Literary Aviatrix website to find over 600 books featuring women in aviation in all genres for all ages. Become a Literary Aviatrix Patron and help amplify the voices of women in aviation. Follow me on social media, join the book club, and find all of the things on the Literary Aviatrix linkt.ree. Blue skies, happy reading, and happy listening!-Liz Booker

Scottish Rite Journal Podcast
FROM THE PAGES OF AMICUS ILLUMINISMI "On Article Writing and Freemasonry"

Scottish Rite Journal Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2023 5:03


From the July/August 2023 edition of The Scottish Rite Journal. Any accompanying photographs or citations for this article can be found in the corresponding print edition.Make sure to like and subscribe to the channel! Freemasons, make sure you shout out your Lodge, Valley, Chapter or Shrine below! OES, Job's Daughter's, Rainbow, DeMolay? Drop us a comment too!To learn how to find a lodge near you, visit www.beafreemason.comTo learn more about the Scottish Rite, visit www.scottishrite.orgJoin our Lost Media Archive for only $1.99 a month!

The Leo Alves Podcast
#105 I'm back, gardening and leg day

The Leo Alves Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2023 21:10


In this episode of The Leo Alves Podcast, I talk you through what I've been up to recently and why I took a mini hiatus.My InstagramMy TwitterMy TikTokMy FacebookMy LinkedInMy YouTube channelMy articlesClick here to inquire about working with me onlineClick here for a free workout plan and/or nutrition for fat loss guideSubscribe to my email listMy online calorie calculator"How to Lose Armpit Fat Fast" Article"Working Out But Not Gaining Muscle: Here's Why" Article"Beginners Leg Workout Programming: Ultimate Guide" Article 

Your Best Writing Life
Essential Article Writing Basics with Linda Gilden

Your Best Writing Life

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2023 42:24


What do you know about article sidebars and hot boxes? This episode covers these and other article-writing essentials.Welcome to Your Best Writing Life, an extension of the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference held in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mts of NC. I'm your host, Linda Goldfarb. I'm so glad you're listening in. Today's discussion is Essential Article Writing Basics.  My industry expert Linda Gilden – Linda is an award-winning Amazon bestselling author of the LINKED Personality Series, Mommy Pick-Me-Ups, Mama Was the Queen of Christmas, Personality Perspectives, Called to Write, Why You Do What You Do, Words to Live By, Called to Speak, Articles, Articles, Articles, and several ghostwritten books. As a freelance editor and writing coach, working with publishers and individuals, she encourages others to make their writing the best it can be. Linda is a wife, mother, and grandmother of the six cutest grandchildren in the WORLD! Her greatest joy is the time spent with her family. Her favorite activity is floating in a pool with a good book surrounded by splashing children! Please welcome my good friend Linda Gilden to Your Best Writing Life. We will cover each of these subtopics. 1.     What differences do writers need to be aware of concerning print and digital articles? 2.     What type of content is considered Evergreen?3.     What do we need to know about Article Sidebars? 4.     I'm guessing, Article Hot Boxes have nothing to do with saunas -- 5.     What do we need to know about submitting photos for articles? 6.     How are Payments handled when we write articles? LINKSLinda GildenBeginning Article Writer's Checklist PDF Articles, Articles, Articles the Book If you enjoy Your Best Writing Life's content- consider a monthly donation through Patreon. Support Your Best Writing Life podcast.About your host - Linda GoldfarbBesides hosting Your Best Writing Life, Linda Goldfarb is a multi-published award-winning author, audiobook narrator, international speaker, board-certified Christian life coach, co-owner, co-founder of the LINKED® Personality System, and co-author of the LINKED® Quick Guide to Personality series. Linda also hosts the Staying REAL About Faith & Family podcast - Check it out!Visit Your Best Writing Life website.Join our Facebook group, Your Best Writing LifeAbout your host - Linda GoldfarbSponsored by Access More!

Your Best Writing Life
Writing Instruction Based Articles with Linda Gilden

Your Best Writing Life

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2023 26:32


Did you know that well-placed articles reach more people than the average book? If you are an expert in a subject, your how-tos can help others succeed. Today's episode is part two of our Deep Dive into Article Writing series. Welcome to Your Best Writing Life, an extension of the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference held in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mts of NC. I'm your host Linda Goldfarb. Each week, I bring you tips and strategies from experts in the writing and publishing industry to help you excel in your craft. I'm so glad you're listening in - my guest today is Linda Gilden, an award-winning author of numerous books, including Articles, Articles, Articles.  As a freelance editor and writing coach, working with publishers and individuals, she encourages others to make their writing the best it can be. Linda is a wife, mother, and grandmother of the six cutest grandchildren in the WORLD! Her greatest joy is time spent with her family.  Today, Linda and Linda cover How-To Articles and Round-Up Articles.LINKSLinda GildenArticle Submission Format PDFLinda Gilden's Writing CoachingLinda Gilden's Editing ServicesIf you enjoy Your Best Writing Life's content- consider a monthly donation through Patreon. Support Your Best Writing Life podcast.About your host - Linda GoldfarbBesides hosting Your Best Writing Life, Linda Goldfarb is a multi-published award-winning author, audiobook narrator, international speaker, board-certified Christian life coach, co-owner, co-founder of the LINKED® Personality System, and co-author of the LINKED® Quick Guide to Personality series. Linda also hosts the Staying REAL About Faith & Family podcast - Check it out!Visit Your Best Writing Life website.Join our Facebook group, Your Best Writing LifeAbout your host - Linda GoldfarbSponsored by Access More!

Our Classroom
Episode 61 | Control Freaks w/ Jan "J.E." Thomas

Our Classroom

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2023 43:57


In this episode of Our Classroom Jan “J.E.” Thomas joins me to discuss her forthcoming book Control Freaks. Classroom Notes The concept and characters of Control Freaks Family dynamics storyline What constitutes the ideal school? Jan "J.E." Thomas is the author of CONTROL FREAKS, a debut middle grade novel that will be published by Levine Querido on June 13. CONTROL FREAKS recently received a starred review from Booklist in which it was compared to Newbery Medal–winning author E.L. Konigsburg's novel, THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY. Jan has bachelor of arts degrees in mass communications and political science and a master of arts degree in public communications. She started writing full-time in 2021. Prior to that, she had a long career in corporate, health care and education communications. She was also an award-winning freelance journalist, earning a Clarion Award for Article Writing from Women in Communications; a Gold Award for Feature Writing from the International Academy of Communications Arts & Sciences; a Silver Award for Writing from the Society of National Association Publications; and a Public Relations Professional of the Year Honor from the Colorado Association of Black Journalists, among others. She is the product of an urban Catholic elementary school and an independent high school. She concluded her communications career by serving as communications director and a member of the administrative team for the same independent school she attended years before. Her debut novel is dedicated to three women who changed her life by recognizing her potential and encouraging her to step out of the crowd. Those women are, Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's original Uhura; Helen Yeager, Jan's ninth grade English teacher; and Laura Pegram, founder and executive director of Kweli Journal and the Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference in New York. Welcome to Our Classroom! Follow: @jethomasauthor For more education resources subscribe to Multicultural Classroom #education #schools #students #OurClassroom #MulticulturalClassroom

Your Best Writing Life
Writing People-Oriented Articles with Linda Gilden

Your Best Writing Life

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2023 33:38


Have you considered writing articles, but you're not sure what type to write? Linda Goldfarb and Linda Gilden talk about writing people-based articles, part one of a Deep Dive into Article Writing.I'm your host Linda Goldfarb. Each week I bring you tips and strategies from experts in the writing and publishing industry to help you excel in your craft. My industry expert is Linda Gilden – Linda is an award-winning Amazon bestselling author of the LINKED Personality Series, Mommy Pick-Me-Ups, Mama Was the Queen of Christmas, Personality Perspectives, Called to Write, Why You Do What You Do, Words to Live By, Called to Speak, Articles, Articles, Articles, and several ghostwritten books. As a freelance editor and writing coach, working with publishers and individuals, she encourages others to make their writing the best it can be. Linda is a wife, mother, and grandmother of the six cutest grandchildren in the WORLD! Her greatest joy is the time spent with her family. Her favorite activity is floating in a pool with a good book surrounded by splashing children!Writing People-Oriented ArticlesThe first people-oriented articles are - Personal Experiences.  1 Why would anyone want to read/hear about my experiences?2 Do I really have anything of value to say to others?3 Who is your audience?The second people-based articles are about Profiles.4   What is the difference between a profile article and a personal experience article?5   As a Christian writer, do I always have to write for Christian markets?6   Where is the best place to pitch a personal experience or profile article?LINKSLinda GildenSample Article Submission Page PDFIf you enjoy Your Best Writing Life's content- consider a monthly donation through Patreon. Support Your Best Writing Life podcast.About your host - Linda GoldfarbBesides hosting Your Best Writing Life, Linda Goldfarb is a multi-published award-winning author, audiobook narrator, international speaker, board-certified Christian life coach, co-owner, co-founder of the LINKED® Personality System, and co-author of the LINKED® Quick Guide to Personality series. Linda also hosts the Staying REAL About Faith & Family podcast - Check it out! Visit Your Best Writing Life website.Join our Facebook group, Your Best Writing LifeAbout your host - Linda GoldfarbSponsored by Access More!

The James Altucher Show
How to Write AND Publish a Book in 30 Days!

The James Altucher Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2023 57:37


James has a brand new video writing course available that teaches you How to Write AND Publish a Book in 30 Days!Back in 2020, James began a series of 30-day book challenges on his Instagram Q&As and Side Hustle Friday episodes (Here and Here) and wrote a breakdown of the basics in a LinkedIn blog post. The feedback and enthusiasm from aspiring writers was larger than he'd expected and the concept never left his mind.Now, James has launched an inclusive writing seminar video course that goes far beyond the existing content and teaches writers step-by-step how to write and publish a book in 30 days! He's even gone so far as to offer to buy, read, and review any book published using this course for listeners who join after listening to this episode, just send James an email at "altucher@gmail.com".Here are the details of what the course covers:You will learn how to write a book in just 30 days from a best-selling author.You will learn my best techniques for coming up with good book ideas that can be completed in as quickly as 30 days.The step-by-step process of professionally publishing a book: from editor and book design to publishing hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audio.The Four Book Concepts that Will Give You INFINITE ideas for books you can write.You will learn all the writing tips I have discovered in my 30 years of writing that have made my books and articles successful.You will learn the techniques I use to avoid writer's block.Master the art of the start. What are the best practices for starting your book. How to analyze the best first lines to be a book or story.The art of story-telling. Understand the Arc of the Hero and how it is used in not only fiction, but non-fiction, article writing, and even a tweet.Learn the methods for calculating the readability quotient of your book.What are the best practices for marketing your book.What are the best methods for making a post or book go viral.Listen on as James gives a deep background on his writing journey over the past 23 years, how he became a published author in every print format, and why he wants to teach you how to get your ideas out into the world.**Click Here to Look at the Course: "How to Write AND Publish a Book in 30 Days!"**------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe  to “The James Altucher Show” wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook

Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast
Is AI the Death of the Copywriter? -- David Tile // Article-Writing Co

Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2023 15:33


David Tile, Founder and CEO of Article-Writing Co, explores SEO and digital marketing during a recession. AI may seem like a threat to the future of copywriting, but the truth is, it's still no match for human storytelling. With its limitations in capturing the depth and complexity of human emotions, the need for talented copywriters remains ever-present. Today, David discusses whether AI will be the death of copywriting. Show NotesConnect With: David Tile: Website // LinkedInThe Voices of Search Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast
SEO & Digital Marketing During Recession -- David Tile // Article-Writing Co

Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2023 23:22


David Tile, Founder and CEO of Article-Writing Co, explores SEO and digital marketing during a recession. During a recession, it's crucial for businesses to stay visible and attract new customers while keeping a tight budget. By leveraging the power of SEO and content marketing, companies can increase their online visibility, establish thought leadership, and drive targeted traffic to their website – all while maximizing their return on investment. Today, David discusses SEO and content marketing in a recession. Show NotesConnect With: David Tile: Website // LinkedInThe Voices of Search Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Three Month Vacation Podcast
Storytelling: Why Fairy Tale Endings Are Unnecessary for Article Writing

The Three Month Vacation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2022 25:45


How do most of our stories end? Usually it's a fairy tale ending. Or maybe it ends in chaos, sadness or even disaster. We believe that an ending is crucial for any story. And there is no doubt that endings are needed for stories, but they're almost always irrelevant when you're using a story for an article. The story is there to make a point, not end with "happily ever after". Learn why a fairy tale ending is something you want to avoid almost all the time.

AUDIO RAIN FM
Best Inspirational Article Writing Quotes To Become A Good Writer | AR FM | MOTIVATIONAL

AUDIO RAIN FM

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2022 10:50


39 Inspirational Article Writing Quotes To Become A Good Writer : If you have some idea or an opinion about a specific topic in your mind and you want to spread it among people, then writing an article is a good way to do spread it. With the help of article writing, you can share your thoughts in detail. Here we are sharing some inspirational article writing quotes which will help you to know more about the importance of writing an article. What is an article? The article is a piece of writing written by some experts included with others in a newspaper, magazine, publication, blogs, social media, or any other platform. What is the motive behind writing an article? For those who want to convey their ideas in detail to the people, then writing articles can be helpful for them. Writers spread their opinion to the people and interested people read them. Which platform is used to share articles? Now there are many mediums to share articles. You can share your article through any newspaper, magazine, or other publication. Or you can create a blog or website to share your articles. Now a blog or website is a medium where people can easily share their articles through blog posts. Can you make money by writing articles? Yes, you can earn money by writing articles. If you write articles for any newspaper or magazine, they will pay you monthly basis or per article. If you create your own blog or website, then you can freely share your articles, and earn money by showing advertisements there. How to write a good article? You can write a good article and become a good writer. But before writing an article, you have to select a specific topic. It is important for you to learn the language and its grammar in which you want to convey your thoughts to people. Also, you need to know the format and steps to write an article. You can find the article format and steps here. #videopodcast #podcast #audiorainfm #arfm #audiobook #motivational #selfdevelopment #inspirationalquotes YOUTUBE : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW9exYFT06TAb5mrSO-MKDA SPOTIFY : https://open.spotify.com/show/3kphiiMKUkiWTyRCLeViIV?si=6c540b4cd84c48cb APPLE PODCAST : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/audio-rain-fm/id1624633962

NETWORK MARKETING MADE SIMPLE
Episode 271: The 3 Bald Business Dudes Talk Shop with Eric Twiggs and Teddy Fells

NETWORK MARKETING MADE SIMPLE

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2021 40:40


About Teddy: Experienced Information Technology, Cyber Security and Business Strategist. President/CEO of NucoreVision Inc. - Information Technology and Management consulting Firm providing services to the Federal, State/Local and Private Sector. Co-Host - 30 Minute Hour Podcast https://overcast.fm/itunes1453195827/the-30-minute-hour Founder - Siren Focus www.sirenfocus.com Partner - NexxtOne Sports and Entertainment www.thenexxtone.com Partner - WNM Ventures LLC About Eric: I work with business owners across the nation and Canada as The Accountability Coach. In this role, I drive profits and dreams home for my clients through radical honesty, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. I am a Certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach, Certified Life Coach, and a Certified Executive Coach who has conducted over 28,000 coaching sessions that have resulted in my average client experiencing a nine to one return on their investment. I am honored to have coached the 2016 & 2018 ATI Shop of The Year, and to have four shops that were ranked in the "ATI Top 12" out of 1700 shops in 2019. Specialties: Public Speaking, Leadership, Multi Unit Management, Performance Consulting, Marketing, Business Coaching, Classroom Instruction, Instructional Design, Sales Training, Article Writing, and Human Resources Sign Up For Our FREE 5 Day Content Creation Workshop HERE Join my FREE Facebook Communities: LinkedIn Community Network Marketing Community

Income Upaay | Earn Money Ideas | Business Ideas | Deeshuumm
How To Get Paid To Write Articles | How To Earn From Article Writing

Income Upaay | Earn Money Ideas | Business Ideas | Deeshuumm

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2021 5:29


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SpeakersU Podcast with James Taylor
The Future of SEO Article Writing Using GPT-3 - #100

SpeakersU Podcast with James Taylor

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2021 37:48


So let me ask you a question. If someone went to Google and searched for a speaker on your topic would you be on that first page? You see Search Engine Optimisation is one of the top three sources of leads for most speakers. My guest today is Gert Mellak, an SEO expert and the founder of SEOLeverage.com. Over the last few years, Gert has been able to help an increasing number of businesses like yours gain organic, qualified, and relevant traffic for their website from Google. He firmly believes that SEO should be part of your marketing mix – no matter if your speaker website gets the most traffic and sales via referrals, speaker bureaus, social media, or paid search marketing right now. In our conversation, we talk about the two activities that every speaker should be focusing on to improve their Google rankings as well as the future of SEO article writing using GPT-3. Enjoy the episode.   Please SUBSCRIBE ►http://bit.ly/JTme-ytsub ♥️ Your Support Appreciated! If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on YouTube, iTunes or Stitcher and write a brief review. That would really help get the word out and raise the visibility of the Creative Life show. SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW Apple: http://bit.ly/TSL-apple Libsyn: http://bit.ly/TSL-libsyn Spotify: http://bit.ly/TSL-spotify Android: http://bit.ly/TSL-android Stitcher: http://bit.ly/TSL-stitcher CTA link: https://speakersu.com/the-speakers-life/ FOLLOW ME: Website: https://speakersu.com LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/JTme-linkedin Instagram: http://bit.ly/JTme-ig Twitter: http://bit.ly/JTme-twitter Facebook Group: http://bit.ly/IS-fbgroup Read full transcript at https://speakersu.com/how-to-get-your-message-to-millions-and-make-millions-sl098/    

The TEC Report
Episode 28 - Why Your Business Content Sucks with Rishi Sood

The TEC Report

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2021 33:56


This episode is all about why most businesses fail miserably with their content writing, videos, blog posts and other articles. They spend time and money only to get no views and fails to capture anyone's attention - especially their intended prospects.If you own a business or are in charge of finding prospects for your business, you may have found what a lot of others are claiming…. It’s more difficult than ever to get people’s attention. I’ve been hearing from a lot of business owners that they are getting business, but most of it is upsells from current clients or referrals – no one is bragging about brand new clients who are part of their outbound program. Most are complaining about the inability to get their prospects’ attention. There’s just too many people trying to get everyone’s attention.It’s a real problem – or is it?Our guest today knows all about getting the attention of people. He’s the founder of Content Monkey Media and has been providing video, blogs, and almost any form of media that a client needs to create a terrific brand for his clients. His content works - and he shares why.Please welcome Rishi Sood.www.ContentMonkeyMedia.com

The Three Month Vacation Podcast
Rerun: How to use "accidental research" to speed up your article writing

The Three Month Vacation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2021 22:51


The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write
Mentorship from the Great Katherine Dunham

The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2021 26:27


My father met a woman who would forever shape him as and artist and a man. She became a signature mentor, and provided him with character building guidance that he still draws from to this day. That woman, was the great African-American dancer, choreographer, creator of the Dunham Technique, author, educator, anthropologist, and social activist Katherine Dunham. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in African-American and European theater of the 20th century, and directed her own dance company for many years. In 1964, Dunham settled in East St. Louis, and took up the post of artist-in-residence at Southern Illinois University in nearby Edwardsville. Because of her community mindedness and activist heart, she located her school in the Black community of East St. Louis, Illinois. In this episode he describes their meeting and collaboration and the important place her mentorship holds in his life. In 2016 I took a gamble on me. After being signed to M.C. Hammer‘s record label, and releasing an album that DID NOT catapult me to fame and fortune, I went back to college and became a teacher. My first job was as a high school English teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, and talk about trial by fire! That was 1998 and since then I have worked steadily at high schools, colleges, universities and even prisons! But it wasn't until 2016 that I realized that all THE OTHER gifts I share; the POETRY PERFORMANCE and READINGS, the LECTURES, TALKS, and PRESENTATIONS, the CURRICULUM WRITING, the ARTICLE WRITING, and now the RETREAT HOSTING and AIRBNB EXPERIENCE LEADING, should have a home. Feminine Pronoun Consultants, LLC is that home. Welcome. This PODCAST is just one of the ways you can plug in, collaborate, and benefit. Go here for others: www.FemininePronoun.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/treasure-shields-redmond/support

Open minded- A podcast from Rabillo Jahbil
My article writing Journey.

Open minded- A podcast from Rabillo Jahbil

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2020 3:28


Article writing to me has not been easy. But I thank God am able to write and secure my work. Thank you God. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rabillo-jahbil/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rabillo-jahbil/support

Talk
Article Writing As Part of Your PR Strategy

Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2020 5:16


Article writing is a must for your PR toolkit. Whether it's a blog, guest post on a third-party website, newsletter or other publication, it builds credibility and creates your profile as an expert, while giving the media and publications a chance to get to know you. The online media has a wealth of opportunities when it comes to placing quality articles, and this is a very real way to build the profile of your brand. So let's explore some Article Writing Tips and Tricks Want to delve more into the world of PR with me Grab a Copy of the Book of PR Tips https://lindareedenever.com.au/product/book-pr-tips/

Talk
Article Writing As Part of Your PR Strategy

Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2020 5:16


Article writing is a must for your PR toolkit.Whether it’s a blog, guest post on a third-party website, newsletter or other publication, it builds credibility and creates your profile as an expert, while giving the media and publications a chance to get to know you.The online media has a wealth of opportunities when it comes to placing quality articles, and this is a very real way to build the profile of your brand.So let’s explore some Article Writing Tips and TricksWant to delve more into the world of PR with me Grab a Copy of the Book of PR Tips https://lindareedenever.com.au/product/book-pr-tips/

Inside Writing
Inside Article Writing

Inside Writing

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2020 59:08


In season two, episode four of Gotham Writers' Inside Writing, host Josh Sippie conducts a panel discussion with Hello Giggles editor Rachel Simon and writer Angie Chatman. They discuss how to write an article with (and without) knowing where to pitch it, what a pitch even looks like, and how to get publications to accept your pitch.

Skills for Mars
Blogging as a business & career | Jon Brosio (TribeLoyal) on Future of Work #29

Skills for Mars

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2020 62:59


-Are you looking for a side hustle that can turn into a business and even a career? -Do you think you would fancy writing, even if now, your skills might not be at their best? -Is content creation something you would like to learn? (Course Coupon included below) In this episode, I am hosting Jon Brosio, the founder of Tribe Loyal (https://tribeloyal.com/). Jon found himself without a job early in 2017. He started writing immediately and after 3 years of hard work he managed to turn online content creation into a business. He is now teaching others how to start and succeed in this journey. What I really love about Jon is that he is down to earth and does not promote outcomes that are impossible to achieve (e.g. how to make 100.000 USD in one month of blogging), but rather helps you visualize the path you need to take to become successful, letting you know that, like any other business or career, this will take time, effort, dedication, consistency, discipline. We talk about: ✔️Jon Brosio - who he is and how he started ✔️Blogging vs Article Writing vs News Reporting ✔️Blogging as a business and career ✔️Where should you start with blogging? ✔️How to pick a niche & decide on blogging topics ✔️Quora vs Medium ✔️AI and online content creation ✔️The future of blogging If you are interested in learning how to start blogging and making money online, you can access Jon's Maser Course here: https://tribeloyal.com/blogging-course/. Use this coupon code to get a one-time MAJOR DISCOUNT: SKILLSFORMARS200 If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home Support this podcast

Digital Marketing Services India's Podcast
SEO Article Writing Services, SEO Article Writing Services India

Digital Marketing Services India's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2020 0:29


Need an SEO article for your brand promotions. Hire our content writers and see what magic they can bring to your brand's marketing. We have the most skilled SEO article writing service professionals to help with all length and type of SEO articles.https://seoserviceinindia.co.in/seo-article-writing-services.phpArticle Writing Services, SEO Article Writing Services, SEO Article Writing Services India, Affordable SEO Article Writing Company, Quality Article Writing Service Company, SEO Services, SEO Company, SEO Services India, Top SEO Services India, best digital marketing company, best seo company, digital marketing services, digital marketing agency, seo company in india

The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write
What Does It Mean To come To Consciousness? Part 2

The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2020 29:41


After the murder of George Floyd, the world has responded in an unprecedented wave of protests. My dad has lived through several massive surges of political fervor like the current one. These “surges” are often (but not always) accompanied by “consciousness raising.” What does it mean to come to consciousness? My dad and I discuss how he came to consciousness amid a time of national upheaval. *** The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write is a radically honest conversation between a daughter and her dad. My dad has had an incredible life as a poet, activist, professor, and cultural worker. He wouldn't write a memoir, so this series of conversations is partly that. You can find my podcast on --> www.FemininePronoun.com AND subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. *** In 2016 I took a gamble on me. After being signed to M.C. Hammer‘s record label, and releasing an album that DID NOT catapult me to fame and fortune, I went back to college and became a teacher. My first job was as a high school English teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, and talk about trial by fire! That was 1998 and since then I have worked steadily at high schools, colleges, universities and even prisons! But it wasn't until 2016 that I realized that all THE OTHER gifts I share; the POETRY PERFORMANCE and READINGS, the LECTURES, TALKS, and PRESENTATIONS, the CURRICULUM WRITING, the ARTICLE WRITING, and now the RETREAT HOSTING and AIRBNB EXPERIENCE LEADING, should have a home. Feminine Pronoun Consultants, LLC is that home. Welcome. This PODCAST is just one of the ways you can plug in, collaborate, and benefit. Go here for others: www.FemininePronoun.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/treasure-shields-redmond/support

Nurses on Fire
This Nurse Helps Other Nurses Grow Profitable Health Writing Businesses - Ep. 63

Nurses on Fire

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2020 42:16


Janine Kelbach, RNC-OB, has extensive experience as an RN in the labor and delivery setting. She works as an OB educator and charge nurse parttime while hosting The Savvy Scribe Podcast. In 2012, Janine began writing on healthcare topics for various blogs and websites. She now coaches others to do the same. Besides writing, Janine enjoys spending time with her family and their Great Danes. Please join me here, and follow me on social media, Instagram and Facebook. Join the Nurses on Fire Community and get access to resources to guide you on the path to Financial Freedom.Oh and please subscribe and leave a review on whatever app you're using to stream this podcast. Get results by taking action:Learn more about Janine’s writing courseListen to the Savvy Scribes PodcastWork with our financial partners….Get the student loan plan that could have saved me $80kFigure out if your retirement plan is optimized for you. Stay connected:Join the NOF Facebook groupTo read the full show notes, visit www.nursesonfirepodcast.com/nofPlease share this podcast with friends, family and colleaguesPlease subscribe, rate and review this podcast, here's howTo learn more about the giveaway, click here

WriteCast: A Casual Conversation for Serious Writers
Collaborative Article Writing (Episode 75)

WriteCast: A Casual Conversation for Serious Writers

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2020 13:38


Claire, Kacy, and guests Miranda and Christina discuss their work collaborating on writing an academic article, with additional tips for student writers to keep in mind!Resources mentioned:WriteCast Episode 8 (Rebroadcast as episode 48): Top 10 Tips for Group PapersWriteCast Episode 49: How to Set and Stick to a Writing GoalWriteCast Episode 61: Restorative Writing See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Dental Podcast Network's Channel One
047- Reflection Health with Katy Cameron and Machell Hudson

The Dental Podcast Network's Channel One

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2020 28:19


This week on Reflection Health Podcast, Machell Hudson is joined by Lacy Walker! Lacy is a Dental Hygienist, CE Guru, Health and Fitness Junkee and so much more! This is part 2 of a 2 part series with Lacy, if you missed last week be sure to go listen!    Episode Highlights   All Things Lacy Walker CE Health and Fitness Happy and Scary moments with patients Article Writing    Quotes   “I tried be a teenager with my teen…and I ended up doing a contortionist twist with my back”   “It's the junk food and the preservatives, most people feel horrible after eating it, they just don't know it”    “I don't miss grains, but cheese, I will CHEAT to eat some cheese”    “Research, I love to research, and that is not just for this week”   “I am a CE Junkee”    Links   Lacy Email: Ce@ataleoftwohygienists.com    More Reflection Health Podcast Episodes:  https://www.ataleoftwohygienists.com/reflectionhealth/    Machell Cell Phone: 817-917-9032   *Please note Machell is not a licensed Therapist, but is a good friend ❤️  The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage: http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/ The Dental Podcast Network Channel Two homepage: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dental-podcast-networks-channel-two/id1478530429  Productive Dentist Academy homepage:   https://productivedentist.com/ Katy's email:   katy@productivedentist.com Machell's email:   machell@productivedentist.com

The Dental Podcast Network's Channel One
046- Reflection Health with Katy Cameron and Machell Hudson

The Dental Podcast Network's Channel One

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2020 21:49


This week on Reflection Health Podcast, Machell Hudson is joined by Lacy Walker! Lacy is a Dental Hygienist, CE Guru, Health and Fitness Junkee and so much more! This is part 1 of a 2 part series with Lacy!   Episode Highlights   All Things Lacy Walker CE Health and Fitness Happy and Scary moments with patients Article Writing    Quotes   “I learned a lot because when you are in hygiene school you are not exposed to many implant patients”   “We are just hand scaling and it is difficult somedays”    “It helps ignite a new found passion in many of them”   “I saw Michelle… and it was a movie star moment”    “You know our sweet friend and how he gets when he loves an idea”   “It's not easy to come up with these questions”    Links   Lacy Email: Ce@ataleoftwohygienists.com    More Reflection Health Podcast Episodes:  https://www.ataleoftwohygienists.com/reflectionhealth/    Machell Cell Phone: 817-917-9032   *Please note Machell is not a licensed Therapist, but is a good friend ️  The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage: http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/ The Dental Podcast Network Channel Two homepage: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dental-podcast-networks-channel-two/id1478530429  Productive Dentist Academy homepage:   https://productivedentist.com/ Katy's email:   katy@productivedentist.com Machell's email:   machell@productivedentist.com

The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write
What Does it Mean To Come To Consciousness? Part 1

The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2020 22:26


After the murder of George Floyd, the world has responded in an unprecedented wave of protests. My dad has lived through several massive surges of political fervor like the current one. These "surges" are often (but not always) accompanied by "consciousness raising." What does it mean to come to consciousness? My dad and I discuss how he came to consciousness amid a time of national upheaval. * * * The Memoir My Dad Wouldn't Write is a radically honest conversation between a daughter and her dad. My dad has had an incredible life as a poet, activist, professor, and cultural worker. He wouldn't write a memoir, so this series of conversations is partly that. In 2016 I took a gamble on me. After being signed to M.C. Hammer‘s record label, and releasing an album that DID NOT catapult me to fame and fortune, I went back to college and became a teacher. My first job was as a high school English teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, and talk about trial by fire! That was 1998 and since then I have worked steadily at high schools, colleges, universities and even prisons! But it wasn't until 2016 that I realized that all THE OTHER gifts I share; the POETRY PERFORMANCE and READINGS, the LECTURES, TALKS, and PRESENTATIONS, the CURRICULUM WRITING, the ARTICLE WRITING, and now the RETREAT HOSTING and AIRBNB EXPERIENCE LEADING, should have a home. Feminine Pronoun Consultants, LLC is that home. Welcome. This PODCAST is just one of the ways you can plug in, collaborate, and benefit. Go here for others: www.FemininePronoun.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/treasure-shields-redmond/support

The Three Month Vacation Podcast
How to use "accidental research" to speed up your article writing

The Three Month Vacation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2020 20:34


One of the most draining aspects of article writing is the research that we need to put into writing an article. No matter how hard we try, we end up spending hours, even days digging up for the right research. But what if there were a faster and better way to do research. What if that method was "accidental", yet super reliable? Let's find out how to go about it, shall we?

RAZOR Web Design Wire Podcast, With Matt Reid
Web Podcast - Episode 80: - Article Writing Ideas For Your Blog

RAZOR Web Design Wire Podcast, With Matt Reid

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2020 5:39


Web Podcast - Episode 80: - Article Writing Ideas For Your Blog by RAZOR Web Design Wire Podcast, With Matt Reid

Women at Halftime Podcast
Is Article Writing and a Newsletter Really Worth it?

Women at Halftime Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2019 23:20


Is article writing or a newsletter really worth it? Will anyone really read it? I say yes! Writing is a great exercise-it gets your juices flowing. Looking back, some of my writing is just funny! Look up the Book: The Artists Way. The author says to write morning pages to let your creativity freely flow (write like you talk); Ask other people for prompts (questions); Think of yourself as a gardener, who takes care of ideas. This takes the pressure off always trying to be creative. When you write…the ideas come! It's important to find a regular way to communicate with your audience. (besides podcasts, etc…) People want to hear your “voice.” Write TO your audience, but write what interests you too! Sometimes you just have to write! Don't be afraid of the blank page! (scary!) Read for ideas. Jot them down-don't lose them! Walkaways: 1. Have the mindset of an exercise with writing. Don't be so self-critical of your past writing 2. Just start writing-journaling. As a “gardener” you're just cultivating, then grabbing what's out there 3. Let your true voice be heard-write to your specific audience (your avatar) 4. Don't be afraid of the blank page. It's OK to repurpose material 5. Pick a platform and stick with it for a good length of time to get going. Then re-evaluate.

Tooth or Dare Podcast
Episode 15: Sloth watching and article writing with Jill and Tony of @OralHealthgrp

Tooth or Dare Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2019 44:05


Ever wonder how writers become writers? Well, it often starts with a killer behind the scenes team that helps inspire and polish what goes to print.  This episode was recorded live at Chicago MidWinter with a killer team from Oral Health Group. A Canadian based publication that is making huge waves in media and how stories and education are shared among various healthcare professionals and providers.  Jillian (Editor) and Tony (Director of Business Development) sit down with us to discuss how it all works. From Scripting, planning to edit.  Have you wanted to write an article but aren't sure where to begin or how to start, this is the episode for you, and also if you want to hear how distracted the entire group gets seeing a giant sloth walk by.  Jillian and Tony are the right people to approach. Visit Oral Health Group to get more info on how you can become a contributor like Irene.  Below are some links to articles Irene has published with the assistance of Jillian and Tony  "Is It Really Periodontal Disease?" "A Leap of Faith" "What Your Ears May Tell Us About Your Health"  Thank you both for being on the Podcast!  Jillian@newcom.ca TonyB@newcom.ca  

The Three Month Vacation Podcast
How to Avoid Gaping Holes in Your Article Writing (and How Objections Fill Those Gaps)

The Three Month Vacation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2018 24:15


Objections aren't something we necessary think about when writing articles. We're so focused on the main content that we might see no need to contradict ourselves. Yet, it's this very contradiction that makes the article more robust and removes those chunky holes. Let's find out why objections are crucial in our articles. Click here to read the article online:  

The Three Month Vacation Podcast
Rerun - Why Contrast Ramps Interest in Article Writing

The Three Month Vacation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2018 23:54


What is the hallmark of great content? When you start writing articles, you get advice from all sides. But there's advice you don't want to hear. It's advice that goes against the grain. And yet, it's this advice that forms the hallmark of great writing. So how do you get from average to great? You take the road less-taken. It's harder and yet far more satisfying. Here's advice you probably don't want to hear.

The Three Month Vacation Podcast
How To Write Enthusiastically (And Why It's Important To Do So)

The Three Month Vacation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2017 37:08


Articles can be mundane or enthralling. But what makes an article stand out? The short answer is enthusiasm. Yet, it's not easy to know how to create enthusiasm in an article, is it? In this podcast, we learn how to step through the three phases that makes your article pack a rollicking amount of enthusiasm. ========== Read the article online:  #152: How To Write Enthusiastically and Avoid The Dull Article ========== In this episode Sean talks about Part 1: Why you need to outline and how to keep it fresh Part 2: Why you need to feel very strongly about the issue RIGHT NOW. Part 3: Why you need to be able to deviate from your script a bit and make it messy. ========== What is the definition of sales? There's are probably a lot of definitions, but back in the year 2003 or so, Canadian-born American motivational public speaker and author, Brian Tracy came to New Zealand. I loved Brian's work and got to know him personally. One of the things I really liked was his definition of sales. “Sales is a transfer of enthusiasm from one person to another”. A transfer of enthusiasm. Wow! I always thought of sales as something grimy Something you were forced to do to get your product or service in front of a client. With this definition, Brian changed the way I looked at sales. What he couldn't have known is that he didn't just change my perception of sales, but of communication itself. If selling could be enhanced through enthusiasm, then so could writing. Instead of just putting words on paper, an article could come alive with enthusiasm. There's just one problem, isn't there? How do you write enthusiastically? Are there stages or steps to follow? Not surprisingly, the stages aren't something you're unfamiliar with. The steps to enthusiastic writing are seemingly so obvious that it's easy to miss them. Writing can get really grimy without the power of enthusiasm. It's time to find out what makes your words sing, isn't it? Let's take a look at the three steps you're going to need to put that zing in your words. 1: You need an outline. And the outline needs to be fresh. 2: You need to feel very strongly about the issue RIGHT NOW. 3: You need to be able to deviate from your script a bit and make it messy. 1: How to write enthusiastically: The “fresh” outline The week my mother in law came to stay with us, I had to throw out all my spices. Most people think that cooking is the act of getting ingredients together in a pot or vessel. But we also know that ingredients matter. The fresher the ingredients, the tastier the food. What we seem to forget are the spices. Like many others, I bought bottles of spices and they sat in the pantry for weeks, even months on end. My mother in law was appalled at the lack of freshness. She got me to bin the entire lot and start with a fresh lot. An outline is a lot like stale spices Whether you're outlining a big project, like a book, or a relatively smaller project, like an article, you're still dealing with the factor of freshness. If the outline is a week old, it's already getting relatively stale. If it's older, you're likely to be struggling to find out what you outlined in the first instance. The reason I outline is because it saves me time I'm not exactly the kind of person that loves to outline. The reason why I do so is because I know it gives me structure and it saves me an enormous amount of time. Even so, there's the curse called “excessive outlining”. In my desire to create a truckload of content, I'll head to the cafe and outline five or ten articles. If I get down to writing those articles within a week or two, maybe even three, I'd be fine. But as you can tell, it's practically impossible to write so many articles in such a short time span. Which means that the outline starts to get stale I get newer ideas along the way, and add to the mountain of outlines and the longer I wait, the more the earlier outlines seem to fade into oblivion. I will look at the outlines; I know they're important, but they're not fresh anymore. Like those spices in my kitchen cabinet, I can throw them in the dish, but they won't enhance the dish at all. Which is why you need to get an idea, outline it, and then get started with your writing. If you need to re-outline the material along the way, that's perfectly fine, but the outline must be relatively fresh at all times. The longer you wait, the more you have to battle with what you were really thinking about. And battle takes up a lot of energy, which means that you're less likely to write with any sort of enthusiasm. Consider that outlines don't vary too much An outline for an article will tend to have a pretty straightforward construction. First Fifty Words (Opening of article) What? Why? How? Other questions Objections Examples End of article So if you had an article on “How to buy earphones” First Fifty Words What to look for? Why is it important? How to avoid the noise in earphone marketing What else to consider when buying earphones Objections Examples End of article That article outline isn't going to change a lot six months or even six years from now, is it? You can still write a great article or create a chapter in a book about it.  It makes no sense to say that six years from now you will shy away from writing the article. But this is where the weirdness kicks in. Intellectually you know you can write the article, but when it comes down to writing it, the fact that you wrote the outline a while ago will prevent you from getting too far ahead. You'll somehow want to write another article—any article—and avoid the one that's stale. When you're going through so much avoidance it's hard to be enthusiastic Fresh outlines are like fresh spices. You shouldn't wait too long. You need to outline and write as quickly as possible. I will outline on one day and by the next day or two, I'm writing But why not write on the day itself? You could, of course, but more often than not it's better to keep a bit of space between the outline and the material you're about to write. Why? Because the outline allows your brain to let the thoughts percolate. A day later your article is likely to be far superior because you've been thinking about the contents as the hours tick by. An outline, a fresh outline, is crucial to get that enthusiasm in your writing, but it's not enough. The second most important factor is feeling strongly about the issue right now. 2: Feeling Strongly About The Issue Right Now My friend Cher taught me an important lesson on the day of my father in law's funeral. When someone close to you dies, most people are uncomfortable around you. They know you're grieving and they feel your pain. It's at this point that almost everyone makes the same statement. They say something like: “If you need anything, please let me know”. Cher did something entirely different. She baked a whole bunch of muffins, brought them over, stayed for a short while and then left. I feel strongly about that issue right now I feel that so many people tend to use words, not actions. That if we were all like Cher, we wouldn't be asking “what can we do?” Instead, we'd be doing something for our friends, our relatives or even that stranger that we may never meet again. When you feel strongly about an issue, you need to write about it as quickly as you can. Right at the top of my agenda is to write an article about how we need to: 1) Not ask what we should do, but do something instead. 2) Not wait to tell someone how they changed our lives, but be specific about how they did it. 3) Avoid grumbles and demonstrate persistence, instead We feel strongly about issues all the time We may have just run into a problem and the issue is top of mind. Or we may have been the recipient of a great wave of generosity. But you don't always need to be prodded by happy and sad moments. You could have just heard a podcast and that could have ignited a fire within you. Or in the case of this article, a client may ask you a question that you feel needs to be answered in detail. There are lots of things that rev up the engines of your brain and the more strongly you feel about these issues right now, the more likely you are to write with a greater amount of enthusiasm. Yet, doesn't this “feeling” lead directly to the outlining process? Yes it does. The feeling comes right before the outline. Once you feel the surge, you then get down to outline. However, in many cases, a surge may break the rule of outlining. Take for instance, when you see something on Facebook or in a forum. There's a discussion going and you need to get an important point across. In such a scenario, outlining may slow down the process and the moment of passion passes. Instead you need to capture the enthusiasm while it's still fresh. What you tend to write in that moment may be remarkably more lucid than anything that's outlined and planned. Writing while the “iron is hot” is not an excuse to avoid the outlining process Outlining is smart because it saves time. Writing an answer quickly is just a way of getting your thoughts out quickly and keeping that fire alive. It's a shoddy excuse if you just want to avoid outlining. Yet it does feed the flames of your outline. I tend to write quickly, if needed, but then I will create an outline and fit the information into that outline. Later, probably the day after, I will write the article or the chapter in the book. Enthusiasm doesn't come easily Yet it does strike from time to time and if you don't go through the process of writing down your thoughts and fashioning them, your writing won't necessarily be dull. A lot of writing is done by sitting down and just working your way through a project. Yet, that sparkle that comes from frustration, desperation or inspiration comes and goes in quick bursts. Learning to capture those shiny bits in your article is what a great writer does. All of this outlining and striking when the iron is hot is about structure. It's about discipline. Yet, enthusiasm often shows up when you least expect it. It's at this point that we need to learn to trust the diversion. Let's find out how deviating from the script is a good idea to create a high level of enthusiasm. 3: You need to be able to deviate from your script a bit and make it messy. When does a concept become a coconut? When you run into your computer's auto-correct, that's when. Like the other day when I was writing an answer in the forum in 5000bc. I fully intended to use the word “concept”, but as you do, my fingers went on their own journey. And as I typed something that was clearly garbled, the auto-correct suggested “coconut” as a replacement. This is the messiness, the unexpected factor that leads to enthusiasm. It's not unlike the “I have a dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr. In the book, “Messy”, author, Tim Harford talks about how Martin Luther King Jr valued preparation. By the age of five he was learning Bible passages by heart. By fourteen his dedication to detailed research, outlining and re-outlining was paying off as he won a prize in a public speaking contest. This attention to sticking to a script paid off time and time again when he started preaching, then later as he snapped up an oratory prize in college, and finally helped him get his job as a minister. Every sermon started out on yellow lined paper as an idea on Tuesday, would be researched and re-drafted many times during the week, before he delivered it on Sunday. He lavished well over 15 hours a week learning every sermon by heart, just so that he never had to refer to his notes. Yet the one speech that was the most memorable of all wasn't rehearsed It was an improvisation. Even though he went through his prepared text for most of the speech, as he came to the end, he started to improvise. At that moment, Mahalia Jackson shouted: “Tell them about the dream, Martin!” And then he was off, giving one of the most memorable speeches, that seemed to take a life of its own. In the world of scriptwriting it's known that scripts take a life of their own Often writers are astounded to find that the character in the script dictating the series of events. Just like “autocorrect” on your computer, the character decides what to do next. This concept of the character taking over sounds really odd, until you speak to writers who express how the words on the page seem to come alive in a way that is hard to imagine. To create enthusiasm in your writing, you need to follow trust the diversion The outline is crucial, there's not a shred of doubt about that fact. The outline lets you stay within the parameters, but an outline can also be the launching pad for enthusiasm of a monumental scale. Suddenly the words are flowing out of you in a way you can't imagine. The result is something you're not anticipating, and yet it's extremely pleasing when you get to the finish point. Make no mistake: the results are random when you're first starting out. Martin Luther King Jr. was no average speaker. Writers, singers, jazz players, sports people—they're not rank amateurs. They've got a bit of practice under their belt and it's only at that point that the improvisation kicks in. Which isn't to say you should wait until you're a great writer, just to improvise No one is a great writer. Everyone is still learning their craft and the best way to get started down this path of improvisation is to simply go down the road when you hear “improv” calling you. The enthusiasm you feel for the subject matter will present itself in a way that you don't or can't expect. Even in the very early stages, you should break free and let the text take over. Unburdened by typos and grammatical errors. Unfettered by whether what you're writing makes sense or not. Writing in a way that a cartoonist doodles, without a care in the world. I had to learn these lessons of breaking free as well Take for instance the script of the podcast. When I first started doing the podcast back in late 2014, I'd have a very rough outline, but no script. I'd stick to the points but all of the thoughts had to be improvised as I went along. By mid-2015, I not only outlined the podcast in great detail, but started reading it off the computer screen and then off a teleprompter on my iPhone called Promptsmart. I thought I was doing a great job until someone suggested I could do better. That comment via e-mail got me thinking about what I'd learned about the diversion; about how letting go was a smart strategy. And so that's what I did. I still have the outline. I still script and follow the script, but from time to time in the podcast, I'll let the diversion take over. This diversion perks me up when I'm bumping down the side road, but also gives a ton of energy when I get back on track with the script. It's odd, this advice—even contrary. And yet we know it to be true. To get enthusiasm you have to doodle, do some fair work, then go back to doodling again. It's what makes for great work, and brings immense power to your words. Next Step: Find out—Why You Need to Have “Tension and Release” To Create Drama in Article Writing. =========  

Perspective Transformation Radio
How to Make Money Writing Articles for Print ​& Online Outlets

Perspective Transformation Radio

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2017 60:00


?During this hour with Marnie and guest, Kelly James Enger, you'll discover How to identify potential markets for your writing.How to choose your first article ideas.How to write a pitch or query letter.How to make your query stand out from the pack.How to make an editor love you—and assign more work to you.How to manage your time as a writer.Why you should develop a specialty as a writer.How to build a freelance career from scratch.  Kelly James-Enger has been a fulltime freelance writer for 17+ years, writing nearly 1,000 articles for more than 60 national magazines and more than a dozen books. Learn more at DollarsandDeadlines.blogspot.com. 

Darken the Page: Conversations about the Creative Process
Ep.58 Article Writing, Insomnia and Women’s Empowerment w/ August McLaughlin

Darken the Page: Conversations about the Creative Process

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2016 48:23


August McLaughlin is a nationally recognized health and sexuality writer, author and host and creator of Girl Boner® and Girl Boner® Radio. Her work appears in DAME Magazine, the Huffington Post, LIVESTRONG.com and more. Known for melding personal passion, artistry and activism, August uses her skills as a public speaker and journalist to inspire other […]

The Three Month Vacation Podcast
Article Writing Advice Writers Don't Want To Hear

The Three Month Vacation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2016 23:57


When you start writing articles, you get advice from all sides. But there's advice you don't want to hear. It's advice that goes against the grain. And yet, it's this advice that forms the hallmark of great writing. So how do you get from average to great? You take the road less-taken. It's harder and yet far more satisfying. Here's advice you probably don't want to hear. --------------- A friend wrote to me today and asked me what seemed like a pretty normal question. She expected 5 lines, maybe 6. Instead I ended up with 1800 words. So what was her question? What traits do you consider to be hallmarks of quality in a piece of content? The answer is something that most writers may not want to hear. It’s an answer that demands sacrifice, going against the grain and being persistent when things are going horribly wrong. Still interested? Well, here’s the question again: What traits do you consider to be hallmarks of quality in a piece of content? The answer 1- contrast 2- lack of pandering 3- the gap between style and ability. ———— 1) Let’s start with contrast It’s the year 1986. John Heritage and David Greatbatch have an itch to scratch. They’re studying applause and what causes it. So they embark on what could be considered one of the most boring tasks in the world: they analyse politician’s speeches. 476 of them. And what were these two poor souls looking for? Applause, that’s what they were keen to find. Why was it that one speech received total silence, while other speeches got applause? But not just applause, but applause twice per minute! Nineteen thousand sentences later they had a clue It was contrast. The moment the audience encountered applause, the brain was no longer dormant. Contrast brought a smile to their faces, and cheering followed. Contrast requires you and me to work so much harder But contrast also puts you in a strange and precarious position. If everyone says: You should go this way and there’s a writer that says, “Nope, you’re headed into sheep land. This is the way to go”. Now that is going out on a limb. Contrast is scary. It’s much easier to say what everyone else is saying. If you want to start with the hallmark of quality, contrast is where you start. Let’s take an example of contrast Let’s say you’re writing about a subject such as productivity, for example. Now productivity doesn’t bring to mind any sort of rest or sleep does it? Instead the enduring message of productivity has almost always been one of focus and concentration. It’s always been one of working out astounding efficiencies to do more work than ever before. At this point in time, let’s say your article talks about sleep. It talks about taking the weekends off. It even goes on to suggest that you take several months off in a year. You’ve shaken up the force a bit, haven’t you? You’ve created a counter force that may at first seem impossible to defend. Yet, that’s what great writing is about. Conceptually, it stands out and picks a topic that’s contrarian. But not all topics need to be contrarian to have that hallmark, do they? You could write articles on topics that have none of this rebellious nature and still bring out the big guns. This calls for a bit of a roller coaster in your writing An article needs to have a flow so the reader can move forward, but just as important is a counterflow. So let’s say you’re writing about how to “grow a curry leaf tree”, you also need to bring in the counterflow as you’re writing. That counterflow would be a possible glitch in the planting process. It could be a couple of mistakes you’re about to make. To be able to speed ahead, brake and go in a counterflow direction isn’t easy. Some writers do it while creating the material. Others create it later during an edit process. Flow by itself is super boring Try this paragraph for example: We went to the airport, there was no traffic on the highway. We got through check in and immigration in next to no time. And then we sat down to have a beer. So what are you thinking at this point in time? I’ll tell you what. You’re wondering if the story has any purpose. And yet, the moment counterflow comes into play, you’re alert again. Let’s go back to the story. You’ve had your beer, when a policeman walks up with a grim face. That’s drama, that’s contrast. And the hallmark of a great article is the ability to insert contrast into various sections of your article. Case studies can have an up and down. The concept can start out being all in favour of something and then diverge without warning. Now you’ve created contrast and lifts the tempo of your words. Counterflow needs to head back to flow, however Too much counterflow and your reader is turned off. The grim policeman, the spilling of beer on your white shirt, the missing of the flight—and the article seems to be falling right out of the skies. Which is why contrast matters so much. Contrast is about a constantly evolving set of words that get you to slip slide through like—yes—a roller coaster. Up, down, up and down. But contrast is only one hallmark of good writing. The second is a lack of pandering. 2) The second hallmark of great writing is a lack of pandering. Clients often ask me if I write articles with keywords in mind. The answer is no. I never have. I’ve been told I can get ten times the traffic if I pandered to keywords, but frankly I don’t care. The moment you pander, you’re not really writing for yourself Most of the greatest writing is not done for another. Most outstanding writing is done to clear the cobwebs in your own mind. You know this feeling well if you’ve tried to do a bit of a project like writing a report, presentation, or a book. There are a million thoughts floating through your mind and none of them seem to sit well until you put them down on paper. The reason why I wrote a book on the Secret Life of Testimonials wasn’t because a client asked me to do so. I wrote because I had these floating ideas in my head. And when I started writing the book, I expected to complete between 20-30 pages. There was good reason for me to have this pagination estimate. I’d already written a book on testimonials earlier and the first edition stopped quite firmly at 30 pages. Imagine my surprise when I went past 30, onto 50, then over 75 and sailed past 100, before settling at 125 pages. When you pander you lose your soul You stuff keywords into your headlines, write less than interesting opening paragraphs and do things that just don’t resonate with being a writer. And we know this to be true with one simple test. Would you use those same words if you were writing the article back in 1995? Pandering means a compromise that’s not necessarily walking step by step with producing the best possible work. No one is saying you have to be this crazy, independent soul forever All of us end up pandering in some shape of form. The great artist and sculptor, Leonardo da Vinci was known to be a lover of nature and hated war. Yet he created some of the most destructive weapons. And his patron, Cesare Borgia was one of the most hated men in all of Italy. Pandering at some level is almost inevitable, yet Leonardo didn’t stay in pander-land forever. He moved on creating work that was enduring and mostly for him. He didn’t want or expect you to see La Gioconda, better known as the Mona Lisa. He did that for himself, to make himself happy. Galileo stopped pandering. The father of geology, a Scot named James Hutton, refused to pander. Charles Darwin wrote 400 pages of stuff that rocked our world forever. The biggest exposés, the most interesting movies, they all refuse to buckle down and pander even when they know that pandering is profitable. So where’s the happy medium between doing what you love vs. pandering? It’s impossible to tell, but when you create a benchmark for yourself, you can decide whether you have time and the resources to create better work, or just work that’s good enough for the masses. At first you may have no option. You’ve got a mortgage to pay, mouths to feed and life is about meeting those obligations. To go down in flames before starting is not a good strategy. But then as you get a little more comfortable, it’s time to go out on a limb. At Psychotactics, we set a benchmark for ourselves: we wanted to work nine months a year and take three months off. Our income has been almost identical since 2007. We don’t need to double our income, double our clients or do any of that stuff that others find so endearing. This allows us not to pander. We know we can reach our goals easily and still do only the projects that are exciting and rewarding. Pandering is an obstacle we all have to learn to overcome. It applies to life, just as it applies to your writing. You can be enslaved by headlines like “7 Ways to attract clients”. You can stuff keywords into all your content to attract the search engines. But every time you do you’re running your soul on the pander-grater. That’s the second hallmark of great work: the move away from pander-land. Which takes us to our third hallmark of great work “achieving style through cross pollination”. 3) Which takes us to the third element: The gap between style and ability When you first start writing, getting an 800-word article on paper is enough to drive you to devour a tub of ice-cream. In time, however, your brain works out what needs to be done. A combination of writing, learning, resting and confidence bubble up to the point where writing is never exactly a joy, but no longer a frustration. Yet, when you’re done with the writing it seems to have no soul It reads pathetically like the work you see all over the Internet. Yet as Ira Glass, host of “This American Life” says: “The reason we get involved in something is because we have good taste. But there’s a gap. For the first couple of years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good. It has ambition to be good, but it’s not that great. But your taste—your taste is still “killer”. And your taste tells you that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you. A lot of people never get past that phase. A lot of people give up. A lot of people quit. And it’s only by going through a volume of work that you can close that gap.” Ira Glass is referring to the gap in your brain But what he doesn’t say in that video is what he and every other great writer or creator knows to be true. That style is about getting worse before you get better. Your work is bad but then turns crappy. The reason why you give up is because you’ve pushed your boundaries and ended in crappy land. And you figure out: well, if I’m going to go from bad to worse, I must have no talent whatsoever. And you’re right Talent isn’t inborn. Talent has to be acquired. You have no talent whatsoever. And that seemingly stupid thing you just did when you pushed your boundaries—well, that just made the gap between your ability and taste so much greater. There’s a reason, of course, why your work goes downhill The brain is stepping outside its comfort zone. When the brain steps out into this frosty land it has to read a lot more. But not just a lot more in your own field. No, who told you that nonsense? Read about how continents were created, how birds took flight, why diamonds should logically never exist. When you read, read many authors, copy many authors. But also push your reading and copying way beyond your immediate field of knowledge. If you’re a designer, put your design books in a safe If you’re an architect, go look for books on gravity. If you’re going to really learn style you have to push up and wide at the same time. You’re going to have to learn your craft, yes, but you’re also going to have to get into other worlds. And there’s a good reason why. Style is an amalgamation of thoughts. You may consider your style to be unique, but every style is simply a melting pot, bubbling slowly and deliberately. A lot of style seeps in when you’re reading, but there’s also a factor of copying The greatest works of our times have involved copying (not plagiarism, but copying) to the point that you become a sort of style-clone. Then when you’ve had your fill of one, you copy someone else—and then a third, fourth and fifth. One day you wake up and you have a style You know this to be true because everyone around you says so. They comment on your unique style. They say it’s so different. And what they’re commenting on isn’t just a look. It’s a culmination of your taste and your skill. A combination of the ideas of the masters that have gone before you. An amalgamation so deep that you feel the style is all your own but know deep down, that it’s come from that cavern of knowledge that’s too deep to go back into. And then just as you’ve reached your pinnacle of taste, you realise you’re not the guru you aspired to be. You’ve climbed one mountain and there before you lie the Himalayas of taste. You have so many mountains more to climb. The gap continues to exist. Let’s summarise, shall we? Contrast is crucial. There must be flow, then counterflow and back to flow again. This is what makes for great content. The lack of pandering is scary but that’s where originality springs forth. Pander if you must, but move away from the evil as quickly as you can. The gap between style and ability is incredibly frustrating, but sooner or later you close that gap enough to be amazing, but never quite at the level you want to achieve. And that eternal gap is what keeps you interested in the game forever. Useful Resources: 1) Why Inspiration Can Be The Key To Winning The Resistance Game 2) The Secret of How To Get Clients To Keep Coming Back Repeatedly 3) Three Unknown Secrets of Riveting Story Telling

The Three Month Vacation Podcast
The Psychotactics Story: Why We Stopped The Hugely Profitable Protege Program - Part Two

The Three Month Vacation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2015 34:38


Imagine you had a program that generated over $150,000 a year. Let's also imagine that this program always had a waiting list and that clients loved it. Would you stop the program, or let it run? In 2006, we started the Protege Program and by 2009, it came to an abrupt halt. But was it abrupt? And why did it stop in the first place? These stories and more show up in the Psychotactics story. There's not a moment of boredom as we head into the roller coaster of 2009 and beyond. Where we explore the crazy world of workshops, this time outside the safety of California. It's one nutty, exciting ride. Buckle up, because it's action-packed and full of lessons for your own small business. http://www.psychotactics.com/stopped-protege/ Psychotactics Workshop Story: Part 2 “This transcript hasn’t been checked for typos, so you may well find some. If you do, let us know and we’ll be sure to fix them.”   It was February 2006 I’d just started a crazy venture called the Protege. Well it was crazy for me at least. I’d written a sales letter promising that I would teach six courses in one year. The courses were Article Writing, Copy Writing, Information Product Strategy, Website Strategy, Core Marketing Strategy and  PR (Public Relations). And no sooner than the Protege sessions started up when I had this idea of holding a workshop for the Proteges in California. There was only one problem This workshop was not part of what I’d promised. It was an extra workshop of five days. For the first three days we’d be working on Website Strategy and the next two days would be closed-door Protege sessions. So the problem that arose instantly was one of scheduling, money, effort and a few dozen assorted issues. For me it meant that I had to book a room somewhere in the U.S., book flights and do an entire workshop in slides in less than eight weeks. What’s more interesting is that the workshop didn’t exist. Notes didn’t exist and neither did the slides. This was compounded by a few interesting facts The Protege year was something that was just dreamed up in a salesletter. No material existed for any of the six courses (today they all exist in audio/text, but back then I was creating it as the courses rolled along). So I had this cute little challenge of hosting live teleclasses (training calls), creating content on the fly, managing a forum with 15 proteges and preparing for a workshop all at once. Admittedly those were problems that were pretty rough but that was the least of my problems I also had a bit of a mutiny on my hands. I hadn’t made the workshop a compulsory attendance issue (you could attend if you like to) but I sure stressed it was important. I also required each of the proteges to cough up an additional $500 for the workshop (it was just to cover the costs of the venue etc.) This additional payment didn’t go down well. What made it worse was they had to travel to Campbell, California, stay in a hotel and had all of this additional expenditure—not to mention they all had to take at least a week off from work. They were not happy in the least. It was almost like a bit of bait and switch. But in my mind it wasn’t bait and switch at all I really felt that those five days would be of immense help to the Proteges. For one there was the factor of learning in a compressed state (over five days). There was also the factor of connecting with each other because when people connect, they work better after the connection. To me it seemed quite sensible to have a meeting like this totally out of the blue (just kidding). But this sudden move kicked up a ton of dust and I then spent a fair bit of time on the phone, and via the forums and email sorting things out. Once things were sorted out the real work began We had to find a venue and get on with the job of getting the show on the road. Because Renuka’s sister, Audrey lived in Campbell, she did some scouting around for us and we soon located a meeting room at the adorable Pruneyard Plaza just 5 minutes away from Audrey’s house. And unlike the earlier workshops there was absolutely no drama at all this time around. All we had to do was land in San Francisco, and we were picked up from the airport. We were chauffeured around from Kinko’s (where we got our binders and notes photocopied) to Costco and just about everywhere. In fact the hotel even picked us up at 7am from the house every morning and dropped us back every evening (I bet no one has ever done that before or since). And the workshop went like a dream. Oh I forgot to tell you how we made a profit on the workshop.  So here’s how we made a profit $500 per Protege wasn’t even barely going to cover the airfares and costs of the workshops, and if you’re going to do a workshop might as well make a profit. That’s only part of the issue. When you’re doing a workshop, you want to make sure you have a full house. Having just ten or fifteen people in a room is nice, but having about 25-30 people in the room really creates enormous energy in the room. So we decided to sell 15 -18 seats (we only ever take 33-35 attendees—never more). And the good thing was that we had already “sold” 15 seats because  all the Proteges decided to show up. This created an instant urgency because 50% of the seats were taken. Bear in mind this workshop was selling at $2200 per head or thereabouts, so it wasn’t an easy sell. Even so, the workshop was soon filled. The Campbell workshop was well on its way. The Campbell workshops and the Protege Program went on till the year 2008 The Protege Program was a reasonably profitable program generating anything between $100,000-$150,000 a year. And year after year we’d have the workshop in Campbell, CA and there were never any hitches. And it became part of the Prot’g’ Program. What was even cooler was we started speaking at the System Seminar in Chicago, which was often held around the same time as ourProtege sessions, and so we’d finish the Protege and head to Chicago, do a speaking engagement and head for a well deserved break either within the US or to Europe. But then in 2008 we decided to pull the Protege Program As I said, the Protege Program was a reasonable sum of guaranteed income year after year. But to my mind it wasn’t good for consumption. Expecting a client to learn five or six new skills in a year was like learning five or six new languages a year. It wasn’t just bad for consumption, but it wasn’t (in my mind at least) doing the customer any good. So we pulled the Program. And people often asked me what I would replace the program with. And I didn’t plan to replace it with anything. As far as I was concerned, I was more interested in teaching and getting the clients to learn and implement. To me the Protege Program, wonderful as it was, wasn’t achieving exactly what I set out to do. And so when we pulled the Prot’g’ Program, we pulled the workshops as well. Not all workshops of course We’d still do some workshops in Auckland, where we live in New Zealand. One or two a year if at all. But the workshops held locally didn’t require the same level of planning and precision as the international workshops. Plus there were no travel costs, hotel costs or any fancy costs. Even our core costs of the room hire and expenses were lower here (There’s no gratuity or tipping required in New Zealand and all costs are inclusive of taxes, so there are no surprises whatsoever). And then the year 2009 rolled along. It was the first year we’d didn’t do any workshops. Not in the US. Not in New Zealand. And I hadn’t really planned to do any in 2010. In fact I was pretty much happy to be back in New Zealand after a three week vacation in Argentina and Uruguay. And we were sitting at our favourite cafe when Renuka suggested we do the US/Canada trip. In every situation, I have an idea and Renuka says no In this situation, I was saying no and Renuka wanted me to go ahead. And we had a lead time of just four weeks. In four weeks we had to get at least 35 people to sign up at two venues: Vancouver and Washington D.C. And I wasn’t even keen on doing the trip. But Renuka said we had to do it. Um did I say 35 people? I meant 70 people (35 at both venues). It was a start of a mini nightmare. The nightmare wasn’t so much getting the sign ups for the workshop The nightmare was getting the venue for the event. You see, all those years of California sun had made us pretty complacent. Getting a venue for the workshop simply meant that we fixed a date, called the hotel and got our room. And bear in mind the booking is always temporary. Even though our workshops have always been solidly booked, we still will always make a temporary booking—just in case. This time around there was no temporary booking to be had Unlike the usual California venue, we were looking for places in Washington D.C. and Vancouver, Canada. And two instant problems cropped up. One was the obvious one: we’d never had a workshop in any of these places, so we were totally unfamiliar with the territory. The second one was that we had no relationship with the hotel—and hence not a clue of what to expect. But at first it all seemed simple enough I went online, and looked up hotel meeting rooms and there they were—dozens of options just waiting to be picked. What surprised me was that most of them were costing as little as $200 + taxes per day. I was astounded—truly astounded, because these were hotels in prime areas. Some of them were within walking distance of downtown areas, even the White House. But hey, I wasn’t going to complain. I now had a pick of hotels and I was going to do my cherry picking all right. So I did what any sensible person would do I emailed half a dozen hotels and asked them if they would be willing to book a meeting room for the dates we’d decided upon. And with that job done and dusted, I moved along to making sure I had the sales pages ready, because we needed to get participants to sign up as well. And the first email that went out was pretty darned heartening. Over 50% of the seats got taken in just a few days. This was looking better than I thought, until I checked my email. The inbox was swamped with responses to my queries But the common question I kept getting was: How many rooms can we block for your guests? Hmm, I figured 35 people were going to show up, so I told them we’d have at least 15-20 rooms taken up by the guests. But I couldn’t be sure, I admitted. After all, the guest may choose to stay at the hotel or elsewhere. So I asked them to block a temporary 15-20 rooms and as we signed up participants, we’d direct them to the hotel and they could sign up. Of course there would be a cut off date, so the hotel wouldn’t have to keep the rooms booked forever. But the hotels didn’t want to play ball They wanted us to guarantee the rooms. And guarantee at least 80% of the rooms. So if you consider 35 participants, then 80% is about 28 rooms. Consider that every guest stays 3 nights, and that’s about 84 bookings. Each room may be in the range of $100-$200. You get the idea, don’t you? The hotels were asking us to guarantee between $8500-$17,000 worth of bookings. And if the guests didn’t show up, we’d have to foot the bill. So I changed the question. I asked: If I don’t guarantee the rooms, what will you charge for the meeting rooms? $6016 came the answer from one of the hotels. That’s $6,016 per day. A lot better than paying $17,000, you’ll agree, but still not a risk worth taking. And now we were in a real soup. Most of the participants who’d signed up were told that we’d have the workshop in Washington D.C. and Vancouver, Canada, but the exact details were going to be revealed later. Now we had sign ups but not a meeting room in sight. It was time to fill in every hotel form we could find I don’t know how many forms I filled up, but I hated every one of them. It was the same boring set of questions over and over again, and because they’re all forms, both Renuka and I were cutting and pasting endlessly. And then the responses started coming in by the truckload. Every time we’d check our email there was a whole bunch of emails with counter questions: How many rooms will you book? Will catering be involved? What is the minimum catering you’d require. The answer was none, no and nothing. But it still took up hours and more hours every day. I was feeling like a zombie dealing with what seemed like an endless barrage of queries. That wasn’t the only problem The other problem was they were so many hotels (some with similar brand names) that they all started merging into one in my head. It was at this point that three saviours stepped right up. In Vancouver, Leanne asked if she could help. In Washington D.C., Marina and Natalya volunteered as well. By this point we were exhausted, but we’d managed to get a few hotels to agree to our terms. So yes, we’d do a temporary booking. And no, there’s no need of any fancy catering. And no we can’t guarantee the rooms. And some agreed. So now it was a matter of creating a shortlist. Excel and me aren’t the best of friends In fact we hardly know of each other. In all my year on a computer—and I’ve been on computers since around the early 1990s, I’ve never so much as opened up Excel, let alone do a spreadsheet. But as I said, I was desperate. Someone (I forget who) created a Google docs spreadsheet and we started to fill in whatever details were available. And things were starting to look good. The sign-ups had slowed down considerably since the early burst, but to be fair we’d only sent out one or two emails. Now that the hotels were kinda falling in place, we could have the luxury of filling in the rest of the seats. Actually things were looking better than good We’d settled on hotels that were in great areas: In Georgetown, Washington D.C and downtown Vancouver. At which point Marina and Natalya volunteered to look up the hotels. Natalya was in Washington with her husband and kids, so she jumped on the metro and very magnanimously checked out the hotels we’d shortlisted. And she came back with a “F” on the hotels. She wasn’t impressed. The one we’d set our hearts on, was in the basement, very squeezed and with a distinct odour of mildew. But Natalya wasn’t giving up Right at the start she’d hinted about a hotel called Hampton Inn, located near the Reagan National Airport. Now she set about checking it out as an alternative. And yes, the “shoe” fit. She approved of the meeting rooms and the hotel accommodation. But this close miss had set our hearts racing. What if we’d made the same mistake in Vancouver? This time it was Leann’s turn. She made the long drive from Whistler to downtown Vancouver just to recce the various options. And yes, lightning does strike twice. The one we’d originally chosen was a bit of a dump. Slightly tacky. Not so hot. But just like Natalya’s story there was a happy ending The Listel on Robson Street, Vancouver was actually happy with our crazy terms. And they were ready to make a booking for those meeting rooms. That Excel spreadsheet was finally down to two choices, one in D.C and one in Vancouver. But it’s not like the emails stopped. You see we’d contacted (I don’t know) maybe 40-50 hotels (maybe some twice, even). And they were all writing in asking to confirm. We even had some long distance calls to top up the emails. For a change it was nice to say NO. And yes, our trip was finally getting underway. And not a moment too soon Participants had to fly in—and some from tiny airports, so they needed to know quickly which airport to fly into. By this point we knew the answers. Luckily from that moment on, nothing much went wrong, but that week or two was pure misery. I’d go to bed completely drained—even frustrated. To have those rooms booked and the event underway was such a relief. All I had to do was make sure that the rest of the seats were filled and I got down to the business of making sure we got the blog rolling (to create a factor of excitement and anticipation) and the slides and the music for the event. The Brain Audit workshops were kinda unusual For one it wasn’t just a workshop. Every four years, we have a Cave Party + workshop. At this Caver Party, we not only learn, but we go out on a day trip, do a treasure hunt, sample the wines in wineries and spend lots of time over lunch and dinner. But I was still a bit apprehensive. Some of the participants had been with Psychotactics and 5000bc for a long time. And some of them had read The Brain Audit in Version 1, Version 2 and also Version 3. They were members. They’d been on our courses. And there I was, talking about The Brain Audit. I was afraid it would be super boring for them. I mean we’d gone over this stuff before in the books, audio and video. How could I straddle the expectations of those who’d just read the last version of The Brain Audit vs. those who’d read every version. Sleep wasn’t easy to come by And it wasn’t because of jet-lag either. Sure we’d flown in from New Zealand to California, woken up at 4am and got onto a flight bound for Washington DC. Sure we were tired and crossing squillions of time zones. But exhausted as I was, I couldn’t sleep. I’d wake up at 2am to practice my presentation and go over it again and again, making dozens of changes. Even the second day (which was the day off) had me a little perturbed. I wasn’t sure how we’d go about the treasure hunt. Were we going to play dodge ball? How would people react to having to spend an extra day for no apparent learning? These things bothered me a lot. And it wasn’t till Day 3 that I truly started to relax just that tiny bit. I wasn’t well either I was definitely very exhausted. Not sleeping well. Apprehensive. And yes, I had a reasonably irritating acidity problem as well. This meant instead of gorging everything in sight, I had to restrict myself to “baby food”. Anything that was bland, non-oily—as I said, baby food. Alcohol, chocolates, coffee, icecream: they were all off the menu. Of course I wasn’t paying much attention at first. So I went out. I ate Ethiopian food, then Mexican, then Italian—yes, back to back meals. And I was in more than slight discomfort. That didn’t help me overall. And now I’m sounding like a real wus, but I managed to stiffen my shoulder and neck as well. So why am I telling you all this? Well there’s sympathy (ha, ha) but more because you need to know that these things happen. That you’re not going to get this free ride into everything turning out just hunky dory. And yet if you listened to the recording of the workshops or were there at the workshop itself, you’d notice little or nothing unless I told you about it. The last night in D.C. We’re all packed and ready to catch an 8am flight the next day to Vancouver, Canada. It’s an international flight, so we have to be at the airport by 5 am or so. And so we make sure we get to bed before 10pm. Then at 10:30pm, the fire alarm goes off. There’s this insistent beeping, and we’re roused from a deep, tired sleep racing around the room madly. I tried to call the reception, but the phone seemed dead. Renuka ran barefoot into the corridor only to find it completely peaceful (Folks were coming back from dinner, and seeing Renuka barefoot, another woman took off her shoes). No one seemed slightly disturbed. It was like we were the only ones panicking. Then I looked at our bags. They were sitting right under the sprinkler. And I thought it was a good idea to move the bags before the sprinklers went off and soaked all the equipment. As I moved the bag, the sound of the fire alarm shifted Aaaagh! It was our travel clock. There was no fire. Somehow the travel clock had shifted and an alarm had been set for 10:30pm. And that’s what was going off. I know it seems funny to you. And it was funny too us. We enjoyed the madness for five minutes and then hopped back to bed and dozed off immediately. By the time we got to Vancouver, my diet was doing really well. The workshops were far more relaxing for me. I smiled a lot more. And then, after a few days in Vancouver, we were ready to go back to San Jose, California for a week, before heading back to New Zealand. The original plan was to have three workshops. One in Vancouver, Canada. One in Washington D.C. and one in London, UK. Thank goodness we stopped at two. I was exhausted. I was ready to see sheep and head back on my Air New Zealand flight back home. And we did. We had a little hiccup or two (the flight was delayed by 12 hours; I acted like an idiot and ate spicy Indian food and re-started up the acidity) but all in all it was just part of the game. Workshops are stressful There’s so much to do. So little time. It involves pre-selling, getting venues, making sure everyone’s comfortable, getting great content and running a tight ship in terms of budgets—amongst other things. Things go crazy in workshops. And not so crazy. And these experiences may intimidate you a bit. Believe me, you should have workshops. They’re what helps you connect with your audience in a way that no Internet browser can do. They’re what help you become a better teacher, presenter and consultant. And it forges a bond that causes clients to become friends. We went with Marcus Stout for sushi. Stew Walton spent close to 6 hours to come and say hello, join us for dinner, and then went back the next day (another six hour journey). Greg Lee brought his daughter, Rabia and his wife Penelope along to meet us for dinner. Marina Brito took us to lunch, showed us around, and hosted another lunch for several of us. Steve Washer helped us with the video shooting, production and editing. Tom Clifford helped us by being the perfect interrogator. Karen Tiede and Warren Hayford made sure I ate sensibly at the workshops. The list goes on and on and these are just folks I’m mentioning from the D.C. Workshop. Everyone plays a massive role—way more than you can imagine. This isn’t just some passive “show up and learn” workshop. Everyone gets “goodies” from their hometown. Everyone takes pictures. They have long chats. Dinners. This is like Thanksgiving or Christmas lunch (without all the tension ;)). It’s magical. Often even very emotional. And yes it’s a moment in time that you can’t recreate by just being a speaker at some event. You have to wade in and it’s not always pretty, but it’s always exciting and memorable. And so far, it’s always had a happy ending. These are events you can’t recreate sitting at your desk in the comfort of your office. You have to be a little brave. A little scared. A lot hassled. And you’ll find rich rewards in hosting workshops. So there you have it. A glimpse into just some of the episode into our workshops. Let’s head off to the next chapter: the story of 5000bc. Footnote: You always want enough people in the room, and it’s not because of cost and profit factors alone. There’s also the factor of having enough people in a room. If there are too few participants, it’s much harder for both the presenter and the audience. For the presenter, having a group size of between 20-30 ensures a high level of energy in the room. You get all sorts of folks when you have about 30 of them in the room, and invariably you get introverts, extroverts, funny folks, more serious folks. In short you get a good mix. This is critical for a presenter, because not only does it assist in the actual presentation, but also in group sessions where a good mix is pretty darned essential. Still reading? Don’t miss the Psychotactics Workshop Story: Part 1  

The Three Month Vacation Podcast
The Star Trek Method—And Other Ways To Get Over Article-Writing Barriers

The Three Month Vacation Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2015


The reason why we find writing to be such a tedious task, is because we don't understand the barriers that get in our way. Instead, we write, edit, write, edit — and drive ourselves crazy. One of the ways to get over the barriers is to use the Captain Kirk and Mr Spock method. What is this method all about? Find out in this episode of the podcast. --------------------  Resources To access this audio + transcript: http://www.psychotactics.com/59 Email me at: sean@psychotactics.com  Twitter/Facebook: seandsouza Magic? Yes, magic: http://www.psychotactics.com/magic --------------------   In this episode Sean talks about Part 1: How to use the Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock method of writing Part 2: The power of preparation Part 3: How to decide on your ‘One Word’ Right click here and ‘save as’ to download this episode to your computer.   Useful Resources The Brain Audit: Why Customers Buy And Why They Don’t Article and Audio: Three Unknown Secrets of Riveting Story Telling Live Workshop: How to create amazing stories—and connect them flawlessly to your articles, newletters, podcasts, etc --------------------- The  Transcript   Imagine you’re the athlete who’s trying for the Olympic gold in high jump. You look at the newspapers that day and there is the Los Angeles Times and they’re saying that he goes over the bar like a guy being pushed out off a 30-storey window. Then you flip to the next newspaper which is The Guardian and it says, “He is the curiosity of the team.” Then you pick up the magazine Sports Illustrated and it says, “He charges up from slightly to the left of center with a gait that may call to mind a two-legged camel.” We’re talking about Dick Fosbury here, the guy who first did the Fosbury flop. While all these newspapers and magazines seem to make fun of Dick Fosbury, it’s unlike he had a great opinion of himself either. It’s unlike Dick Fosbury was arguing with their comments because at college someone bet him that he couldn’t get over a leather chair. He couldn’t jump over that leather chair and he said he tried, but not only did he lose his bet but he also broke his hand in the crash landing. In  1968, when he arrived at the Mexico Olympics he was relatively unknown and yet days later he not only captured the imagination of the Mexican public, but also the rest of the world. He sailed over the bar at 2.24 meters, which is 7 feet and 4 inches. It wasn’t that he sailed over because that wasn’t the world record. It’s that he did it by overcoming the obstacle with his crazy jump which was called the Fosbury flop. What’s interesting about the Fosbury flop is that no one ever did that kind of flop before. No one ever tried to get over the bar in that manner. It was considered extremely weird, extremely camel-like and yet today it’s extremely weird to see people jumping over the bar as they did back in 1968. Today the Fosbury flop is the way people jump over a bar at the Olympics in any sports stadium. What Fosbury did was he looked at the obstacle and he said, “Let me get over this in another way because there’s no way I’m going to be able to do it the usual way.” That’s really what this podcast is all about. We’re going to look at writing and why we struggle with writing, why we have these obstacles with writing. If we go about it the way we’ve always done, that doesn’t seem to work for us because you’re going about it the same way that I used to do back in the year 2000 where I would look at the article and then try to write it and then spend a day, spend 2 days writing that article and getting very frustrated and not knowing what was going wrong. We have to look at the obstacle that bar and look at how we can over that bar in a completely different way. That’s what this podcast is going to cover. We’re going to cover 3 things. The first thing is about editing. The second thing is about preparation and the third is about the one word or the one term. As always, we’ll start with the first, which is editing. Part One: Editing I love making a rice dish called biryani. It is a dish meant for kings. It has all of these yummy elements. If you’ve ever eaten a biryani, you know exactly what I mean. Here’s how you go about making a biryani. You have to get all the things together, like spices and the yogurt and other stuff like saffron and ghee, which is a clarified butter. When you get all of those things together, you got some onions. In fact, you got a lot of onions and then you caramelised the onions. When all of that is done you, marinate it. A few hours later it’s time to cook the biryani. I put it all in a dish, which we call handi. You would call it a saucepan. Before I turn on the flame I have to do one very important thing. I have to seal the handi or the saucepan with dough so that it becomes like a pressure cooker and the meat cooks in it and the rice cooks in it and all the flavours cook within it and it’s all sealed you can’t get in. Did you notice the problem? Sure, you did. It was the dough. It sealed the vessel. There is no way to know whether the rice is cooked or the chicken is still raw. The dough prevents me from editing. Editing is the first big obstacle to writing. Why? Because the writer and the editor are 2 completely different people. The writer is like Captain Kirk; you watched Star Trek, didn’t you? The writer is like Captain Kirk and Captain Kirk has all these great ideas. He wants to go where no man has ever gone before and he is a bit out there. Then you have Spock and he needs to be logical and that’s how your editor acts every single time. We have these 2 people, 2 completely different people and they’re at log ahead with each other. What we do when we write is we put both of those people on the same seat. Of course they’re going to fight. Of course they’re going to continuously argue with each other and of course that’s your obstacle, isn’t it? You’re not going to get over that obstacle because you’re treating both of them as the same person when they were completely different. The first thing you’ve got to realise is that it’s not Captain Spock, it’s Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. You’ve got to start with the writing process and then let it marinate and several hours later you have to bring in Mr. Spock. Just like the biryani, you’ve got to let that marination process take its own sweet time. You probably want to write at one part of the day and then one look at it maybe later in the day or even the next day. This is what I had to do when I first started out. I was not very good at writing. I was not very quick at writing. I would send my article to a friend and a client, whose name is Chris Ellington. Chris would look over it and then fix it and he had a million fixes and then it will come back and then I would send it out again this time to Rochelle. Rochelle would look at all the grammar and fix it and all of this editing process would drive me absolutely crazy plus there was my own creative output as it were. This is the process. There is the writer and the editor. There is this time in between and what we do is we make a Captain Spock out of it. Of course it doesn’t work and there is no reason why it should work, because editing and writing just do not mix. That’s our first-grade obstacle and we have to learn that we’re going to have to do thing differently, do a bit of a Fosbury flop if we want to get over that bar and write great content. This takes us to the second one and the second one is all about preparation. Part 2: Preparation On June 29, 2007, Pixar released a movie about a rat and it was called Ratatouille. It was a story about an inspiring chef called Linguini and her rat called Remy, a rat that loved to cook. Speaker 1: Animation is a very, very complicated business. There’s hundreds of people involved in the actual production. Speaker 2: Many things that we take for granted in real life are difficult to do in the computer. Speaker 3: Pixar is really very good at addressing complex problems. By far, this is the most complicated clothing that we’ve done. Speaker 4: We went to a special sequence on that with the character with Linguini jumps into the sand to try and save Remy. He comes out dripping wet and we had to try and figure out a way to get that look when claw sticks to the skin and you can see just a little bit of colour coming through it. Speaker 5: What do we do? We abused one of our poor coworkers. We make him dressed up in a chest outfit. We doused him with water and we filmed him. What does it look like? We’re on the clothing. Can you see it through to his skin? Where do the chips come off from his face? It’s our excuse to abuse coworkers actually not to think about it. Sean D’Souza: What you just heard in that clip is preparation, preparation and more preparation. The reason why Pixar has to do so much preparation is because they’re not amateurs. They have million dollar budgets and of course they’re wasting a lot of money. They’re also wasting time and they’re wasting energy. When you think about it, that’s exactly what we do when we sit down to write. We don’t create that moment of preparationor really that hour of preparation and that’s how you know the difference between an amateur and a professional. The amateur just sits down and begins to write. They sit at their computer and they decide, “I’m going to write an article today. I’m going to create a podcast today. I’m going to create a webinar.” The professional on the other hand sits down to plan. I was to listening to a podcast earlier today and there was this interview between Brian Orr and Jeff Brown. Jeff worked in the radio industry for many, many years and now he has his own podcast. He was talking about how people just show up on podcast and they start to ask questions and they don’t prepare and how all the preparation is critical. If you listen to Ira Glass on This American Life and he’s on videos on YouTube, he talks about the preparation and how finding the stories takes half the week even though they have so many people in their staff. We think, “We’re just business people. We just have to write an article. Let’s sit down and write,” and that’s not how professionals work. You are a professional when you sit down to write and therefore you have to sit down to plan. What are you going to plan? You’ve got to figure out what topic are you going to cover, what one word are you going to cover, what 3 sub-topics you’re going to cover or at least how you’re going to structure the article, how you’re going to structure this podcast. When I sit down to do this podcast, most of the work is done outside. Admittedly, the music takes a lot of time but the podcast takes only about 45 minutes to record and it takes me an hour and a half to put all the details together, sometimes longer. I’ll go to the cafe. I’ll sit don and I’ll put it all together. You can see a photograph of that. I’ll put it in the show notes. It takes a lot of preparation to create something that is more than average and that’s what professionals do. This is the obstacle that we run into. It’s not I don’t try to beat the system. I try it. I’ll show up here at 4am and I’ll try to record a podcast and then it’s 4:30 and 4:45 and then 5:30. It’s very, very frustrating and so I’ve given up. I’ve totally given up. Every time I want to record a podcast I will go to the cafe and sit there and plan. I don’t have the time that’s why I go and that’s why I plan and this is what professionals do. They plan before they execute. They get the ingredients, put the biryani in the fridge, let it marinate and then later they are cooking it. Amateurs? We just go there and we cook it right away as if something magical is going to happen. We’ve looked at 2 main obstacles and the first one was editing, the fact that we get Captain Spock together instead of having Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. The second thing is this whole factor of preparation and how we want to bypass that process of marination.  This takes us to the third part, which is the one word or the one term. Part 3: One Word This podcast started with the story about Dick Fosbury. You have to ask yourself, “Why did that story exist? What is the point of that story?” the story was about obstacles and overcoming those obstacles, but why did the story matter? The story mattered because of that one word or one term and in this case the one term is a different perspective. Right until that moment in Mexico when Dick Fosbury sailed over the bar like a 2-legged camel, there was only one perspective and that perspective was to jump over it, straddle over it. He went over in a completely different way. The one term is about different perspective and that’s how we look at the entire article. We didn’t go about how do we construct our article and what is the structure of the article, but we looked at things that stop us. We don’t realise that they’re stopping us and that is editing and preparation and the one word that one word or one term which is different perspective. It allows me to do both the preparation and the editing. When I’m preparing, I’m thinking of how can I have a different perspective on article writing. Then when I’m done and Mr. Editor has to show up, at point in time I’m going, “Did I do this? Did I actually adhere to the one word or one term?” In a way the one word or one term satisfies the needs of those fresh 2 guys, which is preparation and editing and he does so, so brilliantly. When you’re siting down to write something, create something ask yourself, “What is the one thing that I want to convey here? What is that endpoint?” Once you know the one word or one term you will be able to communicate in a way that you’ve never communicated before. You’d be able to edit it in a way that you’ve never done before. Can it be more than one word or one term? One term is a couple of words. Maybe you could stretch it to 3 words. The problem is that you may want to put in 3 words or 4 words or 5 words to describe your article and the further away you go from one word the more complicated it becomes. It’s very, very hard to then edit something or nail it down so find one word. Ask yourself, “What am I going to talk about today? Is it endeavour or is it scarcity or is it premium?” The point is once you get the one word and the one term that becomes a lot simpler and that’s really what we want. Summary That brings us to the end of this podcast. What did we cover today? We covered 3 things. The first thing was the factor of editing that the editor and the writer they’re 2 different people. They show up at different times of day, probably on different days as well. When you write and you edit on the same day or write and edit, write and edit, write and edit, thank you. You’re just frustrating yourself and driving yourselves completely crazy. Do not edit. Come back another day. Do not become Captain Spock. The second thing is the preparation. The professionals they don’t sit down to write. They don’t sit down to create. They sit down to plan. You need to go away somewhere. Plan, come back then you start to write. If you have to learn how to write, you can deconstruct say this piece because it’s there. It’s there in the show notes. You can deconstruct how it is created and then recreate it or you can do an article-writing course and learn how structure is built and how articles come together and how podcast come together and how … It’s all based on structure and once you understand the structure it’s just a matter of unfolding it like any language. The third thing that we covered was one word. The one word comes before you head out to the cafe, before you sit down to plan. It’s what am I going to cover today, what is that one thing that I want my audience to get. Once you know that and you should know that, then it’s very simple or rather a lot simpler to get to the end result. What’s the one thing that you can do today? The one thing that you should do today is just sit now and say, “I’m going to write an article. What is the one word that I’m going to cover?” If you’re not sure what you should do, I would suggest you go to the show notes and look at some of the links that I put there. Then deconstruct it and see how you can actually work out what one word was I trying to cover. You’ll start to see a pattern and once you get that pattern you will learn how to do it yourself.. Of course there is no substitute for being with a good teacher and I am a good teacher and you know that. I’m going to be there alive in Nashville, Tennessee and then in Amsterdam in The Netherlands and we’re going to do a storytelling workshop. I don’t know if you noticed, but I’m sure you did, this podcast and every podcast is full of stories and that’s what keeps you going. As you’re walking, as you’re driving, suddenly in the middle of all those facts and figures there’s the story unfolding how does that story unfold. When you read the book The Brain Audit or you read the book on pricing or you read the book on testimonials, when you read those books you don’t always know why you like the book so much. Sure there’s a structure. Sure there’s a system, but more critically there are case studies and examples and analogies and stories and that’s what keeps the progression going ahead. Fact and figures they are very good but they are very tiring. Storytelling becomes very critical. It’s not only critical to get the message across in a meaningful way, but it’s also very helpful to know how to construct stories so that your audience remembers them. There are lots of storytelling books and there are lots of storytelling workshops, so why is this one going to be different? This one is different because this is storytelling versus storytelling. When you open a book on storytelling, essentially they’re teaching you how to write short stories or they’re telling how to write a script or a movie. Very rarely are you going to get storytelling that helps you construct stuff from business, for writing articles, for adding to podcast or seminars or just about everything that you do in business. How do you connect it back to the business? How do you create books? How do you create reports? How do you create witch stories embedded in them so they become irresistible? That’s not what most workshops and books online are going to be able to teach you and that’s why this workshop is so critical. Come join us in Nashville on the second, third and fourth of December or if you’re in Europe it’s the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth of December. You can find everything at psychotactics.com/story-telling-workshop. The prices are going up. We always raise prices and they’re going to go up every 20 days or so. By the time you get to it several months later, which is when the workshop begins, it will be at its highest price. We are still in the early bird stages so go to psychotactics.com/story-telling-workshop and we’ll see you there. If you haven’t read The Brain Audit, you should read The Brain Audit. Why? Because it’s one of the coolest business books you will ever read. It has lots of stories and it’s the barrier to the workshop. You have to rear The Brain Audit before you get there, so either the workshop and The Brain Audit or join us at 5000bc.com. That’s it for me on a Friday evening, not 4am, so that’s a little different. Bye for now. Storytelling is “persuasion with class” Does the brain actually process thoughts in a step-by-step manner? You can use all the “buy now” buttons and countdown clocks, but it just comes across as aggressive. You can use facts, figures, and yes, they all work to persuade, but storytelling does it with finesse. See how stories are used in the excerpt of The Brain Audit to get your attention with finesse.

High-Income Business Writing
#065: Carol Tice on 5 Profitable Article-Writing Opportunities

High-Income Business Writing

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2014 45:07


Article writing is one of the most fun and lucrative ways to make a living as a freelance writer. The variety of work is significant. For instance, ytou can write blog posts for a client. Or you can focus on the growing trend of brand journalism. Or maybe specialize in writing placed articles. In this episode, veteran freelance writer and founder of , Carol Tice, details five ways to earn a great income writing articles for clients. She describes each opportunity in detail. She explains who's hiring writers in each category. And she discusses the earning potential for these projects.

Lifestyle Liberation Podcast: Internet Business | Lifestyle | Following Your Passion

In this episode I help Liz from alifeonyourterms.com increase her article writing speed by 300%. People often wonder how I can get so much done in so little time. And in this podcast episode, I reveal my “secrets.” But the truth is that they are not really secrets. They are simple, highly effective tips applied […]

Lifestyle Liberation Podcast: Internet Business | Lifestyle | Following Your Passion

In this episode I help Liz from alifeonyourterms.com increase her article writing speed by 300%. People often wonder how I can get so much done in so little time. And in this podcast episode, I reveal my “secrets.” But the truth is that they are not really secrets. They are simple, highly effective tips applied […]The post LLP 011 - Increase Your Article Writing Speed by 300% first appeared on Wake Up Cloud.

Market Samurai Training - For Apple TV
Episode 40 - How to Outsource Article Writing

Market Samurai Training - For Apple TV

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2011 42:14


A simple walkthrough of the process of hiring great outsourcers to help you grow your business, without all the headaches.

Market Samurai Training - For iPhone
Episode 40 - How to Outsource Article Writing

Market Samurai Training - For iPhone

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2011 42:14


A simple walkthrough of the process of hiring great outsourcers to help you grow your business, without all the headaches.

Market Samurai Training Transcripts
Episode 40 - How to Outsource Article Writing

Market Samurai Training Transcripts

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2011


A simple walkthrough of the process of hiring great outsourcers to help you grow your business, without all the headaches.

Speaking With Influence
Article Marketing, What is an Article?

Speaking With Influence

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2011 15:00


Last week was the first episode of a series on article marketing. Last week you learned why you should write articles. In this episode we are going to deconstruct an article, sharing the components of an article.   Make sure to visit Syndicating Your Content and sign up for your FREE 6 Lesson Social Media Ecourse!

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Speaking With Influence
Why Write Articles?

Speaking With Influence

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2011 16:00


Articles are a great way to develop links back to your website, which is so valuable to you search engine optimization wise. This is the introduction to a series on article writing, which conveniently follows our series about blogging.   Today you'll learn why writing articles can help you leverage your online visibility and your perceived level of expertise.   Make sure to visit Syndicating Your Content and sign up for your FREE 6 Lesson Social Media Ecourse!

KeystoClarity! Radio
Insider Secrets to Article Writing

KeystoClarity! Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2011 58:00


Join us as we discover the insider secrets to article writing and publication with expert coach and publisher of Choice Magazine ~Garry Schleifer! Garry shares all the tips and techniques he possibly can, so that we know where to get started with article writing how to get published how articles can be maximised guidelines for submitting to a publication how to use articles to grow your coaching practice and lots more ! Join us for a juicy show either through the web or call in on 347-945 6963to listen. And we have a wonderful prize draw that Garry has generously contributed in honor of earth day! 'See' you on the air!

The Business Of Internet Marketing
Article Marketing With Steve Wagenheim And Willie Crawford

The Business Of Internet Marketing

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2008 60:00


Informative hour with Steve Wagenheim on how to effectively market your business and earn a full-time income by writing articles. Steve Wagenheim has been a successful Internet marketer since January 2003. His skills include article writing, ad writing, sales copywriting... he has a solid handle on every form of advertising available on the Internet today. Steve's history, in his own words: I started my journey to earn a living online after I lost my corporate America job due

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