Gathering Ideas for Brilliant WritingWritten by Linda Elizabeth Alexander
This article may be freely published in your print or online newsletter or on your website provided 1. You include byline and resource box; 2. You print article in its entirety, unchanged; and 3. You notify author when and where it's printed with a courtesy copy or a link. Subject: Business, Writing Number of Words: 557 Website: http://www.write2thepointcom.com=========================================================== Gathering Ideas for Brilliant Writing -- (c)2003 By Linda Elizabeth Alexander =========================================================== I always seem to be asking as well as answering question, "How do you get your ideas for writing?" Chances are everybody you will ask will have a different answer. Ideas are everywhere and there are many ways to collect them. Follow these tips to get ideas flowing. 1.With holidays just past us, use ideas from your holidays to write about. Stories about holiday fights can be turned into articles on people skills or coping with interpersonal relationships. Tell about presents you got. Talk about how much you love outdoor sports. Or hate snow. Or fear snow. Write about car accident you avoided on New Year's Eve. 2.Take a notebook and pencil wherever you go. Keep one on your desk, one in your purse or briefcase, and one in your jacket pocket. If you think a lot while driving, keep a mini tape recorder with you. 3.Write down every idea that floats through your mind, whether it's one word, a phrase, or a whole paragraph. Continue to add to your notebook every now and then. When you need an idea, first scan through your notes to see if you have anything you can use. (If you prefer, do this on your computer and add new files as you get new ideas.)
| | The Great Email Debate -- Rich Media V. TextWritten by Doug Hudiburg
If there is one thing that gets marketing geeks all sweaty and excited, it's something new that promises to help us get attention of our target market.It's little wonder that marketers are excited about possibility of using rich media email (HTML and Flash are most common) as a way to jazz up emails and make them more interesting. Being able to use rich media email as a marketing tool allows marketers to do things they never could do in past. Retailers, for instance, can send an email with a picture of a close-out product and a quick "buy me" button, a strategy that has been proven effective for increasing sales. With Flash technology, you can even send a full multimedia presentation via email, perfect digital salesperson. If you look to leaders in opt-in list marketing, however, you will find that 99% of them still use plain text email as their media of choice. People with huge opt-in lists such as Cory Rudl, Ken Envoy, Terry Dean, and Marlon Sanders, all use text formatted email messages. There are a number of reasons why they refuse to change to HTML, but most important is that it creates results.
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