Persuasive Writing

1. Headlines. Questions are great attention-grabbers. "How Much Can You Make This Year?" will get more readers than "Make More Money." Paint a picture in seven words or less, if you can. "A Thousand Dollars Fell Off My Table," might lure them in. Titles like,"10 Ways To..." or "Avoid These Six Mistakes When..." or "How To..." are popular too.

2. Description. Most article banks require a description, which lets reader know what article is about, so you get readers who are actually interested in topic. The second purpose is to make them want to read your article. Try hinting at things and leaving reader wanting more: "If you're making these errors, you're losing money every day. Learn to avoid most common optimization mistakes."

Fact: Take spare change out of your pocket every night and put it in a child's piggy bank. At end of a year you will have at least a hundred dollars to spend as you wish.

Now take this same principle and discover huge payoff in "spare change" time you've been wasting all these years.

How often do you sit in front of your computer and wait?

Everyone waits for computer to reboot, restart, unlock, "scandisk", "defrag", finish printing, download a file from Internet or generally accomplish tasks that have you sitting twiddling your thumbs for at least 60 to 90 seconds or more.

The shocking truth is that those one, two and three minute nuggets of time contain seeds for accomplishing all tasks you never seem to have enough minutes in day to finish.

Computers represent a double-edged sword. On one hand, they are supposed to save us time by efficiently helping us with big tasks such as balancing our checkbooks, running our businesses, and doing our taxes.

In reality, it seems time computers save you gets sucked right back up in time-consuming tasks such as installing software, scanning for viruses and waiting for computer to restart!

Think about spare change in piggy bank example. Now use that same principle to your advantage by developing an awareness of how you spend your "pocket change" time in front of computer every day.