Are you struggling for a topic for your next college paper, staff meeting, or pending speaking opportunity? One of the ways to get a number of ideas on the table is to do a brain dump. Now, don’t confuse this with simple brainstorming, which is very similar. This type of brain dump won’t be about […]
Category: Writing Tips
Writing Tips: The Weekly Column
This week I’m going to add something new to the blog: The weekly column. Starting early next week, I’m going to do a weekly post on a series of topics. The first series will be about habits of successful entrepreneurs. This will be loosely based on a similar concept to Covey’s Seven Habits, and based […]
Writing Tips: Too many good Blogs
Once again I’ve been surprised by some killer content. I recently posted on my woes with customer service at a well-known blog. I was looking for help with my blog-writing skills, and I found a product that sounded promising. When there was a snafu with the automated process and a lack of support from the […]
Speaking Tips: How to be Brief
After I wrote my post on why you should be brief, I received a request for a more practical “how to” series to improve your writing and speaking by being brief. The first step to being brief is to eliminate unnecessary words. Take the following example: I went to the store, with my dog, to […]
The value of free content
Are you tired of “free content” that leaves you needing to buy something to really get the value? There seems to be a number of different marketing ideas out there, and there are two that I notice in effect that include free content. First, there is free content that is designed to just whet your […]
Remarkable and Awesome Blogs
Every now and then I find someone else’s blog that flat out impresses me. Today, one of my friends at work told me about a blog that I will talk about shortly, but that one led me to others that I think are truly remarkable and dare I say it…awesome. http://www.remarkable-communication.com, written by Sonia Simone isn’t simply […]
100 Posts in 113 days
What happens when you post blog entries at a clip of nearly a post per day? In truth, you get a lot of good advice from around the globe, and you learn a lot about writing, blogging, and yourself too. Here is a short (?) list of what you can learn from my experience, and […]
The secret to creativity
Sometimes it’s just plain hard to be creative, isn’t it? There can be a lot of pressure on you every day to come up with creative solutions, or creative ways to do things, or creative things to say. How would you feel if I told you the age-old secret to being creative? Why is it […]
More Writing for Speakers
Some of you might have read some of my previous posts about writing, and think, “I don’t want to write every day, or even every week”. Until 70 or so days ago, I felt the same way. It took quite a while leading up to that decision point for me to change my mind. In […]
Writing Tips: Writing because you can
According to sources, thousands of you have taken my challenge to begin the process of writing something every day for the next 30 days. Well, at least I think there were sources…I may have been slightly asleep when I read about it. Come to think of it, I seem to remember my picture with the article […]