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Using The Writer Within You To Build Your Online Business
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Keith P. Stieneke
webmasteropportunityassistance.com
Opportunity Assistance Online
http://www.opportunityassistance.com
In an article I wrote called There's A Writer Within You I
suggested that everyone has good or bad experiences, which
they could use to write articles or stories. In the article
I go on basically to suggest that by accessing these
experiences and/ or our imagination we can use them to be
writers. To access this article click on
mailto:awriterwithininfogeneratorpro.com or visit
http://www.opportunityassistance.com/articlce_awriterwithin.html
In this article I am going to show you how the development
of your writing skills can help you to build your business.
Each one of these ideas can easily when expanded upon make
at least one article within itself. Here I will only touch
upon the finer points. Writing experience helps you to do
all of the following:
1) - Writing an Ad - Think of something creative. Use your
imagination to develop an ad headline that will stand out
above the rest and grab the attention of those who see it.
It should lead the reader to read the ad.
A good friend of mine Tom "Big Al" Schreiter teaches in his
materials and his workshops that the way to write an ad for
network marketing that catches attention is to take elements
of Benefit, Occupation, Geography, and Odd numbers. A
strange combination you must agree. He calls the method "Big
Al's Cheap, Sleazy, Trashy, Four -Step Formula For
Tabloid-Type Headlines." He states that the tabloids that we
see at our local supermarkets know that these types of
headlines attract readers so he experimented with the
elements of writing the headlines that these tabloids used.
The success was phenomenal.
Here is my condensed example that Tom uses in his article
about writing headlines:
Step 1: Pick A Benefit. Okay, easy enough: "How To Make More
Money At Home In One Month Than Most People Do At Their Full
Time Job In One Year" It sounds exciting, enough doesn't it?
But we can make this headline better. It's time to apply
information from,
Step 2: Occupation. How about: "A 42 Year Old Psychiatric
Technician can show you how to make more money at home in
one month than most people make at their full time job in
one year." Sounds better but lets apply,
Step 3: Geography. "A 42 year old psychiatric technician
from Lincoln, NE can show you how to make more money at home
in one month than most people make at their full time job in
one year." There's one last step to improve upon this ad and
that is the one that adds the final touches to your ad. That
is adding the use of odd numbers such as 875, which is more
specific than about 850 or about 900. Here is the
application of:
Step 4: Odd Numbers. "A 42 year old psychiatric technician
from Lincoln, NE can show you how to in 91 days make more
money at home in one month than most people make at their
full time job in one year." There you have a headline that
incorporates Benefit, Occupation, Geography and Odd Numbers.
For a more detailed article about this you can find Tom
Schreiter's article "Big Al's Cheap, Sleazy, Trashy, Four
-Step Formula For Tabloid-Type Headlines" at
http://fortunenow.com/Reports/4_Step_Headlines.htm
2) - Creating and Publishing an Ezine- An ezine is an online
newsletter that is sent and delivered via email. It is a
great way of developing a prospect list for your business
opportunities and a business in itself by selling either
advertising or subscriptions to the ezine, or both. What
experiences can you expound from to make great editorial
comment? What theme best reflects your experience,
knowledge, and/ or imagination while still reflecting the
goals of your business and the products and services it
sells. If you sell cooking products you may want to have an
ezine in which you publish recipes, especially those
utilizing the products that you sell. If you sell
nutritional products you might want to develop and publish
an online newsletter that talks about the benefits of taking
certain nutritional supplements and other health related
issues. These are just a few ideas and they are only limited
by your imagination. Because I like to read and write I have
an ezine for those involved in writing positive and
inspirational poetry and fiction. Because I am involved in
home business opportunities I also have an ezine for those
investigating and promoting home based business
opportunities in particularly, network marketing. You can
find ways to get subscribers to your newsletter or
newsletters plus many other ideas by visiting
http://opportunityassistance.com/promoteezine.html
3) -Create An Ebook- Do several of your experiences have
different points to be made about the same subject? If so
you could write about these experiences with each one being
a chapter in itself. Put them together as an Ebook (there
are several eBook compilers available) but that is another
article in itself. You can do a search on most any search
engine to find some of these compilers. There are even some
that are free; however two of the best are ones created by
Armand Morin.
These are eBookGeneratorGold at
http://www.ebookgenerator.com/?hop=opptyassis.ebookgen and
InstantPDFGenerator at
http://www.instantpdfgenerator.com/x.cgi?id=27791&pid=2015
Ebook Generator Gold is a very easy to use program that
utilizes HTML. However, the drawback of the program is that
it can only be used on IBM (PC) compatible computers.
Although I have not yet purchased InstantPDFGenerator as I
already have Adobe Acrobat, which produces PDF pages, I have
heard that InstantPDFGenerator is easy to use and the pages
can be read on any computer with a PDF reader. Therefore if
you want to make your ebook compatible for both IBM
compatibles and Macintosh purchase the InstantPDFgenerator.
4) -Look around for freelancing opportunities- Although this
is not a business per se, one can make a great deal of money
as an independent writer for any one of several publications
looking for new material. There are several publications,
some of which are looking for fiction, some for poetry and
some for non-fiction. One great place to find these
independent writing opportunities is by signing up for the
newsletter from freelancewriting.com. Just go to
http://www.freelancewriting.com and browse around their site
for a while. You can find their subscription form at
http://www.freelancewriting.com/guidelines/pages/index.html
5) -Free Publicity- One of the biggest opportunities today
that although many involved in online marketing use is still
not taken advantage of by many. That opportunity is to write
articles, ones developed from your experiences in areas of
marketing, writing, or whatever field and submit them to
ezines looking for free content. The payoff is that they
must publish your byline which has links to your website or
websites as well as pertinent information about you that
would make your material seem worthwhile. When readers of
your material follow these links you will definitely see an
increase in traffic to your websites. If you are selling a
product or service at your website or if you are looking to
recruit affiliates to sell products or services you should
see some new business generated from this free publicity.
Some of the many places which you can submit your articles
to are: http://www.netterweb.com/articles/ ,
http://authorconnection.com/ , http://ezinearticles.com/ ,
http://www.web-source.net/articlesub.htm ,
http://ideamarketers.com ,
http://www.writers-and-publishers.com/ ,
http://www.connectionteam.com/submit.html
These are just a few of the ways that writing can benefit
your online business. The possibilities are truly endless
and are only inhibited by the failings of your own
imagination.
Keith P. Stieneke is a professional network marketer and
Internet marketing consultant with experience in psychology,
professional writing and network marketing. His Internet
endeavors can be witnessed at
http://www.opportunityassistance.com and the positive and
motivational literary site
http://www.inthespiritofthebuffalo.com . You can subscribe to
his newsletter Opportunity Assistance Online by sending a
blank email to
mailto:OpportunityAssistanceOnlineinfogeneratorpro.com
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