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The Final Powerful Secrets To Infuse Your Brain With The Write I
This is the third in a series of articles with brain-tempting tips that will enable you to make your dream of authoring a book become your reality. Leaders today have a book. The best business decision you can make is to write a book as it provides you instant credibility.
Here are the final powerful secrets to infuse your brain with the write idea.
1. Making appointments with yourself in your personal planner or PDA will ensure you get some writing done. Often what gets written down gets done and your writing time is no exception.
2. Establish realistic time lines for long-range goals. View target dates with flexibility in mind. Be prepared to change direction temporarily if circumstances dictate it. Three thirty-minute writing sessions may be more realistic than one session of one and a half hours. Do not put undo pressure on yourself or you will act in a counter-productive manner and will find excuses not to write.
3. If you are watching television and the show is not really capturing your interest, take that time to write. If you have materials readily available and organized then shifting your attention to writing rather than watching won't be a problem. This applies equally well to other activities that aren't capturing your interest.
4. You write more effectively and efficiently by taking regular breaks during long writing sessions. Taking breaks is using your time wisely. The breaks allow the sub-conscious to take over and generate new ideas. Make sure you record these brilliant revelations!
5. Take one lunch hour per week. Eat a quickie lunch and use the time to write. Is there a library or quiet spot near your workplace where you can go? Is writing in your car out of the question? What about staying at your desk while others are away having lunch?
6. If you commute to work by train or bus or car pool, you can use that time to write. If you're usually the driver, perhaps you can be a carpool passenger once or twice a week so you can write during the trip. Make sure your car-pooling partners are aware of what you want to do during the commute. On vacation trips or other long drives, write while your spouse drives. Drivers are usually content to watch the road and concentrate on driving, so they will not miss your conversation.
7. Be ready to pounce. If a window of opportunity presents itself to get some extra writing time, pounce on it. These unscheduled spontaneous writing sessions are often most productive. Appreciate the fact that you must be ready to take advantage of these situations. These are golden opportunities to do something you love to do. Go for it!
8. View your practical every-day writing as an opportunity to hone your writing skills. It's attitude that's important here. Those thank-you notes, staff memos, friendly letters, emails, journal entries and special reports are all writing exercises that give you an opportunity to work on the skills of written communication. You can learn a great deal by writing in all situations. There is always a carry-over to other writing circumstances.
9. Keep writing tools (pen and paper) handy at all times in all places where you just might get the opportunity to write.
10 Writing breeds more writing. The more writing becomes a habit the more it happens. Research says it takes 21 repetitions to break an old habit and establish a new one. Writing for 5-15 minutes per day for 21 consecutive days should establish this writing as a regular habit. So give yourself a reasonable target of 21 repetitions to establish new writing behaviors.
11. Write quickly. Write legibly. Write legible scribbling if necessary. Use abbreviations like w for with and acronyms and the first parts of longer words only. If the only person who is going to read your notes is you, you can take whatever liberties you want to in order to get your ideas on paper and keep the flow going. Scribble now and translate later.
12. As you are writing, put new ideas in the margin of the paper as soon as they come to you. You won't interrupt the flow of your thoughts on the page because you already have some key words to help you and you have already been writing. Slow down to record your new ideas, but don't stop!
13. Use the Cloze method of reading for your writing. One technique for teaching students to read is to provide a paragraph with words missing. Students have to fill in the blanks with words suggested by the context of the paragraph. Use this same method to speed up your writing. Insert a straight line in your writing for words that you will know by context when it comes to transcribing your draft copy. Put a _______ in your writing as a placeholder.
14. Use acronyms in your draft copy. You can use the authentic conventional acronyms or you can invent some of your own. For example, ataw could mean Awaken The Author Within or b for book.
15. Learn to cover the page. Think in terms of starting every page as if you are going to cover it with writing as quickly as possible with quality ideas. Thinking this way will help you accomplish more writing.
Implementing these tips will get you off to the WRITE start.
BONUS : The Five Easiest-to-complete Information Products
Your first time out of the gate, youre going to be tempted to tackle an information product project that is much too complicated. After all, you know so much and cant leave out any of the valuable points! Or, you lack confidence that anyone will pay you a dime unless your ebook, book or course is crammed with every imaginable tip and technique.
Dont give in to this temptation, or youll be hamstrung and unable to finish that crucial first information marketing project. Instead, choose one of these easy formats for compiling and packaging useful information, and youll have your first product on the market and making money for you in no time.
Five Easy Information Product Formats
1. Compilation of expert contributions. Here you request others who are respected in their field to provide you with content that you bring together into a product. Why would busy experts provide you with original, thought-provoking and useful material? They often will do so at no cost if you come up with an interesting enough question for them to answer and tell them their contribution should be a page or less.
Promise them a copy of the finished report, where theyll be able to see how peers and competitors responded, too. Also tell them how youll be publicizing the product. No matter how well known they already are, prominent people love publicity. After all, thats how they got to be renowned in the first place. In most cases, youll set up this compilation as a downloadable PDF report.
Examples: Online Profits at the Speed of Light by Bob Serling (http://www.directmarketinginsider.com/online-profits.html) and First Contact Secrets by Chip Tarver (http://www.firstcontactsecrets.com).
2. Q&A report. Instead of asking many others one question, you can create a product by asking yourself then answering many questions. This works well when you simply collect commonly asked questions. You can also focus or the hardest ones, the most unusual ones or the funniest questions. If you find the idea of writing a formal article or a book intimidating, this may be the ticket for you. When it comes to anything you know more about than the average person, youre probably in the habit of answering questions on a daily or weekly basis anyway. This one too would get sold as a downloadable PDF report.
Examples: "Answers to the World's Toughest Questions about Law of Attraction" by Andrea Conway (http://www.successfulselfemployment.com/toughest-law-of-attraction-sse.htm) and "An Insiders Guide to Small Business Success" by Tim Knox (http://www.book-titles.ca/SuccessSecrets.htm).
3. Audio interview of an expert. In this option and the next two, you create an audio product in just one hour plus a little preparation time. Simply persuade someone whose opinions, experiences and knowledge others want to hear to be interviewed for an hour, and record the session. Voilà, a product! Many experts will agree to do this for free providing they receive a copy of the recording and permission to sell it or use it as a bonus product for something else.
Its easiest to record such an interview on a conference-call line using a service like Free Conference Call (http://www.freeconferencecall.com). Sell your interview either as a downloadable MP3 or as a CD that you send to the buyer by mail. Some information marketers also provide the option of customers buying a transcript in addition to or instead of the audio recording.
Examples: Inside College Eligibility (http://www.collegeeligibility.com) and Inside the Mind of a Listing Expert (http://www.realestatesalescoach.com/paulearnhart.htm).
4. Audio interview of you. Just flip option #3 upside down, and you have another quick-start information product: Someone else interviews you for an hour. The interviewer could be a friend or someone with a great voice and smooth interviewing skills whom you hire to do the interview. Record the question and answer session, and in little more than one hour, you have a product to sell.
Prepare for the interview by writing an introduction and conclusion for the interviewer to use and a list of questions. Keep the illusion of spontaneity by not writing out in full your answers to these questions. Instead, make notes on the points you want to make during the session and keep them in front of you as you and the interviewer go through the agenda, question by question. To the listener, interviews arranged in this way sound exactly like those in #3, so Im not listing separate examples.
5. Teleclass recording. This audio option differs from the interview format in that its instructional in flavor and may include participant questions and your answers. You can charge for this kind of session in two ways: First, those who participate in the call might pay to do so, and second, those who were not present on the call can purchase the CD or MP3 recording. While some teleclasses become products as a multi-session series, its best to start with just a single one-hour class.
Examples: Creating Donor Evangelists by Marc Pitman (http://www.fundraisingcoach.com/cde.htm) and Create a New Financial Identity by Joan Sotkin (http://www.prosperityplace.com/catalog/cd27330_identity.html).
When youve chosen the content carefully, provided useful information and described the product temptingly for your target market, these quick-to-produce information formats sell well. Henry David Thoreau put my point best: Simplify! Simplify!
Your first time out of the gate, youre going to be tempted to tackle an information product project that is much too complicated. After all, you know so much and cant leave out any of the valuable points! Or, you lack confidence that anyone will pay you a dime unless your ebook, book or course is crammed with every imaginable tip and technique.
Dont give in to this temptation, or youll be hamstrung and unable to finish that crucial first information marketing project. Instead, choose one of these easy formats for compiling and packaging useful information, and youll have your first product on the market and making money for you in no time.
Five Easy Information Product Formats
1. Compilation of expert contributions. Here you request others who are respected in their field to provide you with content that you bring together into a product. Why would busy experts provide you with original, thought-provoking and useful material? They often will do so at no cost if you come up with an interesting enough question for them to answer and tell them their contribution should be a page or less.
Promise them a copy of the finished report, where theyll be able to see how peers and competitors responded, too. Also tell them how youll be publicizing the product. No matter how well known they already are, prominent people love publicity. After all, thats how they got to be renowned in the first place. In most cases, youll set up this compilation as a downloadable PDF report.
Examples: Online Profits at the Speed of Light by Bob Serling (http://www.directmarketinginsider.com/online-profits.html) and First Contact Secrets by Chip Tarver (http://www.firstcontactsecrets.com).
2. Q&A report. Instead of asking many others one question, you can create a product by asking yourself then answering many questions. This works well when you simply collect commonly asked questions. You can also focus or the hardest ones, the most unusual ones or the funniest questions. If you find the idea of writing a formal article or a book intimidating, this may be the ticket for you. When it comes to anything you know more about than the average person, youre probably in the habit of answering questions on a daily or weekly basis anyway. This one too would get sold as a downloadable PDF report.
Examples: "Answers to the World's Toughest Questions about Law of Attraction" by Andrea Conway (http://www.successfulselfemployment.com/toughest-law-of-attraction-sse.htm) and "An Insiders Guide to Small Business Success" by Tim Knox (http://www.book-titles.ca/SuccessSecrets.htm).
3. Audio interview of an expert. In this option and the next two, you create an audio product in just one hour plus a little preparation time. Simply persuade someone whose opinions, experiences and knowledge others want to hear to be interviewed for an hour, and record the session. Voilà, a product! Many experts will agree to do this for free providing they receive a copy of the recording and permission to sell it or use it as a bonus product for something else.
Its easiest to record such an interview on a conference-call line using a service like Free Conference Call (http://www.freeconferencecall.com). Sell your interview either as a downloadable MP3 or as a CD that you send to the buyer by mail. Some information marketers also provide the option of customers buying a transcript in addition to or instead of the audio recording.
Examples: Inside College Eligibility (http://www.collegeeligibility.com) and Inside the Mind of a Listing Expert (http://www.realestatesalescoach.com/paulearnhart.htm).
4. Audio interview of you. Just flip option #3 upside down, and you have another quick-start information product: Someone else interviews you for an hour. The interviewer could be a friend or someone with a great voice and smooth interviewing skills whom you hire to do the interview. Record the question and answer session, and in little more than one hour, you have a product to sell.
Prepare for the interview by writing an introduction and conclusion for the interviewer to use and a list of questions. Keep the illusion of spontaneity by not writing out in full your answers to these questions. Instead, make notes on the points you want to make during the session and keep them in front of you as you and the interviewer go through the agenda, question by question. To the listener, interviews arranged in this way sound exactly like those in #3, so Im not listing separate examples.
5. Teleclass recording. This audio option differs from the interview format in that its instructional in flavor and may include participant questions and your answers. You can charge for this kind of session in two ways: First, those who participate in the call might pay to do so, and second, those who were not present on the call can purchase the CD or MP3 recording. While some teleclasses become products as a multi-session series, its best to start with just a single one-hour class.
Examples: Creating Donor Evangelists by Marc Pitman (http://www.fundraisingcoach.com/cde.htm) and Create a New Financial Identity by Joan Sotkin (http://www.prosperityplace.com/catalog/cd27330_identity.html).
When youve chosen the content carefully, provided useful information and described the product temptingly for your target market, these quick-to-produce information formats sell well. Henry David Thoreau put my point best: Simplify! Simplify!
