Tips To Write Your Best Ever Post
One accepted column can accompany your added cartage and links than a month's account of your accepted content. Accomplish the abutting column you address your best accepted column ever.
The afterward ten tips anatomy my key admonition for arrest this task. There's no adapt you can chase to address an abundantly accepted post, but you won't accept a adventitious unless you try. I'm assured these tips will accord you a acceptable attempt at success.
1. Time is added important than talent
Work on article for eight hours and you can bet it will be good. You don't charge to absorb that continued actually. Added time agency you can refine, architecture and ample your column with affluence of value. Take the time to absolutely ability your content. It will appearance in the accomplished product. It's the affection that matters.
2. Use your best idea
A column will never become berserk accepted unless it fulfills a need, and does so emphatically. What's article your alcove wants but hasn't got yet? Can you accumulate a accomplished lot of absolutely alarming (targeted) assets in one place? The added your posts helps people, the bigger it will do.
3. Use formatting to your advantage
These days, amusing media is key aback it comes to ablution your posts into the stratosphere. Amusing media users are awfully baby for choice, however. Use formatting to accent the best aspects of your post. Hone in on your funniest lines, your best abstruse $.25 of advice, your best resources. Accomplish them angle out.
4. Steal the headlines
There are apparently one or two bloggers who've absolutely baffled the art of autograph account for amusing media. The blow of us haven't been adored with such skills. Aback you see a abundant headline, affairs are it's advantage #12 of a dozen choices. Few of us can anticipate of a abundant banderole beeline away. Absorb ten account brainstorming and you're apprenticed to blunder beyond article that works. A anemic banderole will attenuate your post's affairs of success. It's capital that you put a lot of assignment into accepting it right.
5. Invest affluence of amount in your post
Ever bookmarked or voted for article after absolutely account it? We've all done it. It's because of the 'Wow' agency - the attendance of abundant promised amount in one abode gets the clairvoyant agog about the column beeline away. Instead of 5 tips, why not allotment 50? Instead of 9 resources, why not 40 or more? This will accomplish a company to bookmark your blog and arch appropriate aback for more!
6. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
If your column looks good, it will draw readers in. Take the time to add images, thumbnails and formatting to what you create. Accomplish your column a beheld feast. With so abundant web agreeable presented in a banal way, your column is affirmed to angle out.
7. Let them apperceive what to expect
Readers will skip your changing introduction. You can say the aforementioned in beneath words, decidedly aback you're autograph for an abrupt reader: addition who wants to get beeline into your tips/resources/opinions. Use your addition to highlight why the clairvoyant should stick with your post.
8. Accelerate letters with links
The best way to get a blogger to investigate your blog is by bond to them. We've got a accustomed admiration to apperceive what's actuality said about us. If your column becomes absolutely popular, anniversary articulation central it should accelerate abundant cartage outwards to be account investigating. Be acceptable with your outbound links aback autograph your best accepted post. It gives added bloggers an allurement to articulation to you, because it's ultimately added advance for them.
9. Utilize your network
If you appetite bodies to Digg, Blunder or Reddit your post, there's no acumen why you charge to sit aback with fingers beyond and achievement it happens. Ask them. Your loyal readers like you. You absorb them, or advise them, or advice them. If voting is a simple amount of beat a articulation they'll be added than blessed to do so. Ask for votes in your column and email readers and amusing media influencers. In best cases you will charge to get the snowball rolling. After that, others will do best of the assignment for you.
10. Analysis antecedent posts
It's acceptable to analysis your antecedent accepted posts to assay what formed before. Explore what was arresting with it. It's consistently acceptable to apprentice from example. You can alteration these qualities into what you write.
By: eminem
10/11/2008 09:18:00 PM | Labels: How to invest, News, Tips, web site | 2 Comments
To Much Work And Not Enough Workers?
There comes a time in many small businesses when a decision has to be made whether or not to hire employees.
Maybe you've reached the point where you need to grow, but you're not sure you're ready to bring on more people. Or maybe you want to stay small and lean, and don't want the bother of having employees. Or maybe it's just been a bad year (totally understandable in this economy!) and cash flow is crunched.
Whatever the reason, there's still work to be done. And today there are more ways than ever to get the work you need taken care of without hiring. Where you turn depends on what type of business you have, and your particular needs.
Here are a few suggestions on where you can get the workers you need for the work you need done:
1. Subcontractors and Freelancers
You aren't the only person who does what you do (even if you're the best!). Find a few good people you can call on when you have too much work and not enough time. Be sure to negotiate a price that will allow you to still make money on the job, though. Also, make sure you know how your client(s) feel about someone else doing the actual work. FYI...there are a lot of freelance websites on the internet where you can go to find quality people. Elance.com, guru.com, and iFreelance.com are a few you might try out.
2. Virtual Assistants
More and more small businesses are turning to virtual assistants to help them grow and organize their businesses. VAs are independent contractors who work from home and provide a variety of professional, personal and office support. They can perform a variety of tasks, including general administrative work, writing reports, editing, creating marketing materials, making customer contacts, database development and maintenance, thank you notes...the list goes on and on. Some VAs also provide personal services to clients such as scheduling doctors' appointments, party planning, coordinating a move, and so much more. You can locate a VA through two professional organizations: Virtual Assistance U, and the International Virtual Assistants Association.
3. "Temps"
You can get temporary workers for just about any job you have - from answering the phone and general secretarial work, to manual labor...and everything in between. When you use temps, you get skilled workers, without having to pay benefits. Most temp agencies have stringent screening procedures make sure the workers they hire and send out have the necessary skills to do the job.
4. Interns
As part of their college training, many bright young students are available for temporary positions. Interns are mostly available in the summer, but many schools offer year-round internship programs. Depending on the school and the program, interns work for either very cheap or free. You, in turn, are to provide valuable on-the-job training. Different colleges have different requirements, so check with the one(s) where you think you'd have the best luck for your particular type of business.
5. Friends and Family
Who better to count on in crunch times than those closest to you? Asking for their temporary help - either on a volunteer basis, or at a reduced wage - can be a good way for them to be part of your business while providing the help you need. Get the kids involved as well! It'll teach them responsibility
6. Delivery services
Don't even think about hopping in the car and driving that brochure clear across town to the printer yourself. Remember, time is money! Instead, pick up the phone and call the delivery service. Delivery services will pick up and deliver just about anything to just about anywhere. They will charge you, but it's worth the price, believe me. And it is a legitimate client-billable expense. To find a reputable delivery service, look in the phone book, and/or ask around to see if anyone you know has any recommendations.
7. Contracted Services
When you need a specialized service on a regular basis, consider contracting it. Instead of hiring a bookkeeper, use an accountant. Instead of hiring a janitor, contract a janitorial service. Grounds upkeep, security, decorating, fish tank cleaning (yes, really!), plant maintenance, equipment maintenance, printing...all are services you can contract.
As you can see, there are many good ways to get the job done without actually adding people to the payroll. Whether to hire personnel, use an alternative, or use a combination of both depends on your business model and what makes the most sense for you and your small business.
By: Donna Williams
10/11/2008 09:02:00 PM | Labels: How to invest, Small Business | 1 Comments