WRITE Your Way to a Profitable Online Business

WRITE Your Way to a Profitable Online Business

We’ve seen, and will see, many posts on WA about writing. How do we go about writing a post? What do we write about? Who is our target audience? Where do we get our content from? The questions go on and on.

I have been trying to come up with some anagrams for the word WRITE. I’ve got a few so far. Here’s one of them.

W – write what you know. Any subject at all. Find a way to tie it in to your product or service. If, at first, you can’t find a tie-in, just start typing. Once you get started getting the words down (be it on paper or your screen), you’ll find yourself getting into a flow. That will help get your creative juices surging, which in turn will help you find a tie-in to your product or service, or more than one.

Many times just getting started is all you need to get your motor running. Another way to get started is to find a piece of writing that your like a lot, and start copying it. The act of getting words out onto the page will help you defeat your writer’s funk (just remember to remove it from your piece when you’re done – you don’t want to be accused of stealing!).

R – research your topic. You want to come across like you know what you’re talking about, or your audience is going to see right through you. That research can include online research (Google, Bing), or going to the library, where you will find just about anything you can think of; the library can also help you conduct some research if you’re having trouble – just ask!

Another helpful research trick is to try and interview someone that is considered an expert on your topic. Many online personalities would probably be more than happy to give you an interview; getting mentioned is good for them, too.

Don’t forget to research your target audience. You want to make sure that your reaching the right people with your message. You don’t want to put an offer out to a group of pastors to attend a heavy metal show!

I – investigate your sources. Make sure they’re reputable and reliable. Try to find outside sources that can confirm what you’ve been told, or what you read in another publication. Just because it’s on the internet, doesn’t mean it’s true.

T – treat your subject with honesty and respect. Be certain that what you write about a subject (or person) is true, and verifiable. And just because something is true and verifiable, that doesn’t mean that you should put it out there for the world to see. If the statement is hurtful or damaging to someone, or something, but not really necessary for you to use to get your point across, you should seriously consider not including it in your post.

Besides, something like that could come back and bite you in the hind quarters one day. If you ive in a glass house, you shouldn’t be throwing stones.

E – experiment with your word choices. Use the thesaurus that’s built into your Word program. It usually gives quite a few options for most words, and you’ll come off looking more colorful.

Experiment with the order of your sentences, and the order of the words in your sentences. Doing so might help you shorten an idea to something more easily understood. You want to inform and entertain your readers, not bore them or send them running for the hills.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this post. Please leave a comment, and tell me what you think.

Would you like to see more posts like this? Do you have a suggestion for a word you’d like to see get this type of treatment?

I look forward to hearing from you!

P.S.-here are a couple of sites that can provide more direction and assistance.

http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/audience/

https://www.distilled.net/blog/distilled/content/how-to-produce-high-quality-written-content/

Thanks for reading.