Tip: Create Your Own Swipefiles

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Hey everyone,

Hope Christmas was great for you if you celebrate, and hope last week was great for you if you don't.

Anyway, I just wanted to put together a short tip about creating your own swipe file. In fact, you should probably create several.

What's A Swipefile?

Basically, you "swipe" examples of things such as article titles, landing pages, email headlines, and whatever else you think you might use yourself, and keep them in one place for future use.

Example Of How To Create And Use One

I bet you see 50 different catchy post titles come across your Facebook feed every month, and you probably notice patterns in them as well.

Whether they read like Click-bait or something better, what you can do is create a Word Doc or Spreadsheet and start copying these headlines into your own file.

Remember, headlines don't just need to be a plain keyword and nothing else, but it's actually quite hard to come up with good headlines at times, so you can basically start collecting other headlines that you've seen around the web and then applying them to your own articles.

Obviosly you don't want to steal someone's post headline word for word, but you can create "fill in the blanks" types of headlines..such as

50 reasons why (what) helps (who)

Why smart ___ are doing ____

Things like this.

Here are some other uses of a Swipefile

See a good call to action? Take a screenshot

See a good landing page? Take a screenshot

See some good text in a review post? Copy it down

Seen a compelling email subject? Copy it down!

Anything that will help you with your own ideas is worth keeping filed away somewhere, ready for you to reference and adapt for yourself. Eventually, you won't even need to consult the file.

When you are first starting out, the easiest thing to do is see what others are doing, and use it for inspiration. You'll never get anywhere by outright copying someone, but seeing what works and adapting it for your own purposes is the key to getting things to work for you.

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I've been doing this for a while. I have several scribblers full of notes and several swipe files already. Lovin' it!

Thanks for a good idea, Dom! Merry Christmass and Happy New Year!

Thank you Dom! Definitely should be doing this. I tend to go hunting for ideas when I already need them. Or jot them down on scraps of paper that get lost... Will start TODAY! :-)

Hey Dom, that's yet another great idea.

I already take screenshots from inspiring ideas, but you are right: I could do it more often! :)
Thanks, Gerlinde

Great Post Dom .. Cheers, William.

Thank you, Dom! Great idea.
:)

I would not be anywhere close to where I am if I did not have a swipe file!

Mickeyb

Wow, great idea Dom. I need to centralize everything I've gotten so far.

I needed this to remind me to actively be watching for "ideas"!

Thank ya' partner!!!

Great post. I keep a swipe file and it's one of the things I use to give away to get subscribers to my list. There is a lot of value in swipe files.

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