Why This Training?

One of the comments that I see most, or question I see being asked is "how do I write a post, as I am not much of a writer".

This training is about helping those who have no great experience with structured writing, to use this method, or adapt it to suit themselves, to take the angst out of the process, and so get on to populating their site with content, which is the life's blood of an affiliate marketing Blog.

Contents

1. Some Basics
2. The Planning
3. Content
4. Last But Not Least

Don't Worry - Some Basics

The first thing to realise is that no one expects you to be Ernest Hemingway, JK Rowling or Agatha Christie. You don't require any great academic skill. I saw one of the more experienced hands on chat recently describing the need to be able to write "as if you were having a conversation with someone over the kitchen breakfast bar".

A lot of people psych themselves out, by assuming that they have to meet some perfect standard but this is just not the case.

What I would say is that there are a few basic rules to think about:

• you need to have reasonable grammar (within a conversational style)
• good spelling is important because it shows people that you care
• some structure; simply a beginning, middle, and end, is sufficient
• only talk about what you know about
• don't make claims you cannot back without a reference or evidence, unless they are clearly labelled as your opinions, not facts (particularly true in health related niches)
• if you are not a native English speaker, writing English, then find a proof reader
• do not use Google translate; it does not work for grammatical sentence and paragraph construction and it is not intelligent enough to understand idiomatic writing

Now that we have the basics lets look at the planning process for writing a post......