Ask a roomful of webmasters how best to promote your site and prepare to be deafened by the collective yell back - “article marketing!”.
What is this magical formula? It sounds so easy - write an article, add a short bio and your link then distribute it to article directories. Webmasters worldwide, thrilled you deigned to impart words of wisdom, trample over each other to be the first to post your article on their site. You put your feet up and sigh contentedly, thinking about the millions of links to your site now spread throughout the internet. And that’s how it works, right?
Err … not exactly.
What to remember is this: new business launches are always trumpeted. They have to be to succeed. The trick is to look at what’s happening in your local area as well as online or nationally.
I find it difficult to read something if there are a lot of incorrect words used in it. Simple things, like using “its” when it should be “it’s”, or “theyre” instead of “they’re” or even “there” or “their” set my teeth on edge. I lose focus on what the writer’s trying to convey while I get an ulcer over the state of the English language.
“We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.” - W. Somerset Maugham.
Are you one of those angst- ridden writers who scribbles in a frenzy with a wild eyed look on any scrap of paper he can find, with nothing but nothing penetrating that concentration- not hunger, not tiredness- save perhaps for death itself?!
No, neither am I actually. 
Today’s question is about fear and how we face it (or not as the case may be). Ask yourself what you’re scared of today and if you were scared of the same things five or even ten or twenty years ago.
If not, what changed? Did you replace one fear with another, pile it on top of an existing one or did you overcome an old fear completely? Maybe you’re fearless. I’m not. Read the rest of this entry
I was asked to contribute an idea on how to make the world a better place with $100, so here goes! The premise behind my idea is that literature and the sharing of the written word can change the world.
Every time we read something new to us that stimulates a seed of an idea, a thought process or produces in us an emotional response (be it laughter, tears, empathy, anger) - we lay the foundations of change within ourselves. And if that passage of words can elicit change in one person’s mind and heart, then that person’s actions can follow. Read the rest of this entry
