Friday, May 18, 2012

Abbreviation

A powerful component to your posts is brevity.

Learn what to say with the least words is a powerful tool.

From a screen real-estate perspective it
* draws attention
* reduces scrolling
* promotes information absorption



This can be as simple as using short sentences.

It can also be the number of sentences.

In the end: optimize.

Your readers will thank you by visiting.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Access

At a most rudimentary level, information is about awareness and access.
As previously discussed, awareness speaks of knowing your niche.
One can also approach awareness from the other end.

Reaching the point where you have more content than your distribution means,
you have the potential for duplication of attention.

And if you've monetized your blog, this transfers to sales.
Access, then, becomes relevant.

And one of the most effective salability tools is offered through trade.

Simply do the following:
i)   Take seven or nine of your most relevant and useful bits of information.
ii)  Add details, format, and collate into a ten-page pdf.
iii) Add a cover (to summarize and present the value contained therein)
iv)  And offer this as a product, in exchange for the viewer's email.

This funnels access and gives you the opportunity to recognize your core audience.

It also gives you something exceptionally useful in the niche-sphere:
an email mailing list.

Done well, you have a list of trusting customers and they have a reputable resource.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Aware


One of the challenges you will face is simply awareness.

Being aware of your niche-specific
  • current trends
  • active history
  • unspoken presumptions
will help you understand what to broach and what to drop.

It will also aid in identifying what your niche will value.

Part of this can be solved by immersion.

Another will be to try thinking in unusual ways about your niche.

Your earlier preparation will help identify what questions have been asked.
It will also help you realize what questions still need to be asked.

Become aware.