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How to Select an Online Publishing Software Supplier

Friday, May 7th, 2010

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Producing an e-brochure requires a lot of effort, therefore it would be a shame to destroy all that with the wrong e-brochure software. Once you’re determined to produce an online catalog the most important decision is to select your software vendor. Formatting your content is just a small part of what they do. Being simple to use is the key feature to look out for. If you can’t make the software run it doesn’t matter how great it is claimed to be … The e-brochure you’re making should be important enough to you for you to try out several providers. As hacking and spamming are issues online, security measures should be another main concern after you’ve produced a digital edition. Do you know what is placed to protect your magazine? Is it possible for people to simply copy-paste the magazine content or does the online publishing software supplier have security to stop this? Is your content secure? Has a business plan been created? Ads, social-media, these are things that need to be covered never mind which plan you’re using. Contemporary marketing means considering search engine requirements when editing content. Is your content only going to be freely available? Will you be able to offer single copy and multiple subscription possibilities? Will you be commercializing the content ? How about using summaries and teasers to sell your online publication? What’s the accessibility of your e-brochure? If it’ll be private you can look into several hosting options or will it be public? If public you should probably host directly. And what will you do about back-isues?

Prior to striking any emergency you need to ponder some other things as well. How is their tech-support? Is it simple a matter of a list of FAQs? Do they have useful “fix-it” tips which you can actually use? Do they advertise their response time? Try calling their emergency phone number to test it out. Tech support might be the last consideration but it needs to be a deciding factor in your choice of provider. You really don’t want to find out only when it’s too late that they’re attempting to cut corners to your detriment in this regard…

Success is down to good choices at this point. When producing your publication, the choice of vendor will be what decides its overall success.

Article Writing & Marketing: How to Write More Than One Article at a Time

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Picture with me, if you will, the following scene:

You are sitting down at your computer to write another article. You have got your notes next to you, or an outline in your head, or some ideal of how this next article is going to go.

Whatever your starting style, you have some idea about how this article is going to turn out. Yet as you get into writing, different ideas pop into your head. You could take the article this way, that way, or several other ways.

But since you sat down to write an article, you stay close to the direction you had in mind, telling yourself that you will remember these other ideas later.

Yeah, right.

Don’t do that anymore!

Instead of losing all those ideas about different directions your article could take, write them down! Keep a note pad handy, or a file on your computer to quickly type your article ideas.

When you do this, you accomplish a few useful things:

1. You do not lose all your good ideas.

2. You save yourself a whole bunch of frustration called “What was that great idea I had?”

3. You are able to concentrate much better on the article at hand because you don’t have to have part of your mind focused on remembering all those good ideas. They are safely tucked away in your idea file.

4. You have begun several new articles and do not have to search around for ideas.

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Staring At The Empty Page

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

You are gazing out the window of your room, the curtains still half drawn slightly bulging from the gentle breeze. It is a picturesque spring day, mid morning.

You turn back from your gaze that seemed to last but only a moment. The harsh reality hits you square between the eyes, you have to write this new page or article before you to can enjoy this day.

Only problem is you have been staring at the blank page for the last two hours trying to come up with the perfect, or as close to it, idea. Another hour passes as you have two cups of coffee, some biscuits, a chat with th dog, pacing up and down the passage, and you have still not come up with a single word.

It is true that you cannot turn your creativity on and off as you please, a few lucky ones can but for the most of us it is rather an impossible task.

Strangely enough, these modern computers that we own, with all the bells and whistles still don’t help us a single bit when we have to write or create something, it is just a patient assistant.

Next time you need to come up with something new and fresh follow these steps and they will lead you to getting your idea written.

Pick a word for your topic, any word that relates to your idea or product at this point in time.

Go to your overture keyword tool and type in your word. Sift through the results and choose five keyword phrases that describes your idea more clearly than the single word you wrote down.

Sit back, relax and think over it for a while, maybe even get another cup of coffee. The important thing now is not to try and rush the writing, if you do you will just have to do it all over again, have patience.

When you come back jot down some ideas that relate to your subject and scramble the phrases you wrote down around.

These will become your main themes.

Open Google search and click on the advanced search. The reason for using advanced search is that it will return good results unlike a normal web search where you have to filter through piles of pages before you get to what you are interested in. This type of search will save you a lot of time.

Getting ideas off the top of your head is not always that easy so we will find a ways to help us. This is a good way to go about finding information if you have no idea what words to put into a sentence let alone write 800 word article about it.

Type each of your main themes, words or keyword phrases into the tool. Set it to show 10 results. Open the sites one by one and firstly determine if what you see, is relevant to what you want to write. If so read through the content once or twice and take out the main elements or ideas you find to be important to your article.

Go through all ten. You will find that only about half will be relevant to you. You will probably also come across ideas or information you never even thought of in the first place, which is a huge bonus for a little work.

As you research write the ideas or headings for ideas down in your document. Don’t worry what it looks like at this stage just keep on going.

Once you have finished with the research, give yourself a break just to clear your mind. Take a walk with the dog, talk to the trees and plants and in so doing amuse the neighbors. At least they now have something to talk about.

Go back to your computer and start sorting the info you wrote down, don’t rewrite yet, first cut and paste in the page so that you have an article that will make sense, and remember to have a beginning, middle and end.

Once you have completed, start rewriting your information in sentences and paragraphs, easily readable and understandable.

This is one way that works, if you have no idea what you want to write about, or how to write it. The research might take some time but you can be sure you will have a valuable article for your readers by the time you are finished, not just garble.

Happy Writing!

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