Online Writing Tips, Tools and Resources for Busy Entrepreneurs and Marketers
If you’re like most people, you’re trying to find time to Tweet regularly, post to your Facebook account, write your blog, write your Ezine, submit articles online and more. It’s tough to come up with a constant stream of good ideas, and when you’re writing – to find the right words and phrases to express yourself exactly as you intend. We’ve compiled a list of tips and resources that we hope will help you to more easily come up with ideas and efficiently express them to your various audiences.
Idea Generators
Ideas for fresh content are all around us, we just need to look for them. Here are a few ideas for you to consider:
- News sites (Bookmark and regularly check news sites pertinent to your industry for content ideas.)
- Discussion groups (Choose a few to follow and participate in, taking ideas from the discussions for future writing ideas – if people are discussing it in a forum, then others are interested in the topic also.)
- Search engines (What are the top searches within your target content areas? Find out and browse for ideas among the listings.)
- Review and refresh (Review past posts, tweets, articles and ezines for future content ideas – maybe a new twist on an existing technology, an expansion of a previous topic with fresh insights.)
- Idea log (Keep a log of ideas as you come across that you can refer to later when writing. Consider TiddlyWiki, EverNote or other online writing tools.)
Online Tools and Resources
There’s no shortage of online tools and resources to help you develop fresh content. Only with use will you know which ones will work best for you.
- Reference sites – Bartleby.com: references spanning quotations to grammar rules; Reference.com: Just like going to the library and browsing an almanac, thesaurus, atlas and more; Experts.com: find an expert (or join and become one yourself!) – bio and contact information provided for each expert; BabelFish.com: an online translation service; RefDesk.com: the name says it all.
- Google Docs: This suite of free products lets you create, edit and store documents online. Have you ever written drafts of blogs or articles and passed them off to someone else to finish (or vice versa)? GoogleDocs is designed for online collaboration.
- Online dictionaries and thesauruses – OneLook.com: online dictionary includes reverse lookup; YourDictionary.com: Type in the word you want to look up and you’ll get Webster’s definition with the option of clicking on tabs to get more definitions, thesaurus, sentence examples and quotes; Dictionary.com; VisualThesaurus.com: visually maps words as they are related to others ($2.95 per month / $19.95 per year).
The internet provides a plethora of tools and idea generators to help you stay on track with your writing schedule. It’s time to get busy exploring and trying what works for you! We look forward to reading your fresh content!
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Great tips! Really invaluable for anyone that offers quality web content writing services. Thanks a lot and expect our fresh content!
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