Another Article Writing Tip

[Mary Gallivan]

Hi

I started doing the following this afternoon as a reference for myself and it resulted in 6 really quick articles.

It's not a new idea by any means and many warriors have mentioned it before but this is what I did:

Being fond of articles based on 'tips' (because they are generally easier and quicker to do) I started a list of tips in Word and just kept going and going as each idea triggered another.

The result was a few pages of one line, two line and longer tips.

Any articles I had written in the past with related tips were included in the list. I could have carried on all day but for the minute it's a 'work in progress'.

What I then did was select some of them and did a word count to see how many I may need for an article.

Then I wrote an introduction of 2 paragraphs and a conclusion.

From there, I opened another 2 Word docs, made them narrower and had all 3 open side by side.

The next step was the really quick one - I copied and pasted the first paragraph in one word doc and the 2nd paragraph in the other one and also copied 5 tips into one and 7 into the other.

The conclusion could also be split into 2 and still make sense, so this was also added to the 2 docs.

The result was the original list and 2 unique articles with different tips.

Some, but not all, of the list of tips could also be divided into categories - so I did the same with Word docs and they made another 2 articles with a mix of introductions and conclusions and some editing of both.

2 mins later there was another 2 articles.

The initial list will go on my blog and I also have 4 other articles, (which took about 10 minutes).

The final stage was to add the titles which I did using a combination of 2 long tail keyword phrases - with a number in front!

Each of these can also be linked back to the full list on your own site.

There is still lots more mileage in this list, even without adding to it to produce articles of any number of tips.

Some of these tips can then be expanded on to produce 2, 3, 4, etc, giving reasons why they are so good to use for ....whatever it is.

Enough of these and I have content for an ebook, autoresponder series or whatever else the imagination throws out.

I hope this has helped anyone with ideas on what to write or how to write articles quickly.

Please feel free to share any other ideas.

Mary

[greatmark]

This one is just awesome.. thank you so much I am sure this one will help me a lot with my business.

thank you once more

[Mary Gallivan]

Glad to have been of help

Mary

[ryanman]

This is great stuff. Thanks a lot.

[BaldMktgGuy]

This is definitely a good idea. Very efficient.

Thanks for the "tip".

[Andrew Maule]

Good tip thanks a lot!

[Mary Gallivan]

The same concept can be used in so many different ways with a bit of imagination.

How to .... in 3, 4 ,5 etc easy lessons

X number of ideas for ......

You'll find them all over the place - 20 ways to make $x etc - it's simply a matter of turning things round and thinking of applying them to your own business.

mrsleep99 - next time I get articles from you I don't want them all as 'tips'

Mary

[20colors09]

This is absolutely stunning. Thanks for tip and keep writing articles like these.... will help souls like me a lot.

[RebeccaL]

Very productive!
I do similar things myself, its amazing just how many articles you can come up with in a short space of time.