Are there certain words, words that are quite common, yet which command a reader’s attention? Leafing through the July issue of TIME magazine, I found the answer to that question is a definite “yes”. Mind you, none of these attention-commanding, curiosity-stimulating words (or set of words) offers the slightest hint of the topic of […]
“High levels of confidence, even if unwarranted, can make people appear more attractive to potential collaborators,” A.M. Hammond writes in Psychology Today, explaining the importance of the way confidence is expressed. One tip about confidence offered by the American Marketing Association in Business Writing Tips for Professionals is relevant here: “Phrases like ‘We’re #1’, ‘We’re […]
The contributing authors in the Nature Conservancy Magazine must have collaborated to illustrate the power of similar sounds. As examples for blog content writers, I chose just four of the many titles in that issue: Roots Rewind This is an example of classic alliteration. Both words begin with the same consonant. Keep Carbon Although the […]
Popular magazines, I find, are a great source of ideas for blog marketing. The publication needn’t be recent, I found, browsing through the Cook’s Illustrated 2016 Annual that I happened upon at a local café, thinking to get some new meal ideas. One thing that really stood out about the intro to each recipe […]
Browsing through the August issue of Indianapolis Monthly, I noticed something interesting about the titles of many of the articles. It was literally impossible to tell from each title what the topic of the forthcoming article would be, yet my curiosity was aroused to the point that I wanted to find out. Applied Knowledge, […]
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