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Edit out adjectives: Follow Twain’s advice to improve your writing

By Eric Thomas ⋅ November 11, 2009

In Pudd’nhead Wilson, Mark Twain cautions us on using adjectives: “As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out.”
Clifton Fadiman warns us too: “The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.”
Adjectives modify nouns. In the examples below, we see a tired boy sitting down:
The tired boy sat down.
The exhausted boy sat [...]

How To Make Money On A Video Slide Show Of A Teleseminar

By Eric Thomas ⋅ November 10, 2009

Create video slide shows from the audio recordings of your teleseminars. You can sell them. You can use them to pitch products or services. You can use them to attract people to join your email list. You can use them as a benefit of your members-only web site.
True, if video slide shows are a [...]

How To Use Transcripts of Your Teleseminars

By Eric Thomas ⋅ October 30, 2009

You can offer teleseminars to attract people to join your email list, to pitch your products or those of a joint-venture partner, as a benefit of your members-only web site — or just sell admission to them. In addition, you can use transcripts of the audio recordings in many ways. Here are seven suggestions how:
1. [...]

Think Like a Soap Opera Writer To Create Compelling Content

By Eric Thomas ⋅ October 24, 2009

Want to create compelling content that draws people to your blog or Website like bees to honey, peanut butter to chocolate or people to the scene of an accident?
Then it’s time you ignore all the “good, solid advice” you’ll hear from well-meaning writing instructors and coaches. Instead, it’s time to start thinking like a [...]

Listening to examples of improved writing: Strunk and White on audio

By Eric Thomas ⋅ October 23, 2009

Having read “Strunk and White” over and over, I remember their admonitions to omit needless words and use the active voice. Like White, I am not always successful in my writing, but I strive to reach success in editing. On a recent visit to a cyberspace library, I saw “Strunk and White” on audio and [...]

Make a Video Slide Show Of Your Seminar

By Eric Thomas ⋅ October 19, 2009

When you make a video slide show of your seminar, you create additional income streams. You can sell it on CDs or DVDs at your speeches and other seminars. You can sell it over the web either on CDs and DVDs or for download.
It’s both simple and cheap to create a video slide show of [...]

Reading and Stephen King

By Eric Thomas ⋅ October 14, 2009

All writers communicate with an audience, even diary writers, who start as their own audience of one. A letter writer may write for an audience of one, a business writer may write of an audience of thousands or more, if they are fortunate, and the Stephen Kings of the world write for millions and millions [...]

PowerPoint – Getting the basics right

By Eric Thomas ⋅ October 10, 2009

I’ve noticed two diametrically opposed views on PowerPoint driven presentations.
Presenters love it. It can help to greatly reduce the fear of delivering a presentation by providing constant prompts for the presenter, which handily double up as a handout for the audience to take away.
Audiences hate it, many describing presentations as ‘death by PowerPoint’, ‘information [...]

Want More Writing Time? Wrangle Your Email

By Eric Thomas ⋅ October 6, 2009

As the old saw goes, “writers write.” There’s no comparable saying for lawyers, but it might be something along the lines of “lawyers work inefficiently and generate massive amounts of paper and waste.” (You can see why it never caught on.)
You may be billing 2000+ hours a year, but if you want to be a [...]

Insider Outline 81% More Slaes With Email

By Eric Thomas ⋅ October 3, 2009

There are many ways that you can improve your own business, and your own chances at making the money that you hunger for your life. Something that you want to think about is using the resources that you may already have to make a lasting impression on the world around you. When you are searching [...]

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