How to Make Your Writing Easier, Faster and Better. Robert Middleton interviews Daphne Gray-Grant



Writing is the master skill of marketing. How can it be faster and easier?

If you want to attract more clients, you need to market your services. And if you're going to market your services you need to know how to write.

But for most Independent Professionals, writing is a struggle, something to avoid, and something you never feel you do as well as you could.

But it doesn't need to be like that.

Writing can be a process that you not only do well but faster and easier. All you need is to understand the underlying principles of successful writing and a few little-known strategies and techniques. It doesn't need to be so hard, so time-consuming, so frustrating.

If you think you're a bad writer or if it's difficult for you, you're not alone. This is one of the top three most important and yet, most avoided marketing activities. The others are speaking and networking.

But writing is the skill that can give you the most leverage.

I've often said that "writing is like pumping iron for marketing." That is, the more you write, the more you build your marketing muscles. All successful marketers of professional services have worked at developing their writing skills and write frequently.

Once writing comes easy to you, you can develop materials, web pages, articles, letters, emails, email newsletters, scripts, speeches, even e-books and books. And writing is the way you can offer true value to the world. Writing is the process of getting all those ideas out of your head and into the heads of others.

This Expert Interview is with Daphne Gray-Grant, "The Publication Coach." Daphne started her career in the newspaper business but discovered after she left the business (much to her surprise) that she really wasn't a very good writer. So she put all her attention on energy into how to write better and faster. She studied every book on writing that she could find and distilled her findings down to a powerful 8 1/2 step system. Soon she was successfully coaching others in being better writers.

This Program is for you if:

• You need to write for your business but keep getting bogged down.

• You don't know what to write and where to start.

• You take way too long to write anything and often don't complete what you start.

• You feel very self-conscious about your writing and hold back from publishing anything.

• You write pretty well but the process is agonizing.

• You are ready to make your writing not only better but faster and easier.

What the Program covers:

Let me give you more details on what I cover with Daphne Gray-Grant in the audio program: We address the following topics and more on "How to Make Your Writing Easier, Faster, and Better."

1. The importance of writing and why it's so hard

• Why people have difficulty writing.

• Why academic writing doesn't prepare you for business.

• Why your expectations about writing are unrealistic. 

• How fear of rejections stops you from writing.

2. Planning each writing project

• Mind mapping your writing plan and using mind-mapping software

• How to find topics for your writing.

• Creating a writing plan and profiling your reader.

• How to make the reader real to you.

• Knowing what you can accomplish with a specific number of words.

• Spinning many articles off of one idea.

• How to research before you write (including how to interview).

3. How to get your writing started and flowing

• Developing a "lede" or opening for your writing that grabs the reader's attention.

• How to "stay out of your own way" once you start writing.

• What to do once you have a decent first draft.

• Things you can do to stimulate ideas during the writing process.

• How to make sure your readers stay engaged with what you've written.

4. Revising and editing what you've written

• How to use transitional devices to keep your reader reading.

• Catching major (and minor) grammatical mistakes.

• Making your writing tighter and more interesting.

• How to notice and eliminate the passive voice in your writing.

• Other tips to improve you writing skills.

In this program Daphne outlines the step-by-step writing strategies and techniques that will make your writing, easier, faster and better. It took me a very long time to learn how to write the way Daphne teaches. But you don't have to. The expert interview will give you all you need to know to get past the frustration and avoidance of writing.

The audio interview comes with a written transcript

We don't charge extra for transcripts. You get A complete 46-page written transcript of the program in pdf format. You'll be able to review all the information covered anytime you want. It covers all the points above and more.

As with all my interviews, Daphne and I go into great detail. We really get into the nitty gritty details of what it takes to write easier, faster and better. And you'll be able to apply these ideas immediately to the very next writing project you have, whether it be an article, web page or email newsletter.

Ordering Details for this Audio Program

This is what you get when you order this program:

1. The Online Audio (mp3 format) that you can listen to on your computer or download. (It will be sent to you by email immediately)

2. A complete 46-page transcription of the program in pdf format that you can refer to over and over again.

4. A 100% money back guarantee of satisfaction.

All this for only $29

Order How to Make Your Writing Easier, Faster, and Better now.

If you think this program is what you're looking for, I invite you to order online. Here are the details:

Please Note: If you are a member of my Action Plan Marketing Club, this audio program is included in your club membership. If you join the club you'll get this program plus much, much more. Go here to learn more about the Club.

Yes Robert, count me in. I want to get "How to Make Your Writing Easier, Faster, and Better."

Online Mp3 Audio + Transcription is $29.

To order, click on the link below. You will be taken to a shopping cart checkout. Just click on "checkout" and you will be taken to the order payment page. Once you order, you'll be taken to a confirmation page where you can get the audio interview and your bonus interview immediately.

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Online Audio + Transcription - $29

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