What Are Mnemonics? Mnemonics are little coded systems for remembering stuff. When I went to school, we were given this little mnemonic to remember the colours of the rainbow: Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain. In this example, the first letter of each word corresponds to the first letter of each colour of the…
It’s July 2nd, 2017. I should have written this article yesterday, but I have a schedule to keep, and Saturday’s are reserved for niche site chatter. Why yesterday? Because yesterday was the halfway point through the year. People get all aquiver about New Year’s Resolutions and that all important January 1st date. Yet very few…
How To Deal With Price Objections Over on Twitter I was asked about dealing with objections to price. The scenario given (as I read it) is that this person is getting a lot of views and people clicking through to the offer, but then people aren’t buying the offer. They’re assuming that this is due…
Here’s an article that’ll either chill your bones or make you shake with excitement. Maybe it’ll do both. The Guardian on how Facebook and Google generate one-fifth of the world’s advertising revenue. I could go into details on why this is both apocalyptic and awesome, but here’s the major takeaway: Google and Facebook are where…
Scrivener Review If you’re a pro-writer or want to be, then you need to invest in good tools. Now, we’re not like carpenters or electricians who have to spend hundreds – if not thousands – on their equipment. If you have a PC and an internet connection, you’re most of the way there. However, sometimes…
Intensive Writing, Weak Links in The Chain I’m a big fan of doing things intensively over a short period. I’ve spent the day re-teaching myself keyword research, because it’s a weak link in the chain when it comes to my process. At times, it’s been a struggle. Part of the reason keyword research is a…
Coherence 2016 is over… and we’re well on our way to getting through 2017. In my opinion, there’s a key concept which will serve you well in any year: coherence. I make a point of not discussing politics, because it attracts weirdoes and it’s not a good use of anyone’s time. That said the current…
Blogging Every Day For One Year I started JamieMcSloy.co.uk around fifteen months ago. (September 2015.) For the first couple of months, I thought it’d be a portfolio site with the odd blog article thrown in as a case study. Views were minimal and I forgot about it for days at a time. On January…
Your Skills Are Problem Solving Tools. You Are The Angle. It’s important to think of your skill set and your knowledge as problem solving tools. If you do this, you’ll have a better life obviously. You’ll make everyone else’s life better too. You’ll also never run out of content for your website, which let’s face…
How to Plan A Novel It’s November 1st 2017, and among other things, that means plenty of people are planning to write a novel this month. Unfortunately, the vast majority of them are going to get stuck either planning a novel or planning and writing a novel to the first chapter, but no more. If…