It is 2013 and most businesses know how important it is to have a website, but not everyone has caught on. And for certain businesses, it's almost a necessity.
Last week I was on vacation in northern Wisconsin. Where did I go to find things to do and places to dine? Online. I was successful at finding places to visit online because, if they weren't online at least on the local area's tourism or chamber of commerce page, I wouldn't have been able to locate it. I found numerous names of restaurants on the web, but for several, all I could find were yellow page or directory listings and maybe one or two reviews. They didn't have their own websites. They may have been wonderful restaurants with delicious food and impeccable service but with no way to verify hours or view at least the type of dishes they served, they lost my business.
If you own a business - any business, not just a restaurant - in a tourist area, you absolutely must have a website. It doesn't need to be a complex website. Something to show a photo of your establishment, hours of operation, directions for finding you, and other information such as menus or examples of products would suffice. It is relatively easy and cheap nowadays to get a basic website and, unless you are a restaurant and change your menu often, you wouldn't even need to update it frequently.
I want to visit your establishment, I really do. So, please, make it easy for me.
Happy website building!
-The Wordsy Woman
Showing posts with label Website writing. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
HOW I WRITE PREVIEW
It has occurred to me that though how people approach writing various subjects, genres, and, for lack of a better word, things, has similarities, it also has differences. So the next several weeks, I will be blogging about how I approach and "do" the things I write.
This is what I have in mind:
Today I'll talk a bit about how I approach my writing practice. I would love to say that I wake up every morning at five a.m., get right to writing, and have dozens of brilliant pages of copy by ten a.m. But, alas, that is not true. When I was working on one novel, I did get up an average of four mornings each week at 6:30 a.m. and wrote for a couple of hours before having to go to my at-the-time out-of-the-house job, but I did it reluctantly. Most mornings the only thing that motivated me to get out of bed was the thought of my rotting, pre-programmed coffee.
Nowadays, between taking graduate classes, doing volunteer work for Midwest Writing Center, and carting kids, I am a full-time writer. Though I am a full-time writer now, I'm always intending to spend more time actually writing. With a couple of recent regularly paying gigs, that is happening to a degree. As far as my writing practice, I really have no set schedule and no set routine.
I keep a three week spreadsheet of my days broken down into two hour blocks from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. that I fill in with my planned activities. This helps me to meet my deadlines and fit everything I want or need to accomplish into my schedule. It is a fluid and flexible plan so I probably never follow it exactly, but I know if I get groceries when I was scheduled to work on my blog, I'd better swap somewhere. I also keep a calendar with specific lists of tasks to complete in the week; I go by the week since my aforementioned general schedule changes so frequently.
Whether I write long hand with pen and paper or on the computer varies by what I'm working on. Generally, though, I type anything concrete I'm writing like an article but will go long hand for poetry and journal writing. I probably do write every day but not creatively and not always in the project where I want to be, but it is a process and work in progress. That's one of the great things about writing; if it doesn't work one way, you try something else.
Happy writing. I hope you enjoy my upcoming posts!
-The Wordsy Woman
This is what I have in mind:
- Website copy writing
- Essays
- Poetry
- Novels
- Personal narrative or memoir
- Articles
- Blogs
- Social media posts
- Emails
- Journals
Today I'll talk a bit about how I approach my writing practice. I would love to say that I wake up every morning at five a.m., get right to writing, and have dozens of brilliant pages of copy by ten a.m. But, alas, that is not true. When I was working on one novel, I did get up an average of four mornings each week at 6:30 a.m. and wrote for a couple of hours before having to go to my at-the-time out-of-the-house job, but I did it reluctantly. Most mornings the only thing that motivated me to get out of bed was the thought of my rotting, pre-programmed coffee.
Nowadays, between taking graduate classes, doing volunteer work for Midwest Writing Center, and carting kids, I am a full-time writer. Though I am a full-time writer now, I'm always intending to spend more time actually writing. With a couple of recent regularly paying gigs, that is happening to a degree. As far as my writing practice, I really have no set schedule and no set routine.
I keep a three week spreadsheet of my days broken down into two hour blocks from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. that I fill in with my planned activities. This helps me to meet my deadlines and fit everything I want or need to accomplish into my schedule. It is a fluid and flexible plan so I probably never follow it exactly, but I know if I get groceries when I was scheduled to work on my blog, I'd better swap somewhere. I also keep a calendar with specific lists of tasks to complete in the week; I go by the week since my aforementioned general schedule changes so frequently.
Whether I write long hand with pen and paper or on the computer varies by what I'm working on. Generally, though, I type anything concrete I'm writing like an article but will go long hand for poetry and journal writing. I probably do write every day but not creatively and not always in the project where I want to be, but it is a process and work in progress. That's one of the great things about writing; if it doesn't work one way, you try something else.
Happy writing. I hope you enjoy my upcoming posts!
-The Wordsy Woman
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