Choosing your marketing style

When you deliver content solutions – and not just content writing services – to your clients, you dive into other aspects of their business such as social media, SEO and digital marketing. And you notice how difficult it becomes for businesses to choose their marketing style. If I had to write a book on Marketing in 2014 for Dummies, I’d segregate all kinds and forms or marketing into two simple buckets:

5 Mid-Year Resolutions Every Writer Should Make

So, it’s nowhere close to New Year’s  Eve and you are no where close to meeting even half your resolutions. You’re still wearing the same size jeans and you’re still best friends with chocolate! But if there is one thing that won’t leave your mind, it is the fact that you haven’t written anything worth reading (or anything at all), in  the past few months!

Everyone Can Be Creative: Tips to Find Your Inner Spark

Everyone Can Be Creative: Tips to Find Your Inner Spark

Your mind is primed, your eyes are locked and your fingers are ready to start typing  words, but the words are just not coming out. You know what you want to type and at the same time, you don’t know what you want to type. There is a confusion you feel. Creativity is a fickle thing and for many, it’s not an easy thing to capture. It just randomly comes and goes when you least expect it. Sometimes the creative juices just run out. It’s like arriving at a gas station and there’s no gas.

5 Ways to Speed Up Research for Your Writing Project

5 Ways to Speed Up Research for Your Writing Project

There comes a time when we have to conduct research. It could be for a school project, a presentation or a report that you have to submit. Back in the day, research was a strenuous process. It meant hitting the library and diving into books, journals and newspaper – a true hunt for information. Today, you don’t have to hit the library, but that does not mean researching is fun, for most of us at least, it’s still a bore. The internet is our research haven, a one-stop spot.  So how do you get done with this cumbersome and tiresome process quickly?

Love to write fiction - 5 tips to help you make it awesome

Love Writing Fiction? 5 Tips to Make Your Story Shine

Writing fiction is all what most of us want to do. Nothing would be more fulfilling than having your story up on book shelves in a store. Yet, writing fiction is not easy. It is definitely not as simple as sitting down for five hours straight where you just pour out words to create a story. No, the creative process of writing a story is filled with distractions and constant breaks. It is a hard long, path that requires sheer will power to write a story.

How to Write like a Kick Ass Content Guy

Talent is not something you develop, it is something you are born with. Skill is something you develop. It is like a blunt knife which needs to be sharpened. You may be a talented writer, but that does not mean you are a skilful writer. Talent is something that you see on the surface like a reflection of a mirror, but to be a good writer, to be a kick ass content writer that takes a mix of talent and skill.

The day in the life of a content writer

Music blaring, fingers chattering on a keyboard and words being typed out onto a screen; that’s the way a content writer rolls in Spacebar (not all though, you can roll however you want). Once Mumbai was an industrial city, running on the threads of mills, but today it has shed its skin for a corporate suits powered by the service industry. So what is the life of a content writer? Is it just type, type and type? Is it just stuck at a computer terminal typing away? So many questions for the ignorant, so many questions for the misinformed and so many questions for the uninformed.