How to Build Your Personal Marketing Swipe File

Don't try and keep all the info that you read in your head. Create your personal marketing swipe file and use 3 key orgaizationsal tools so that you can find these important references anytime you need them.

List And Twist - A Simple Creative Technique For Idea Generation

Have you been trying to develop ideas for a new product or service? Did you get stuck? Well, List And Twist is a simple technique that might help you out.

So You Think You're Not Creative?

There is creative potential in all of us, and trying to create room for it to flourish can be a challenge. A reasonable degree of creativity is a natural output of mentally and socially healthy people. As in any other human activity, practice and training can develop it. It is, however, quite a fragile state, and many things can, and often do, disrupt it, so that in many cases we are not operating to our full potential.

Using Creativity To Generate New Product Or Service Ideas

Creativity is often overlooked in favour of giving the job of new product development to the Marketing department. In fact anyone can have a go, just get hold of a few good techniques and see what happens.

Tap Your Creative Potential

Deep within each of us lies a great wealth of creative potential, and I believe tapping into this potential is the best way to solve the challenges that we encounter in our lives.

Create Your Own Identity

External beauty is temporary. Inner beauty is permanent and eternal. This is the beauty we need and this is what we gain when we activate ourselves. This is the beauty God recognises. So seek love, for you seek inner beauty. Direct your mind to a higher ideal.

Befriending Your Creativity

We are all creative, but some of us do not know what to do with that aspect of our selves. Here are suggestions and examples of how the creative can be a more constructive and constant companion.

Going With the Ebb and Flow: The Creative Cycle

It's important to recognize which phase of the creative process you're in. Be there while you're there, enjoy it, play with it and revel in your creative gifts.

Running With Stones in Your Shoes – Little Irritations That Can Become BIG Drains On Your Creativity

In our creative lives, how many small and virtually unnoticeable irritations do we put up with? Those almost insignificant sources of negativity and discomfort that at best cause us to be slightly distracted from our creative work and at worst slowly but steadily drain our creative energy and confidence and have a severe impact on the quality of our creative work and life?

After the Uncomfortable Pause - Seven Questions to Immediately Spur Greater Creativity

Don't let the creative thinking end after the initial, 'top of mind' ideas have been thrown out there. There are more good ideas to be had – that might be better solutions to the problem – we just need to delve a little deeper.

Writing For Children Part 1

Michael disappeared up those stairs again so fast he flew up, and it took several minutes before he was coaxed down again with promises of mince pies for breakfast and It was only Rob being an idiot.

Writing For Children Part 3

It smells like chocolate. Now get nosey.

Kickstart YOUR Creativity - 3 Powerful Tips to Banish Writer's Block

Every kind of writing requires creativity: technical writing, commercial or business writing, web content writing, blogging, emails to friends, thank you notes to great-aunt Nattie. Here's how to tap into your creativity (which is always available) and successfully write anything you want!