5 Dynamite Route to Generate Ideas for Parenting Articles
by:
Terri Pilcher
The key to merchandising reprints to parenting publications is the production of dynamite ideas followed through with professional writing. Here, I’m focusing only on finding those moneymaking topics.
Most topics in regional parenting publications are straightforward: finance, parenting tips, health, sports, and education. The trick is to twist them in an unusual way.
If you’re a parent, what do you will you knew just about a topic? Write down questions that you have as you go through the day. Once
I was drive the another day, I complained to myself just about bad adolescent drivers. Then I wondered, “What can parents do to encourage nice driving?” If you already cognize the answer to the question, it won’t do a nice article unless you’re an expert on the subject.
Take a generic topic and do it seasonal. Choose a season just about four months away, because the lead-time for parenting publications is 2 to 6 months. Four months from now is April. What happens in Apr (or would-be be promulgated in April) that I can combine with a topic like health? In April, parenting publications start printing their summer guides to camps. What can parents do to do sure their children stay healthy at camp? What are the traits of a safe camp? Change to encampment plus another topic like education or finance to create unique articles.
Who do you cognize who has an unusual or remarkable story – thing
that affected children? What did the parents learn? Write an article exploitation the report as an introduction to the information you want to give. A great report can sell a story.
Visit online parenting forums and see the questions folk ask. Use several of these as a basis for your article ideas.
When you research a piece and talk to experts, look for what you don’t know. “Joe says insurance is important for families,” won’t do an article interesting. Too galore folk cognize that insurance is important. But a quote like, “Joe says disablement insurance is the most neglected area of insurance, but it protects young families from the biggest threat to their security,” will do parents support reading.
If you give editors timely articles that readers will want to read, you’ll sell your activity over and over again.
About The Author
Terri Pilcher edits a FREE weekly e-zine for writers, “Writer’s Guidelines Magazine”, that provides 10 writer’s guidelines. She recently promulgated “MONEY Markets 2005: 101 Publishers That Pay in 6 Weeks or Less”. Her website contains the writer’s guidelines for about 200 parenting publications. http://www.powerpenmarketsearch.com.
This article was announce on Feb 09, 2005
