5 Tips on How To Write Like a Data-Informed Badass
This is how you build an empire with your thoughts
What you’re creating are not just Tweets, posts, and articles, they’re data points. And they tell you exactly how to build an empire with your thoughts.
You might not want to hear this, but if you’re serious about being successful as a writer in the current model of the writing game, you have to stop thinking like a writer (that’s so yesterday) and start thinking like an online writer instead.
You, yes, you, are a business. Everything you scribble is a product rolling out of the factory of your mind and when you embrace this reality head-on, you become a powerhouse of possibility.
“There are 2 types of writers today: those who use data to inform and improve their writing, and those who fail.” (Nicolas Cole, The Art and Business of Online Writing)
Which one will you be?
If you want to write like a data-informed badass, here are 5 essential tips:
- Stop thinking of your writing in a limited way, it IS art but it’s also a business.
- Start collecting and analyzing data about your audience.
- Use that data to inform your content…
