Blogging, or writing in general, they come to some people very easily. However, not everyone is good at writing. It doesn’t mean they don’t have something to say, it simply means they somehow are having problem converting whatever they have to say into writing. Cover the thoughts inside their mind into letters, words, sentences and paragraphs.
As an Internet marketer you have to be able to create content on demand. Content creation is one of the stumbling points for some Internet marketers because they have to hire somebody to write articles for them. This takes money and time that you have to wait for the content to be written. There is nothing wrong with hiring someone from elance.com to write articles for you, but sometimes you need something quick and you know the topic fairly well. Every situation is different.
Now, if that’s specialized content and you’re not an expert in that field, then
hiring a writer makes sense. However, when you are an expert and you simply want to communicate your expertise to others through writing, there is no need to hire anybody else did it for you if you can do it your self — faster, cheaper, and with minimum effort.
“There A Book Inside Of You Waiting To Be Written”
If you have the content in your head, then there is no reason why you can not put it into writing. It is the process that intimidates some people. When you’re writing, most of the time you read the sentence that you wrote or the paragraph to see if it sounds okay. You go back and forth, taking this and that, deleting, substituting, and changing things around. That takes a lot of time and you get frustrated. Other result, you thing that you cannot write.
Sometimes, to be able to write well you need to stop looking behind us going forward by looking only forward. What I’m saying is that you need to be able to transfer everything you’ve got in your mind onto paper and only when you’re done, then go back and edit whatever you’ve got.
Remember this: if you cannot commit yourself to doing something big, then commit yourself first doing something small. Doing something so small that is almost impossible to fail at. Over time, you’ll be able to do that big thing that you weren’t able to do in the first place.
I’m going to introduce you to two software that I use in order to create content at speed of sound. Basically, if it’s text — consider it a piece of cake.
Recently, I started using MacSpeech Dictate, which is a voice recognition software for Mac operating system. There is also one for PCs or Windows operating system, which is called Dragon Naturally Speaking.
(By the way, those are not affiliate links)
I use this software to create any kind of text content. It makes content creation so easy that it’s unbelievable. Plus, the software is relatively precise on the recognition that it makes writing, or should I say talking, very smooth process.
2 Illusive Disadvantages Of Using Speech Recognition Software:
Though there are a couple of disadvantages to using speech recognition software to create content. One of the disadvantages is that after writing with your mouth you need to go back and format the text a little bit here and there to make it easier for people to read. After all, your speech is different than the written word. When speaking, we might make grammatical errors or say something that would sound differently when written down. However, some may argue that this very disadvantage makes this kind of writing more natural sounding and therefore much more readable.
In fact, I am writing with my mouth at this very moment.
When done writing this blog post, I’m going to format this text so that it is appealing to the eye and is much more readable than plain text. By formatting I mean bolding some important words, writing some headlines for chunks of paragraphs, etc.
Another disadvantage is that sometimes the software doesn’t quite understand some words and substitutes them with another word, which sounds very similar. This can give funny. For example, the other day I was writing about affiliate marketing and instead of affiliate marketing, the software put down food marketing. Do you see what I’m talking about?
However, this is not a huge disadvantage because granted you are saving tons of time by using speech to text technology and mistakes like that shouldn’t stop you from using it.
The mindset you want to have is: Ready, Fire, Aim!
What this means is that you don’t have to get things right, you just have to get them going you can always go back and change whatever you want.
Being perfectionist, most of the time stops you from doing things, which might hinder your progress. Sometimes you just have to do it –get things going. If you don’t act, you will never know if that was a success waiting to happen or failure. Guess why? Because you never took the necessary steps to find out.
When you’re ready go get one of the speech recognition softwares mentioned above and start writing with your mouth, or should I say, writing at the speed of sound.
