Do you know what a tip sheet is? It is a short list of tips. You could create a tip sheet from practically any topic and the editors of some publications and e-publications love them. Whether you write on weight loss, pet care, volunteering, health issues, fitness, showing rabbits, traveling, how to write poetry, sibling rivalry or hoarding, you should be able to come up with many different tip sheets. Use them to position yourself as an expert in your field and/or to promote your book.
What are the types of tips you could list on a tip sheet? Let’s use volunteering in our example. You could list:
• Resources for volunteer opportunities
• Types of volunteering people do
• Attributes of the best volunteers
• Types of volunteer opportunities
• How volunteering serves the community
• How volunteering serves the individual
• Trouble-shooting for volunteers
• How to choose your volunteering match
• How to work with others in a volunteer situation
• 10 of the best ways to help your community
For the traveling topic you might create tip sheets on the following:
• Popular destinations
• Current airline regulations for passengers
• Packing tips
• Unique travel styles
• Tips for traveling with kids
• Ten ways to entertain kids on a plane
• Tips for choosing the right luggage
• RV travel tips
• Tips for traveling abroad
• Tips for taking a cruise vacation
Sell your tip sheets (with your brief bio attached) to publications related to the topic of your tips and tweak them to fit regional (they relate to a specific geographic area), general (write them for a more general audience), religious (give them a spiritual edge), senior, parenting and other types of magazines.
As an example of how to tweak your tips sheets: volunteering for seniors, volunteering for residents of the Midwest states, tips for traveling with your pet, tips for keeping the faith while traveling, how to get a teaching job on a cruise ship and so forth.
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