Building any sort of tips list is a great way to establish yourself as an expert in that field. Follow these five tips and before you know you will have a perfect tips list for you particular field.
photo credit: Graham Ballantyne
- Make sure your tips have no basis in fact. In other words, just make them up. If you make them up nobody can check them. If no one can check them then they cannot prove you wrong – if they do – ignore them anyway.
- Make your tips so generalized they can’t possibly be implemented logically. If people cannot implement your tips they will never know they are meaningless nonsense. If someone complains they cannot follow your tips, tell them to read the tips carefully and try again.
- Refer to the latest beta release of any software as if you’ve been using it for years. Make sure you write in such a way that it makes others feel a little silly for asking questions.
- Make your tips interesting. People love interesting content. The web needs interesting content. If your tips are interesting you can’t fail!
- If in doubt simply copy someone else’s tips list and change it around a bit.
I hope this helps. Let me know the next time you create a tips list so I can check them out.
Loved it! ~ Nearly brought tears to my eye’s I was laughing so much
i hope you realize you made a serious mistake here. the title should have been something like “5 ways to create a tip list”. (oops, where’d my tongue go? knee? hand? oh, here it is. cheek.)
i have to admit that i’ve written a number of list posts. i hope none of them would rate too high on your instruction list here
thanks for your comments