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The Business Leadership Wikipedia: Article Creation Tips

Use this quick guide to create an article, point it to your website increasing your site traffic, and ultimately send it out over the internet like an ambassador to grow your credibility, visibility and your business.
1) Be focused, brief, get read: Less is more! Be remembered, appreciated and create lasting impact...
Aim for a 900-word limit, balancing knowledge and practice.
  • Knowledge (400 words. Clarity, focus, relevance and brevity will cause readers to take notice.)
  • Practice (400 words. This part of the article gives leaders practical tips and advice they can immediately put to use. Readers will quickly internalize your message, take action, benefit and thank you.)
  • About the Author (100 words)

Remember...to create an article, you need to Register on The Business Leadership Wikipedia.

  • Quickly learn how to create and edit articles with the ArticleCreationTutorial.
  • Visit ContributingAuthors to see who else is creating articles and view the growing number of valuable business leadership articles on this site.
2) Be clear, quickly understood and long rememberd: Suggested article outline...

1) Knowledge: State the subject and why it is important to business leaders. (400 words or less).

Outline of the knowledge portion:

  1. Title: Name it. 1-5 words max.
  2. Definition: Define it. What is it? 1-3 sentences max.
  3. Explanation: Describe it. 200-300 words max.
  4. Importance: "So what?"Benefits of applying the theory or practice. 100 words max (use bulleted or numbered list)

2) Practice: Present a practical application a leader can employ that will produce immediate benefit (400 words or less).

Optional Approaches:

  • Tell a story: Who employed this theory? How? What happened? How can it be replicated?
  • Outline a process: 5 steps to apply the principle.
  • Create an exercise: Some practical application a business leader can employ.
  • Other: Be creative!

3) About the Author: Briefly identify yourself, your business.

  • Name: Author's name
  • Business: Name of business
  • Value Statement: 7-11 word elevator speech
  • Contact Information: Website, email, phone
3) Create depth and substance by tapping into a powerful value...

The following leadership values are championed by the organization, World Blu:

World Blu's 10 Principles of Organizational Democracy

See Chapter 1 of 8 Steps to Mastering Self and Team Leadership ( Activate Values, The Values Activator Exercise):

8 Steps to Mastering Self and Team Leadership

4) Pull from a wealth of topic ideas...

See WikiArticleVisionTree

5) Market your Business Leadership Wikipedia article throughout the internet...

Don't stop here! Gain additional exposure. Grow your professional credibility.

  • Put a link to your article on your website.
  • Invite others to put a link to your article on their websites.
  • Put a link in your email signature.
  • Publish your article in popular ezines.
  • Publish your article on your website and on other websites.

Result: Your name and your article(s) will begin to show up on Google and other popular search engines!

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