Top 5 Women Writing Creations (Literary category)

Today is a big day! Why? Because the whole earth is celebrating for half of the earth. Yes, that's true. Half of the earth, The half part of God's best creation- Women. A man plays many roles through his life but every time he plays a role, the support he needed is a woman. That's why a woman not only supports but also plays her own role simultaneously, not mention about greater responsibility that women bear.

From the ancient time people think that the strength of a woman is generally neglected by mankind. It is not the whole truth, some women have been proving that they don't need anyone's attention and They can earn the respect and recognition from their own, they have been leading the world. It is time to celebrate the female achievement across the globe and to express our gratitude to Women.    

The theme of International Women's Day, 2015 is

"Make It Happen"

Today, why should not we discuss about legends who "make it happen" and some legendary writers as well, so that we can share and encourage the respectful aspect of women world that we have in our mind and heart.

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Top 5 Legendary Women of all Time-

• Catherine II, Empress of Russia 1729 – 1796- Woman who made the Russia a powerful nation on the first place in whole world.
• Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910 (“The Lady with the Lamp”)
• Cleopatra 69-30 BC- The best strategist of all time, considered by experts.
• Joan of Arc (1412-1431) – Young girl who inspired French to revolt against British rule. Burnt at the stake for witchcraft.
• Many other legends like Indira Gandhi & Mother Teresa are inspiring us and even in modern era many more like- Oprah Winfrey, Hilary Clinton & Billie Jean King are contributing to lead the new world with their knowledge. 

Women's Writing and Legendary writers-

A brief explanation- 

Academic discipline of Women's writing is the based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their gender, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study,Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men ( Blain, Virginia, Isobel Grundy, and Patricia Clements, eds. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990.)

In simple words, women's brain works differently and also as their e.q. (emotional quotient) is higher which makes them more creative and imaginative according to a study. But don't be confused that this concept is only limited to writers & writing. In fact, it is also emphasizes on the woman cast as in lead role in a novel or book because, then, a writer has to study, think and write exactly as women think.

Here are some legendary woman thinkers and writers who shook the world with their talent-

• Mary Scott, The Female Advocate: A Poem Occasioned by Reading Mr Duncombe's Feminead. London: Joseph Johnson, 1774.
• Charlotte Mary Yonge, Biographies of Good Women (First Series, 1862; Second Series, 1865)
• Julia Kavanagh, Women in France during the Eighteenth Century (1850) 
• J.K. Rowling- Who can forget the magical world of "Harry Potter" series.
• Toni Morisson-Toni Morrison is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved.
• A M Homes-Homes is known for controversial topics in her writing, and her satirical novel "May We Be Forgiven" won her the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
• Zadie Smith-Zadie was lauded as the "Next big thing" when her first book, White Teeth, debuted in 2000, while she was only 22 years old.
• Donna Tartt-Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "The Goldfinch". It was no surprise, really, since the much-anticipated novel made the New York Times best-seller list during its first week on the shelves.
• Jhumpa Lahiri-Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of well known creations Unaccustomed Earth, The Namesake and Interpreter of Maladies.
• Suzanna Arundhati Roy-Known for the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Fiction-winning novel The God of Small Things (1997), which became the biggest-selling book by a non expatriate Indian author. 

The contribution of women to this earth is unparalleled. World should support and encourage the efforts made by women. By empowering women kind, we can make this world a better place.

Happy Women's Day, Let's celebrate it!

Top 5 ways to avoid spams/Fake offers

As we discussed earlier about spams/fake offers, which is not a very harmful issue unless you are very careful about spending money on the internet, but what if it is necessary to deal with this as in the case of bloggers, website owners and business persons who are present on the internet and need digital marketing, what then? The answer is simple, recognize and avoid the fake offerings. Fraudulence is everywhere in the world, whether it is real or virtual. Being a "digitally educated person" it is our responsibility to save ourselves as well as others from these situations. Here are some methods to prevent money and valuable time from this monkey business.

Methods To Avoid Spams/Fake Offerings (Expert's review)

Use optional E-mail id- If you are frequently register/sign up on websites, then NEVER USE your PRIMARY E-MAIL address, keep it private and use another one which is not too much important for you. This e-mail address also called as "Disposable e-mail address". Generally spammers extract mail ids by special programs (bots). Similarly for business purpose, use your disposable IDs anywhere on social networks.

Make yourself invisible- Sounds interesting & difficult, right? Well, it is not difficult at all. You can be unseen for spammers. Make your id, username too difficult to guess. Sometime, spammers and fake message senders just guess a recipient's id and send a message. In case of mail they can only send 1 message to 1 person at a time, but in case of social network they have an approach to millions while they are just 1 click away. Try to make it hard for them. By this, you will be able to avoid many such fake ids as well.

Huddle every information- You have seen an offer and now you are thinking to make a move. In my view you should have wait and see that with whom you are going to contact. Don't be tempted so much & don't be in hurry to avail the offer.

"Patience is virtue" 

Check the online presence of the individual/organization which is offering you. Go to their page, website or blog and see if they are regularly updated so you can ensure that they are in active state and not just made everything to look like real.

If any individual has a profile, then check on him by profile. Generally, if an individual is a committed professional then he/she never uses his real profile, but a page or a profile that provide every info and contact details about him and not to mention about great profile picture about a company or advertisement related to his work. In their network you will find many contacts related to this business. Also, they, publicly show every detail on profile as it is their business podium so there will be no secrecy with potential customers. It is same for every social network and works all the time

If you are seeing a page then read "Impressum".

Contact- Now you are almost sure that the offering and person is real, still you should have been rigorous as you don't want to lose your money on any step and don't want to be deceived. Then it's now time to contact them on phone, video call or by any other means. If offer giver only provides a mail id which has no information on it then there is a 99 % possibility that this is fake.If they provide a their contact details which are real and you are talking to them, then talk about procedure of payments, reason of the offering. Again, I request, if you have a doubt then don't suppress it just because of desperation to avail a tempting offer. 

A real individual or company never provides an offer without logic & profit so don't hesitate to ask them the reason behind the offering, payment mode and procedure of advance money/full payment that suits you.

Observation- Remember- online world is profitable to those who know how to handle it. You have been availing the offer and it pays you back, that doesn't ensure total security. If you are spending money and in business relation with this individual/organization, then you should keep in mind that 1% possibility is still there that they can be fake and they are going to ambush customers for a big load of money. So how to be sure now? This is also a very simple and based on common sense. NEVER promise to pay at one time. For example-

"A fraudsters promise you to bring 1 million visitors per month in 200$. You make a pact and then after one month you see that he delivered 1 million visitors really! Now you have made the payment and you both again agreed on another 1 million visitors deal. After one month you find that there are no million visitors and that person with no more in contact with you, plus the Google found out that those previously delivered million viewers were fake so now you will be penalized. Now you are between the devil and the deep sea!"

So you see the difference? A real company never asks for payment in one time. They provide you service with their contact details and place so you can verify them and then they decide package and a payment procedure with service promises which are reasonable.

In case of individual & professionals, if they are not too famous then they call you first and for the service they ask for payment on daily/weekly/monthly basis (small installments of amount periodically). In the meantime, you can verify that visitors/likes/followers are organic or not.

These are very simple and almost non technical/non complex steps that anyone can follow and avoid fraudsters and spammers from their business. 

Stay Tuned for more, Have a secure day!

Top 5 methods to ensure spammer's/fake identity

Hello story lovers!, these days I am stressing on essays & articles focused on social media content and their marketing because the world is online, we can share what we want to, so why not talk about some things that could hinder you from sharing, irritates you too much & sometimes it can harm you as well. It would be better if we share the methods to prevent these situations and for that, first we have to understand the problem, so, would you mind if I, first, tell you the reasons of spamming and identities of spam? No, you wouldn't mind? Then good for your online health! Let's talk about this.

What is a spam?

According to the universally adopted definition- "A spam is irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the Internet, typically to large numbers of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc." Well, that is the spam. Spam may be a recognized term for you if you use E-mails and it is almost harmless, as it is just a message and mail also filters it for you, but if you are on social sites then you certainly would be looking the other form of spam or fake advertising via messages or posts, Which could mean you harm financially or meant to take the advantage of you as for obtaining 'click' on a link. In other words you can see it as dodge/Ponzi scheme. You are an active blogger, website manager or a person having an online presence where you have to buy 'likes' or 'fans' then you are the most likely target of spammers.

The 5 proved signs of spammers/fake ads (Based on expert's theory and my analysis over time)

Fake promises- This is a very first move of a spammer. They sent or advertise a tempting message in their short description. They promise you million of views in very short time like a day for some dollars (or any currency). This advertisement or message is so tempting that you couldn't resist yourself from "Take a look" despite of your logic that denies any real existence of the other. Observe this-

                                                                              

Message from an anonymous profile or account id- You have a message from someone whose name is appearing but no authentic profile pic that you can see then it could be fake, you can go on this profile and you should dig up any information provided on the profile associated with this anonymous sender.

Fake advertising posts with no comments or only with good comments of people who're seemed to be fake- Well, this is a tricky one! You see an advertising post and then to check reliability you look into the comment section. Here if you find no comments then you should avoid trying and if you see some good comments then this could be the case where the advertiser does fake comments by other ids to make it real. You can contact or ask for some more details, but don't go directly to spend some money even if they provide some "visitors or like" before payment because it is not too hard to provide some fake likes for short duration which are not organic but hard to mark as fake.

Writing style- Are you a fan of "Sherlock Holmes"? If not then become one because in the today's context where fraudulent is at peak, you should have the capability to isolate right from wrong. This is similar with these spammers. There is a specific touch in writing style of the spammers. Always notice that a trusted company or individual-

1. Never send you a message.

2. Post with high quality graphics which send a message  (not a personal message with or without messages).

Now, about writing style, you could have been noticed that they use words which are very old in sales (door to door/ t.v, radio marketing) and their stress on those words too much, such as-

• "Free Free Free! Yes, it totally cost you nothing"
• "This is no joke! Try it today, click the link below"
• "All work is original, see the comments of people in image given below"

Many more sentences like this you will observe, but everyone knows that good company or famous experts never promise too tempting and doesn't post these badly structured advertisements. Companies and professionals only talk about the real situation with their real market prices in good advertisements and no personal messages.

You have won a offer! Wait! Really?- Oh no! You couldn't be lucky that you have been doing work, but not this much that you won a great concession or jackpot offer from a company while you never contacted before to any company. Of course, there is a 99.99 % chance that it is fake. You know you just have to delete that message instantly from your log.

Apart from this, spams or part of E-mail which also has some characteristics, even though mail, filters it for you, but sometimes spammers take a smart move, so here are the indications that will help you stay one step ahead from spammers-

1. Recipient’s email address is not in the To: or Cc: fields
2. Message body contains remote image
3. From: and Reply To: address are different
4. Message contains only HTML body
5. Message contains many or only tags

These are the some general indications that you could have a spam mail. Spam is not a great threat at all, but next time, whenever you think to spend some money then you should be aware a Li'l bit with whatever you are watching at is true or not.

In the next part I will share some easy steps about prevention from spammers and methods that will work as a confirmatory test if you are serious about an advertisement or a message.

Have a nice day!

  

Top 5 Topics You can Write about (Chapter#5):What to do after making a blog/writing a book

This is the final article related to this whole series that we can call collectively as "How to plan writing efforts effectively". In this part I will talk about that after you have made a blog or written a book, what other aspects you should care about and why? Content is king we all know, but we have to target some other concepts as well who comes after talent and work but can't be neglected for a rapid success.

Things to do after writing a book-

You have written a fine book, now it is time to send it in shelves of people. You can't neglect the better presentation, somebody says it right "A good presentation front is like a grand opening for an event or product & say who doesn't like to see light and shines". This is no longer a surprise that talented work could be unnoticed if you won't try to make it possible to notice. There are some pointers that will help you to become visible to the people among millions of other persons out there similar to your talent.

Find a good publisher/ banner. Good publisher provides you a nice start for work. Publisher party, which is famous and has a brand name in market solves 70% to 80% of your marketing problem without any extra efforts. Also, if your book takes a high jump in the market, then you make a good profit by royalty paid by the publisher. Some good publishers are-

• Random House
• McGraw Hill Education
• Cengage Learning

Many more publishers of different area of books are there for your help.If you get a good Publisher then you don't have to worry much about marketing your work 

If you want do some extra efforts, then you can do some easy modifications in your marketing schemes such as -

1. Make online presence with Facebook page or Twitter account.
2. If you have fans then connect you with them on the internet, use some hangout, twitter, chat session or ask them for suggestions on your Facebook page and reply them sometimes.
3. A good website, online version of the book (e-book), audio version of the book are several effective ways to spread your work to the more people.
4. Finally, there are many other ways of marketing (other than digital marketing) if you want to spend some money, but that is only prolific if very well planned and a reason is attached to this marketing.  
5. Meet to people, take part in literature festivals & send your work to good authors, in other words, get out of your comfort zone and make a social presence among people so that you can appeal them to read your book for once.

This is all about post do's for an author. If your work is fine and you take care some important things as described above, then you are good to go to the next step!

 Things to do for a blog/website-

Every one knows that "Content is king", but that's not it, you have to go bit further in order to get ultimate success. That is why you need to consider some other phenomenons as-

SEO- Let me tell you first that if you think SEO is everything you need, then you are wrong, Search Engine Optimization a.k.a SEO is a part that tells web crawlers about your page and determines the ranking on search engines, but as I said SEO is not all because search engine like Google always revise their SEO working tendencies in regular intervals so according to my guess, it is the content who really is the king now. According to the new updates, meta tag used for SEO is no longer effective, only-

Title

Keywords

Content, are the important things that determines your ranking. Again, if some SEO expert promises you directly that he/she probably would be the best for you then BEWARE! Only Google knows & determines the ranking plans, still every search engine gives higher importance to the content as the content is the universal truth for everyone in the online world, so focus on these areas will save your time and definitely you will get profoundly better results..

SMM- Social Media Marketing is another good point and certainly it is not a hoax, the more you spend, the more you grow, but don't take it as ultimate tool and a remedy to get more sales. Sometime you get likes and retweets on ads, but that won't promise you sell in the same number as you all know that marketing is about bring a call, to convert a call depends on your reach, work and interest of people as described in demographic+distribution elements of marketing.

Still SMM is not a bad idea and an evident step if you want to invest some money for your cause and to get some name & fame.

(note that SEO and SMM are not the same things.)

Presentation- Again! The last but not least part of content writing.The presentation, actually, is important in every field, while we are talking about it here, we are actually discussing how the blog/website will be shown to people? Should it be dynamic or static? Funky or Sober? Elegant or Highly Simple & Understandable for user? In how much amount it should be user friendly? Many questions raised when we talk aboutpresentation, let's talk about answers in simple points, I'll try to cover points as much as possible.

• A website / blog should be elegant, that means too much intense color combinations should be avoided. You can think it as 'Simple living, high thinking'. Elegant touch makes you special for viewers otherwise if you will use some odd color combination in the background and navigation then you will portray an image of a novice.
• Try to use images in background that matches best with the theme of your website/blog. The main theme image should be the same for all pages that opens from the navigation bar, for example: Home, About us & Contact us should be the same background image. 
• If you are a blogger and you are writing about a social/commercial cause then you could use an image with a quotation which reflects the thinking of your blog. 
• Change images regularly and update content at regular intervals so that viewers can see that your online presence is in active state. 
• Don't give too much stress on SEO, instead of that, focus on the Title, Description and Content part of the body. Use images and content in proportion.
• Use user friendly interface, doesn't matter static or dynamic design of the site/blog. Make the navigation/switching simple among the pages through navigation bar or by any other means. 
• For promotional purposes, you can create offers for people on your website or invite them to participate in planning event on an issue related to your niche. Never use fraud promotional schemes such as thousands of like for free or followers for any dollars.
• These are some simple steps and best practices. Besides this you can use designed advertising with the help of good graphics which has been proved to be equally beneficial as to the paid advertising.

This is it! These steps are so simple and easy to follow, but very effective and true in every sense if you follow with a belief that it won't let you down. In some cases these methods take a little bit longer that doesn't mean that these will not work, these methods will definitely work, but as you know "Good Results Show Themselves On Right Time", all you need is the right direction, some guidance, talent and patience.

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

-Colin Powell

"Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting."

-Joyce Meyer

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” 

― Toni Morrison

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” 

― Madeleine L'Engle

Have a literary day!