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The Creative Connection: Using Innovation to Jumpstart Your Business
No matter what you’re selling, when it comes to increasing your customer base, creativity is the key to grabbing a prospect’s attention. How can you foster a more creative outlook in your daily life? Here are three easy ways to get started.
No matter what you’re selling, when it comes to increasing your customer base, creativity is the key to grabbing a prospect’s attention. But unfortunately, creativity isn’t a switch that you can flip on when needed. How can you foster a more creative outlook in your daily life? Try these three easy ways to get started:
Gather some inspirational tools. Look through your own daily mail, trade magazines and other business resources to develop what’s known in the advertising trade as a “swipe file.” Set up a folder and toss into it anything that catches your eye. It may be your competitor’s latest coupon, a clever newspaper layout, a dynamic color combination or an interesting brochure fold that made you itch to open it. When you’re ready to start a project, you now have a built-in library for creative inspiration.
Take a new approach. Drive the same
route to the office every day? Tomorrow, take the road less traveled for a new perspective. Watch a movie you never dreamed you’d sit through. Grab a different seat tonight at the family dinner table. Love jazz? Try a dose of country or talk radio for a day. Simple changes can do wonders to jolt us out of our comfort zone, open our eyes and encourage new perspectives.
Stay up on current trends. The easiest way to grab a quick trend snapshot is to head down to your local book superstore and browse through the magazine racks. Keep an eye out for recurring themes or common cover subjects across different categories. Also, note any new categories or those suddenly populated with new titles.
Creativity can be defined quite simply as keeping your eyes, ears and mind open to inspiration. Keep a small notebook or recorder handy — you never know when that next big idea will strike!
About the Author
A copywriter by trade, Lisa Fahoury helps businesses make the most of their marketing dollars. Her firm, New Jersey-based Fahoury Ink, provides creative copywriting, design & marketing services.
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Creativity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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Creativity For Life |
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AdCritic.com: Commercial Ads |
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National Curriculum in Action - Creativity - |
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Ten Steps for Boosting Your Creativity |
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Category:Creativity Techniques - Mycoted |
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Creativity at Work: The interplay of business, art and science |
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Crayola Creativity Central |
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Creativity Web - Resources for Creativity and Innovation |
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Ideas by Creativity Pool |
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CREATIVITY |
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Creativity Tools, Creative Solutions & Creative Problem Solving ... |
This page explains a wide range of techniques which can help you generate creative solutions to your problems. |
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The 6 Myths Of Creativity |
A new study will change how you generate ideas and decide who's really creative in your company. |
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CreativeClass.org |
Richard Florida's "The Rise of the Creative Class" examines creativity and its effects on economic development. |
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TIP: Concepts |
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American Creativity Association (ACA) |
An incorporated non-profit organization promoting personal and professional creativity. Association membership is represented by four multidisciplinary ... |
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CREAX - Portal for creativity and innovation |
A resource for links on creativity and innovation on the web. A selection of 690 links is divided into 67 categories for the visitors convenience. |
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