Can You Share The Best Tip on Anything?
By: Debesh Choudhury
Tags: Publication, Writing Tips, Advice Column, Self Improvement Tips, Tips And Tools

Can You Share The Best Tip on Anything?

Photo by Sam Dan Truong on Unsplash

Many of you share useful tips in your blogs. But it isn’t easy to understand and follow so many tips at a time. I wonder if you could share only a few tips at a time? Ideally, the best would be to share a single tip at a time.

Let me give a little bit of background as to why I am a proponent of sharing only a single tip at a time.

If I were a reviewer, I would always advise you to make the number of tips to only one

It is easy for you to post stories bundled with a large number of tips. But is it possible for the readers to grasp the meaning of so many tips? In fact, the readers would get confused with so many tips.

If the readers don’t understand so many tips, how can they adopt a few in their writing life? It is just not possible.

I see that most experienced writers miss this point. I often see stories with 5, 7, 9, 20, and even 51 tips! These posts commit serious mistakes.

Many top bloggers whose stories go viral in the top-ranking publications are regularly committing this mistake.

Please don’t share more than a single tip in your blog

If you have a little time, please consider reading my short article on this subject. It would take a couple of minutes to read and find out why it is predominantly necessary to reduce the number of tips in your blog.

A top writer on Medium has supported my point of sharing only a few tips in the blog posts

Every day I see my Medium feed gets crowded with stories with a large number of tips. I am tired of seeing these banal stories from which I hardly got any real-life lesson that would help me.

Recently, I read blog posts of a different writer who is rather new on Medium, but his stories are real gems. I can’t help sharing his name. He is called Genius Turner. His written pieces have been read and commented on by many Medium members. Comments are again real golds, which are costlier than the “claps” and “likes.” That is why I take more time to comment on the stories.

Genius Turner’s comment on my story is an inspiration to start a new publication

In my recent post entitled, “Don’t Share More Than Few Tips,” Genius Turner kindly highlighted texts and wrote a comment.

I am not surprised because I had experienced such empathetic engagement in the professional network earlier.

In 2016, I received a supporting reaction, i.e., a “Like” from Jeff Weiner, now executive chairman (and then CEO) LinkedIn. I also received comments from prominent LinkedIn official influencer and contributing editor of the Inc Magazine, Jeff Haden.

Today, the 6th Dec 2020, I have decided to start a new publication entitled “Number One Tip”

The new publication — “Number One Tip,” will publish stories on the best tips on anything connected to life and the planet earth.

The format and rules are the same as suggested by Medium. The additional requirement is that the story you wish to publish in “Number One Tip” will describe only a single tip.

There is no limit set on the texts. The author can decide on the length. It is expected that the story will be short.

I invite the Medium blogging community to consider publishing your best tips on this forum.

The publication is now hosted on Medium and is open for submission.

How to be a writer on “Number One Tip”?

It is simple. Fill up this form to become a writer on “Number One Tip”. We will add you as a writer within a day or two.

I hope that many of you would be interested in “Number One Tip.”

Cheers! Debesh Choudhury