You know that feeling of inspirational high when you're motivated? Nothing can stop you from doing your work, cranking out content, writing no matter the noise and distractions?

Yeah right, that happened for me once back in 2002. And it happened again last week at Jen Louden's Writer's Spa. How do you recapture those energized moments of genius?

Yesterday I wanted to continue the writing on my book project and all I can say is that laundry got done. (I hate housework and have a charming housekeeper who does it for me. How does washing out socks seem more interesting than writing?)

It's because the project is too big and the time plentiful right now. Anyone who's a procrastinator knows that running out of time is key to getting the juices flowing. And we've all got a procrastinator lurking in us.

Here's my two-step organizing solution for writing content that really sizzles, even if it's a huge book or a blog post:

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Getting back to Content Marketing plans and tracking what works for you, here's a great diagram by Joe Pulizzi, Junta42. He posted this from his book Get Content, Get Customers, co-authorered with Newt Barrett, and posted it recently on Posterous.

Joe also wrote a great post on his Junta42 blog that ties in with my other posts this week about tracking your marketing efforts. It's called Building a Marketing Asset: Take the Red Pill. It's worth reading.

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There is a terrific summary of content marketing, a must-read for anyone getting started, over on the ClickDocuments' "Connect the Docs" blog written by Ambal Balakrishnan…

Content Marketing: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet

The shift in mind-set from copywriting-style marketing to content marketing takes a while for marketers and web authros to adjust to. There's more to it than first appears. And while this makes sense when people first think about it, actually applying content marketing in practice can be as uncommon as common sense.

I "met" Ambal on Twitter and paid attention to her because for weeks now she's been re-tweeting everything about Content Marketing. I have this keyword phrase set up to get an email alert whenever someone is "Tweeting" about it. I use both Twitter and TweetLater services for this. So when I kept seeing her tweets, I knew she was gathering information for something. (Another reason to use Twitter.)

If you're interested in learning about a niche, I suggest you start by doing the same thing Ambal is doing for her company: gathering information, learning, re-tweeting, and forming connections with other experts in the field. You can't go wrong.

This is content marketing in action. A great demonstration of how content and social networking are a marriage made in heaven.

What about you? Do you have alerts set up? Are you actively re-tweeting? Go on, get with the program!

I get emails from professionals new to Internet marketing, "Which is better, an ezine or a blog?"

Please read this article from Dr. Ralph F. Wilson, a long time email marketing expert who has over 32,000 subscribers to his successful e-newsletter Web Marketing Today. Wilson has decided to start a blog, and gives his reasons:

You are right to stop and consider both of these marketing tools carefully before jumping in. Of course, if you're like me, you may just want to jump in and learn as you go, making mistakes along the way…

As long as you share your stories with your newsletter subscribers and blog readers you can't go wrong and you'll be leaving a trail of keywords all over the net like spilled milk and cookie crumbs…;-)

Dr. Ralph F. Wilson is one of the pioneers of Internet marketing, founding the Web Marketing Today newsletter in 1995 at the beginning of the commercial Internet. He is the author of hundreds of articles and more than a dozen books on Internet marketing and e-commerce.

I have a request for you, dear readers. I want you to suggest your favorite books to me, ones I can take on vacation to read, both for pleasure and for business. I am accepting nominations for 3 categories:

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2. Cutting edge executive/leader/business development issues
3. Your favorite cutting edge marketing/internet/small biz books

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