Sample article topics for Chillibreeze writers

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Here are some topic suggestions for new writers. You are welcome to come up with your own topic ideas (you can write about something close to your heart or related to your field of expertise), but if you are suffering from a bout of writer's block, you can pick one of these.

Our only suggestion: If possible, try and pick something that matches your profile. When we send you project offers or assign projects to you, we will be taking into account the rating of your sample article. So try and make your sample article a showcase of your abilities.

The process: Select four or five topics from this list or come up with a few topics of your own. Email the list of selected topics to nishi at chillibreeze.com. Nishi will pick one of them for you and you can then begin writing.

We have divided the sample article topics based on potential areas of expertise.

• Topics related to Ad Copywriting
• Topics related to Business Writing
• Topics related to Travel Writing
• Topics related to Journalistic Writing
• Topics related to SEO and Web content Writing
• Topics related to NRIs and expatriates
• Topics related to Medical Writing
• Topics related to Fiction Writing and Writing for children
• Topics related to Outsourcing
• Topics related to Elearning and ID
• Topics related to Editing
• Topics related to Technical Writing
• Topics related to Design and Visual content
• Miscellaneous topics

Good luck!

Ad Copywriting

• How to eliminate face-to-face selling
• Ten steps towards creating killer copy
• How to turn dull material into interesting copy
• Six ways to build customer loyalty for your brand
• Ten branding strategies that work
• The three Ps of selling- Positioning, positioning, positioning
• Case example: How bad copy can ruin your business
• Case example: Perfect branding
• Case example: An ad that revolutionized copywriting
• Top ten ads on the web and what you must learn from them
• Types of humor used in ad copy
• How to write catchy headlines
• Direct marketing copy: How to increase response
• Should you personalize your copy? Why?
• The "We-we" factor in copywriting
• How to write a powerful brochure
• How to make your claims believable
• 5 effective punchlines and how you can create one
• Ten companies that use blogs to promote their business

Business writing

• Five steps towards writing the perfect White paper
• Ten reasons for Google's success
• Top five business models of the future
• Ten best business books of all times (short reviews)
• Five Zen principles and how to use them in management
• How to write a business newsletter
• Six elements a good Case study must have
• A short case study of any successful company
• Company profile of any start up
• Ten tips for corporate bloggers
• Book Review of "Blog Schmog"
• Five elements that make management books successful
• Top ten Indian business classics
• How to give your business report maximum visibility
• Five strategies start ups must remember
• Ten tips to pitch your company to a VC
• How to create a great Power point presentation
• Any business fiasco: What you can learn from this
• Top ten startups in India today
• Company profile of any startup in India
• Have a great idea? How to get VC funding
• Ten Indian companies in the Fortune 500 list
• Ten things you must know before you invest in India
• Six features of Six Sigma
• Top Ten startups in India today
• Ten lame startups in India
• Ten best new ideas in India in 2009
• Five startups with potential and five without a future
• Healthcare start ups in India
• Biotechnology startups in India
• A comparison of HR Issues between the West and India
• Working in India - The Growing Opportunity: How to Get Started
• Cheese Industry in India
• Luxury retail stores in India and their coming of age
• Franchising opportunities in India - Potentials and Pitfalls
• Stock market: Data trends and possibilities in the Indian market
• Comparing emerging markets: India, Thailand, Mexico, Vietnam
• Analysis: Ecommerce in India?
• Market for Green energy products in India
• Being Green: Trends in India
• Business: Future of retail in India
• HR policies of Indian firms
• Low Cost Housing in India
• Sustainable Development in India
• Social Entrepreneurship in India
• Microfinance in India
• Banking industry in India
• Where the jobs will be in the new economy?
• Sustainable agriculture in India
• Organic Agriculture in India
• Organic Food in India: The trends
• Implications of Global Protectionism on India
• Job-hunting in the new economy
• Any other topic related to the current global business scenario

Travel Writing

• Best kept secrets of successful travel writers
• Five things travel article readers look for in travelogues
• Can you write about a place you have never visited?
• Ten current travel writing trends
• Any country on a shoestring budget
• Any city on a shoestring budget
• Ten must-see features of any city/country
• Ten destinations in India for backpackers
• Top ten beaches in India
• Ten do-not-miss attractions in the US
• Ten do-not-miss attractions in India
• The seven sisters of North East India
• How to pack for your trip to India
• Visiting India? Ten tips for the first time visitor
• Ten myths about India
• Five things no one told you about India
• Ten tips for medical tourists visiting India

Journalistic writing

• Ten steps to launch a perfect PR campaign
• Five tips to write a great Press Release headline
• Seven things to remember while interviewing a celebrity
• Five ways to make sure your newsitem becomes popular
• Ten commonest resume mistakes
• Five steps towards that attention grabbing query letter
• Five trends in journalism in India
• How to pitch your story to a news magazine
• How to pitch your story to a women's magazine (Pick a specific magazine- e.g. Elle, Femina, Cosmopolitan, Society)
• Example of a perfect Query letter
• Ten mistakes Indian writers of English must avoid
• Example of a great cover letter
• How to tell any story in 500 words
• How RSS has revolutionized the web
• Five most famous Indian journalists
• Book review of a current bestseller
• Indian writers becoming increasingly popular

Search engine optimization (SEO) and web content writing

These are general topics to test your ability to research the web and write about practically anything under the sun. You do not have to be an expert in the topic. All you need is an ability to read content, analyze it and present it in your own words.

• Solar energy in India: Advances in the past 10 years
• Ten best Indian textiles
• Content repackaging: What, Why and How
• Search engine optimization: Current trends
• How to use the power of SEO for your website
• Quality content beats SEO anyday
• Ten tips to write search engine friendly content
• How to increase your google Page Rank
• All about Google Page Rank
• How Google views your site and rates it
• Top five search engines and why they are popular
• How to sell something on ebay
• Ten richest Indians
• NRIs: Why they are coming back to India
• How to ace your US visa interview
• Joomla: Why use it?
• Top ten universities offering an online MBA
• Ten blog based companies and how they are making money
• Google hunting for talent in India
• Ten tips for Webmasters to increase site traffic
• Five free online tools every web content writer must use
• Top five Indian cottage industries
• Ten best medical schools in India
• Ten best engineering colleges in India
• Ten best Management schools in India

Writing for NRIs and expats

• Ten best schools in Bangalore/Mumbai/Hyderabad/any Indian city
• Five areas in Bangalore expats and NRIs prefer
• What is an international school?
• Ten tips for NRIs returning to India
• Top ten restaurants in Bangalore/Mumbai/Hyderabad/any Indian city
• Broadband in India: A survival guide
• Ten daytrips from Bangalore/Mumbai/Hyderabad/any Indian city
• Moving to India? Five things no one will ever tell you
• Ten myths about India dispelled
• Moving to the USA: Ten tips to set up your new home
• How to find great bargains in Bangalore/Mumbai/Hyderabad/any Indian city
• Ten best hospitals in Bangalore/Mumbai/Hyderabad/any Indian city
• Ten differences between hospitals in India and the US
• Health insurance in India
• The lowdown on Indian spices
• Your own experience moving to India/any other country from India
• Ten tips for foreigners visiting Bangalore on an assignment
• Will your baby be born in India? Five things to remember
• Adarsh Palm meadows: A whole new lifestyle
• Ten best residential communities in Bangalore

Medical Writing

• Ten steps towards a great clinical study report
• How to get that grant: Tips for writing grant proposals
• Pack a punch in your scientific presentation
• Top ten health related self-help books of all times
• Five things you must know before you write an abstract
• Five cardinal principles of Clinical research documentation
• It is easy to write a literature review. Here's how.
• How to convert technical medical content into brochures
• Ten things to remember when writing for laypersons
• Five sins to avoid when writing online health content
• Avoid these health websites like the plague
• Top ten websites for health related information
• How to find out if a health claim is accurate
• Ten false health claims ripped apart
• The biotech industry in India is booming
• How to jumpstart your career in biotechnology
• Medical KPO: A potential goldmine
• Medical outsourcing: What can be outsourced?
• Umbilical cord blood banking: Why? What? How?
• Top ten hospitals in India for medical tourists
• Review of any hospital in India
• Medicaid and Medicare: Should India adopt these?
• Ten Best Heart Hospitals in India
• Ten Best Eye care hospitals in India
• Ten most famous doctors in India
• Medical education (Graduate and Postgraduate) in India: The system
• Considering medical tourism? Ten things you must know
• Ten weight loss tips for Indians in the US
• Ten weight loss tips for Indian physiques
• Weight loss ads: Which ones to trust
• Is there a miracle diet for weight loss?
• Ten products that WILL NOT help you lose weight
• Which is better: A facelift or BOTOX
• Thinking of a facelift surgery? Here is what you must know
• Five teeth whitening products in India: Do they work?
• How teeth whitening became a big craze in India
• Do Indians have extra immunity against cancer?
• Why is the rate of cancer is so high in the US?
• Does turmeric prevent cancer?
• Does red wine prevent cancer?
• Antioxidants and cancer: The link

Fiction and writing for children

• How to get a publisher for your fiction book
• Ten tips for novice fiction writers
• Ten reasons why writing for children is a different ballgame
• Five elements of a great novel
• Review of any recent fiction bestseller
• Amar Chitra Katha: How it preserves India's heritage
• Five things to remember when writing for children
• Six reasons for the success of The Da Vinci Code
• Five things writers can learn from Sidney Sheldon books
• Style, Plot or Narration: Which is the most important aspect?
• How to turn your book into a bestseller
• How to market your fiction book
• Hard copy fiction vs Ebook fiction
• Ten major bestsellers that became movies
• Indian fiction: How prominent is it on the global map?
• Ten best fiction authors today

Outsourcing related topics

• Ten latest Outsourcing trends
• Unique services that can be outsourced to India
• What to outsource and what not to
• To outsource or not to outsource your HR and payroll
• Pitfalls of outsourcing
• Five success stories in Outsourcing to India
• Case example: Where outsourcing failed
• Ten things to know before you outsource to India
• The best and worst BPOs in India
• Five Indian companies that are making the news
• Ten Tips When Outsourcing Writing to India

Elearning and Instructional Design

• Top ten ID courses in the world
• Want to be an ID? Five qualities you must have
• Top ten ID courses in India
• Five unique online courses
• How to choose the best online/distance learning course for you
• Five elements an elearning module must have
• Is beauty skin deep? How important is presentation in ID?
• Seven mistakes IDs often make
• Ten companies who are using ID to market themselves
• How elearning is revolutionizing learning
• Do you need to hire an ID?
• Five most popular online courses (any field)
• Six examples of effective use of ID

Editing

• How to edit Indian English: Ten tips
• Five must-have qualities for an editor
• Why you need an editor even if you hired the best writer
• How to edit your own work
• MS Word spellcheck: How it can sometimes fail you
• Why use MS Word Spellchecker at all?
• Ten grammatical errors often missed
• Five most irritating errors writers make
• How to edit and proofread any article in ten minutes
• Do you need to have knowledge of the subject matter you are editing?
• Ten commonest errors Indian writers make
• Editing Fiction: Five things to remember
• APA style guidelines: A summary
• Chicago manual style guidelines: A summary

Technical writing

• Review any popular software product
• Five reasons to upgrade to Windows Vista
• Five reasons to not upgrade to Windows Vista
• Ipods in India: How popular are they?
• Cell phone providers in India: Who is the best?
• Broadband providers in India: Who is the best?
• Quarkexpress: The basics
• Ten common html errors
• Solar power advances in 2006
• Ten steps to convert a website to CSS
• Joomla: Why it is so popular
• Ten beautiful websites designed using Joomla
• Ten best Joomla templates
• Review any Adobe product
• A ten minute Tutorial: Any popular software
• CNET: The king of techno websites
• Ipod or Zune: Who will win the war?
• Write a product manual in ten steps
• Seven mistakes technical writers must avoid
• Content management systems: The top five systems and how they work
• Ten groovy products launched in 2006
• Ten products that will make headlines in 2007
• Five must have qualities for a technical writer

Visual and design

• Web site redesign: A mock case study
• Magazine layout and typesetting: A mock case study
• Three best software products for Face Modeling
• The popularity of short 3 D animated Cartoons
• Five steps to convert a photo to a painting
• How Cartoon Illustration can be outsourced to India
• Five cool Video Editing tools
• How Photo manipulation can be outsourced to India
• MS Word Formating: Ten tips and tricks
• Adobe flashlite: A review
• Adobe Robohelp: Five cool applications
• Adobe Lifecycle Designer : A review
• How to create an ecourse using Adobe Captivate
• Face Caricatures and how they can be automated

Miscellaneous topics

• Adult education and its different forms
• Should I take that distance learning course?
• How to choose the best distance learning course for you
• Top ten distance learning programs in India
• Top ten Distance learning MBAs in the world
• Ten jobs that let you work from home
• Five work from home scams to avoid
• Ten tips to work at home
• Work from home: How to set up the best home office
• Why more and more women are opting to work at home
• Is that "work from home/telecommute" job right for you?
• The best candidate for a work at home job

We understand that some of these topics might not be your cup of tea you even if they are in your area of expertise. But we believe that a truly good writer will be able to pick any topic and write about it by using resources freely available on the web.

However, make sure you add your own twist to these articles instead of merely replicating information already available. This will be a challenge. Are you up to it?