| Using brainstorming techniques when starting a new | | | | ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged |
| website business or considering a new idea is one of | | | | radially around a central key word or idea." source |
| the most effective ways to develop a strategy. | | | | Write down what you want to achieve in the middle of |
| There are many great tools on the internet but I | | | | the page and then branch off with any ideas that are |
| personally find it better, to get the creative juices | | | | related to that topic. You can then create sub |
| flowing (and give my eyes a rest), stepping away | | | | branches and branch off from each of them. |
| from the PC and scribbling ideas on a pad. Or if there | | | | Just let your mind wander wherever it wants to, you |
| is a group of you (much more fun) on a whiteboard. | | | | may even find you get something better than what |
| The most important part of this is to switch off the | | | | you started with. |
| logical analysing, reasoning part of your mind and just | | | | Once you have the ideas together it is then a case of |
| shoot from the hip. Have fun, encourage thinking | | | | talking/thinking/researching through them until you get |
| outside the box. Don't evaluate any idea at this stage | | | | to some workable stuff that you want to use. Of |
| just write down everything that comes out, even the | | | | course you can keep the other stuff to fuel a further |
| crazy stuff (which are often the ideas that make | | | | brainstorming session later. |
| waves on the web). | | | | Doing this regularly encourages your (and your teams) |
| To take it a step further use a mind map style: | | | | creative side and gives you more confidence to tackle |
| A mind map is "... a diagram used to represent words, | | | | new challenges. |