Using Scrintal to examine and understand a complex subject

Writing about a complex subject is difficult using words only. It���s difficult for the writer to explain the subject and it���s difficult for the reader to comprehend what the writer said. One solution to the complexity problem is to use a graphic of some sort to clarify the issues.

This article is about such a complex subject. In it, I explain my journey to develop an alternative marketing solution for my books and other stuff.

To explain, my efforts to sell my books haven���t been very successful over time. Rather than continue to do the same type of marketing campaigns, I decided to stop and rethink what I was doing.

When faced with an issue like this I always open a mind-mapping program and start dropping ideas into it. My go-to app for these cases is Scrintal. It allows me to add thoughts, ideas and possibilities and to organize them in a meaningful way.

Over a period of time, my thinking evolved into recognizing that I needed an ecosystem for my content. This content includes books, articles, checklists, video classes, email courses and other material. A further complication is that this content is spread all over the internet.

My first attempt to establish the ecosystem resulted in an expensive failure. Learning from the failure, I tried again with similar results. I���ve always felt that failure is a learning experience, so I updated the Scrintal mind-map with the latest information and started rethinking my approach. This time the mind-map led to a Eureka moment.

I needed a way to organize all this material in an easy-to-read catalog with links to the various internet sites. Ultimately, the catalog became a small ebook called My Stuff. You can download a copy here.

Now I faced the issue of how to explain what I did to others so they could emulate the process. Once again, Scrintal came to the rescue. Starting with the same mind-map, I cleaned it up and deleted out-of-date content. After that, I rearranged the map into columns so it could tell my story in a graphical and easy-to-follow way. That final mind-map is what the beginning of this article referred to. Rather than write a long-winded explanation of my ecosystem solution, I���m relying on the Scrintal mind-map to save me the legendary thousand words. A screen shot is shown at the beginning of this article.

My Ecosystem board can be found here:

https://beta.scrintal.com/b/ecosystem-lecture–r5dds

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What you can use Scrintal for is only limited by your creativity and imagination.