Instead of driving fast, driving enthusiasts are turning to another ?cool? method of driving. No, not drifting and not drag racing... hypermiling. Hypermiling is defined as a driving technique that maximizes fuel economy. I am going to go over the positives and the possible negatives of driving with these techniques, and also how to use hypermiling in your every day driving!
First, I am going to teach you how to drive like the ?professional? hypermilers. One guy is achieving nearly 59 miles per gallon on average in his Honda Accord... a car that is supposed to get 27 in the city and 34 on the highway. I bet you're wishing you knew how to do this after hearing that aren't you? He has slashed his fuel bill in half... something us normal drivers only dream of!
To hypermile, you are going to need to drive like a total menace. You are going to irritate a LOT of people, and you are going to be very selfish. The first thing you are going to need to do is turn off all the luxuries that you use in your car. Air conditioner, never again can that be turned on, defroster, seat heaters, etc. Next, you are going to need to learn how to use cruise control to your advantage. Turn it on when you are going up hills and on flat land, and turn it off when going down hills. Also, you are going to need to turn your engine off at stop lights and if you want, when you are rolling down hills. Remember, most cars shut their power steering off when you turn the engine off. Another thing that you can do is brake MUCH LESS. Let off the accelerator much sooner than you would normally. You don't need to brake to stop at a red light... If you can time it correctly you can coast right up to the red light. This saves a lot of not necessary acceleration. You should never go faster than fifty five miles per hour, and you should never accelerate to 55 in less than 20 seconds. With these couple methods you should be able to increase your mileage by at least ten.
The good things about this is that you will save a lot of money, you will cause a lot less wear on your cars parts (brakes, engine, and transmission), and you will be able to brag about your cars awesome mileage whenever you fill up! But then there's the negatives.
By turning off your vehicle down hills and at stop lights, you are going to become a lot more susceptible to accidents or fender-benders. If your car is off at a stop light, someone behind you might see your brake lights off and think you are about to accelerate and they will accelerate when they notice that. This could cause a rear-end collision which will put a burden on you. The accident could be a lot worse when going down a hill. Since you are slowing down while going because your car is off yet your brake lights aren't on the person behind you could rear end you. Another problem with hypermiling is that you are going to cause a lot of drivers to be very angry with you. This isn't that big of a deal but it could endanger other people on the road because the angry driver will now have road rage for the next ten to fifteen minutes.
Don't let these people stop you though. If you are short on money because the economy is so bad, go ahead and use these techniques to save a couple bucks here and there. Personally, I try not to use these methods that often because I drive a Civic which gets nearly 40 miles to the gallon already, which is good enough for me! Another cool thing about hypermiling is that it is very easy to do and will relieve you of a lot of stress. Sometimes seeing all the angry drivers is actually kind of funny because of how stressed out they are. Go ahead and give hypermiling a try if you want to save a few bucks.
What they fail to realize and understand is that there are ways of making things right and there are ways too that make it all go wrong.
As writers, you ought to clear your mind about really writing for the website because differences lie on the purposes you have. Writing literary pieces, technical papers, scripts, PR, speeches and other writing formats have certainly different goals and objectives.
Try to review the reasons why you write articles for the web.
? Develop link popularity through the resource box you attached at the bottom of your article. This way you will attract visitors to your sites especially if you have content-rich articles.
? Engage in targeted advertising so you can direct your most wanted visitors to your site. The visitors you like in your site are those who will be automatically interested in what products or services you offer so they will buy or get the services. Do not be swayed to send your articles to almost all publishers. Just choose those interested or sites that complements your site to avoid unnecessary work.
? As mentioned, writing articles is the most effective way of promoting websites. So, the most obvious reason is to increase visitors and generate profit from sales.
? And if you are targeting sales, you would want your investments limited to just time and effort you can spend without money involved and it is out of the question in writing articles because this is free advertising.
Love for writing is one compelling reason that any writer possess why he or she continues writing even if as a website writer who writes primarily to promote. So now you have everything straightened out and you are still willing to continue to do it, here are some guidelines to help you through your job.
1. The first thing that a writer should do is to research on his topic. If you are a budding writer, you can start where your passion lies. Topics you are highly interested to discuss and explain are very good training grounds for you to practice.
2. Next thing to do is to gather your thoughts and form an outline. This is only a temporary guide for you to start your way to the article. If you choose to change some of the subheadings or related topics you include in your outline, you may do so. An outline is just there to give you direction.
3. For sure headings and subheadings will be formed in your article to describe the topic you have. Like an outline, you are allowed to change them anytime during the course of your writing.
4. A catchy, attention grabbing introductory paragraph is essential so that readers will automatically be interested to read on. If they found it interesting, their eyes will never leave your article till the end.
5. If your article is a how-to article, you are required to explain the problem and offer clear-cut solutions, you are required to expand and explain each solution too.
6. Good conclusions too will enable you to summarize all the main points you discuss in the article, the benefits and key reminders. This will give your article a swift, natural close.
7. In every article you finish, be sure not to forget the resource box. Fill those box with 5-7 lines which will include your name, contact details, brief description of yourself and business and do not forget the link.
8. Proofread, trim and revise your article more than once if necessary. Publishers do not accept articles laden with errors, grammatically or typographically. If you need to sleep on it then check it the next day, do it.
9. Because your purpose is to generate visitors to your site, you have to make people know that you exist and this is through your articles. Submit articles to article directories, online and ezine publishers.
These easy steps will guide your way to write website articles. But here are some additional tips you can apply too.
? Write simple articles without the jargons and technical words so that your readers will readily understand but remember to make it appealing.
? Build your keywords several times through your article.
? After publishers published your articles, practice human acts of kindness by sending them thank you notes. This will also help you build long term relationships with contacts.
? Plan out your article submission every two weeks.
Follow all these and you are ready to go in your website writing profession. Goodluck!
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