How to brainstorm for new ideas
Everyone gets ideas. By thinking positive you can motivate yourself to find new ideas and to further develop early ideas.
The normal way of coming up with ideas is to sit down and figure out a solution to a problem.
The first phase of brainstorming
The first phase of brainstorming for ideas is to come up with the perfect scenario. For example if your main objective is to create a successful website, sketch down notes of your ultimate website, how big it is, how many visitors it get and how it got there. The sky is the limit and you can be creative. Did you run a marketing campaign in the local newspaper? Maybe hired a hot air balloon with your sites name on it? It is important that you are not negative towards ideas in this step. Make a note about every idea you get.
The second phase of brainstorming
In the second phase you make a quick judgment on how relevant every idea is. Take a look at every note you made and decide if it is relevant or not. For example, if your site is small and only gathers to persons with special interests, the relevance of hiring a hot air balloon is slim since most people interested in your site will probably not see it. But look at it this way, say there is a convention where your site will be represented. Why not give away balloons to the children with your sites logo there? Do you get the connection here, that an unrealistic and irrelevant idea can trickle down to something useful for your interest? Every idea is important and can be useful.
The fundamental task of brainstorming is to come up with new ideas, analyze the idea and try to further develop the idea to suit what you are aiming for.
But how do you come up with an idea?
The best ways of finding new ideas is to look at present solutions and question them. In what way can a present solution be improved upon? Do not say that it can not be improved, remove any blocks you have in your head and approach a present solution with a fresh mind.
Sometimes an idea will pop up from nowhere. Make it a standard procedure to always carry a paper and a pen with you so you will never lose an idea you get.