Throughout time humans have always been able to communicate with each other. This has been accomplished in many ways, such as:

• Creating noises
• Sign language and gestures
• Pictorial references
• Words and numbers

We usually take these for granted and only seem to realise the amount of different methods of communicating when there is a language, or disability, barrier. However, if you take a couple of minutes to think about how you communicate with people in daily life you might be amazed, I was!

The one aspect of life that I noticed today was road signs. Yes, such a common concept surprised me! It is a way of communicating quickly and with people of any language. When driving you must concentrate on the road so signs, which are very easy and quick to read, are extremely useful for that purpose.

I expect most of you either run a website, blog, business or sell a product. If this is so then I am sure there are times when you need to capture your audience instantly, a time like this that all bloggers run into is getting the audience to subscribe to their RSS subscription. This is done by using the standard RSS logo, sometimes it is on different objects but it is always there somewhere, other logos include Twitter or Facebook. Similar to road signs, most users of the internet understand what these common logos mean.

Another pictorial method for gaining subscriptions on the internet is to give away free ebooks. Of course, ebooks are not good for people that do not understand the language but by including an image of the ebook on your blog or website the audience can instantly see that you have one. This is one thing that I do not advertise on Success Circuit, but plan to very shortly!

What do you use to grab the audiences attention? Can you think of any other ways to communicate? Please join the community by commenting, if there are no comments then surely you would feel better knowing you have helped to jump-start the community?

I hope you benefited from this post and all of the others,

Shane