Article Marketing Secrets

Your online financial power comes from having your own information products, services, and programs that you can market to your targeted, ideal prospects. It’s nearly impossible to make really big money online, without a targeted list of prospects.

Every successful marketer – both the direct marketer and the Internet Marketer, will tell you that the gold is in your list! “Build your list. Build your list”, they say. But, if you can’t get that list, the gold stays put at the end of the Internet rainbow you’re chasing.

Here’s How You Can Promote Your Ezine So You Can Start Building Your List of Prospects Who Want to Hear From You Right Now:

1. Find the best sites, directories and ezines that accept article submissions.

You need to find websites that are highly visited and ezines that are the most read. But more important, you want to focus on websites and ezine publishers within your specific niche that have strong emotional connections with your targeted audience. Through our research for best-selling author Mark Hyman MD, we found information for a popular About.com editor. About.com is among the top 50 sites on the net today. With just one submission to About.com, Dr. Hyman built his opt-in subscriber list and helped push his book, “UltraMetabolism,” to the top of the New York Times Best Sellers List.

2. Write a 500-750 word article that increases credibility, establishes you as the expert, improves your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) rankings, and builds a targeted list of ezine subscribers you’ve been dreaming of all at the same time.

Writing and marketing articles online is the most effective, most cost-effective way to publicize your website, and promote your products, services and ezines online. The Web is a printing press with an insatiable appetite for articles written by experts. There are literally millions of websites and ezines that are begging for good articles.

The articles that get the best results are the ones that provide unique, high quality content that solve at least one piece of a problem puzzle. However, to convert readers to buyers, you must not give the reader all of the answers to the “HOW” to solve a particular problem. If you gave them all the answers, they would have no reason to click on the link in your bio box and you lose the perfect opportunity of converting readers into actual sales leads.

3. Turn Readers Into Prospects With A Strong Call For Action

When I submit articles, I notice a significant increase in traffic. But, having people visit my site is not enough. I need to get them to create a relationship with me, so they will buy my services, products and e-books.

To create this special relationship and build your list of targeted prospects hungry for your products and services, you need to promote your free ezine within your 50 word resource box (also referred to as a bio box or link-back).

When most people promote their ezines at the end of they articles, they tell readers to subscribe for their free ezines. This is a mistake. They must tell people why they should subscribe.

If you are like most people, your inboxes filled with a barrage of email newsletters that never get read. If you want to get my attention, you must tell me how I am going to benefit from giving you my name, email address, and becoming part of your database to receive your ezine and other special offers. If you fail to do that, no one will join your list. Think of the unique reason people will want to read your material – and tell them!

4. Submit your article and start building your list of hyper-responsive prospects.

Now is the time to perform the tiring, boring and tedious task of submitting your articles. But, as you’re completing this process, know that there is light at the end of the tunnel. By using these article marketing strategies, you can build your list of warm ready-to-buy visitors that can lead to substantial increases in book, product, or service sales.

5. Maximize your list building and article marketing efforts by following up with key online publishers.

If you’re a smart article marketer, you don’t consider your list building and article marketing project complete until you have thanked key online editors, and invited them to discuss other marketing opportunities.

After submitting the article, “Winterizing Tips for Homeowners: 14 Easy Winterizing Tips That Will Save You Time, Frustration, Money – and Your Life”, the American Homeowners Association received this email from the publisher of Stretcher.com:

Richard,

Thanks for the submission. I’d like to use it in our weekly Dollar Stretcher ezine (circ 120k) and website . We would include the link back to AHA website.

Also wondering if we should get to know each other a little better. Perhaps we could provide

each other content on a more regular basis or work on other cross promotions.

As a result of the article marketing campaign, The American Homeowners Association was also able to develop an invaluable marketing partnership with the publishers of HomeRenovationGuide.com and HousekeepingChannel.com

Remember, the Money Is in Your List.

The better your list building strategy is, the more money you will make! By writing and submitting articles, you will have the ability to create targeted email marketing campaigns – like the pros — that will instantly reach responsive and convert responsive subscribers into huge sales.

By: Eric Gruber (Viral Marketing Secrets)

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You can generate incredible profits with your own ebook. But unfortunately, the process intimidates many people. The truth of the matter is; if you can write articles for the Internet, you can write an ebook. In fact, it may be much easier to write your first ebook than you ever imagined. And you can start earning great profits every day!

If you’ve written a number of articles, you can out them together into an ebook. Using five related articles, you can make a mini-ebook. Ebooks of this size normally sell for around $7.00. If you have many articles on a single subject, you can include 25 or 30 articles in your project. An ebook this size can easily sell for 27 to 37 dollars. This is an excellent way to start making money online.

To get started, arrange your articles in some sort of logical sequence. Ebooks that instruct people how to do something usually sell very well. Arrange your articles so they take the reader through an entire process on how to accomplish a task.

Make sure information is not duplicated in different articles. You may have to do some editing to remove any information that is provided in two or more articles. You may also have to write some transitions to smoothly go from the end of one article to the beginning of the next. Each article will stand as an individual chapter in your ebook. Use the article titles as chapter headings.

When you have finished editing your work, merge all of the articles together into a single document. Add a title page in the beginning along with a disclaimer and table of contents. Include page numbers, save it, and you are done. Now convert it into a PDF and you are ready to generate profits. You can finish the entire ebook in less than a day. See, I told you it was easy!

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By: Jo Mark (wordpress Marketing Plugin)

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The older I get, the less I seem to know. Yet, ideas to earn money come to me fast and furious, and since I cannot use them all, I would like to share some of them with you. Hopefully you will resonate with at least a couple of them. So go ahead. Look through these and see if you can find any useful ideas you can apply in your spare time.

Idea number 1 - Sell Web Hosting Service

This idea is not just an online venture. There is so much competition online that you will just not be able to compete without lots of expertise and deep resources. The best way to do this is to register as a reseller with a hosting company such as gator host. They will give you lots of space for less than $30 a month. Divide up this space into smaller accounts and then sell this locally to small businesses near you who do not have a website. It is easier to target small business owners, not just any individual.

To make this work, you may have to throw in some incentive such as website design, monetization of the sites, and perhaps some other incentives such as automatic submission of each site to directories and search engines. Do not forget that you could also buy the domain name on behalf of each client, and later on you can sell that same domain name back to each client, especially when the domain gets some traffic and back links.

Idea number 2 - Write Articles for Others

There are many online entrepreneurs such as myself who need fresh articles on a variety of subjects on a regular basis. You can write those articles for people like me and sell them. There are several ways to do this. You could write a bunch of articles and sell to a limited number of people, say around 50 people and each person would pay you a discounted price for a bunch of articles. For example, you may charge around $25.00 for a bunch of 10 articles on a particular subject.

On the other hand, if your articles are unique for each person, you may charge more for each batch of articles; say $50 to $85.00 for a bunch of 10 articles. You would not however, sell that same bunch of articles to anyone else. There are many people doing that right now, and naturally I think it is a great idea to earn money. You can start your research by looking at places such as rent-a-coder, or just look for free lance writers in your favorite search engine.

Idea number 3 - Become an Affiliate Marketer Using Unique Articles

This is a fine idea to earn money, which I am using myself. Done properly, you can even make a six figure income each year with this single idea. The gist of this business is to find products or services that you know will sell, create a free affiliate link with the publisher of these products or services, and sell to the public at large by promoting on the Internet. You can begin your search at places such as clickbank, paydotcom, or commission junction.

Finding the products you want to sell and setting up the affiliate links are the easy part. Finding a way to get people to see your links is the not-so-easy part. Here are a few ideas on how you can do this. For starters you will want to create some kind of review page. You can do this free at places like squidoo. Once you set up a simple review site for the product, you will send traffic to this free site. You can use traffic exchanges, free directories, and even write articles and send them to article directories with a link back to your review page.

As long as your articles are useful, people will read them, then click on the links you have provided in order to see what product or service you are recommending. So as you can see, you can find lots of ideas to earn money and implement them without much cash or sometimes without any cash at all. I do this and I make sales, so I am sure that you can earn money from this idea too.

By: Anthony Chambers (Article Marketing Tips)

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Article Marketing is one of the most effective methods to drive free targeted traffic to your website. Unlike pay per click advertising, which can be very expensive, writing an effective article can bring you traffic for years to come. The best way to receive your free targeted traffic is to sell your reader without really selling them.

So, you have just written a great article and submitted your article to all the leading article directories. Within a week or so you can’t wait to start seeing the results of your hard work. As time passes by, not much happens and you might think that, “this article marketing isn’t for me”.

As an article directory owner, I often see some well-written articles that I am certain will do the writer absolutely no good. The article content could be very good but there is no call to action at the end. Many times in the article resource box I see just a link, or something like: John Doe is the author. What good did this do for John? You had the reader in the palm of your hand and you forgot the purpose of writing your article. You just gave the article directory free content, but you didn’t get your free traffic. Thank You!

Ultimately after you have gained the interest of your reader, you should end with a strong conclusion. When you reader is finished they will want more information. This is where a well constructed resource box goes to work for you. Your marketing article gives your reader a taste of the benefits and your resource box should be used to show them where they can get more information.

Lets say you have just written an article on fishing. An example of a well constructed resource box might be something like this: If you enjoyed this article, you might also enjoy How To Catch Monster Northern Pike and more articles on How To Catch More Big Fish!

If your article is well written, you’ll be guiding your highly targeted visitor towards clicking on a product offer or subscribing to your newsletter at the end of that article. Chose your hyperlinks in your resource box carefully. In the example above, your resource box is giving you two keyword rich links to your website from one article. First of all you want your reader to click on your hyperlink. The second benefit of using keyword rich links in your resource box is for the huge amount of back links that you web site will receive.

Your resource bio info can attract free website traffic by highlighting your expertise and anything you are particularly marketing with a link to relevant pages. People who wish to publish your article on their website or in their ezine must agree to keep your resource information intact.

The keys to successful article marketing are to write well and write often. You cannot simply write one or two articles and expect them to make a difference to your business. Articles are a great way to generate free website traffic but you have to submit articles on a regular basis. The result is exponential. A good rule of thumb is “an article a day will make articles pay.” Having said this, make sure your resource box is contructed well and has links to relevant pages on your website or blog. A great article is one that’s converts to traffic!

By: Stephen Long (SEO Marketing Strategy)

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For the most part, article marketing is a long distance race, not a sprint. By writing articles and submitting them daily, you will increase the amount of traffic to your site and see improved profits (as traffic builds). The more you submit, the greater your benefit. But, even if you submit ten articles this week, don’t expect to retire any time soon. As I said, it is a long distance race.

However, there are techniques that you can use to make some quick money writing articles. From time to time, certain niches will capture the public’s attention and there will be a flurry of interest in that sector. If you discover the trend, you can make some quick money with your articles. Following are several ways to profit writing articles:

It all starts out by doing some research. Look for niches (or products) that everyone is talking about. Forums are a good place to find this type of information. Hang out in these forums and look for postings that have a large number of responses. Read through a number of these items. If it related to a single product or niche, you may have found an exploitable subject.

You can also find hot products doing research on Ebay. Search for popular products that have sold well during the past 2 weeks. If you find several products that are selling really well and are related to a common theme, you may have found a hot area to exploit with your articles.

Lastly, check your bulk emails. This is one my favorite (and easiest) ways to find hot topics. When you see an explosion of emails on one subject, it is a pretty good bet that the niche is hot.

Once you find a hot topic, do research to find an affiliate program that is offering a product in the same area. Research the topic so that you can write knowledgably about the subject. Develop effective article titles using keyword research. Make sure to include two or more keywords in each title, because you will want the search engines to pick up your article. Write five to ten articles on the subject. Submit one to two articles per day to the largest article directory sites. Make sure your article contains a link to the affiliate program you found previously. Or, you can direct readers to your site and re-direct them to the affiliate program from there.

If the niche remains hot for some time, you can make a fair amount of money from this technique.

By: Jo Mark (Viral Marketing Tools)

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