jeudi 23 avril 2009

How To Kick-Start Your Article Marketing

How To Kick-Start Your Article Marketing Strategy Into High Gear

Have you realized the importance of article marketing and know you need to create articles to begin your article marketing efforts? I have surveyed hundreds of people and for those of them that feel there is a barrier to their article marketing efforts, it usually comes down to not knowing what to write about, not knowing how to write an article, not having the time and not liking the whole article writing process to begin with. If you know article marketing is going to be very powerful for you and you know that you may have some trouble starting it for yourself because it is too overwhelming to even go there, you can begin by buying unique articles. I'm not talking about buying the same private label articles that hundreds of people have already purchased before. If you are going to use private label articles, using them to drive traffic to your website, will be a waste of money because chances are, that same article is already out there 1000 times over and you won't be getting much response from them. rivate label articles have their uses, but driving traffic to your website by submitting them all over the Internet is not one of those uses.

The kinds of articles you want to buy are unique articles that are written to connect with your target audience, and have the proper keyword phrases in them. When you use your own unique articles to promote your product or service, you are saying to the world that you value and take the time to serve your clients and customers. Most communication isn't about what you SAY; it is about what you DO. It is important to serve your clients and customers from your heart, instead of just giving them anything anyone else can give them because all you are interested in is getting their dollars. Marketing your business with unique articles is a good way to show them you care about serving your target market.

You can get your articles from a number of different sources, and each source will have different plusses and minuses and well as different levels of expenses.

1) You can hire a writer directly from a writer's guild to write your articles. This will probably be the most expensive way to go. You can be pretty sure that you will get a quality product, but it may or may not be written to get the best response from the Internet in terms of article marketing.

2) You can hire a writer from an online bidding place such as Scriptlance. You are taking somewhat of a gamble here as you can end up with someone writing your articles who doesn't speak your language well enough to write articles in your language. In order to avoid this problem, you really have to understand how to word your article writing project and be very specific on the quality standards. One thing would be to have them write a sample article and indicate that the person who wrote the sample article is the one who

3) You can use an online article writing service. These online writing services screen their writers so you can be pretty sure you are getting someone who will write a well written article in the language you require. The more established online writing services have also had time to screen their authors for the quality of their writing (following the instructions from the article requester, creating original content and not just a copy and paste job).

Buying articles is a quick way to begin your article marketing efforts. There are a number of ways to buy your articles, but the most effective way that gives you quality articles at a reasonable price is to use an online article writing service that you or an employee would use. There are a few of them online that charge a reasonable price. Go online and see what is available, or read some reviews on the various article services.

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B. Hopkins writes articles and reviews and develops Internet Business Strategies for businesses who want to increase the performance of their website. Read more about an article writing service that can help you get more traffic to your website. Go To http://drivetraffictomywebsite.com

Extra Income Seeker - Six Keys to Grow Extra Income with Article Marketing

Do you want to know if article marketing is a legitimate online income technique? Are you looking for a low cost solution to get started with an online business? Article marketing is one of the best ways to start making money online without having to come up with a product of your own or even put up a website.

How Affiliate Sales Works

Affiliate sales can be a very rewarding enterprise if you understand how the whole thing works. Affiliate sales allows you or anyone with Internet access to start your own home based business. First you form an agreement with the company offering the product(s) you wish to promote.

You earn a percentage of each affiliate sale made through your site. Each company sets the percentage you can earn for each of their products sold through affiliate sales.

Once you settle on a company and product your focus must shift to sending potential customers to your affiliate offer. As with so many people when they are just starting out, you probably prefer to spend the least amount of money in advertising.

Article marketing is one of the most effective techniques available on the internet to promote your affiliate products. Article marketing is a very low cost to no cost alternative.

What Is Article Marketing

Article marketing allows you to reach you target audience through article directories. You should submit informative articles related to the product or service you are offering. You should not submit articles that are directly promoting your product but do provide useful insight that is relevant to the product you are want to sell.

Six Keys To Success With Article Marketing

1. Tailor your message to your target audience.

2. Your article should be believable, you must earn the trust of your target audience.

3. Your target audience must be actively seeking to resolve a problem you can have the answer to withyour product.

4. Write a powerful resource box that invites your readers to click on the link that sends them to your affiliate sales page or designated landing page. Let the affiliate sales page do the selling for you.

5. Write more articles, you increase your chances to make more affiliate sales if you publish a large number of articles over a period of time.

6. Be patient. This strategy works best when you give it time to unfold over a period of a year or more. Although you could start to make affiliate sales immediately.

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Ezine Advertising

Ezine Advertising is the best value for your advertisement dollar because it reaches people interested in a specific product. These people are called a target market.

Why is ezine advertising so effective?

Say for instance a person loves afffiliate marketing. This person has done research about affiliate marketing and sees the long term potential to earn big money.

This person decides to do ezine advertising knowing an ezine about affiliate marketing will be delivered by email to subscribers of the affiliate marketing ezine. This solves how to find the market of persons who want to become involved with affiliate marketing.

There are generally three styles of ads, the solo ad, the sponsor ad and the classified ad.

Let's start with classifieds. A paid classified costs the least of the three and is the smallest of the three ads types. People run classified ads for whatever they want to sell.

As in a regular newspaper, the ads are placed under a specified topic. (used cars, pets, ect.) Thus an ad is targeted to people looking for that 1958 Edsel parked in grandpa's barn ro 50 years.

A classified in an ezine about affiliate marketing reaches a target market also. These ads will be found in a block in the ezine, usually toward the end of the article copy.

A good ezine, one with interesting information, helps the advertisers.

Next ad is the sponsor ad. Sponsor advertisements may be in three places in an ezine. Some may have only one. Although they may not be labeled, the top sponsor is at the beginning of the ezine. The cost of this ad is much higher than the bottom sponsor ad. The middle sponsor cost is about half of the top sponsor ad. This makes sense as the bottom ad will not be read as fast as the top ad.

People read through articles rapidly to determine if the article interests them. A well written sponsor ad!

The sponsor ads will have from 10 to 16 lines of good ad copy.

The most effective ad is the solo ad. Solo ads are emailed to all the subscribers all by themselves Most effective and priced higher because there is no other copy sent with the solo ad. Only the advertisers advertisement emailed to anywhere from 10,000 to 250,000 targeted people. That is why ezine advertising is so effective in reaching the market for selling the affiliate marketing opportunity.

A solo ad will have from 400 to 675 words, best keep it at 500 words. An advertiser can really pitch what they are selling with that many words.

How about the costs to run these ads?

An example of costs: An ezine with a subscriber base of 25,000, charges $25.00 for a solo ad. That comes out to $1.00 to reach one thousand subscribers.

Keeping costs within a ad budget, paying up tp $3.50 is plenty. Don't go broke in the first month. A ezine with a subscriber base of 70,000 charges $40.00 for a solo ad. To get the cost per thousand, divide 50 by 40. That comes out to 80 cents per thousand.

That makes the ezine solo ad affordable and doable. Go for it.

Running one ad and sitting back to watch the sales roll in, is not likely to happen. An advertisement must be seen 5 to 7 times by the same subscriber base before they start to believe the advertiser is for real and will be around for a while.

This is an example of someone in the town I live in . 25 or so years ago he moved to our city and opened a furniture store. This city did not need another furniture store. This businessman had very little money. He thought "it is sink or swim time". He created his own ad campaign. He appeared in everyone of his ads, on tv and radio. At the end of every ad he closed with the same line. It has not changed in 25 years. He is now a multi-millionaire.

Why? As the public heard the same line and watched his ads, they started believing he was real and was not going away. The public bought and bought.

The point here is repetition. Giving the target audience the same message over and over until they believe and buy. And the great part, they keep on buying from someone who delivers on the goods, forever!

Always include the affiliate url for buyers to click on to in an advertisement. Keep it simple with short call to action such as, "availible at: or Click here: and URL" An ad is designed to drive buyers to the affiliate website, no more. The website does the selling and collects the money. Then they pay the affiliate a % of the sale.

Is that not the most effective way to earn money? Add a business email in the ad. Response rate will go up.

A word of advice. Have the courtesy to subscribe to the ezine the ad is placed in. Thank the publisher for allowing them to place an ad in their ezine. Everyone wins when everyone helps each other.

Ezine advertising is the best thing around when done correctly. Have fun with it! Alan

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Alan Grundemeier helps people succeed with their online business by guiding them to successful online programs and the experts who run them. Learn more about how to advertise with Ezines, available at=> http://www.classicaffiliatemarketing.com

jeudi 26 mars 2009

Ezine Directories

Ezine Directories Can Help You Make Money

What is an Ezine? An ezine is an online electronic magazine or newsletter delivered by email to a targeted group of readers interested in the subject of the ezine and who opt in subscribe to it.

Are they popular? Very much so! The estimate is there are over 100,000 ezines published worldwide each and every day.

For example you want to make money online and quit your full time job. You go online, find an affiliate directory and select an affiliate program you like. The program has a good payout commission, 50 to 75% and offers affiliate links, advertising copy, banners and great support.

Now What!

Time to post articles or advertise. But where? Ezines are the answer. Ezines are the most powerful form of email marketing and advertising. Over 10 years of proven effectiveness.

Where do you find good ezines to submit articles or advertise in? Find them in a great ezine directory. With a good ezine directory, you can sell more products and earn more affiliate commissions.

When you search in an ezine directory, select the ezines that match your affiliate business. The subscribers to these ezines are interested in the same business you have. They pay very close attention to the articles and advertising that appear in the ezine. They are called highly targeted subscribers and buyers!

You submit your articles and ads to the publishers of these ezines and reach an audience interested in your offer. What an impact your advertisement has when shown to people who are interested in what you are selling. (a word of advice: always subscribe to the ezine first.Your chances of having an article published ae greater.)

Ezine directories are the fastest way of finding a grouping of ezines for your business. Much easier and faster than entering a search for ezines in Google, Yahoo and MSN.

The best ezine directories will categorize topics of great interest. ie: affiliate marketing, business opportunities, mlm and internet marketing are major categories for your online business.

The good directories include pertinent information you want when making a decision where to advertise. Information such as:

1. Ezine Publication name.
2. Category list.
3. Format - Html, Text, Website, Blog and RSS.
4. Circulation - number of people reached.
5. How often published.
6. Cost of ads - Solo, Sponsor and Classified ads.
7. Articles accepted - These must be original copy.
8. Past issues available.

Using a great Ezine Directory is a must for finding ezines to submit articles to or to place your advertisment in and drive swarms of hungry visitors to your website month after month!

Think about this.

Our parents can not teach us to succeed online...
Universities can not teach us about the Internet...
Experience does not prepare us for being online...

The answer? Go to the Experts. People who can help you succeed. People that mentor internet marketers.

Why learn from the experts? Saves a person time and money! Find the best ezine directories. These directories are run by experts.

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Alan Grundemeier helps people succeed with their online business by guiding them to successful online programs and the experts who run them. Learn more about how to market with Ezines, available at:=> http://classicaffiliatemarketing.com Ezine editors and Site owners:You may reprint this article in your ezine or on your site as long as you do not modify the content and include our resource box as listed. ====================================

Article Directory: Why should you participate?

There are many different reasons why you should submit your articles to an article directory. For example, if you are promoting a website, are a new writer that is looking to their name out there or simply you are advertising your blog. Using an article directory as a means of advertising is honestly one of the smartest things in the world, not only will an article directory get your website or blog's name out there faster, but you can pretty much guarantee that you will see the traffic of your website or blog rise. In this article we will go through the many reasons why submitting your articles to an article directory is beneficial and absolutely needed!

So let's say that you are a new writer. While you may have been used to writing term papers and poems in college, writing website content and also promotion is completely different and you will have to be in a different frame of mind. After you have a few articles written, it is a great idea to submit those articles to an article directory to now only get your name out there but also to see yourself as a published writer.

Submitting articles to an article directory is honestly one of the very best forms of advertising. Not only are a lot of article directories free, but the traffic that your website will receive even if you submit just one article to an article directory is simply incredible! Article directories now-a-day are honestly one of the most popular forms of advertising and if you are looking for a way to up the traffic to your website, an article directory is definitely going to be your very best option.

Now that we have gone through some of the reasons for choosing an article directory, you may be wondering how you can find some of the best article directories to submit too! Well, the answer to that is very simple: do your research. As you would with any other form of advertising, you always want to make sure that you are researching before committing yourself to something.

There you have it! All of the ways that article directories can help you! They are honestly an up-and-coming form of advertising and if you are a new writer, they are a fantastic way to let people get a feel for your writing style! So if you are looking for a way to gain traffic to your website or you simply want to put down that you are a published writer, an article directory can definitely help you!

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Abhinav Srivastava is a owner of a Article Directory named http://www.articleslide.com