Write and Publish Your Own Articles

Writing articles positions you as an authority fast. You can send waves of traffic to affiliate products or you can promote your own products and services and send waves of traffic to those.

It is the most cost effective way to market yourself 100% free. For those of you who have been around the internet market community for some time, and think articles are not as powerful as they once were, that is 100% false.

Articles are more powerful and more effective than they have ever been because of all the social bookmarking and other ways you can support your articles. You write your articles and forget them. You leave them out there, and you will have customers coming from your articles everyday for months and years to come.

If you get marketing with one product, you can write several articles, put them on the internet and jump to another product, write several other articles, put them on the internet, and you can keep rinse and repeating that over and over again. This will bring you multiple streams of income, especially if you have a product that has a recurring membership base.

Writing Guidelines

The best Articles should be between 400 – 800 words. Write for a second grader. You don’t want to come off as a guru or teacher or someone who knows everything with hard to understand terms.

You don’t want to appear you are talking down to them or intimidating or talking down to someone reading your article. You can make the article fun or helpful.

You can give power headlines and give the reader your cta (call to action) in your bio box. When someone is reading your article, you want to make money off that person. So you put a cta in your bio box that talk about going to your website to get free tips or testimonials. Give them some kind of action you’re calling them to take after reading your article.

Top Publishing Directories

There are hundreds of ezines,(electronic magazines), and electronic directories of there that you can promote on.

A lot of people get hung up on trying to publish on all these places. All you need to do is stick with the these Top 3, and you will do just fine; you’ll bring in several sales a day.

Ezines Articles
Amazines
ArticleAlley

Promoting Methods

Once you have your articles written and you’ve followed the writing guidelines, put it in the top publishing directories, then you want to add promotional methods to let the world know about it.

When you create your own blog with Wordpress.org or Blogger.com, the problem is that you have to send traffic to it which compounds on the work you have to do.

Find blogs and networks that are already out there. You can create a profile, have a blog going, find people with similar interests, and add them as a friend. They will automatically see your blog.

Forum and Email Signatures, Google Groups, and You Tube videos are amazing ways to promote your articles. You can actually have a video of you reading your article or your face on your camera reciting your article. You put it out on You Tube and promote your You Tube video on blogs or forums and email signatures.

Social bookmarking is a fabulous way to promote articles. Drive traffic to your articles to promote your products or other people’s products. You establish credibility, build an army of followers, and at the same time create and distribute your products or articles.