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10 Benefits Of Submitting Articles To E-zines
1. You'll brand your web site, business and yourself by submitting articles to e-zines. You could include; your name, business name, your credentials, web site address and e-mail address in your resource box.
2. You will become known as an...
6 Red Hot Tips To Get Your Articles Read
There are many people who dread having to write papers or articles. Many just feel like it seems to be too much work and it all just goes to waste when no one reads the. To some people, reading articles seems like work to, especially if the article...
How Writing Articles Can Improve Your Business
1. Submit them to e-zines and web sites for publishing.
Include your resource box at the end of the article to get
free advertising.
2. Combine your articles into a free e-book. You can place
your business ad in the e-book. Give it...
Maximize the efficiency of your articles and eBooks
After reading a number of articles of various contents, I have discovered two points that are now and then forgotten by authors and that decrease the efficiency of all articles.
I recommend that you should form the following two habits:
- Quote,...
Quick Tip -Use Article Announcement Lists To Promote Your Articles
One of the easiest and most effective ways to get your articles to ezine publishers interested in running your articles is to submit your articles to announcement lists. These lists allow ezine publishers to receive your articles individually in...
SOME TIPS IN WRITING ARTICLES AS AN INTERNET MARKETING STRATEGY
Firstly pick a subject that YOU KNOW - a topic that pertains (nice word that!) to your area of business. You are the "expert" in it. My advice is just find your "natural style" by writing as youspeak - as practicing writing in your "natural...
The sad truth to face and the huge advantage to cash in on when using articles to increase traffic and profits
I started out with a single article on one site. Everything happened slower because of this. Still I was amazed that I was able to get hits so quickly. The site I started with had a counter and my eyes almost popped out the next day when I realized...
Top Seven Ways Writing Articles Can Explode Your Business
In today's highly competitive internet universe, the importance
of attracting highly targeted traffic to your website cannot be
overemphasized. Routing web traffic to your site can be your
only means of survival, especially in the cutthroat world...
Why Submitting Articles Gnaws at You Like an Unsent Thank-You Note
Copyright 2005 Off the Page Writing and Submitting Articles is More about Psychology than Writing Skill I’ve discovered that even when a person understands the benefits from writing and submitting articles, there’s seldom a snowball’s chance in...
Write Your Own Success Story: Using Articles to Promote Your Business
Most likely, you've tried marketing with classified ads, sales
letters, compelling web copy, or even press releases. These
methods can be extremely effective ways to get the word out and
drum up some business, but if you're looking for the...
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Smart Articles
When running an online business it can be hard to convince potential clients of your expertise, especially if you lack formal, provable qualifications from an internationally recognised body.
If a client doesn't believe in your abilities they will not believe in your company and if they do not believe in your company, you are in trouble! There is, however, an effective way of exhibiting your expertise. Article writing helps raise customer confidence and can indeed generate leads. Many article submission sites also reward your submission with a free link to your website, this will boost your search engine rankings. Put simply, it is win, win.
So writing articles is a great idea, but how exactly do you go about it? Well, selecting a topic would be a good start. Pick a topic related to the field that you work in, you might find an article about your favourite television program very interesting but it is unlikely to increase customer confidence in you and your brand (unless the program and the service/product you sell are related). Selecting a subject that you already have expertise in will also mean you won't have to do so much research.
Okay, you have a topic, now what? I find it helps to split the topic up into a number of sections, at least 3, no more than 5. Each section will make up a segment of your article. Give each section a subheading and brain storm around the subheading. How are you going to incorporate that section into your article? Where will that section come in your article? How long will that section be? Six hundred words is about the average length of a web article. This does not mean that if you have 3 sections each section should be 200 words long, some sections will invariably demand greater depth than others.
Typically, the first section of your article should be used to introduce your article. This can be done in a number of ways:
1) Explain your motivations for writing the article. Are you answering a predetermined question? Are you exploring a topic area that is of interest? Are you presenting a new take on a popular theme? etc.
2) Explore the wider subject area from which you have selected your topic. For example an article about gaining links might start by exploring search engine optimization and the different factors involved i.e. content and in bound links.
3) This is my least favourite form, but is commonly used. You could list the range of issues you are going to raise. e.g. In this article I am going to...
It is impossible to give a generic structure for the middle section of your article as every article is (or at least should be) different. However, here are some tips on article writing more generally:
1) Your smart article should have a coherent structure and each paragraph or segment should follow logically from the previous one and
link seemlessly onto the following segment.
2) Your smart article should get to the point. Try not to repeat yourself. To reiterate, try not to repeat yourself!
3) Do not try to use your article as a blatent advert. Your goal should be to share information (article writing is afterall the propagation of memes) and expertise with the reader, do not try to sell, sell, sell or they will close, close, close.
4) Try to stay focused. Don't wonder too wildly off topic. This will simply show you to be undisciplined. It is okay to explore incidental points, as long as you link them back to the main topic.
5) Don't use too much jargon. Unless you are specifically targeting your article to a bleeding-edge readership try to steer clear of industry specific names, they will simply serve to turn off the reader. You may feel it necessary to use some jargon, to show you know what you are talking about, (though I would argue that if you know what you are talking about then you can explain your meaning to a wider audience) in such case it cannot hurt give a definition of the term you are using.
Okay, now for the final section of your smart article. You have a gripping introduction, a coherent, concise, jargon-free middle and now you just have to end it. How? Well, there are a number of approaches. If your article has explored a specific question try to draw a conclusion, which satisfactorily answers the question you set yourself. If the question has no definitive answer, explain why. Do not simply present the reader with a mass of information and expect them to draw their own picture, such laziness will destroy a potentially fantastic article. Another way to end an article is to invite the user to ponder more questions related to the central theme, expand the original topic and leave the reader with some answers but wanting to know more. This can be very effective. Moreover, such an ending allows you to link to any other related articles you have written. If you do this and follow the other tips and tricks given in this article about articles, then you will surely maximise your exposure.
There is yet another way to end a smart article and that is to wish the reader good luck.
Good luck!
About the Author: By Thom Jenkins of http://www.IndexofArticles.com (Web Articles), also for image hosting help visit http://www.1mages.com. For Web Design go to http://www.jkomp.com
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