Understand The Article Marketing Process
in 39 Minutes or Less
As I share with you throughout the Article Expert’s website,
getting your articles posted is undoubtedly the best way to
gain one way back links and build and keep web traffic. When it
comes to article submission, you have a multitude of resources
to get your literary works before the masses. In this session
I’ll bring you up to date on the latest and the
greatest.
The Submissive Types - Article Submission Services:
Using an article submission service to submit your articles to
directories, frees up your time to write more articles, cruise
around in your H2 Hummer, go on family outings, take classes,
go scuba diving and attend the annual Chocolate Festival at the
City Bakery in the Big Apple. Article Submission
Services vary in pricing.
I’ve seen some as low as .35 cents an article upwards of $100
per article. Like the old adage goes, “Momma told me, you
better shop around!”
You Will Submit To Me? - Article Submission
Software:
This software is designed to make the manual process of
submitting articles become a breeze with the click of a few
buttons. Truth be told, all most all of the article submission
services use article submission software to submit your
articles. If you decide to go with this option, the key is
performing a side-by-side comparable analysis before doling out
your hard money to purchase one of these article submitter
robots.
Manual Laborers For Hire
For those just starting out in the world of article marketing,
testing the waters or simply don’t have the funds to purchase
software or pay the pros, submitting articles the old fashion
manual way, is the tried and proven method of becoming a highly
paid writer.
You will spend hour and hours on end submitting your works, but
eventually your efforts will pay off. So grab some chips, crème
filled donuts, cold pizza and lemonade and start submitting.
P.S. Don’t forget to grab a towel. You’ll need one to wipe the
sweat from your brows because manually submitting articles is
H-A-R-D work.
Hired Hands – The New Breed:
There are writers and authors who have purchased the article
submission software applications, they know all of the top
directories and they are willing to allot a block of their time
to submit articles for other writers like you. These men and
women are great resources because they are experienced at
article submitting, they have the proper tools and they have a
desire to help other writers. Plus, their pricing is usually
more than reasonable. Which makes me sing, “Yahoooo and yippee
ah ya!”
Blog Mistro:
Ah, at last, blogs have become powerful resources for getting
your websites and articles recognized by search engines in
lightning fast time. Another plus, most blogs are F-R-E-E! As
you get picked up by article directories, you want to let the
world know, by blogging your but off. Get a free account with
blog sites like www.blogger.com, www.wordpress.com and
www.blogstream.com.
Forum Fires:
Getting your articles posted to certain forums could start a
wildfire of discussions and net you remarkable web traffic.
Forums, also known as bulletin boards and
discussion areas, are online meeting places to openly discuss,
debate and argue various topics. There are literally tens of
thousands of online forums. Some of which are known to have
hundreds and even thousands of subscribers/members.
Fingerprints Don’t Lie,
Eh?
The investigator glares into the eyes of the now weary writer
with sheer determination. He had been interrogating his suspect
for fifteen hours straight and has gotten nowhere fast.
He blurts out, “You didn’t write these articles, you
plagiaristic dirt bag!” The writer pounds his fist on the table
and cries, “But detective, fingerprints don’t lie…”
The detective, sensing a break in the case, informs the
aspiring writer that his fingerprints were on none of the
articles in question and then he places the suspect under
arrest.
The writer, now speechless, couldn’t mount a defense because
his fingerprints were missing from all the articles in
question.
What is a fingerprint? We call it a resource
box.
I give a tutorial on the resource box in my article entitled:
Do You Know This Secret To Writing Great Articles? Let me put
it to you like this, if your resource box, A.K.A., your
fingerprint is missing from your articles, you have: nothing,
zilch, nada, goose egg, zip and diddly squat. You might as well
have named Scooby Doo and Fred Flintstone as the authors of
your articles for all of the good writing them will do for you.
That brings me to my next point.
Don’t Steal My Thunder!
Could you imagine what if feels
like finding out that your articles are posted to blogs,
forums, newsletters, websites and even directories, but your
fingerprint is missing? That’s comparable to a husband learning
eleven years later that he is not the biological father of his
only child. Talk about shock therapy!
Not getting credit for your literary work is like someone
stealing your thunder! You can limit or prevent this
miscarriage of justice by using www.Copyscape.com. Copyscape
was created as a free public service to address this growing
problem.
The other way you can protect yourself from these thunder
thieves is by running searches on your keywords and keyword
phrases. Anytime you see your articles out there without your
resource box, (head shaking slowly left to right, with look
of consternation on face) they are stealing your thunder,
web traffic, food from your table, gas from your Silver Ghost
Rolls Royce and preventing you from taking your quarterly trip
to Musha Cay Island. How dare they, bunch of
ingrates!
Finally, you could send a stern warning by hiring Tony Montana
to clear up this festering misunderstanding. Remember him? The
dirty dealing, treacherous, cocaine snorting, drug trafficker
in Scarface, played by Al Pacino.
Tony will straighten these cretins out! Just imagine the
thunder thieves wetting their pants as Tony Montana says,
“[Wielding a grenade launcher] Come and say hello to my little
friend!” They’ll never steal your thunder again! (Ok, I
repent, lets not resort to violence, for the love of God,
haven’t you heard? Writers do it with a
keyboard!)
Flying On Autopilot -
Autoresponders:
As you develop a following of readers, you’ll want to put your
writing business on autopilot. Autoresponders are the answer.
When someone sends an e-mail to your autoresponder e-mail
address, they receive a response back as if you were sitting at
your computer waiting to respond.
This software is so awesome Jerry Seinfeld would be impressed!
Online marketers are using this dynamic tool to auto pilot
their downloads, purchases, queries and article marketing
businesses.
Combo Meals Are The Best Deal!
Been to a fast food restaurant lately? If so, then you know
that almost all of the biggies provide combo meals. How bout a
Taco Bell #5 to go; Nachos Bell Grande, hard taco supreme, mild
sauce and a Mountain Dew. Awwww yeah! By purchasing the combo,
you save money and they save time, and everybody is happy!
When it comes to article submission, using a combination of
submission sources is your best method of expanding your
horizons. Without question, you want to combine your
submissions to article directories with maintaining a number of
blogs. After that, you can add a forum or two or more.
The Big Buzzword
The buzzword you want to engrain into your thinking is
automate. You want to get your business in the automated mode
as quickly as possible. Meaning that your articles are being
submitted via software and the majority of your responses are
via autoresponders.
As you automate, you free up your time and that my friend
brings you closer to my life formula, which is: time, freedom
and money. When you have all three of these simultaneously,
life is good. There you have it, the article marketing process
in 39 minutes or less.
To your success,
Joe Elliot
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About The Author
Joe Elliot is Managing Editor of www.articleexperts.info.
He currently manages 30 high-ranking websites and has written
over 300 articles related to monetizing your Internet and home
based businesses. You can visit other life-changing sites
managed by Joe at: www.wealthgenerators.net.
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