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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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.