 |
Writing articles is one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful methods of building your reputation and your online business. Not only do you get unlimited exposure, but it is fre^e as well! If your article is well-written, you will probably get listed on numerous websites as well as in several ezines. This will establish you as someone who knows what they are talking about and will more than likely bring you many visitors and subscribers. People will start to come to you when they need information or products or advice. This is a great way of establishing your online presence. Writing articles is not as hard as you may think. You do not have to be a professional writer to produce an effective article. Below are some tips to help you get started. 1. Don't worry about big fancy words. People are looking for easy to understand, down-to- earth articles to help them learn. They are not interested in being impressed with encyclopedia language skills. 2. Advertise in your resource box, not the article. Do not use you article as a big sales letter for a product or program. Give your info in the resource box. I would recommend you just try to get people to sign up for your newsletter or free report/ecourse in your resource box. Save the selling for later. 3. Make yourself accessible if someone wants to get in touch with you. People want to know that they can get in touch with you if they have questions about your article, website, etc. Always make it easy for them to find you. 4. Provide basic, real, useful information as well as resources to go along with the info. When writing your article, try to list some useful resources that your readers can utilize along with the information you give them. This will further give people a reason to want to stay in touch with you or your website. 5. Write from the heart! Do not be afraid to let your personality shine through in your writing. This will make people more apt to trust you and will also make them more comfortable. Write as if you were talking to a friend and let the real you shine through. I think people appreciate this more than trying to sound like something you are not! Do not let your doubts stop you from writing articles to build your reputation and your business. I did for awhile, but then took the plunge. My first article did surprisingly well and yours can as well! ;-) About The Author Terri Seymour owns and operates MyOwnEzine.com. You can contact Terri at mailto:ter02@newnorth.net
MORE RESOURCES:
Orato |
Rena LeBlancOrato - Nov 17, 2008Rena Dictor LeBlanc is an award-winning journalist whose articles have been published in major magazines and newspapers worldwide. ... |
A story to rememberAtlanticville, NJ - 3 hours agoOne of the most difficult tasks this job presents is writing articles about children who are battling serious diseases, or about young people who lose their ... |
UNlisted going strong at 15!The Republican - MassLive.com, MA - Nov 10, 2008One day, in the eighth grade, I realized that writing articles could be the perfect way to inform the community about what was going on around them, ... |
Business Development Manager, LondonICM Commercial & Business News, UK - 17 hours agoManage the company’s interface with the media (editing/writing articles as appropriate); setting/implementing the media strategy. ... |
Writing-Articles - Google News
|
|
|
|
RELATED ARTICLES
Thinking in Articles
I have a confession to make.I think in "articles.
Whats YOUR Angle?
So how can you make your article worth reading?It's all about the angle..
5 Simple Ways To Get Ideas For Awesome Articles!
1. Participate in chat rooms related to your targeted audience.
Write Your Slice of Life: 6 Quick and Easy Steps to Writing a Personal Essay
Do you know why the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series is so popular? Aside from terrific marketing and unequaled publicity, readers love the stories and personal essays. They are short, personal and teach a lesson or moral.
1000 Ways to Improve Your Business
One of the best things you can do for your business is to give information away. Information empowers your customer and brings them back for more.
An Affable Article
It doesn't really matter who you are; you definitely know something or know something differently. It is our particular sense of logic and humour that make us interesting.
Broaden Your Customer Base: Submit Articles!
If you are going to be writing articles to promote traffic to your website anyway, why not make them available to be used in other people's e-zines? This is a great way to have your work spread around the Internet to reach new customers. Of course my work can be found in my own free e-zine, but that really limits the people that read it.
You Should Seriously Consider Making Money With Your Words
Sometimes when I am communicating with other webmasters and I
bring up the subject of writing articles, I often get a response
like "I'd rather have a root canal, I just can't write", or "my
spelling is horrible and my grammar is not much better". In my
view, the first excuse is just a matter of attitude.
How to Create a Viral Lead-Generating Machine
Whether you own your own affiliate website, or subscription website, or publish your own ezine or newsletter, you need people to see what you offer.More people are interested in you when they trust you.
Where to Get Great Ideas For Your Next Article
There are times when I want to write an article to send out to
promote my web site (or for my newsletter) and an article idea
pops right into my head and then it's easy. Other times I'm
stuck for anything to write about at all! Here are a few ideas
to help get those article ideas flowing again and to get
you "unstuck"!I don't know what it is, well I do, but some articles really
stink but they still get read more than articles that are great
but just with a poor title or subject matter.
Writing Articles, But Still Not Getting Traffic? Your Articles Suck - But I Can Help! (Part 2)
Last time on "Because your articles suck" - we discussed how to write effective headers, bylines (boy were those easy), and article summaries. Now it's time to move on to the body of the article and then the all-important resource box.
How I Became An EzineArticles.com Platnium Member in One-Hour Flat & How You Can Too
[Disclosure: I went into EzineArticles.com very innocently.
Every Writers Dilemma: How Do You Decide What to Write About?
The sources of inspiration are all around us, in the headlines of the daily newspaper, in conversations, and listening to what questions people are asking. But how do you find those little inspirations that cause the flood gates of creativity to open wide?I asked this same question to my favorite writer's forum.
How Article Marketing Will Make You a Fortune
Article marketing-the simple act of writing one 400 word article and submitting it to various sites-is the surprise online marketing medium of the past year. For a couple years, new marketers have been advised to promote their businesses by writing and distributing articles.
SEO Article Writing 101
SEO writing is very different from content writing, article writing, story writing and news writing. When I first realized my innate talent for writing stuff and putting thoughts into words, I was still reading Mills and Boons, and it was during this time that my romance storybooks were confiscated by my classroom teacher because I was reading in class.
Publishing: changing realities (IV)
How does a writing agency market itself effectively in a cyber reality that's bursting with free content? Writers these days are having a tough time competing for business. The game is complicated and the rules are changing.
Website Promotion - Where to Get Ideas for Writing Articles
Some six weeks ago, I began writing and submitting articles to free content sites in order to promote the six commercial Websites I own. The results have been both swift and dramatic, and the number of links from external Websites to my own Websites has increased from nearly nothing to more than 10,000 in a little more than a month.
How to Write Great Movie Reviews for Your Entertainment Website
If you have an entertainment website then you're always looking for fresh, new, fun and interesting material to keep your readers coming back for more. Movie reviews are a great way to do that.
How To Rank Your Articles Higher in Search Engines
All of us, the authors, know that to enhance our sites'
listings in search engines we need to do certain things and
some of them are :(a) get fresh content on our sites on regular basis
(b) get backlinks from high PR (page-rank) sitesGet Fresh Content:Inserting RSS Feeds on related subjects is a great way to
create automatic fresh content in a website. However, we
can also put our own published articles in a section, say,
'My Articles'.
Writing Ezine Articles - 4 Reasons Why You Should Do It
Anyone who's been in the business for 2 or 3 months certainly has a lot of information that he or she can share with others, especially newbies. So why don't you take advantage of it?Here are the 4 reasons why YOU too should start writing articles in Ezines to attract more visitors to your website:1.
|
