It seems there are a still a lot of folks who think Article Marketing is hard, or time consuming, or not worth the effort. And perhaps for those folks who think anything other than signing up to the latest, shiny new programme is a worthwhile investment in their business, article marketing probably is an avenue to steer clear of.
After all, who’d want to grab some free backlinks, free traffic, and instant credibility as an expert, just for the sake of writing a few paragraphs of useful, helpful information?
So, in an effort to finally dispel all the myths and excuses you can come up with, I’ve decided to put together a short series on the article writing basics. If you can’t come up with new articles, new ideas for squidoo lenses, or hubs, or blog posts, or just about anything else you can think of to inform your target market, then you’re really not trying. And ok, so your first couple may take you a couple of hours to get them just right, doing the research, checking your grammar and spelling, submitting to the article directories, etc. But once you get the system down, article marketing is one of the quickest and easiest ways to build your business.
Okay, first tip.
Before you start your article writing career, you need to do some research. What sort of sub topics should you write about? What would be a good headline? What sort of keywords should you be going for when optimising the article?What sort of information should your article contain?
Now, here’s the good news. You don’t have to know everything there is to know about your market because it’s guaranteed to have been researched for you already. And the best place to find all that prior research is over at Amazon.com
Top selling authors have already done the hard work and using them for your article marketing research is one of the best places to start. Follow the little tip in the video below and see just how easy it can be. Whoever said research was ‘hard’ got it totally wrong. Using Amazon, you can come up with dozens of article ideas in less than 5 minutes. In making the video, I picked probably the hardest market to research on Amazon - Internet Marketing. If you’re in any other niche, you’ll be able to find a helluva lot more.
P.S. Apologies for the sound in the video. New headset is on the shopping list, I promised. : )
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Very useful information on article marketing Susan!
Love the video and I will look into Amazon for ideas to write about. Thanks much for the information.
Diana
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You’re very welcome Diana. Hope it helps.
Great article and video on writing an article. Glad I found this site! Denise
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So glad you like it Denise. Doing the background ‘grunge’, is what makes the difference. No matter how easy the gurus tell you it is, trust me, they all research every little thing they do.
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