Let's talk about article marketing for a minute. I want to
discuss a question I have all of the time. What is the best
internet advertising? We all only have so much time and
money to put into our internet businesses. Internet newbies
have it even tougher. Remember this, we were all new to
internet marketing at one time or another.
When a new person first gets started trying to make money
online the learning curve is almost overwhelming. This is
especially true if you work a full time job and have other
things going on in your life. Prioritizing what you do in
your business can be the difference between sticking with
it or quitting.
This is probably the single most important thing a new
person must conquer if they are to stick with internet
marketing. I had the same problem myself when I was part
time for 4 years. So what I did was focus on learning and
mastering one aspect of marketing my business.
I chose building my list because I read that the money was
in the list. I also read that people primarily use the
internet for sending and receiving email and for
researching information.
So I concentrated on article marketing and driving traffic
to my home page. Then I would capture contact info and
follow up via my Aweber autoresponder. This is the same
system I use today, except that my article marketing
efforts are even more intense.
Learning to write is the most important skill you can have
because you or someone in your company will be doing a lot
of writing.
If you can not, or will not write, then hire a quality
ghost writer to do it for you. We started our article
writer service for people like you. We have even began to
develop it into a service I call "Hands Off Article
Marketing" which really covers not only writing your
article, but also getting it out where people can see it.
This is the best internet advertising in my opinion. I do
all kinds of things now. Most of them are free, or nearly
free, and are designed to provide search engine bait, and
potential long term traffic. That is why I do not do pay
per click advertising. PPC is great for immediate traffic,
but you always have to do it to get traffic tomorrow and
beyond.
Same thing with traffic exchanges and safelists. You are
trying to brand yourself and build a list if you do it
right. But the minute you do not buy credits or surf pages
you have no advertising. I have learned that when it comes
to internet advertising if you are standing still you are
really going backwards.
Blogging is great use of articles. Social bookmarking is as
well. You can get excellent traffic from your blog. Blog
Rush is one way to do that. Just putting their widget on
your blog in a prominent place can get you traffic when
your blog posts are shown on other people's blogs.
But you still have to write blog articles, post them, ping
your post, and social bookmark your articles to get traffic
from a blog.
Here is my own 4 step system for article marketing.
1. Write an article of 400 words or so.
2. Post it in my WordPress blog which will ping for me and
contains a nice plugin for social bookmarking my article.
3. Bookmark my post to OnlyWire.com, Google Bookmarks,
Yahoo, Digg, Stumbleupon, Netscape, and a couple of others
if I have time.
4. Submit an article several times a month to Submit Your
Article where I rewrite it in 20 minutes into hundreds of
unique versions. Each one is then submitted for me to
hundreds of directories who all get a unique version of it.
This is a very well rounded approach to article marketing.
Of course learning to write the articles to target specific
keyword phrases is a big key and that is where an article
marketing company can help. They can write targeted
articles for you and even do the marketing so you get the
full benefit from them.
You get all of the glory because you get 100% copyright for
that article. Put your name on it as your own and start
branding yourself as an expert in your niche.
So whether you like article marketing, email marketing,
forum marketing, traffic exchanges, safelists, pay per
click, classified ads, ezine advertising, blogging, social
bookmarking, etc. pick one and focus on it until you are
having success.
I suggest you choose article marketing!
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