Netguideinfo Marketing Tips

If you want to grow your online business, you basically have 3 main tasks- recruit affiliates for your affiliate program, gain subscribers for your ezine, and make sales. If you want to accomplish these main tasks, you must advertise, and list in ezine directories and affiliate directories so that you may be found by other surfers.

Of course you will also be able to accomplish these task by sending traffic to your site. In turn accomplishing these tasks will also send traffic to your site. (I am not trying to confuse you. )

Well the quickest most effective way to accomplish all of these tasks is to write articles! As I have said, there are a lot of ezines out there. All of them are searching for content for their ezines. You can help provide them with that.

The idea is to provide valuable content and include a resource box at the end of your article. Your resources box will include a 4-6 line bio about you, your company, product or service, and link back to your site. That is where the traffic comes from.

It is not hard to write an article. They should be around 500-700 words. First you must decide on a topic. Cover a subject that people are talking about right now. One that people want more information on. Take notes on that topic. You may need to research your topic. Organize your notes into an outline. This makes the article easier to write.

Divide your main points into paragraphs.Each article should have a beginning, body, and an end. Write or type your article. Follow the outline. Keep writing until you are finished. Create your resource box at the end. Don’t forget your name, brief description, and link back to your site.

Take time away from your article. Take a break and get completely away from it so that you may view it with a fresh eye. Edit. Check for spelling and grammatical errors, and rearrange things if you need to. Now you need to get this article to ezine editors. If you are subscribed to any ezines, search the issue for article submission guidelines. Very often the editors will make it clear exactly what they are looking for.

If the article submission guidelines are not clearly stated it is not always because this ezine does not accept articles. Email the editor and explain to him that you are a subscriber to his/her ezine and ask if they will allow you to submit an article for possible publication from time to time. Most editors will reply with yes, article guidelines, and the email to send them to.

Add this information to a contact list. You should build a list of over a 100 editors. Not all editors will publish all of your articles, so a larger list will help increase the chances of getting published.

Note: Some editors will clearly state that they only accept unpublished articles for submission. Do not add these to your list. Keep these addresses in a separate file and submit to them individually. You don’t want to send them an article that other editors are receiving in case one should agree to publish before the editor that wants exclusive content.

Do not submit that same article to another publisher until you do not receive notification that your article has been published or until after they have already published your article.

Only email submissions once per month- the editors receive a lot of submissions. Email them with their first name (Their name is not ezine editor) and let them know you are a subscriber and have an article for their consideration. Include a word count and a brief description.

Send the article in an email, not as an attachment. Don’t forget to tell them thanks for their consideration. Be sure to format your articles at 65 characters per line. The less work the editor has to do, the better the chances are of you getting published.

Advertising with articles is not only an extremely effective way to advertise online it is also one of the fastest ways to see a return on your investment. If you have a limited budget then this
is the way to go because it doesn’t cost anything to submit articles. It works like this; you write an article on a topic related to your business or product. Then you include a resource box at the end that has text describing your product with a link to more information. Then submit it to article directories where webmasters look for content for their websites or ezines. They then publish your article if it fits in with their site. The whole thing is done on a no cost basis, as it is
beneficial to everyone. The ezine publisher or webmaster gets a free article, the article directory gets visitors to their site and you get publicity for your business.

The only stipulation for the person who is publishing your article is that they are not allowed to alter it in any way. This includes keeping the resource box and link to your site at the end of the article. One of the reasons that this works so well is that the only webmasters who will publish your article are ones that have a site on that subject. You then have a targeted audience that is already interested in the subject of your site who is reading your article and then clicking through on your link.

You can cut out a lot of the work involved in submitting to lots of article directories by using a submission service. For a monthly fee they will send your article to lots of different directories. If you do not mind doing some extra work then there is an even more effective way of doing article advertising. Instead of putting your article on a directory, you can search out the websites that you would like to see your article on and contact the owners to see if they would like you to write an article for them, (with your resource box of course). A lot of website owners are very keen to get extra content and if it is a high traffic site then it might be worthwhile offering
to write exclusive content for them that you will not send to other sites. This will make the owners a lot more interested in getting free exclusive content for their site.

But remember it is not so much quantity as quality that counts. A good article that is well written is much more likely to be used than a lot of articles that are not so good. But if you do
it right then article advertising can be a very effective way of promoting your site.