|
|
Christian InTech Articles - Ezines
|
Is Running A Membership Site Right for You?
© 2004, John Calder http://www.TheEzine.net Surf any of the marketing forums, and you're almost certain to see posts about membership sites. Marketers are asking if their idea is a good one, how to control access, how to integrate billing, and so...
Maximum Marketing - Minimum Budget
Two years ago I started my small Virtual Assistant business with a non-existent marketing budget. I borrowed marketing books from the library, read countless articles on the Internet and joined a professional trade association of my peers. I learned...
Should I Publish An Ezine?
"Should I Publish An Ezine?"
Once upon a time, when Internet Marketing was but a wee little lad, one of the better ways of obtaining quality information for starting up an online business of your own, was to subscribe to, and read, an ezine. A...
Some Advertising Is Doomed To Fail - Find Out Why
When people are concerned about the lack of response to their advertising, usually they complain about one of two things. They either say, "I put it in all the popular ezines but nobody responded" or "I followed all the copywriting 'rules' but...
Targeting Your Customer’s Preferred Media to Lure Them Online
You know in your gut that you have a great product and that the market for that product is far larger than the few thousand searches it gets in the engines each month. You suspect, rightly, that many potential customers simply don’t know this...
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
What Happens When You Submit Articles To Ezines?
What's an article anyway, and why would I want to submit one to an ezine? That was a two-fold question and will require two answers.
An ezine article is usually composed of approximately 500 words on a single subject that would be of interest to your target market. At the end of the article, you should include a "resource box." This box should provide such things as your name, the name of your company, your web site address, email address, and a small blurb about your product/service.
Writing an article is not hard work. All it requires is some research and note taking. Use any of multiple sources to find information about the topic that you choose to write about. Then write your article in your own words using the notes that you took during your research. It's not difficult and it's something that you learned to do early in school (grade school probably). Write in a conversational tone. Write like you are talking to your best friend.
Now, I'll answer the second question. The reasons to submit this article to an ezine are varied, but not difficult to understand. They all boost your bottom line.
1. The submission of the article will help identify your business (web site) in the Internet marketplace. This is normally called "branding."
2. Article submission provides publicity, virtually free.
3. Someone may like your writing style and hire you to write articles or ebooks for them.
4. The published article will drive traffic to your web site.
5. If the publisher of the ezine that you submit your article to maintains
an archive, your article may be read many months later. Traffic may still be driven to your site this way.
6. People will come to know you as an expert on your subject.
7. You might get your article published in free ebooks that are distributed all over the web. This will drive more traffic to your web site.
8. This will help you become a trusted vendor of information.
9. If you allow anyone to publish your article or email it to a friend, you will gain further exposure for free.
10. Webmasters may read your article and display it on their web site. You get additional free exposure.
11. If you send out an ezine, you could offer to swap articles with other ezine publishers for free. This provides more publicity without expense.
So, there are quite a few benefits that you could receive from publishing small articles like this one. If that isn't enough reasons for publishing your own articles, I don't know what else you'd need. Don't forget to provide enough valuable information. The more knowledge you supply, the more valuable you become. Provide real value and you will always have people clamoring for more.
About the Author
Rachael Willis is the webmaster of http://www.infoproductscentral.com and the publisher of "The Genuine Truth" newsletter. "The Genuine Truth"
newsletter is full of freebies,articles and reviews of the hottest products. If you are tired of spending money on bad products then you need "The Genuine Truth". Join us today and let me spend my money to test these products so you don't have to.
|
|
|
|
|
|
