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Building Your List with Articles

Gary Knox — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:31:00 +0000

You are able to build your list simply by writing articles, whether you have thought of it or not.

Quite simply, you compose and submit your articles on your topic of expertise or business nature to popular article directories where eZine publishers and readers are looking for the information you provide.

Leveraging your viral marketing efforts on article writing can be rewarding, if done right. In the real sense, you’re actually proving your worth and demonstrating your expertise about your business through the articles you write.

So, how could this process in effect build your mailing list? The answer: the resource box you attach to the bottom of your articles. In your resource box (also known as a bio box), you include a brief statement about yourself and your business together with the URL of your website.

I would strongly suggested that your resource box URL should link to, in the first instance, your mailing list’s landing page where you can get your visitor’s name and email address, which will in turn help you build your mailing list at no cost.

If your articles are found and are considered worth sharing, eZine publishers will republish your articles together with your resource box for their readers and subscribers. The wonderful result: is viral marketing without too much effort on your part!

You can commence by writing and submitting your articles to trusted article submitter sites such as ezinearticles.com and begin your article marketing journey now.

Making Maximum Profits From Private Label Products

Gary Knox — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:31:22 +0000

Here are some guidelines on how to maximize your usage and profits from Private Label Rights:

1. Construct articles that will be displayed for your site.

Attach your byline or resource box to all articles then publish them. Permit visitors to “republish” your articles in exchange for publishing also your “resource box” in their site. This will spread your advertisement over the web at the same time increase your “link popularity”.

2. Make e-zine articles.

Affix your byline or resource box to your articles then publish and distribute in your “e-zine”. Announce that your articles can be republished if your subscribers will publish your “resource box”. Aside from the fact that this will spread your advertisement as well as increase link popularity, this can also improve your “pagerank”.

3. Offer PLR articles as free bonuses.

This will increase your products’ perceived value and encourage prospects purchase your products.

4. Offer PLR articles as bonuses for opt-in list.

It will entice visitors to sign up for your email list.

5. Create your very own original info-products.

Modify or rewrite the articles so to create a completely different article, include yourself as the author.

6. Create completely new articles to submit to e-zine “article directories”.

7. Create and then trade your content with different websites.

Affix your byline or resource box and then trade them with many high traffic sites.

8. Make articles out of your PL articles and then promote other person’s products.

Affix your byline or resource box to promote an “affiliate program”.

9. Make promotional content for your “affiliates”.

With your byline or resource box, permit your “affiliates” to incorporate their “affiliate link” to your articles.

10. Construct whole new original info-products then sell also resell rights.

Almost all PLR packages are controlled to only a certain quantity of buyers; so there is no worry that ‘your’ material will show up 3 million times over on Google.

Having the authority to rewrite, modify or alter the PLR articles indicate that your article is entirely different from everyone else’s who purchases and repackages that same article or material.

Here is an important tip. Before purchasing any PLR package, you must read carefully the terms and make certain that you will have authority to rewrite, alter, delete or cut the content in whatever way you want it and affix your name unto your new article.

Article Directories vs. Exclusive Content

Gary Knox — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:56:39 +0000

We all know that content is the key to unlocking Internet marketing success. In previous articles I have dealt with the use of article directories and the importance of placing relevant keyword rich content on your site. Is there an advantage to using exclusive content rather than article directories?

We have seen the impact that sharing your articles freely can have by driving visitors to your site, through the resource box, and hyperlinked bylines, but what about using other people’s articles freely on your site? Is there an advantage to creating your own exclusive content and placing it only on your site?

Basically, the choice is yours. It may also depend upon the level of writing you believe that you have achieved. If you are an accomplished writer and feel comfortable placing your own exclusive content on your site, yes, this will definitely enhance the fact that you are an expert on you preferred subject. If you don’t feel accomplished as a writer, you may opt to purchase content articles for your website that you hold all copyrights to. Then you will have exclusive content articles that although not written by you, will only appear on your website. This may be a great method of showing your wisdom, proving your expertise, and providing content articles, however you will have to purchase the content from the writer. Therefore your decision may also be based upon your budget. If you are a large company and have the budget, you may very well prefer to purchase exclusive content articles that pertain only to your company, yet have a keyword density that will also improve your Search Engine Optimisation and page ranking.

For a small company that does not have a large budget, or writing capabilities, they may find that article directories are the perfect solution for their internet marketing needs. Although, if they haven’t written the articles, they won’t benefit from bylines, and must include the bylines of the original author, they will benefit from the fact that they have legitimate, good content on their site that was well within their budgets. Either way, the important aspect is to find great relevant content, and keep it on your site.

But there is always another alterative and that is private label articles. With these articles you get the rights to be able to modify the articles in any way you think is best. You can even put yourself as the author and include your own resource box. That’s the power of private label articles.

Whether you prefer exclusive content, tap into article directories or private label content, your site must have keyword rich content articles to bring traffic. With the application of these Internet Marketing Strategies, you will be amazed as you watch your new business prosper and succeed. Remember, the key to unlocking the wealth of resources available for your business is found in the proper use and utilisation of content articles.

Still More Places to Distribute Your Articles

Gary Knox — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:47:07 +0000

Keeping your articles working for you is easy if you use all the available channels. Posting articles to the article directories or repositories, publishing them ezines from your compiled list, creating an article blog of your own and using other people’s blogs to gain interest in your articles, using available members only sites to post and posting articles to industry specific forums are all viable options.

You haven’t exhausted the available places out there yet. You write articles to get people to your website, yet many people forget to post their own articles there. Your website needs information. Why not provide that with information you have already written?

Compiling all the articles you have written into a free ebook is another avenue. All you need do is create a PDF file. This allows you to announce the ebook in directories set up for just that purpose. Allowing others to give the ebook away is also a good strategy.

Create an email course and use your articles as the lessons. This course should be offered free of charge. Put a sign up box on your website, set up an autoresponder to send the material at scheduled times and you are set to go. This has too advantages; it gets your material out there and it helps build a mailing list for you.

Set up a zipped file on your website of all your articles. Allow anyone who asks to download this file and use it as they want as long as the articles are not changed and your author information is included. Let others know of this file through your email signature.

Keep your eyes open and look for many other creative ways to distribute your articles. The places are out there and waiting for you to find and use them.

Using Short Reports for Viral Marketing

Gary Knox — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:37:31 +0000

This marketing technique is a perfect use for short reports and has been quietly building lists and large incomes for information marketers for several years. This is a lucrative method you would be wise not to ignore it. Here’s an example of how it works. You might write articles and short reports on your niche topics, adding a resource box at the end with a couple of sentences about you and your link back to your sales page or a bio page in a short report.

You submit your articles to online article directories, or use a submission service, for publication. Marketers looking for new content to put on their blogs and in their newsletters, for one, can freely download your articles and use them to keep new information in front of their subscribers and to keep Google happy, of course.

The key here is new content. With blogs springing up everywhere on the internet on a daily basis and newsletters flying back and forth all over emails, your market is endless. The viral effect that is so powerful is the way articles silently spread out worldwide, carrying your name and link with them. You can get traffic for years from every article submission you make.

Short reports can have the same effect, but in a different way. They are very effective as giveaway products and will be picked up and used by blog and newsletter publishers, as well as website owners looking for freebies for their customers. When you are writing your short report, add a page that tells a little bit about your background and interest in the subject. Be sure to add links back to all your sales pages.

The format to use is informational with links scattered throughout the pages. For example, if your topic is how to have a bug-free garden naturally, you would insert links where appropriate for environmentally approved products that repel snails and earwigs. If you can, become an affiliate for every product you promote. That gets you a viral product to use. Here’s what to do with it.

Before you do anything else, write your statement describing clearly what the rights are that come with your short report. In this case, giveaway rights. Use samples from other products you have that various rights to, write yours just as clearly. Add the same statement on the bio page of your short report, or out it on a separate page. You want this declaration to be prominent.

Put your free short report on your sales pages as a freebie and add the link to it on your signature for forum posts and emails. People will naturally gravitate, or run, to free information and might just be attracted to your other products visibly displayed near the giveaway. Those products could include some with Master Resell Rights, which would give you a two-level income stream possibility. One when you sell the ebook or product with MRR and another when you sell the Master Resell Rights separately.

Short reports you write can be sold with or without Master Resell Rights, too. It is the creator of the product who determines the individual rights that go with the products. That would be you when you write your own reports.

Using articles with reprint rights

Gary Knox — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:34:16 +0000

Many people offer reprint rights on their articles nowadays, and these can dramatically speed up your e-book development time by giving you content that you did not have to write to use in your book.

It takes a bit of planning, in most cases, but if you can follow some proven steps that will help to get you in a position to compile a set of articles into an e-book.
Your first step is to find high quality content, within your niche – there are a tonnes of article directories out there that bring together quality content in one place. Browse them for content that would fit with your e-book and choose your articles carefully.

Once you have selected your articles, you will need to contact the author of them, and ask permission to use these articles in your e-book – some authors give limited rights on their articles – others do not mind what you do, as long as their bio and/or byline remains intact, so you will need to gain permission from them – and if you can, offer them something more than getting their name out there. Though it may be good for their profile to take part in this project, some authors like to have ‘more’ out of these offers, so its something you might have to consider. What that ‘more’ is depends on what you need from them.

Once you have obtained permission, you will need to plan what unique content you will be adding yourself – if you are planning on selling your e-book you will want to add at least 50% new content, or people may complain.

Alternatively, you can use these reprint right articles on an auto responder or mini e-course, to promote your e-book. Instead of writing the e-course yourself, you can use the reprint right articles to add context and content to your e-course and offer a link to your e-book within the message.

Either of these outlines above make using reprint articles a viable and solid income generator for anyone starting to compile or create e-books.

Free Internet Marketing Methods that will Save your Internet Business

Gary Knox — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:11:49 +0000

Best things in life are free, as many would say. This especially holds true with efforts required in advertising one’s products or services. With free Internet marketing services, one can save a lot. Instead of dishing out for the marketing aspect of your product or services, that money could be put to other important elements of your business as there are numerous websites that offer information regarding Internet marketing services that come with no price tag at all.

This is not to say that you had better focus on plain Internet marketing. It will without doubt do your business a lot good if you mix traditional advertisement efforts with the new marketing media.

Here are few of the free methods that you could employ to make your products and services more visible, thus saleable.

1. Promote your business through free search engine submission and optimisation.

Submit your website to various search engines monthly. This will let many more people know that your website actually exists. Aiming for the top of the search engine rankings will help.

2. Improve your articles.

Remember that articles with good content will bring traffic to your websites? It’s about making these articles serve your website better by using keyword suggestion tools that are offered for free. Update your web site’s content by regularly checking the standing of your keywords within the current market.

3. Acquire free content.

If you have no time to increase the SEO or search engine optimisation-friendliness of your articles, you can look for free content from article directories. All you need to do is retain the resource box of those articles.

4. Use free comprehensive web traffic analysers.

These are tools that you can make use of without costing you a penny Your website’s hits statistics will be produced by this kind of Internet marketing tool for your own analysis.

5. Learn to manipulate web design templates.

You don’t have to be too techie-geeky to be able to design your web site. Frequently, web design templates or custom-made layouts are available for free for the Internet marketer to use.

6. Monitor your website’s visibility.

Tools such as search engine position trackers may be used to see your website’s standing.

These processes are very convenient to use as long as you keep in mind that you use and try to master their use for your own benefit. Just don’t get obsessed with your achievements when you finally learn how to use them and incorporate them in your Internet marketing exploits.

Membership Sites – Another Place to Place Your Articles

Gary Knox — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:03:31 +0000

Article directories are not the only place you can submit your article. There are places called private members sites. There are some sites that do not require you to be members, but most insist you are a member in order for you to submit articles.

Submitting to private members sites can help your articles become more valuable to you and your sales. The competition for attention for individual articles is not as fierce at private members sites as it is in popular article directories. This will make it possible for your article to receive greater exposure.

Individual membership sites will have seperate guidelines for posting articles. It is important to read the guidelines and follow to them exactly when submitting an article or you may find yourself banned from the site.

Some membership sites have a separate area of their websites specifically for the articles. Others have forums in which they allow you to post directly to the boards. It is almost mandatory to belong to these forums if you wish to post. Always watch for a chance to get your article out there. Always read the small print as often the information for submission is placed there.

Some membership sites offer the chance to have your article syndicated. You will need to add a small piece of HTML code to the site page where you want the article. This will further increase your exposure!

Six Tips For Better Article Marketing

Gary Knox — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:00:13 +0000

Marketing with articles is an easy and profitable endeavor. If you do it correctly, you will find it to be very profitable. Following are tips to help you in this quest:

Not everyone writes well enough to convince readers to act. You should have someone evaluate your articles and give you honest feedback on their reaction. If the feedback is negative and you feel you can’t write better, hire someone to write the articles for you.
Spend time, even if it takes more than you would like, to test your author’s resource box. Write a few different versions and see which seems to draw in more customers. Allow enough trials to make sure it is your resource box content that is working and not just the article itself.
If people aren’t visiting your website like you want, something isn’t working within your articles. Try changing your resource box. Compare other articles that do seem to work with yours. Can you change something to make it work better?
Many article directories ban software submitters. Personally submit to the best sites and hire a submission company if you can afford it. Don’t use the software intended for this unless you feel it is completely necessary.
Schedule time to write and submit articles into your work schedule. If you want a lot of links in a short period of time, try submitting an article every day for an entire month. After that month, it doesn’t matter whether you submit one on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly schedule. What is important is that you do write and submit on a regular basis.
Spelling and grammar are more important than you may realize. Never submit an article until you have checked it at least twice for spelling errors and grammatically incorrect sentences. Don’t allow these two things to be your downfall.

Earning From Private Label Rights

Gary Knox — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:47:26 +0000

“Private label rights” (PLR) are demonstrated in a license or an authorization which comes with information products, such as e-books and articles that you buy. These rights allow you to modify, alter, rearrange and enhance the products’ contents to fit your requirements.

You may split an e-book or article in to smaller articles and then sell them not as one whole e-book, but as a “series” or sequence of articles. You can also do the reverse; when you have purchased a collection of PLR articles you are able to bring them all together into one well-designed special report or novel e-Book.

Likewise, you can add any relevant information on a certain PLR content without the need of asking the original author’s permission.

The best feature, however, when purchasing PLR information products is that, generally, after you have completely revised the article you can display your own name as being content’s author, without the need to pay for royalties or the services of a ghostwriter.

Benefits of private label rights:

1. Permits you to create or produce an assortment of new articles from one original source. Because you are licensed to alter and modify the contents so as to match your requirements for several different markets.

2. Gives you consent so that you can improve, by way of adding information on content that you find lacking, or delete irrelevant information. Some products may disappoint you if they do not measure up with your standards; however PLR products gives you the right to adjust the article’s content.

3. PLR articles are the right choice when it comes to branding yourself as well as your online business. There is a need for you to let the world know that a business like yours exists. With PLR modified and revised products and labeling them as your work, you will impress prospects as well as establish yourself as an expert in your field, gaining the trust of online users and you will be remembered when they will need your service or products.

Where to use private label content?

1. Links. Rewrite some articles and submit them to free article directories. Do remember that you need to revise your articles first, before submitting them, as the directories can penalize you.

2. Enhance your list. You can offer e-Books or eCourses as free incentives for visitors to enroll in your opt-in mailing list or offer report as bonuses when they sign up.

3. Improve online sales. Your revised articles can be used to update online prospects about a certain subject then incorporate links to associated product pages or links to affiliate programs.

4. Become an expert in your field. You can rewrite and reconstruct “private label rights” articles for use in several different articles in order to construct an originally created e-Book.

5. Improve website income. Use keyword-rich articles in your website to earn additional income with “Google Adsense”.

Guidelines to modifying private label content:

1. Keep in mind that “private label content” is the expression of someone’s personality and ideas. Begin by transforming the title as well as the tone of the article.

2. Rewrite totally your opening paragraph. Search your vocabulary so that you can state the same things in a different way. You can make use of your Thesaurus tool and look for alternative words.

3. Go through your entire article. Add or remove sentences where you uncover mistakes. Add new ideas to spread out your article or split a very lengthy content into two articles.

4. Rewriting the ending. Be certain that your article entices the readers to perform what you need them to perform, be it buying a certain product, subscribing to a newsletter or going through your site.

5. Check for grammatical or spelling errors and be certain to compose a keyword rich article.

“Private label rights” can enhance your online business in so many ways. When you come across a good quality information product that gives you the freedom to change its substance and then acknowledge as your own, then it will be worth to investigate the profitability of buying it.