Write Articles That Mine Free Gold...."Article Marketing"

Group: PPC & Sales Copy Power

Written by Dwayne Phelps on Oct 10, 2009 12:46 pm

Let me let you in on a little tip, it doesn’t a matter what marketing method you use! If you don’t do it right, effectively and immediately with mass quantities your gonna fail.

I love article marketing because it gives you the possibility to brand yourself as a leader before you’ve really done anything. You can literally be seen with as much respect as people who are world class authors. All without denting your pocket book, all you need is some time and some knowledge spent on what you are going to write about.

Here is my “quick hit outline” on how I write articles fast & effectively:

1.) Define Your Target Audience
2.) Select A Keyword
3.) Choose Your Topic
4.) Write Your Article
5.) Write Your Title
6.) Distribute Your Article

1.) Define Your Target Audience- Who are you trying to turn into a customer, really think about it and get into their heads on how they make decisions. Remember your goal is to bring solutions to peoples lives…not a sales pitch.

2.) Select A Keyword- We’ve all studied keyword research and if you haven’t now is the time. Keywords allow you to be found when people search for terms that are related to your article. If your are optimized for those particular words, but that’s a whole other lesson…

3.) Choose Your Topic- Usually people do this first and that’s a big mistake! Once you have found your keywords and done your market research to find your target audience you can now choose the topic. Topic’s would include “how-to” and “problem to solution” type of articles. There are many more but start with these…

4.) Write Your Article- The best part! If you’ve followed the other steps in order this should only take you about 10 to 15 min. I can usually bust out 5 to 6 articles in a little over a hour…

5.) Write Your Title- Pretty self exclamatory, don’t make it “salesy”, this is what people will see when it comes up on search engines so make it stand-out!

6.) Distribute Your Article- Look for “article submission sites” on Google and type it in to find the best places to submit them. Make sure to read their guidelines on articles. So you don’t get banned…

These are not set in stone rules for article marketing, but I have used them for a very long time to bust out content and establish me as an authority in whatever niche I go into.

Just remember to be consistent, they take over a week to show up on the search engines.

Article marketing can be very simple, but unless your popping out frequent valuable content that solves people’s problems you will not get anywhere with it. On average it takes about 20 articles for the new person to start seeing leads frequently, so be strong and NEVER GIVE UP!

Dwayne Phelps
http://DwaynePhelps.com