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Faster Way to Write Articles

One of the most common problems people run into when trying to promote themselves online is writer's block. Either they don't consider themselves a good writer or they just have trouble getting started. Since writing can be such a phenomenal way to get your message out there -- in articles, books, ebooks, or blogging -- it's a real shame when someone has so much potential, but just can't string the words together.

Here's a possible solution. Did you know that there's public domain magazine content out there that you can adapt and make your own, that will present you as an expert and increase your credibility? You can take it, use it as a starting place, and make it completely your own! No copyright issues or anything (assuming you've done your homework and checked it out)!

You don't have to be a prolific or great writer to use this material to create some top-notch articles either.

In fact, the information I am talking about can help you write books, articles, websites, blogs - the exact material that promotes you as the expert.

My phenomenally creative friend Lisa Rae Preston has put together a site where you can access several CDs of quality public domain magazine content each month - AND learn how to make the information your own so it's unique! The great thing is Lisa's already paid her lawyers to copyright search the content so you don't have to!

Using this material is the fastest way to write articles that I can think of.

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Free Content

If you're looking for free content for your web site, newsletter, online or print publication, IdeaMarketers has over a half a million articles on hundreds of categories. We offer it via a handy newsletter builder, by direct streaming via a php feed or by RSS feeds. Get details on how to obtain free content.

Article Submission Secrets - Formula for Prospect & Profit Pulling Titles

Jeff Herring, Our official Article Marketing Expert says:

Powerful article marketing requires that you write a great title for your articles.

So here is just one of my formulas for a great title - Keywords - Benefits - Keywords. Use your keywords in the beginning of your title, make sure you make the benefit(s) clear, and then use your keywords again.

So let's unpack this formula so you can use it.

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Article Income Secrets - How to Build Your Information Empire With Your Article

Jeff Herring, Our official Article Marketing Expert says:

Article marketing is a great way to build your information empire. Whether you want a small information empire or a large information empire.

Now if you are one of the folks that tend to think at this point

    "What do you mean, an information empire? I haven't even created my first product yet!"

just hang in there a minute. Let's start with your first product and see where this goes. You may want to build a large information empire or a teeny tiny information empire.

Read Jeff's entire article Article Income Secrets - How to Build Your Information Empire With Your Article

Article Writing Secrets - The Secret of Writing on 3 Tracks at the Same Time in Your Articles

Jeff Herring, Our official Article Marketing Expert says:

Successful article marketing requires that you write articles that will get picked up and read by as many people as possible.

In order to do this, I have found that you need to be able to write on three tracks at one time. Let's take a closer look at each of these tracks and a few tips on how to write on each one.

Article writing on 3 tracks

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Article Marketing Secrets - How to Deliver Great Content Without Sounding Like You Are Selling

Jeff Herring, Our official Article Marketing Expert says:

Q: How do you balance giving content without sounding salesy?

A: Great question. First, let's remove some of the fear, because when you do it the way I teach you won't come off as salesy. You'll come off as helpful and encouraging, which is what you want to do.

Here's some background as to what I'm going to say.

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Article Writing Secrets - Do You Know How to Write More Articles in Less Time?

Jeff Herring, Our official Article Marketing Expert says:

The greater your article volume the greater all your other numbers will be.

So your goal is to get as many great quality articles out on the internet as you can.

So how do you do that?

Write more articles in less time.

So how do you do that?

Read Jeff's entire article Article Writing Secrets - Do You Know How to Write More Articles in Less Time?

IdeaMarketers Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Can you believe it? It's been 10 years this month since I launched IdeaMarketers.com as an article directory site. I was an online marketer at the time -- helping companies set up sites and promote them. I had a couple ezines and would send articles to other ezines to build traffic. Other people also sent me lots of articles to include in my ezines.

The thought occurred to me, "There's got to be a better way to keep up with all these articles," and IdeaMarketers was born. I asked our pr and marketing expert, Nancy Marmolejo, for a fun way to celebrate our 10th anniversary, and she suggested a Harper's Index of how IdeaMarketers has grown over the last 10 years. I thought that was an ingenious idea, so here goes...

• Date IdeaMarketers.com domain was purchased -- 12/1998
• Date IdeaMarketers.com opened as an article directory -- 1/1999
• Number of writers with articles in IdeaMarketers as of today -- 39,247
• Year we launched our newsletter builder (publishers toolbox) -- 1999
• Number of articles in the system when the toolbox was launched -- 2,000
• Year IdeaMarketers moved to SQL Database so we could house unlimited articles -- 2005
• Number of articles in the IdeaMarketers database as of today (1/9/08) -- 429,323 
• Number of publishers registered to use IdeaMarketers newsletter builder -- 7,533 
• Date the Bidding System on IdeaMarketers went live -- 9/8/2004
• Amount of the first bid placed - $5
• Date we started putting writer photos and summaries with home page bids -- 10/11/2004
• Number of articles submitted to IdeaMarketers in the last 30 days -- 17,050
• Date we launched our Expert 360 Program -- 12/2007
• Number of page views served up on IdeaMarketers.com in December 2008 -- 4.7 million
• Number of visitors to IdeaMarketers.com in December 2008 -- 392,466

You can view Ideamarketers as it marches through time with the WayBack Machine.

If you have other ideas for celebrating our anniversary, I'd love to hear them! Email me. :)

Don't Waste Your First Four Words

Jeff Herring, Our official Article Marketing Expert says:

1.Don't waste your first four words

Good article marketing requires you to get your title right, especially the first four words of your article title.

The title below sounds good -

How to Build a Massive Web Presence With Your Articles

That sounds pretty good, doesn't it? Well, on the internet that title stinks.

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Article Marketing Secrets - Lead the Reader Right into the Resource Box at the End of Your Article

Jeff Herring, Our official Article Marketing Expert says:

You want to lead the reader into your resource box to be successful at article marketing. This can be done in two simple steps.

Step 1 - Give good information and do it in a way that's conversational and inspires people. Write like you talk and make sure you offer at least on good gold nugget of actionable information.

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