How to Gain Credibility and Sales By Writing Online Articles
This article explains a few things about
articles, and if you're interested, then this is worth reading, because
you can never tell what you don't know.
Writing is one of the
most powerful secrets you will find for bringing in new business and
gaining credibility among your peers and potential clients.
Writing articles
in online publications that cater to your ideal client will put you
heads and tails above your competitors. Most competitors feel they are
incapable of writing or feel they are too busy focusing on other parts
of their businesses to write articles. So they don’t do it.
This is a huge advantage for you.
Likely your clients enjoy and even pay for information that is of interest to them. So if you have the ability to write, do so.
What Do You Write About?
How about a problem-solving ‘how to’ article? Or maybe a list of
ideas or tips that help your readers? Since you know your business
well, writing such articles should be relatively simple.
If your typing speed is not up to snuff and is holding you back
then you can ‘dictate’ your writing into your computer using a
microphone and a voice recognition software program such as Dragon
Naturally Speaking or IBM’s ViaVoice. Both work fairly well and are
available online and at most major office supply retailers.
Here is a BIG list of locations for publishing articles online. I too had questions of where to publish articles online. So through research I collected these links, added them to my favorites, and began submitting articles of my own.
No online marketing has to date presented as high a response from
qualified potential clients as those who found my site through articles I’ve published online. I suspect the results will be the same for you too.
Sites Where You Can Post Your articles For Redistribution
Many sites have guidelines concerning the layout of your article.
One of the common guidelines is that your article must not exceed 60-65
characters across.
By using the format text tool you can be certain your article will
be properly formatted, so that it does not get rejected for something
that is so simple to fix.
Now’s The Time To Take Action
Writing articles that appeal to your "dream" clients should be one of your first steps to bringing in new business.
However writing alone is worthless if no one ever reads your articles. So the next step is to actually distribute your articles.
Hopefully you find as much success through submitting articles to these sites as I have.
About The Author
André Bell is principal marketing consultant with André Bell
Consulting Group. A free copy of his new book "101 Marketing Secrets
Revealed" is available through his site at http://www.economicbooster.com
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