Article Marketing Tricks #10: Resurrecting Your Articles

January 24, 2010

While an article used to promote your product or service might be just a bunch of words, it also has a life beyond what most people think. In this 10th and final article in the series of making article marketing pay off for you, let’s talk about Resurrecting Your Articles, or breathing new life into [...]

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Article Marketing Tricks #9: Don’t Let Them Escape!

January 22, 2010

Article marketing is pretty easy to explain — you write simple little articles about a topic and then give people a link at the end of the article where they can get more information. That link takes them to a web site where they can then find out about a product and buy it if [...]

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How to (Finally) Start Writing an Article

January 20, 2010

I’ve written a lot of information about article marketing, but I seem to have skipped over something that’s very important to some people…

…how do you actually start writing?

I’ve been writing enough now that the question almost doesn’t make sense to me — after all, you just start writing (typing), don’t you?

But the more I thought [...]

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3 Tips for Creating A Good Screencast

January 15, 2010

Screen recorders have revolutionized the “how to” market — it’s now very easy to start recording your computer screen and walk through the steps to show how to use a piece of software, build a web site, or even write an article. Those videos are called screencasts (like podcast, but concerning your screen).

But if you’ve [...]

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Upcoming Feature (and one Vanishes)

January 13, 2010

If you downloaded v2.8.x of Article Architect you may have noticed a new feature called Article Popper. You probably also noticed no instructions on how to use it. That’s because it’s an upcoming feature I’ve been working on and when I released that version I forgot to re-hide it.

It’s a feature that’s not ready for [...]

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Write 100 Articles – Waste of Time?

December 31, 2009

A programmer/marketer who’s really good at what he does sent out an email Thursday morning that I strongly disagree with. In fact, the word “strongly” doesn’t even come close to the way I feel.

EzineArticles.com is having a contest starting Jan 1 — if you write (and publish on their site) 100 articles in 100 days [...]

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Article Marketing Tricks #8: Resource Box Secrets

December 29, 2009

Here’s the 8th part of our series on making article marketing work for you, I call it, Resource Box Secrets.

Article marketing is a great way to use simple little articles to drive traffic to your web site. If you’re new to the concept, this is how it works (nutshell version):

Write an article of 300-700 words [...]

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Multimillionaires? Or Doofuses?

December 22, 2009

I just watched a promo video for something — I’m not sure exactly what since I closed the browser before it was done — that was simply embarrassing.

First, I do not think you have to be perfect in your audio and videos. If you flub a little bit, or say “um” a few times, it’s [...]

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Reaching For Your Dreams

December 21, 2009

My friend Millard Grubb has posted a new video on YouTube that’s relevant whether you’re aspiring to be an entertainer or an internet marketer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGTiLE5XC9o

Take a couple minutes to watch it.

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Article Marketing Tricks #7: Targeting The Buzz

December 16, 2009

Here’s the 7th secret to making article marketing pay off for you, I call it Targeting the Buzz.

This technique requires you to make regular visits to the forums where your target market hangs out. The problem with that is it can become a real time sink — there are thousands of people who spend so [...]

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