Fifteen years ago I made my living selling ecommerce tools and creating tutorials on how to sell stuff on the internet with online marketing. Several years ago I switched gears and turned my focus to 2D game development and making game tutorials. A year and a half ago when I was diagnosed with cancer I pivoted and started poking at … Read More
My Top Internet Marketing Tools
I’ve written a LOT of tools over the years but the ones I use day in and day out are the following (and you’ll notice these are all aimed at creating and promoting products): Article Architect – While I don’t do tons of article marketing anymore (I do it, but it’s very focused — no more shotgun approach for me) … Read More
Article Marketing Explained for Kindle
If there’s one thing I’ve preached in the years I’ve been doing internet marketing it’s to reuse and repurpose the content you create. I’m not a big fan of using PLR materials for much when it’s really pretty easy to create your own content. And once you have that original, unique content, you can put it to use in many … Read More
Top 3 Differences Between Writing Articles and Article Marketing
Lately I’ve been hanging out with a bunch of writers and while I do consider myself a writer, for the most part I write as a way to promote the internet marketing products I create. That’s the core of article marketing, after all. Those other folks, though, write because they’re writers. And while they also get paid (usually) for their … Read More
Why Article Marketing Will Never Disappear
In my work with article marketing I solicit questions from people who want the free, prequalified, targeted traffic from writing simple little articles, and one question keeps coming up time after time: Q. Does article marketing still work? Sometimes the writers are wondering about backlinks, or search engine optimization techniques, or any of the other tactics for which they’re using … Read More
Types of Article Marketing — Writing An Interview Article
Writing an article to promote a product or service is often as simple as sitting down and writing a review about what you’re pitching. But in order to give your readers a little different take on things, try writing an interview article. An interview article is one where you talk to someone about the product or service, ask them questions, … Read More
Article Marketing on Steroids – Profiting From Special Reports
If you’re using article marketing to drive free traffic to your web site you’re probably very close to having your own digital product you can sell online. What kind of product? Special reports that are about 7-15 pages in size. Small enough to be put together more quickly than you might think, but large enough to create value that people … Read More
Article Marketing Tricks #10: Resurrecting Your Articles
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 them. There are many ways … Read More
Article Marketing Tricks #9: Don’t Let Them Escape!
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 they desire. It really is … Read More
How to (Finally) Start Writing an Article
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 about it, … Read More