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
Quick Tip For Your Links
If you’ve been around me for more than a few minutes you probably already know I’m a big proponent of cloaking your links. Not necessarily to slow down link-hijackers — that’s just a fringe benefit. The main reason is so you can know where your traffic is coming from. Plus, by cloaking your links you are able to change the … Read More
How to Make It in Saturated Niche Markets
There are some markets that are known money makers — big money makers. And you can recognize most of those niches because of the mammoth companies already parked in those spaces, carving out huge chunks of the market for themselves. Do you really want to compete in the weight loss market against Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, or Nutrisystem? How are … Read More
Get Ready for the New Product
Sitting here outside my son’s Civil Air Patrol meeting and finishing up the notes for my latest product. What is it? Well… Wouldn’t it be cool if you could make apps for the iPhone and the new Apple iPad tablet — even if you’re not a programmer? You’ll be able to do that with my new step-by-step video tutorial series … 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
3 Tips for Creating A Good Screencast
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 watched more than a … Read More
Upcoming Feature (and one Vanishes)
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 prime time. =:) So … Read More
Write 100 Articles – Waste of Time?
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 you’ll win a hat, … Read More