It is not necessary to start from scratch when you want to write an article. Sometimes you have previously written pieces of content for your blog or even content on your traditional website that you can re-write and submit as an article.
That saves a lot of time as your previous piece of content serves as an outline and source of research for your article. As a result you don’t have to spend time thinking up a new topic and points to cover.
But how do you re-work a blog post or some other piece of content you have to create a unique article? I bounce my articles off of my blog posts every month.
Here is a model I picked up from a British firm that I use when focusing on specific keywords:
1) Do your keyword research before you start writing articles.
2) Then just cycle through your keyword list, focusing an article on one keyword phrase at a time until you go through your list.
3) Then start again at the beginning, and go through the list again (and again, and again…)
4) Be sure to update your keyword list every so often, because that information changes.
This approach is a good way to dominate your niche on the search engines, and ultimately, the more content you have out there for specific keywords, the more likely it is that at least one of your content pieces are going to show up for those searches.
Stepping out into social media can be somewhat daunting for traditional marketers or for individuals new to marketing. However, it doesn’t have to be difficult to be successful. Research, and choose a few initiatives that will allow you to have incremental success until you are comfortable in launching deeper into social media applications.
Social media permits you to:
Gain prospects through customer outreach or evangelism
Share your expertise and knowledge with the world
Tap into the wisdom of other consumers
Enables customers to help other customers
It is time to try this marketing vehicle! Do not dismiss social media as a part of your marketing plan.
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land. —Genesis 31:13 There are things about you that only God knows. You have told nobody, but God has a way of getting inside your heart with a single word. This is the way He conquers the hardest heart and the greatest skeptic with his closed spirit.
Nobody but Jacob knew about Bethel. Bethel was a place so special to Jacob, and God knew exactly what to say. Jacob was so discouraged; he felt he had nothing to live for. And then God turned up with these words: “I am the God of Bethel.” God could have introduced Himself by saying, “I am the God of your father, I am the God of Abraham, I am the God of Isaac.” But He chose to introduce Himself in such a way that Jacob knew it was the true God.
You may ask why Jacob waited twenty years to hear these words. I can’t explain God’s timing, but I know it is perfect. God sees the end from the beginning, but He knows we want answers now. It must hurt Him to see our pain, and He longs for the moment He can speak to us. But it will be at the time when it is best for us, and when He finally steps in, we will have no complaints.
It could be that you are struggling with a situation that is very painful, and you ask, “Lord, can You see what is happening here?” You may think, as I did, when Linda had the heart attack last week– how can this be? Linda takes good care of her self and eats right. But the God of Bethel is the God who sees. He knows what you and I are feeling. He sees what they are doing. God said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you” (Heb. 13:5). The God of Bethel will speak, and He will withhold nothing from you that is good.
Internet marketing can attract more people to your website, increase customers for your business, and enhance branding of your company and products. If you are just beginning your online marketing strategy the top 10 list below will get you started on a plan that has worked for many.
Start with a web promotion plan and an effective web design and development strategy.
Get ranked at the top in major search engines, and practice good Search Optimization Techniques.
Learn to use Email Marketing Effectively.
Dominate your marketing niche with affiliate, reseller, and associate programs.
Request an analysis from an Internet marketing coach or Internet marketing consultant.
Build a responsive opt-in email list.
Publish articles or get listed in news stories.
Write and publish online press releases.
Facilitate and run contests and giveaways via your web site.
It was his invention factory. The 14 building complex covered several acres and the main center of operation was bigger than three football fields. Here he and his staff put their dreams into action. Inventions were conceived, prototypes developed, products manufactured and shipped to customers. This invention factory became a model for modern manufacturing and research. He loved this place–a paradise for dreamers.
On a cold December day in 1914, his factory caught fire. He stood outside and watched it burn and said to his Kids, “Go get your mother. She’ll never see another fire like this one.” Most of us would be crushed as our dreams burned. This gentleman responded to his tragedy by saying, “I am sixty-seven, but not too old to make a fresh start. I’ve been through a lot of things like this.” He rebuilt his lab and worked for another seventeen years.
What a great man! He lived his dreams and impacted the whole world with his positive lifestyle. If you look the world over and examine any profession, the real dreamers who have lasting success will almost always possess a positive outlook on life. You too can overcome tragedy or any obstacles to your dreams. Every time I flip on a light switch, this dreamer, inventor and positive person reminds me that anything is possible. Thanks, Thomas Edison!
Your self-presentation through written reports, mail, email and all other forms of written communication is the face or image you most frequently present to the workplace or professional community. With email correspondence, informality usually rules. That is a big mistake! Email at work is a formal communication device or tool and should look like formal communication with a greeting (Dear John), a closing (Regards) and a signature file that tells who you are, your title, department, work address and telephone number. Proper communication will win everytime.
As both an athlete and later as a coach, the word focus was probably the most repeated term spoken and heard in the sport’s arena. “Stay focused and keep your head in the game!” was constantly the emphasis. The intent of this cry is get the athletes to center their efforts on completing the task at hand and the result usually means success on the playing field.
My heart goes out to a friend today who was sand pitting Saturday night with two friends and crashed his truck killing both buddies. Shawn, is in the hospital with a broken back and serious injuries to his brain, liver and aorta valve. A different specialist will be working on restoring each of these components to health. The coach in me cries out to a back surgeon, please stay focused! A wrong move and he will be paralyzed for the rest of his life. Likewise, each of the other surgical team members must stay focused or his mind, liver, and heart functions, or these critical organs could be destroyed. I have said all of this that you might pray for Shawn (and buddies families) as well as to remind us to stay focused on the task at hand and we will get to where we need to be.
I write about four articles a week for my business ventures and one a week for my hobby blog. If you were writing anywhere from 8-25 articles per month, how would it feel if you got your writing done in a couple of days. Pick days when you can write uninterrupted for 4-5 hours. 2. Write offline–the idea is to give your full concentration to your writing. Writing offline will keep you away from email, Twitter, IMs and the like.
3. Pre-determine your article topics.
Just sit down before your writing session (or at the beginning of the month, or whenever), and start brainstorming article topics. Choose topics from that list for your articles. This saves bunches of time, since one of the hardest things is coming up with ideas of what to write about. Google researching topics, helps me a lot.
4. Come up with an informal outline before you really start writing–this makes things progress faster.
5. Keep snacks handy.
We are all capable of sitting for 4-5 hours and working on a project, but I know that if we start to get hungry, we have a need to eat. And we get up to go to the kitchen to get something to eat, then it may be a while before we get back to our desk. The solution in staying focused on the task at hand, is to keep snacks within reach–tea/coffee on the desk, pretzels, anything that we can quickly pick up and eat/drink.
6. Set word count limits/goals.
This is so important. Most article directories that are worth using, require a minimum of 250 to 450 word-count article. If you don’t have a limit on how long your article will be, you can write and write and write and take up all 5 hours just on one article! For most of us it is easy to write 300-500 word articles once we get a little practice with goal setting,
Here are some benefits of this “Batch” writing: *Writing for an extended period of time gives you the chance to get on a roll–one article spawn another article idea. Realize that one idea can be too big to cover in just one article and you can neatly transition into your next article continuing the thoughts of the previous one. Writing “on a roll” this way can help give your articles a sense of cohesion–one builds on the next, rather than just being a series of one-offs.
*You will be working more efficiently if you “batch process” things.
You aren’t constantly being pulled away to do other things, so you get whatever activity you’re working on done more quickly. This batching method is really geared toward completion of tasks.
*It is just plain satisfying to crank out several articles in a day. What a feeling of accomplishment!
*You can relax more.
When you know you will be writing 4 or so articles on your designated day, it frees you to relax and complete some fun ventures with family or friends.
Faith is defined in the Holy Scriptures as the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. We need to always exercise faith. Faith is now! The writer John declared that if we are born of God we will overcome and will have victory through our faith.
These tough economic and stressful times that so many are facing, calls for exercising faith. Faith, the gift of God given to each of us, will accelerate the process of changing how we think, so that we position ourselves to receive what we are hoping for tomorrow. Keep the faith and exercise it! For Faith is NOW! Larry, Resident Article Expert
Growing up in West Virginia I learned to speak good old “hillbilly” language. If we were going to prepare something or get it ready for use we were “fixin”. Or, we were fixin to go to the store. We went “huntin”, “fishin” and “swimmin”. If it was dark and we needed to find something, we used a “fashlight”. We went to church to “warship” God. We knew what we meant but others looked at us in dismay. I have had a lot of fun with my “upbringin in them thar hills”. I am not a “hillbilly” anymore. I am a “hillwiliam”– “cause I got a collage educatin”.
There are 17 major dialectical speech patterns in the USA and it is sometimes humorous to get an understanding of what people mean by their expressions that are a unique fixture of their area. Texans have an expression that I heard about 45 years ago and did not understand it until this week. When they say, “that dog will hunt” it means that it is possible. The reverse is clearly spoken among Texans too. If “that dog won’t hunt” means it is impossible. Expressions like “yall”, “you guys”, “youins” and ”weins” are not uncommon in referring to a small group of people. The one that took me awhile to understand from the southwest was “where do you stay”? I found out they were just asking me where I lived. This expression took on a good meaning for me from the Greek (living in and around the Greek community of Tarpon Springs) word “meno” which means to stay in a given place, state or relationship. See, I love Tarpon Springs, the “Venice of the South”. I want to stay here until I go to my real home–Heaven!
Jesus used this word in John chapter 15 when he said “abide in me”. The concept of staying in Him is very powerful and the evidence of our abiding in Him is that we will bear fruit. This carries over to all areas of our life. It is with this in mind that I ask you, “where do you stay?”
