Connie Ragen Green’s Book Sales Soar
My friend Connie Ragen Green has just released her new book on Amazon today and it is already on the first day reached the #702 position in the Amazon Best Selling List as I write this post.
Connie Ragen Green The Teacher
Connie is a very gifted teacher, who possesses an infinite amount of patience as she helps her students develop profitable businesses online.
The book Huge Profits With A Tiny List: 50 Ways To Use Relationship Marketing To Increase Your Bottom Line
Connie Ragen Green Blog
Connie is very active on her blog Building Your Online Empire
You may also discover that Connie is also one of the most prolific article writers at Ezine Articles. Already she has produced over 1500 articles with over 500,000 views. You can find her on Ezine Articles where she has written articles on a number of topics.
You may be interested in the variety of courses Connie Ragen Green offers on internet marketing.
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Article Marketing Works
In order to be considered as an expert on something you must seen as someone who is by using article marketing.
Write appropriate and knowledgeable articles demonstrating that knowledge. The articles need to be factual and show that you have a well rounded education on the subject. Once readers have understood your articles and enjoy them then they will look for other marketing articles from you.
Articles used for marketing need to be able to connect with the reader. The articles need to be well written and describe the product or service or idea so that the reader feels it is a truthful and informative story. Leave the door open at the end for the reader to have the opportunity to contact you for more information. Have your article flow into this area at the end which is commonly called a resource box on an article or the last sentence of your blog post.
You also want your internet article marketing online advertising to be reflected in your offline advertising. Your business cards, stationary and any give away items should refer people to your online campaign. If you have signs on your vehicle or a vehicle paint job it also needs to refer to your online marketing campaign. If people remember your key phrase and you have written it effectively the internet marketing search engines will find your marketing articles when people go online to look for you. Article marketing generates exposure.
One way to connect with the readers is to tell them what they want to know. Find the questions they ask the most on the subject by doing research on Google, Bing ,Yahoo Answers and forums on the subject of interest. Do not beat around the bush and act conspicuous. Just give them the details that will give the best knowledge for their decision. For instance, if you sell solar equipment, then you should give them precise estimates as to how much it will cost and how much it will save in the long run before talking about your product. Encourage them to take the next step and contact you via email or telephone and then qualify them based on their interest. Listen first, talk second.
Once you have made up an education campaign with the use of online articles, you will need to attract as much traffic as possible. An easy way to do this is to use keywords in the title of the article, and include them naturally throughout the article that related directly to your business. This way, when people use popular search engines, your products and articles will come up on their search results.
Picking a subject that you are extremely familiar with and advertising it properly online can allow you to gain popularity within your field. For example, if you want to advertise cameras then you could have all of the history and information of the manufactures and brands readily available to your readers.
Article Marketing Summarized
1. Define your niche
2. Present yourself as the expert via article marketing
3. Make it easy for people and search engines to find you on the web
4. Make sure your keywords and phrases are consistent and plentiful
5. Link out and gain links from other websites in your topic area.
Let me invite you to read other articles on this blog about article marketing to assist you with your marketing skills and offer you ideas and techniques to improve your results.
A campaign that employs article marketing seo tactics is sure to get more links, more exposure and boost your rankings in the search engines
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One of the best ideas for content creators is to not reinvent everything but to repurpose your content.
Do it once and use it many times.
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If you are writing articles on a subject of interest to your readers it is a good idea to take those articles and spin them into a Special Report or a giveway for your readers as a bonus when they visit your site, or opt-in to it if they don not know you already.
This allows you to show more people the items that they want in different ways and make your content creation deliver for you again and again.
For example you may deliver a teleseminar or webinar on a particular subject of interest. You can take the recording and have it transcribed. Once it is transcribed you have a variety of options. Bundle several of the transcripts up into a E-book or create a E-course out of them. You can also take several of the recordings of your teleseminars and webinars and put them together with other written information and create a DVD product.
Articles can be turned into videos easily with a combination of your voice and written words on a Powerpoint slides turned into a You Tube video and redistributed through a sharing/distribution service like Traffic Geyser or Tube Mogul.
If you have got something of interest by all means share that information in as many ways as you can so you can meet people’s different ways of consumption ,written,visual or audio in a way that lets you amplify and broaden your reach. If you do this you will find repurposing of content a useful, and profitable idea.
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Article Marketing is very important to local businesses for the recognition of the business brand name Why is article marketing so important to local businesses? What is it? What is there to know about article marketing? How do you utilize it? Let me shed some light on these questions.
A very successful method of advertising is article marketing. Article market research can show you just how important it is to local businesses. The use of articles written on relevant topics to your business or practice or industry is known as article marketing. The article is then distributed and submitted to various places for publishing and used in your marketing material and educational content on your blog.
The reach of published articles can be very far, and very wide. Some will end up in magazines and other printed materials, but most will be spread through the internet. Individuals looking for information on a particular subject will be able to find them. In the end of the article, readers can typically find information on the company who wrote it, as well as your web address and contact information. This will greatly assist you ranking in the search engines provided you tag your anchor text or links to you , with the items you want to rank for. An example for a chiropractor located in L.A. it may be” Santa Monica Chiropractor” This can be excellent way to find new potential clients and establish your reputation as the expert locally, even in large cities.
Article marketing research is a good way to see what is popular in articles about in your industry. For example articles on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome like Michigan based Kathryn Merrow positions her as the expert in the Detroit Metropolitan area, as well as nationally for those seeking solutions about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Pain Relief. Upon finding what potential customers are interested in knowing, you can write marketed articles about those topics. Local business article marketing can also be focussed on your local issues, because the customers are located only in your area. Remember to answer every day common questions you hear in your operation, they will be the best subjects .
You can use Web 2.0 to your advantage, by publishing your marketed articles on the web at high volume and ranked places like EzineArticles.com as well as in places specific to your area, such as your local Chamber of Commerce magazine or throwaway newspaper on your city and the surrounding areas. This way, your article is reaching more of the people in your area who are interested, and you are not wasting your time or resources reaching people who are not able to use your service because of the distance between you.
Article marketing can save your local business lots of time and money, because writing an article about something you are knowledgeable in does not take much time, or effort. Remember your blog can be the best places to repurpose your content and highlight your best educational material by encouraging the conversation in your comments section. Your blog where some of your articles appear can be listed on Networked Blogs. Look to your right now, on this page’s sidebar and see some of the people whose subjects and expertise are showcased.
Now that you have an understanding of the basics of article marketing, you can use this knowledge in the specifics of your local business. The more you spread your local business name and reputation, the better chance your ideal customers will hear about you and you will be positioned in their mind as the local expert. Increasing your brand name and customer base should give an increase in your profits.
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Content is King and Linkbait in the form of compelling content is one of the SEO tools that savvy web entrepreneurs use every day, not as their primary reason but as the offshoot of creating great content. I like to read Mashable everyday because it is generally chock-a-block with timely information on the Social Web. Take for instance Ben Parr’s excellent article on Google Wave, This is a post last updated in January 2010. Already, as I write this post, it has been retweeted on Twitter 6055 times, Shared on Facebook 2636 times and Buzzed 543 times.
On top of that 859 root domains link to this url and there are 3754 followed,non followed and 301 links to the article.
When you have a subject that is covered so completely by Ben people will find it useful and link to it also.
Another example is Aaron Wall’s SEO Book site. This would be considered an authority site by most SEO practioners and as such it brings credibility and linking power. The article How to Build Links Fast- 101 Tips and Strategies has 851 domains linking to it and 5008 followed,non-followed and 301 links. Going down the linking rabbithole leads me to Problogger where you will find a guest post by , in her own words, the adorkableWendy Piersall, The Ultimate Guide to Getting Lots of Link Love. Problogger is a very well read blog by Darren Rowse which has an Alexa ranking of 2076. This blog has an Alexa ranking of 909,739, respectable but not as widely read as Darren’s by a long shot. In that article there are a number of sites that are recommended on the subject of Linking.
It is like a spider web of totally relevant content. One link is to a site with another web of tools and links to useful information by Stuntdubl Search Marketing Consulting with their best posts on the subject. Another is Lyndon Antcliff’s blog CornwallSEO. This article or listing of articles is entitled Linkbait Articles- The Enormous Linkbait List. To discover the links that these sites have I have used the tool Open Site Explorer which has been of great help in the writing of this post. It is a free resource provided by the folks at SEOMoz.I hope this gives you a introduction to writing great content, that will be linked to and improve your SEO as a by product.
I will continue this post in two parts. This Part and Part Two which will give you some actionable, white hat tricks to improve your linking. Let me know in the comments what other liking items you want to have answers to.
I found some useful links for you along with related Posts:
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BruceClay – Can Link Bait Mature? Yes, It Has To – Bruce Clay Blog – The question over at the Cre8asite Forums is can linkbait mature? Yes, it can. It has to. Today, social media is our little baby. It’s full of promise and.
Clearing Linkbaiting’s Name – Rather, being contrary in linkbaiting is taken to mean providing another critical view, a new insight to a pre-conceived notion, or the discovery of an entirely new area of interest for that matter. Originality—whether in layout …
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