Dear
Friend,
Writing is one of the most powerful secrets you will
find for bringing in new business and gaining
credibility among your peers and potential clients.
Writing articles in online publications that cater to
your ideal client will put you heads and tails above
your competitors. Most competitors feel they are
incapable of writing or feel they are too busy focusing
on other parts of their businesses to write articles. So
they don’t do it.
This is a huge advantage for you.
Likely your clients enjoy and even pay for
information that is of interest to them. So if you have
the ability to write, do so.
What Do You Write About?
How about a problem-solving ‘how to’ article? Or
maybe a list of ideas or tips that help your readers?
Since you know your business well, writing such articles
should be relatively simple.
If your typing speed is not up to snuff and is
holding you back then you can ‘dictate’ your writing
into your computer using a microphone and a voice
recognition software program such as Dragon Naturally
Speaking or IBM’s ViaVoice. Both work fairly well and
are available online and at most major office supply
retailers.
Where Can You Submit Your Articles
Online?
Here is a BIG list of locations for publishing
articles online. I too had questions of where to publish
articles online. So through research I collected these
links, added them to my favorites, and began submitting
articles of my own.
No online marketing has to date presented as high a
response from qualified potential clients as those who
found my site through articles I’ve published online. I
suspect the results will be the same for you too.
Sites Where You Can Post Your Articles
For Redistribution
http://addme.com/nlsubmit.htm
http://allnetarticles.com/submitarticle.asp
http://articlecity.com/article_submission.shtml
http://boconline.com/sub-art.htm
http://bpubs.com/
http://businesstoolchest.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://buzzle.com/
http://certificate.net/wwio/ideas.shtml
http://connectionteam.com/submit.html
http://digital-women.com/submitarticle.htm
http://ebooksnbytes.com/
http://ezinearticles.com/add_url.html
http://freesticky.com/stickyweb/submitarticle.asp
http://goarticles.com/ulogin.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aabusiness/
http://ideamarketers.com/writers.cfm
http://marketing-seek.com/articles/index.shtml
http://scamfreesuccess.com/article.htm
http://searchwarp.com/
http://small-business-forum.com/
http://thewhir.com/find/articlecentral/suggest.asp
http://top7business.com/submit/
http://upromote.com/newsletter/submit.html
http://vectorcentral.com/articles-form.html
http://web-source.net/articlesub.htm
http://webpronews.com/submit.html
http://womans-net.com/modules.php?name=Submit_News
http://work911.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
Article Announcement Mailing Groups
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/publisher_network/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reprintarticles-paradise/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reprintedarticles/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aainet/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce_list/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/articles_archives/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/articlesubmission/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aageneral/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PromoteYourArticle/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Free-Reprint-Articles/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Free_eContent/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freezinecontent/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/marketing_articleblaster/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/netwrite-publish-announce/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadMyArticles/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheWriteArticles/
A Useful Article Submission Tool
This online tool will automatically reformat your
text for you:
http://www.web-source.net/format_text.htm
Many sites have guidelines concerning the layout of
your article. One of the common guidelines is that your
article must not exceed 60-65 characters across.
By using the format text tool you can be certain your
article will be properly formatted, so that it does not
get rejected for something that is so simple to fix.
Now’s The Time To Take Action
Writing articles that appeal to your "dream"
or ideal client
should be one of your first steps to bring in new
business. This step will last for years to come.
However writing alone is worthless if no one ever
reads your articles. So the next step is to actually
distribute your articles. Hopefully you find as much success through submitting
articles as I have.