Article Marketing for Newbies: Three Essential Tips


Are you new to article marketing? You can make money from your articles, however you need to get started on the right foot. Here are three essential tips for success.

1. Remember That Article Marketing Is Advertising

Article marketing is basically advertising, using information as bait. The aim of the information is to be useful, to serve as an introduction to you and your services, and to gain credibility.

Therefore, get familiar with the product or service that you’re promoting. Remember that each article you write is an introduction to that product, and make that introduction count.

2. What Do Your Prospects Get out of Your Promotions?

In your articles, you’re giving away free information. You need to ensure that that information is valuable to your prospects. If it’s not valuable, and not credible, you’re doing a disservice to whatever it is you’re promoting.

Remember that your articles will stay online for years, and will keep selling for you for years, but only if they stay in the search engines’ indices. If people click away from your articles instantly, your articles will be be dumped, and won’t be visible to searchers.

This is why it’s a mistake to focus solely on quick clicks.

Article views matter little: what matters is the response. It’s much better to get fewer article views and more sales rather than many article views and no sales at all.

Therefore, make your articles credible and valuable. Every article you write could still be selling for you five years from now — if you put little effort into them.

3. Plan and Execute: Schedule Your Promotions

Article marketing is becoming more competitive. It’s always been popular, but as more businesses become aware of the value of article marketing, there’s more competition for article views.

This means that you need to write more articles to get results this year than you needed to write last year, and you’ll need to write even more articles next year to get the same results.

Therefore, you need to create plans and execute them. Once you’ve executed a plan, review it, to see what the results were.

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Affiliate Marketing: 3 Essential Time Management Tips for Marketers

Are you an affiliate marketer? This form of marketing can be highly profitable, however the amount of money you make depends on how effectively you work. Everyone has only so many hours in the day which they can devote to their projects, so you need to make the most effective use of your time.

Let’s look at three essential time management tips.

1. Create a Product Selection Plan

Start by creating a plan by which you select new products. Write out the process you follow in a list, and work out how long each step in the process takes you. Now you know how long it takes you to select a product.

Could you save time at any step in this process?

Streamline your process, so that you eliminate wasted time.

2. Create a Plan to Promote Your Products

Now you have a time-saving plan to select products, you need a plan to promote them.

Whatever form of promotion you use, whether you use PPC advertising, free advertising, or use a process like article marketing, everything takes time.

Which product makes the most money for you? If a product is making money for you, you’ve worked out a way to promote it which works. Write down your process, and work out how long it takes.

Now you know how long it takes you to promote one successful product, work out how many hours each week you can spare for promotion. Once you know how many hours you can devote to it, you can schedule those hours.

3. Schedule Time, Every Day — Get up Earlier

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Therefore the more hours you can devote to your affiliate marketing business, the more profitable your business will be.

The easiest way to add more hours to your day is to get up earlier. Get up an hour earlier than you do now and devote that hour to your business.

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Article Marketing for Affiliate Products: 3 Reasons It’s Not Working

Are you using article marketing to promote affiliate products? This can be a very effective strategy, however it’s also a much-used strategy, so there’s lots of competition. Here are three reasons that it may not be working for you.

1. You’re Promoting the Wrong Product(s)

If you’re promoting products which are extremely popular, you have lots of competition. This means that you’ll need to think of innovative ways in which to get people to buy from your affiliate link. You can’t do the same promotions that everybody else is doing and expect to make lots of sales.

Products come into fashion, and they go out of fashion, so ideally you’ll start promoting a product when it’s just coming into fashion — just before it gets hot. If you’re promoting when a product is nearing the end of its popularity, you won’t make sales.

You need to test lots of products, and then focus on the products which start to make sales.

2. You’re Promoting to the Wrong Audience

Every product in existence has more than one audience, but affiliate marketers focus on one audience to the exclusion of others.

Choose a product which you’re currently promoting and think about other audiences the product might be suitable for. Then test the product, by using article marketing to focus on the new audience you’ve selected.

3. You’re Just Not Promoting Enough

Article marketing is effective and it’s very inexpensive. The benefit of articles is that they stay online for years, and keep selling for you for years. However, because article marketing is so effective, and because there’s a low cost of entry, it’s very competitive.

How many articles have you written to promote your latest product? If you’ve only written ten articles, you probably haven’t written enough. Depending on the niche, expect to have anywhere from 100 to 500 articles working for you, for each product group you’re promoting.

Yes, it’s a lot of articles. However you don’t need to write them all next week, you should be promoting many products, and over time you’ll build up the number of articles you have promoting each product.

You can make great money with affiliate marketing when you write articles, if you’re using the right strategies.

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