Have you discovered article marketing? It’s an excellent way to market your business, because it’s free advertising. let’s look at three ways you can boost the results you get.

1. Promote Your Articles

Your articles are promotions, but have you ever considered that you should also promote your articles? Promoting your articles means you get more traffic to your site, and more conversions.

You can promote your articles by using press releases.

This is very effective, because they will keep sending you traffic for years to come.

You can also promote your articles using the social media. Sites like Twitter and Facebook are useful, and you can turn your articles into YouTube videos.

2. Get Links to Your Articles

When you publish your articles in directories, you hope that the site’s visitors will republish your articles on their own sites, and will include the resource box. Any link back to your own site gives you more traffic.

You can also approach publishers directly, offering them exclusive articles that you’ve written just for them. (However, please don’t spam anyone.)

Bloggers especially are always on the lookout for fresh content, so offer bloggers in your niche articles you’ve already written, or offer to write exclusive articles for them.

3. Use Your High-Conversion Articles to Understand Your Customers

Some of your articles will more popular than others. Review the statistics of your articles, and each month, check to see which of your articles received the most views and which resulted in the highest conversions.

Tracking your statistics helps you to understand your customers, and enables you to give them what they’re looking for. Remember that your customers’ needs are always changing. If you pay attention to your articles’ statistics you can catch trends early, and can benefit from them.

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Over the past week I’ve had several questions about how to get started with affiliate marketing.

Here’s the simplest way. The only thing you need is a website, and you can get that in two minutes by using Blogger.

Here’s how to start promoting products as an affiliate:

1. Go to Amazon.com, and join their affiliate program. Amazon sells products in almost any category you can imagine. Whatever the topic of your site, you’ll find products there you can sell with a few clicks.

You’ll find the link to join Amazon Associates (that’s their affiliate program) on the home page; scroll down to the bottom of the page, and you’ll see the link, as in the image above. Just follow the instructions to join.

2. All done? Great. Now search for something on Amazon.com that’s related to the topic of your blog.

For example, let’s say that you’re blogging about weight loss.

Just enter “weight loss” into the search field on the home page of Amazon.com.

I just did that, and I got the results you can see in the image above.

Click on a product you want to promote.

I clicked on the alli product.

Now look at the top of the product page, above the Amazon logo. You’ll see a grey link bar, as in the image below.

Click the link which says: “Link to this page”.

A box similar to the one in the image below will open.

Click the Highlight HTML button, and copy the code.

Now all you need to do is paste the code into your webpage, or blog post — the code already contains your affiliate information. Whenever someone buys using your link, you get credit for the sale, and once your affiliate sales mount up, you’ll get paid.

Simple, right? That’s all there is to getting started with affiliate marketing. Now go and sell some products.

If you do article marketing, you’re set in your cosy little ways. You’re making money, and the cost is minimal.

But listen: can you hear and feel those earth-shaking footsteps? What’s happening?

That’s the sound of the multi-million-dollar, high-spending companies coming to eat your lunch.

Two factors are combining to create this disaster:

* The global financial crisis — nowadays, for big companies, every dollar spent has to get a return; and

* Big companies’ customers have moved online, and they’re scrambling after them.

You’re about to face truly massive competition, which can out-spend you, and out-last you.

What can you do?

Chris Knight gives you some great ideas in this article: Big Business Comes to the Article Marketing Sandbox.

If you’re wise, you’ll take the steps he recommends. YES, you CAN save your lunch.

As Chris says:

“As article writers and marketers, we need realize that our sandbox is about to change forever and it’s going to get a whole lot busier. This change does NOT signal the end of our incredibly cool sandbox, though. Provided we take advantage of what we have that they don’t, there is a world of opportunity opening up as the big kids start playing with, and appreciating, the local kids with their pile of assorted sandbox toys.

To survive, and thrive, under this new paradigm you’ll need to be prepared for the changes that are coming. But with a little forethought, planning and action, everyone can ultimately succeed.”

Yes, you’re busy, and you don’t need this additional aggravation… but if they can, the big companies will snatch what you have. Remember however, that every crisis always contains an opportunity. This is your chance to revamp your business model, and make more money than ever.

The article marketing game is becoming truly exciting.

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