How To Do Article Marketing: The Basics

Jul 11
08:30

2011

Cynthia Minnaar

Cynthia Minnaar

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If you are not sure how to do article marketing, here we give some valuable tips and provide reasons why you should be marketing online using articles.

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If you are willing to work at it on a consistent basis,How To Do Article Marketing: The Basics Articles article marketing certainly does work. If you are not sure how to do article marketing, let’s go over a few tips and provide reasons why you should be marketing online using articles.

1. Getting started is easy and you don't need any special education to be an article marketer.

It just takes a little bit of practice to learn the basics. Also, on the internet you can find lots of tips for article writing as well as e-books and articles written about how to do article marketing the right way.

2. It does not take long once you get the hang of it.  In fact you can write an article in less than 30 minutes on just about any subject.

You will find you can write articles much quicker if you choose to run an Internet business in a niche that you have a good knowledge of. You’ll find that after a while you will develop a system that works for you and writing articles regularly is not hard to do.

3. It is easy to submit articles. Submitting an article to an article directory only takes a few minutes.

If your budget allows use an article submission service such as Submit Your Article. With the click of one button you can submit your article to multiple article directories.

4. Articles make excellent content. Maximizing the use of one article is one of the real tricks of article marketing.

Creating unique versions of each article is a good way to do this. You then use those different versions to submit to your own blog, the article directories, other blogs, to create a video and so on.

5. Always write articles with the reader in mind. By doing this you will begin to brand yourself as an expert on the topic you write about and people will really enjoy your articles.

6. Article marketing is a very cheap online marketing method. We added this point last due to the fact that many people think that article marketing will cost a lot of money.

Writing articles costs nothing. Submitting articles also is free of cost. However, if you choose to automate the process you can use a submission service for less than $50 a month.

Also blogging is free if you choose to use articles that way. You can start a blog at blogger.com which costs absolutely nothing. If you elect to host your own blog it only costs about $10 a month and a domain name costs about $12 a year.

Provided you are willing to work at it on a consistent basis, article marketing does produce good results. If you follow these tips on how to do article marketing your Internet business will certainly benefit from the work you put in.