With article writing these days it’s become very important to know how to write an informative, compelling article so that your business will become a successful online venture. The success of your website is heavily dependent on the amount of traffic that comes to your site.
You cannot expect to make a sale or any see any profit unless people are coming to your site often and staying for awhile.
Quality content, value driven article writing are keys to getting you more visitors to your site.
So let’s talk about a few steps to writing the afore mentioned type of article:

 Steps to Awesome Article Writing

Article Writing by the time your coffee gets cold:

Quality Content-

Always lead with quality content. Understand that your building a brand, and a key component to that process is trust. That’s what people are asking themselves as they check out your article writing and visit your site. Can this person be trusted? Nothing answers this question quite like value. Once you establish trust with readers and deliver value, they will become loyal and expect nothing less than quality from you.

Research-

Please I know that most people are really eager and sometimes have a tendency to skip a step or two in order to get to “the real” stuff. Part of bringing value to the market place is reliability of the source. Again, this is about establishing trust and if you haven’t done your homework on a given topic and you write some unreliable article and lead someone in the wrong direction then your credibility has just been destroyed. Article writing is a part of establishing your brand and it’s hard work, you want to protect your brand at all costs. Find reliable sources and check them against other reliable sources to ensure what you write is valuable and useful to your readers. Don’t just throw stuff up against the wall to see what sticks.

Understand your Audience/Niche-

Another huge key is understanding your niche or audience and then giving them what they need in terms of value. If your niche is gardening then an article on “How to find a divorce lawyer” may not do to well. You have to cater to the interests of your target audience. They need help in any number of ways, listen to what topics dominate the forums and check other websites out in your niche and read what topics dominate and you will get a good feel for what’s needed in that particular niche and audience.

Spelling & Grammar-

Now this is becoming a biggie for me in article writing. Kind of a pet peeve that I have. As obvious as this may seem even some of my older posts have some errors and it doesn’t need to be that way but we often are rushing to get this done and over look the simplest of tasks. It just doesn’t look very professional when your reading and have to go over what you have just read again to make sense of it due to a grammatical error. The same for spelling, no one is perfect but you definitely want to cut down on as many as you possibly can.

Keywords/SEO-

Now, I saved this one for last because I don’t think that you can just overlook the job of SEO (search engine optimization) when it comes to article writing and content for your website. Find out what SEO keywords are relevant to your niche and include them in your article title and body several times.
Caution, you don’t want to overuse or overdo the use of keywords, just make sure when you use these keywords that it’s in the natural flow of your content. Google likes the natural flow and that’s how you should approach keywords in your articles.

Article Writing can be very valuable….

I hope that you got some value out of these simple but important keys to article writing. There are many more tips and tricks to article writing but these are some of the more basic steps and if you follow at least these few you will be well on your way to establishing yourself as a valued resource with your audience within your niche. You will also be helping and touching lives in ways you may have no idea about which is awesome in my book!

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I remember watching  sitcoms like ”Friends” and “Martin” and after a couple of seasons because of their extremely high ratings and popularity they went into what’s called “Syndication”.

Syndication in television or radio broadcasting is a term that simply means that other stations or networks can (through purchasing rights) now broadcast a show usually a sitcom on their network and reap the benefits of the ratings that come along with that particular shows popularity.

Now the individual shows also received a great benefit from syndication. Now instead of “Friends” or “Martin” being on one station at one particular time on one particular day, the shows could now be seen on several stations at various times on different days which increased the shows visibility and as a result a lot more people were exposed to shows like “Martin” due to alternate outlets that weren’t originally available.

The Concept Behind TribePro

The same concept is being applied in TribePro online with content (blog posts, articles, podcasts, videos..etc). With the power of Facebook and Twitteralong with all the other social media outlets, syndication can be a powerful ally in getting brand recognition and visitors/traffic to your sites.

Google just announced that they now take into account the social media status of sites and blogs. In other words If your not using social media to promote your website your losing out on potentially thousands of visitors per day. If you aren’t interested in thousands of visitors per day stop reading now.

This image represents what Tribal syndication is all about. The power of having a piece of content shared 429 times is incredible. As a matter of fact my friend Tristan Richards (featured in above photo)a phenomenal marketer wrote a great blog post about TribePro and some of the awesome features this online tool has. You can read his blog post here ===>CLICK.

TribePro is the brainchild of Ronnie & Staci Gauny great people who you will be hearing more about in short order.

TribePro is a content syndication platform that has a family of bloggers ready to meet you and push your content right to the first page of google.

Three levels of membership and benefits inside of TribePro:

1. Free…

2. Plus – $39.97 per Month

3. Pro – $79.97 per Month

Ronnie & Staci have gone above and beyond with the TribePro platform and it can be useful in so many ways list building, lead generation, brand recognition, affiliate commissions, JV’s…etc.

Ray Higdon top producer/income earner, awesome offline & online marketer interviewed Staci and she revealed some nuggets about why you should join TribePro today and not wait if you want to generate traffic for your websites…take a look ====>CLICK HERE!

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Hey guys I decided to write this post as kind of a follow-up to What To Look For In A Home Based Business In 2011 because it just seems to me like they would make a great tag-team.

The logic would be after deciding to start your home based business you would need marketing and leads as part of your planning going forward to be successful.

I guess I could have combined the two and titled the post something like, Lead Generation and What to look For When  Starting Your Home Based Business In 2011…..What do you think? No, doesn’t work for me either.

So I came up with 5 keys to generating leads online.

1. Pick One Marketing Strategy

2. Add Content/Value

3. Brand Yourself

4. Connect/Engage

5. Marketing System

#1.Pick One Marketing Strategy- It appears at least to me, that one of the biggest hurdles to newbies when they come online is staying focused on one strategy until you have attained “Sensei Like”status in that one strategy. I know for me I was all over the place and had to unplug due to that huge hole that had developed in my pocket. Can you relate?

So if your using Article Marketing as a strategy for instance, then master it before moving on to something else. If it’s facebook then find some Great Facebook Training and learn all the ins, outs and master facebook (can you even do that?)

Marketing Strategies are broken down in a couple of different categories:

1. Paid ex: PPC, Solo Ads, List Builders

2. Free ex: Article Marketing, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

Choosing a type of strategy usually comes down to these two factors:

• Time

• Budget

Typically it breaks down this way, if you have a budget and you want to generate leads sooner rather than later then Paid Strategies are the way for you to go.

If you don’t have a huge budget and your willing to make the time and be a little patient, then free strategies can work just as well, in some cases better.

Consistency is key. Especially if your using a blog and/or social media. Just because you get a few comments does not mean that you have locked followers in. Consistency leads to familiarity which eventually leads to trust which should be a key goal and where you want to be.

#2.Content – The cool thing about this part of generating leads is the added benefit of establishing your online voice which is a part of your brand, and as more people become familiar with your content and voice your brand will develop and grow.

Content can come in many forms, it can be a blog post, an article, a video for example, and you can get creative and use content in a few ways, because it’s basically information and since so many people come online to research and find out the what’s and how’s to’s to do something that opens up a lot of possibilities for you.

It is important that your content is niche specific that way you can develop loyalty with your readers which is easier when they have some since of where your coming from.

#3.Brand – Now this is really important. It’s your identity online. Your USP unique selling proposition. This will (especially for those new to marketing online) be an ongoing exercise of communicating who you are and why we should listen to you.

Brand recognition can be very profitable for you. A lot of people will drink a Coke even if they are not thirsty, because the brand of “Coke” has been so established as a drink of choice that it’s almost automatic to choose a coke vs something else for a lot of people. This is why content consistency is important.

#4.Connect/Engage – I understand that were not all cut from the same cloth, some of us are more feely, touchy and some of us are like well for lack of a better example Monk…….

Don’t touch me!!….lol

Now that may be a little extreme but my point is with your audience you can’t be stand offish (is that a word?) and be successful in generating leads. People connect with other people so you must lend yourself and actually actively seek out connections with others to generate leads.

You can leave comments on blog posts that you read, leave reply’s when others comment on your posts, connect on the social networking sites, forums to gain friends one must show themselves friendly is kind of a rule of thumb.

#5.Marketing System- There are many out there to choose from and some are better than others. I’ll just say this I had no idea when I came online what a campaign was nor how to set one up, never heard of a capture page, sales funnel anyone? These were totally foreign terms to me and I was looking to make money not learn to be a computer techie.

The benefit of using an Online Marketing System is that (it should) shorten your learning curve and provide a step by step process that will set up your online marketing and sales funnels. Ideally it’s plug and play so that within a very short time your generating leads for your business and properly using the sales funnel for additional income streams independent of your business opportunity.

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