Secret #4: Creating passionate articles will explode your eBook sales!
Copyright 2004 Bluedolphin Crow - All Rights Reserved.
Aho,
All the experts finally agreed on something. Writingarticles about your eBook can be one of the mostsuccessful ways of eMarketing.
However, one of the biggest problems on online islearning how to write a great article. You should not just type any old thing and call it an article.
First, you must put your passion, your personalityinto the article. In addition here are some stepsto follow to explode your eBook sales using freearticles.
Step 1: Generate an article idea that everyone willwant to read about. Review your eBook and look forthe benefits that your eBook provides to the readers. Make a list of these benefits.
Now, take one benefit at a time and create an article. This will assure you of generating an article ideathat people want to read about.
Step 2: Write a simple outline. Once you have yourfirst benefit idea selected. Take another sheet ofpaper and write a simple outline for that idea. Thiswill give you the beginning content for your article.Later we will "fill in the blanks" of this simpleoutline to create the article itself.
Step 3: Choose a killer title that will draw attention. This is one of the most important aspects of your article. Without a killer title, your article will be passed overfor another.
Now what do I mean killer title? What I mean is a titlethat has a benefit stated in it and draws peoplesattention.
Answer these three questions to help you write thatkiller title.
1. Does the title draw a reader to take a look?
2. Does the title promise to solve a need for
the reader?
3. Does the title offer specific information?
Another way to start writing killer titles is to writeat least 20 to 100 titles for each article to start. Then review other people's article titles. Then reviewyour list and select your best killer title. I will tellyou from my own experience that the more titles I writefor an article, the better my title becomes. I havenever used any of the first few titles when doing theabove exercise.
Step 4:
Grab your readers with an attention-grabbing openingsentence. You can use either a statement or a question here. The idea here is to not only grab the readers'attention. It's also to keep it.
The best way I have learned to write an attention-grabbingopening sentence is to go online to an article directoryand read the opening sentences to articles with a similartopic. I then discover which opening sentences areattention-grabbing and which are not.
Once I've done this I find it really easy to get myattention-grabbing sentence out of the way.
Step 5: State the primary purpose of the article byintroducing a problem. By looking at your main benefitagain you can turn it around into a problem. What is itlike without the benefit? Here it is best to use astatement rather than a question.
If you are having trouble with this step simply writeout an answer to this statement: "One of the biggest problems..." Use this to jar youridea centers in your mind. You can also begin yourprimary purpose statement this way. Look at thebeginning of this article for an example.
Step 6: Take out the sheet of paper that has youroutline on it. Now, write two to four sentences foreach part of your outline. Imagine for a moment thata 7 year old has asked you about your article. Howwould you explain it to that child? Great! Now usethat in your article.
Most ezine publishers and owners like articles between400 to 1500 words. They also want it formatted to between60 and 65 characters per line, including spaces.
I have found it best to use "notepad" when beginning towrite out my articles and NOT a word processing program. This way there is NO formatting in the article. It isjust the article in plain text.
Another point here is to use the word "you" a lot. Youwant the reader to feel comfortable while reading.
Step 7: Include two to three free resources that thereader can find online to illustrate and/or highlightyour article content. Using this of course is only ifit is appropriate to your article content.
Step 8: Write a resource box for the end of your article. Make this between 4 to 8 lines max. Here is where youtell a little bit about yourself and then highlight yourwebsite or email address. See the bottom of this articlefor an example of a resource box. It is the informationthat follows, "about the author," below.
Step 9: And finally, with your article written it is timeto reread and rewrite. I have found that reading it aloudand/or having one or two other people read it helps a lotat this stage.
Don't run into a problem many beginning article writersfall into. Many of them don't like somethingthey wrote and try to begin again. STOP! Don't beginagain. Simply edit around the copy that flows.
Step 10: Now last but definitely not least, reread yourarticle for grammar mistakes and use spell check one lasttime! This IS the most important step.
Once your article is done you should do the followingtwo things.
1. Submit your article to "article announce" servicesonline. An article announce service is a email servicethat posts articles for everyone. You have to be a memberto submit your article. Once you join you can post yourarticles as you have them completed. Usually only onearticle submission to each of the announce services per day.
Writers, Publishers and Website owners watch the articlesbeing announced for content that they can use.
When you join these services, it is best to use a secondemail address. This way the large numbers of articles youwill be receiving will not interrupt your personal andbusiness email.
Here are a few article announce services to subscribe to. After you email them to subscribe, READ the email theysend you and FOLLOW the directions on formatting yourarticle for each of them. This will increase your abilityof having your articles published in these services.
I have listed only article announce services that arelocated at Yahoo eGroups. After you have subscribed andread each email you receive. Go to this URL to postyour articles:
http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups
Article Announce groups:
Article Announce Subscribe:article_announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
AAInternet Subscribe:aainet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Articles Archive Subscribe:articles_archives-subscribe@egroups.com
Free Content Subscribe:Free-Content-subscribe@egroups.com
NOTE: to subscribe simply send a blank email to each ofthe addresses above.
2. Ok Great! Now its time to submit your article to onlinearticle archives and article directories. Articledirectories and archives are web sites that containhundreds and thousands of articles from all over theworld. Once you post your article at one of theselocations your articles will be in front of thousandsof readers, Publishers, writers and website owners.
Here are three to get you started:
http://www.1st-in-articles.com
http://www.webmomz.com/users/signup.shtml
http://www.goarticles.com
Well that's it for today.
Thank you for reading. Have a great week!
Blessings Bluedolphin Crow
About the Author Bluedolphin Crow Ph.D. is the author of an eBook called:eBook-Marketing-Secrets-Revealed! Rreserve your copy go to: http://www.ebook-marketing-secrets-revealed.com |
