to elaborate. Most readers want to know your name and where they can click to find more. If you can also put the links at the end of the bio so they are not buried in text, just as you see with my bio. The bio is where you will start driving traffic back to your website (and perhaps converting the reader into a customer) - make sure there is something at the other end worth buying!

These three points will make a big difference between writing for pleasure and writing for business. I prefer to concentrate on the busine

It has been said many times that article marketing is one of the best ways to promote your products (including books). In the past, I have spent many, many dollars on hiring publicists, getting distributors, working with publishers, getting radio interviews, and even travelling to be on TV shows. The result of the shelling out of money has netted only a few thousand sales for my series of books. I have not recovered the costs of the PR let alone the cost of printing and shipping my books.

After a request to do more PR and more leg work (at an additional cost to me), I realized that I was at the end of my rope and my bank account too. No more spending where there was a slim chance of making back the money and there was no possible hope for paying myself. It was time to take the project into my own hands and start taking control of where my money was going. I wanted to control not only my money going out, but the money coming in as well.

This is when I turned to article marketing. At first, I was a novice at putting the articles together but after a period of time, it became easier. What I learned as I went through the process took a long time. In order to make your journey shorter, here are the three top ways to take advantage of article marketing.

1. Spend time writing a number of articles that give advice and promote your product at the same time. This is not an infomercial or straight out advertising, it is a subtle way to show your expertise. Take a look at a few articles on this site to see who markets their expertise within their articles and who does not.
2. Select a number of keywords that fit into your articles and use them. If your product is a book, like mine, use keywords that are on the website for your book or product. I find that purposely adding these keywords to my articles really adds to posting my articles (it helps to increase the page ranking for your site, if you have linked it to the article).
3. Work on perfecting your bio for the articles. Include your name, expertise and links back to your website in the first two sentences. They allow yourself to elaborate. Most readers want to know your name and where they can click to find more. If you can also put the links at the end of the bio so they are not buried in text, just as you see with my bio. The bio is where you will start driving traffic back to your website (and perhaps converting the reader into a customer) - make sure there is something at the other end worth buying!

These three points will make a big difference between writing for pleasure and writing for business. I prefer to concentrate on the busines

leg work (at an additional cost to me), I realized that I was at the end of my rope and my bank account too. No more spending where there was a slim chance of making back the money and there was no possible hope for paying myself. It was time to take the project into my own hands and start taking control of where my money was going. I wanted to control not only my money going out, but the money coming in as well.

This is when I turned to article marketing. At first, I was a novice at putting the articles together but after a period of time, it became easier. What I learned as I went through the process took a long time. In order to make your journey shorter, here are the three top ways to take advantage of article marketing.

1. Spend time writing a number of articles that give advice and promote your product at the same time. This is not an infomercial or straight out advertising, it is a subtle way to show your expertise. Take a look at a few articles on this site to see who markets their expertise within their articles and who does not.
2. Select a number of keywords that fit into your articles and use them. If your product is a book, like mine, use keywords that are on the website for your book or product. I find that purposely adding these keywords to my articles really adds to posting my articles (it helps to increase the page ranking for your site, if you have linked it to the article).
3. Work on perfecting your bio for the articles. Include your name, expertise and links back to your website in the first two sentences. They allow yourself to elaborate. Most readers want to know your name and where they can click to find more. If you can also put the links at the end of the bio so they are not buried in text, just as you see with my bio. The bio is where you will start driving traffic back to your website (and perhaps converting the reader into a customer) - make sure there is something at the other end worth buying!

These three points will make a big difference between writing for pleasure and writing for business. I prefer to concentrate on the busine

iod of time, it became easier. What I learned as I went through the process took a long time. In order to make your journey shorter, here are the three top ways to take advantage of article marketing.

1. Spend time writing a number of articles that give advice and promote your product at the same time. This is not an infomercial or straight out advertising, it is a subtle way to show your expertise. Take a look at a few articles on this site to see who markets their expertise within their articles and who does not.
2. Select a number of keywords that fit into your articles and use them. If your product is a book, like mine, use keywords that are on the website for your book or product. I find that purposely adding these keywords to my articles really adds to posting my articles (it helps to increase the page ranking for your site, if you have linked it to the article).
3. Work on perfecting your bio for the articles. Include your name, expertise and links back to your website in the first two sentences. They allow yourself to elaborate. Most readers want to know your name and where they can click to find more. If you can also put the links at the end of the bio so they are not buried in text, just as you see with my bio. The bio is where you will start driving traffic back to your website (and perhaps converting the reader into a customer) - make sure there is something at the other end worth buying!

These three points will make a big difference between writing for pleasure and writing for business. I prefer to concentrate on the busine

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Select a number of keywords that fit into your articles and use them. If your product is a book, like mine, use keywords that are on the website for your book or product. I find that purposely adding these keywords to my articles really adds to posting my articles (it helps to increase the page ranking for your site, if you have linked it to the article).

Work on perfecting your bio for the articles. Include your name, expertise and links back to your website in the first two sentences. They allow yourself to elaborate. Most readers want to know your name and where they can click to find more. If you can also put the links at the end of the bio so they are not buried in text, just as you see with my bio. The bio is where you will start driving traffic back to your website (and perhaps converting the reader into a customer) - make sure there is something at the other end worth buying!

These three points will make a big difference between writing for pleasure and writing for business. I prefer to concentrate on the busine

to elaborate. Most readers want to know your name and where they can click to find more. If you can also put the links at the end of the bio so they are not buried in text, just as you see with my bio. The bio is where you will start driving traffic back to your website (and perhaps converting the reader into a customer) - make sure there is something at the other end worth buying!

These three points will make a big difference between writing for pleasure and writing for business. I prefer to concentrate on the business end of things and it usually turns to be pleasure anyway.