My Article Marketing Secret Weapons
As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, I’ve decided to “put my money where my mouth is” and take part in the latest e-zine articles 100 articles in 100 days challenge. I’m going to try to write 100 articles in the next 100 days.
Why am I doing this? Well, I am constantly telling my clients to create content for their blogs, for articles, for products. I am not so consistent in creating content for my own business. So, this challenge is a bit of experiment for me to try to come up with a system to make content creation easier for my clients while working on my own website. I’m hoping that this year’s article marketing adventure will be successful — here are the tools I am using to make it easier.
1. EzineArticles.com WordPress plug in EzineArticles.com is constantly coming up with new ways for authors to leverage their system. The latest addition is a WordPress plugin that automatically submits your blog posts to their article marketing system. You can customize the resource box and the tags. I plan on writing the articles as blog drafts – submitting them via the plug in and then editing and scheduling them for posting. This short cut will also allow me to pre-schedule most of my 2011 blog posts before the end of 2010.
2. My mindmap I’ve created an article idea mindmap. During the day, as I come up with ideas – I’m adding them to the map. Putting the ideas in visual format – I’m able to create sub-series and see how groups of articles might fit together into bigger publications.
3. My RSS reader – I’ve added about a dozen new blogs to my Google reader account. I am also planning on spending more time scanning twitter, Facebook and linked in for people’s questions about online marketing and how I might help them.
4. Notes from client phone calls My clients are a great source of questions that I can answer in article form. I will be writing out all of my “standard” lectures — that way – next time they ask — I can just point them to the appropriate article.
5. Article writing templates I just bought a bunch of article writing templates from a website called write articles faster. The templates seem to be very high quality. They even come in word processor format. I’m hoping that having pre-made outlines will help me to speed along the article writing process.
That’s what I have in my article writing toolkit. I hoping that the above tools will turbocharge article writing efforts and help me be able to proudly tell my clients that if I can write 100 articles in 100 days – they can too!
Meredith Eisenberg is a successful virtual assistant who helps other VAs to create successful and lucrative practices helping coaches and other heart-based entrepreneurs. Go to Meredith’s website to learn more.
Author: Meredith Eisenberg
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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