Marketing your Business through Blogs and Articles

Marketing your Business through Blogs and Articles

Guest Blogger, Corrie Petersen

Finding ways to put your business in front of your target market can be a challenge at times. One thing to remember is that you need to be consistent in what you do. Studies show you need to put yourself in front of your target market five to seven times before they will consider looking at what you offer.

There are several ways to keep your business in front of your target market on a regular basis. One way to do this is through blog posting. Running a blog is a great way to help your target market through tips, suggestions, and anything else that they may benefit from them.

One thing you need to do is add a subscription box to your blog and add an RSS feed to it. The subscription box will give your readers the ability to receive updates via their email. The RSS feed will help with blog submissions and you can use it with your social networking sites. Both of which are valuable tools for your business.

Another way you can keep your business in front of your target market regularly is to use article marketing. Article marketing is where you write articles and you submit them to article directories. Your articles need to be full of great content and you want them to be helpful to your readers.

You can use the articles as content on your blog or you can rewrite your blog posts and turn them into articles. Either way will work and will help you increase the content on the other.

Blog posting and Article marketing are two of the many ways that you can keep your business in front of your target market and increase your traffic. You should try to post on your blog three to four times a week and you should write and submit one to two articles a week. This will help you keep your target market aware of what you are doing and you will constantly be in front of them.

Corrie Petersen runs a successful Virtual Assistant business. She enjoys helping others
reach their goals and dreams. Check out her website at www.virtualfreedom4you.com

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3 Easy Ways to Use Your New Articles for Marketing

3 Easy Ways to Use Your New Articles for Marketing

Article marketing is a great way to get  free and effective exposure for your home business.  However, there is a lot more you can do with the articles that you write than just submitting them to article directories. You can actually create a lot more fresh content and take advantage of more marketing opportunities.

Here are 3 ways to Use Your New Articles for Marketing:

1. Use your article to build a social networking page.

There are many popular social networking sites. Use your article to plug it into a social networking page. Then, add a few other elements to the page (depending on what the social networking site offers). Within 30 minutes,  you’ll have more content on the Internet and another backlink pointing to your site.

2.  Use your article as a blog entry.

Shorten your articles to create a blog post.  You can change the title and also a few sentences in the body of the article. You can quickly convert you article to create fresh new content.  Slight changes are all that’s really needed. Within just a few minutes you can easily make your article into a blog entry.  To personalize it even more, add your own illustrations or thoughts.

3.  Use your article content to create a video.

Don’t shake your head just yet.  This is much easier then you might think. You can actually use free software to make the video or you can easily use a web cam to make the video directly on YouTube. The video can be as simple as you reading the article slowly and clearly. Even a basic video like this will get views and will help you gain more exposure for your  home business.

Attract more clients, customers and partnerships by learning tactics from Easy Article Marketing

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3 Traffic Tips to Help Bring More Visitors to Your Site

3 Traffic Tips to Help Bring More Visitors to Your Site

One of the biggest problems internet marketers face is getting traffic. So many people believe the myth ‘if you build it they will come’. Believe me, that’s far from the truth!

Here are three tips to help bring traffic to your site:

1. Article marketing. This is one of the easiest ways to generate traffic to your site. Not only will you generate traffic writing articles is a great way to distinguish yourself as an expert in your niche.

If you aren’t a great writer, don’t have the time to write or just simply don’t want to do it you can hire a ghost writer to do it for you. And of course there is always PLR (private label rights) as well.

2. Forum Marketing. Also known as message boards. This is another useful tactic in generating traffic to your site. Make sure you are joining forums that are relevant to your niche and where your target market is likely to be hanging out.

Don’t join a forum and immediately post a ’sales pitch’. In fact before you even post a link sharing about your services or product you should become ‘known’ around the forum. It’s all about building relationships first!

3. Video Traffic. The idea of creating a video can be a bit scary but you need to step out of your comfort zone and create a compelling video that will be beneficial to your target audience. Make something that is going to grab people’s attention and keep them interested and end with a call to action. Don’t forget to put a link to your website in the video where people can see it clearly.

Those are only three tips to get you started on bringing more traffic to your site. If you would like 98 more tips and a deeper explanation of the tips listed above pick up your copy of  Moms Talk Biz Guide to Traffic Tips – 101 Smart and Easy Web Traffic Strategies.

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Wahms Connect Online to Market their Home Business

Wahms Connect Online to Market their Home Business  and why you should join us…

Being a work at home mom requires a lot of time, money and energy…probably more than you’ve expected.

If your time and energy is in short supply, and your business needs a boost, WAHM-Articles.com has launched a new social networking community that  helps work-at-home-moms learn how to market their businesses in less time and more effectively by using “article marketing”.

What is article marketing?

Article marketing is a marketing strategy where you write articles to promote your products and services and let others publish them for free in exchange for a link back to your site.

Many of the members at the WAHM-Articles Forum are experienced article marketers and publishers, so it’s a great place to hook up with website owners who are looking for articles like yours and ask all your article marketing questions.

In the forum, we talk about everything related with article marketing, including:

• How to write articles that get more traffic to your website or blog

• How to use your articles to get more subscribers to your mailing list

• How to get your article readers to visit your website

• How to convince those website visitors to buy from you.

It’s FREE to join!

A Platinum Membership is also available that will give you access to article reviews, article marketing training, and valuable resources and discounts. Platinum memberships are available for an introductory price of $50 a year.

If you want to learn how to get more website traffic and sales in less time, I recommend you go to http://www.WAHM-Articles.com/forum to register for your free account.

I’m a member and I’ve already learned a lot from the community there as well as received great support. If you join us, you can discover how to spend less time on marketing your website so you have more time spend with the kids, or on taking your business to the next level.

I’d love to see you there! You can register at http://www.WAHM-Articles.com/forum

Five Tips Moms Can Use to Save Time and Make Money with Article Marketing

Five Tips Moms Can Use to Save Time and Make Money with Article Marketing

Guest Blogger, Denise Willms

When you’re a mom making money from home, you don’t have a lot of extra cash or time to market your business on the internet. Ad space can be expensive. Getting quality links to your website can take weeks. And convincing other people that your product or service can help them – that can take months of consistent effort.

Article marketing is a simple way to advertise your business, get quality links, and earn people’s trust… all or free.

Here are five tips you can use to write articles that market your business, develop backlinks and win customers:

1. Before you write a single word, get to know your target market. If you know exactly who you’re writing for, and what they need help with, writing articles that solve their problems will be a lot easier.

2. Remember, you don’t have to have all the answers. You don’t need to be a guru to write an article that can help someone else. Just share what you do know.

3. Add some good keywords to your article title, your first sentence, and to the body of your article. More readers will find your article if you included the keyword phrases they’re searching for. You can research keywords using a free tool like www.freekeywords.wordtracker.com

4. Be sure to include your name and an active link to your website in your author’s resource box. Write out the full URL, including the http:// . That way, if someone reprints a text version of your article, the link will still remain active.

5. Publish your article in places where members of your target market spend their time. Submit it to niche directories, their favorite websites, blogs and newsletters. Publishers are always looking for new content their readers will enjoy reading.

When you consistently write and publish articles that help your target market, over time you will get more website traffic and win more customers. Best of all, you will have more time and money to spend on more important things, like your family.

Denise Willms is a professional article and press release writer, and owner of a WAHM-Articles.com, a niche article directory for work at home moms . To learn more about article marketing and network with article writers and publishers, visit Denise’s WAHM Authors Club at http://www.WAHM-Articles.com/forum and register for a free account.