Free Advertising Tips: How to Write Ads that Sell

If you are interested in free advertising you are not alone. The fact of the matter is that more and more people are diving into free advertising because they can save a lot of money. After all, what is the point in taking out an ad in a newspaper if you can do this for free in another place? When it comes down to it, you need to consider free advertising so that you can save money yet still accomplish all of your goals.

Unfortunately, just because you are advertising without having to spend a lot of money does not mean that you are going to sell everything with ease. In fact, there is one thing that you need for sure if you are going to make free advertising work to your advantage? Do you know what this may be? You need to be able to write ads that sell. It does not matter if you know where to find free advertising if you have no clue on how to communicate this with your audience.

The first thing that you should remember about a free ad is that you should keep it simple. Remember, people are not going to take hour after hour to read what everybody has to say. For this reason, your free advertisement should list the benefits and details of what you are offering, without rambling on and on. The quicker you can get to the point the better off you are going to be.

Also, make sure that you write ads that are genuine. Remember, there is a lot of spam that makes its way onto free advertising boards. In order to stay away from this type of ad, you will want to be genuine and accurate with every word that you write. This will give you a much better rate of success.

All in all, you need to write ads that sell if you are interested in free advertising. Without the proper words you are not going to get very far. Luckily, with a bit of practice you will be creating free advertisements that convert!

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    The Top 5 Roadblocks To Web Accessibility

    Introduction
    Accessibility is often the last thing on a web designer's mind when creating a website. This is not a trait unique to newbies or people working on a personal page. It is also a trait common to professional web designers (large and small) and even multinational corporations. In fact, most web designers have no clue about what accessibility is.
    Many who do know what accessibility is will often treat it as though it is brain surgery. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, all that it takes to create an accessible site is some forethought and understanding of the kinds of mistakes you're likely to make so you know how to avoid them.
    What is Accessibility?
    For those with no knowledge of accessibility, I usually like to use the following analogy: The building you work in probably has at least one handicapped parking space. If it has more than one floor, it probably has an elevator or escalator (or both). It has railings on the stairs, and probably has a dip in the curb. Your workplace has these items in order to facilitate access to the business by disabled customers and/or employees. Accessible web design is nothing more than an electronic equivalent of this effort toward equal access to your resources.
    The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect - Tim Berners Lee, inventor of HTML and the HTTP protocol.
    Why A Complete Focus is Needed
    I will not venture into any discussion of the morality of why you should make your site accessible. Simply put, any argument (other than sheer ignorance) against accessible design is simply not worth having. Instead, let's focus on what sorts of special needs a user may have that can create problems in interacting with a website:
    Visual impairments, which can manifest themselves in color blindness, poor eyesight or complete blindness
    Hearing impairments in a wide range of potential severities
    Mobility impairments ranging from arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, paralysis, or other motor-control disorders
    Cognitive impairments such as cerebral palsy, Downs syndrome, Alzheimer's, dyslexia, or learning disorders
    Seizure disorders like epilepsy
    Ultimately, a complete approach is what is needed in order to create an accessible site. You cannot predict the user's needs or the severity of those needs. Misguided approaches such as browser detection or text-only alternatives betray a lack of understanding this fact. Text-only alternatives can only provide an accessibility solution for those with vision disorders, thereby disregarding millions of other disabled users with different needs. Browser detection is destined to fail, as disabled visitors use a wide range of adaptive technology, including user-agents that identify themselves as one of the major brands. Moreover, there is no way to detect the user's pointing device or any of the other items in the wide range of settings used to compensate for their special needs.
    Avoid The Most Common Mistakes
    In their ignorance and disregard, web designers are most likely to commit five mistakes that are roadblocks to accessibility. Avoiding these mistakes will take you far down the road toward accessible design. Your site won't be perfect just by avoiding these five mistakes, but committing these mistakes will likely mean the site is completely unusable a wide range of users with special needs.
    1. Dependence upon client side scripting to present navigation or important content
    Among the ways you can make a website completely inaccessible to many types of impairments at once is to use client-side scripting in such a way that the entire site fails to work for users who have client side scripting turned off or who are using adaptive technology that does not recognize client side scripting at all.
    Such items would be things like:
    Event handled dynamic content (processed client side)
    Fly-Out (aka DHTML) menus
    Drop down menus that require the onChange event handler to operate
    Popup windows that do not work without JavaScript
    Reliance on scripting will have one of four possible results:
    The site will load but navigation will be impossible (it will either display and not work, or often just not display)
    Substantial portions of content will not display
    The site will load but absolutely no content will display
    In an attempt to circumvent "usability" problems created by their use of scripting, they will cluelessly detect the presence of scripting support by the browser and redirect the user to a dead end page, which attempts to teach you how to upgrade your software.
    I consider any of these results to be a complete accessibility failure. Unfortunately, even websites for multinational corporations and government entities fail under such criterion.
    The following sites lead to dead end pages asking you to upgrade your software
    New York Stock Exchange
    Time Magazine
    H&R Block
    Travelocity
    General Motors
    Toyota
    Porsche
    The following sites result in completely inoperable navigational elements
    Washington DC Water and Sewer Authority
    Volvo
    1-800-Contacts
    The American Automobile Association
    Verisign
    The following sites will load, but the content will actually not display at all
    Chrysler
    Ford
    Chevy
    Visa
    The following sites have a Swiss-cheese effect with content sporadically missing on screen
    Dodge
    Jeep
    Baltimore Ravens Football Team
    The solution for these problems is extremely simple. Do not make anything completely dependent upon scripting. Interactive elements should add to the enjoyment of the website, not detract from it as often happens.
    I recommend against using "fly-out" (aka DHTML) menus and dropdown menus for primary navigation.
    While it is possible to create them so that navigation works with scripting turned off, that will only solve one set of problems. As a general usability issue, DHTML navigation is often described as "slippery" by able-bodied users, and can certainly create frustration among those with motor impairments.
    At the very least, you'll want to ensure two things when using fly-out menus for navigation:
    The menu (or a

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     or 
    to control text positioning, or not associating data table cells with headers and defining relationships between headers and data rows/ columns.
    CSS is for presentation
    In every case where presentational effect is needed, you should use CSS to achieve the presentational effect. I cannot think of many presentational effects achieved by HTML attributes that do not have CSS equivalents. Some CSS properties have spotty support by major browsers, and for this reason you should always keep this issue in mind. This spotty support does not mean you should lazily resort to HTML's presentational attributes. Rather, it means you should either come to grips with the myth of "looking the same" to everyone or find another presentational effect to chase after. In my opinion, resorting to a workaround means the design is flawed, not the spec.
    Use appropriate markup
    Use appropriate markup for the document, before even involving yourself in presentation. This includes things like headings, paragraph tags, and break tags. Are you using

    to make a large, bold word? Are you using to create a heading? Are you using

    to create a break between paragraphs? Are you using
    to indent text? If so, you're using these elements improperly.
    Each of these elements has a purpose in dictating the structure of the document. For instance,

    is the element meant to dictate the heading of the document.

    is for sub-headings, such as main sections of text.

    is meant as a subheading of a section.

    is meant to mark a paragraph, and so on. For more information on what the purpose is of the various HTML elements, visit the spec yourself. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401
    To ensure greater accessibility:
    Use HTML to define structure only
    Use CSS to define presentation
    Always use the most appropriate element for the content. Do not misuse elements or attributes just to achieve your aesthetic vision.
    3. Device dependence
    While many people tend to think of accessibility as efforts to make a site usable for the blind, this is simply not true. Creating a site that is dependent upon any piece of hardware is destined to fail for users with a wide range of potential special needs - most notably, the blind and persons with motor impairments. Device dependence is a bad practice from a general usability standpoint as well. More and more users are accessing the Internet with devices such as cell phones and PDAs. Creating device dependence can serve to alienate far more people, disabled or not.
    Device dependence can be seen as:
    onClick/ onMouseover/ onMouseout or other event handlers that rely on the user having a mouse in order to operate a link or form control.
    Server-side image maps that do not have a corresponding set of redundant links
    Navigation or forms that do not have a logical tab order
    I don't necessarily frown on device dependence in cases where the dependence is only an issue for things like rollovers, image highlighting, text color changing, or some other decorative change. The issue comes when the device dependence combines with a reliance on scripting (#1, above) in that the event handler is tied to something like form submission, content presentation, or a calculation. In such cases, as I also said above, these things would probably be best-handled server-side. At the same time, a more accessible event handler choice might be best as well, using handlers like onFocus, onBlur, onChange and onSelect.
    In cases where device-dependent event handlers are needed, you should use redundancy to handle the interaction so that it at least works for people using either a mouse or a keyboard. When you use onMousedown, combine it with onKeydown. When you use onClick, combine it with onKeypress:
    Example:
    Click The Button
    Ultimately, you would still be far from fully accessible, so long as there's any level of device dependence for access to any important content, navigation, or interactivity. A far better approach would be to refrain from creating site features that require the user having any specific piece of hardware. Remember one thing above all others: For every specific special need there is just as wide of a variety of methods used by the visitor to compensate for it. This includes input devices just as much as it does output devices. Dodge the bullet altogether by creating the site so that it doesn't matter what the visitor uses to interact with the site.
    Some creative and knowledgeable designers also use JavaScript's document.write() function to write these features to the browser. In these cases, they also wisely provide a redundant text alternative via the

    tag.
    Then use a "legend" for each field set using the tag and provide a

    Honest **FREE** Reviews of Internet Businesses - Scams or NOT

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    Link Directory Tools

    Maintaining link directory is one of the best ways to get the targeted internet traffic on your website. You can have reciprocal as well as out-going links with the help of various other web masters on your link directory. Though setting up of a link directory involves the usage of a number of link directory tools by you.

    Yes, you have to adopt certain link directory tools to sustain in this competitive cyber world. Also, it is of utmost importance for you to get your links positioned at the right place on the web. For, the performance of your links largely depends on the positioning of your links. If you are not linked with the right websites at the right place, your whole link building campaign can fail at once. This would be because the search engines would fail to locate you for the search results. And this will result in a total chaos and no page ranking for you. Certainly you would not like to fall in such a situation at all.

    So you can definitely adopt a few popular tools and software to maintain an effective link directory for you.

    First things first, all your link building campaign is based on the single fact that you want a right position among the major search engines’ results. And this is probably the biggest concern and worry for all the webmasters. Even your competitor would be thinking night and day for raising their page ranks above you, by using even better link popularity techniques. So you should also join the bandwagon and adopt the right tools for maintaining an effective link directory today.

    Now to raise your link popularity by increasing the quality links in your link directory, you can purchase some link directory software. The software would automate your functions of finding and linking with the right links for your link directory. In fact the software would not only manage your directory but would also provide you with good sources of links.

    The software also supports a few predefined categories that would save your considerable time for developing links as well. The link directory tools and software also enable you to customize the categories according to your needs and design them as you like. Also you can conveniently get rid of the useless categories via them.

    Some other link directory tools in the market also provide you with the great choices of templates and designs for making apt link directory. You can choose the color of the template for each category of links. Also you can give various colors to different links in the directory. The most popular colors are red, blue and green.

    The link directory tools are a great way to establish excellent link directory. The software is available in different scripts. Most popular of them is the PHP script link directory tool. PHP is a scripting language that makes the installation of a link directory easy as PHP script software can be installed on every operating system.

    Other scripts like java and CGI are also used in the industry, but they are reported to have some complications while setting up a link directory. These link directory tools are easy to avail. You can get them easily from the software stores and on the internet.

    Now follow some tips as well. You must link with the big webmasters such as Yahoo, Msn or Amazon to reap the benefits of the internet in the most fruitful manner. Always choose the right names for the categories in your link directory. The categories must be strictly named after the links in that particular category.

    The whole purpose of a link directory is to provide the links in a systematic manner. So you must always mention the links in the directory in a systematic manner.

    So what are you waiting for? Using this useful information on link directory tools and software, you can definitely become the cyber King. All the best!

    About The Author

    Henry James


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    Link Popularity - Your Key to a Page #1 Listing

    Last week I was doing a search in Google under 'ezine advertising' and was amazed to find one of my own websites on the first page of results (position #4 out of 271,000).

    So then I went to Yahoo and got another shock - there it was again at position #4 out of 274,000 results.

    If you're wondering how I did it, the answer is I'm not entirely sure.

    But my guess is *link popularity*.

    What is link popularity?

    Some years ago the major search engines realized that the best way to decide if your website has valuable content (and is therefore worth a high ranking) is to see how many other websites link to your site.

    Link popularity was pioneered by Google but has now become a key factor in the algorithms used by most of the major search engines.

    Would you like to know your current link popularity?

    Here's a free tool that will check your link popularity in Alltheweb, AltaVista, AOL, Google, HotBot and MSN. This tool will also compare your link popularity with your competitors': http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/

    Now that you know your link popularity, you may be wondering how you can increase it.

    Here are some commonly used strategies - some effective and some not:

    ==> FFA Sites

    Free For All sites are websites that collect your email address (and send you a lot of junk email) and in return allow you to post a link on a website.

    FFA sites are rather like a conveyor belt - new links are constantly being added and old links being pushed off. On Many FFA sites your link will last an hour or two at the most.

    Even if your link stayed on an FFA site long enough to be indexed by a search engine, it is unlikely it would increase your link popularity. Search engines regard FFA sites as spam and they'll either ignore your link or penalize your site.

    ==> Link Exchange Programs

    As with FFA sites, you need to ask yourself the same question the search engines ask.

    Did someone link to your site because you have valuable content? Or did they link to your site as part of a mutual ploy to artificially raise each other's link popularity?

    The search engines know how to tell the difference and some of them (Google for example) will actually ban your site for engaging in 'link farming'.

    Another problem with this method is *link relevancy*. If the sites linking to you have content that is not related to your content, the search engines will not give much weight to those links.

    ==> Reciprocal Links with Individual Webmasters

    This will definitely increase your link popularity, especially if you seek out link partners whose websites share the same theme as yours.

    But this approach is time consuming - first you have to surf around looking for potential link partners, then you have to email them, then you have to confirm that they added your link and so on.

    ==> Writing Articles

    This is the technique I use for increasing link popularity and it works very well.

    Write short articles of 300 - 800 words and then submit them to the article announcement lists and the online article banks.

    There are thousands of webmasters out there who need free content for their websites and you'll soon find your articles appearing on dozens, even hundreds, of different websites.

    At the bottom of your article is your Resource Box containing a link to your website. It might look something like this:


    John Doe is the webmaster of yourdomain.com where he
    offers cutting-edge tips on all aspects of web marketing.
    To find more advice, tools and resources to help you
    succeed in online business, visit: http://www.yourdomain.com


    Most webmasters will make the URL in your Resource Box an active link. If they don't, you should insist on it because it's part of the deal - they get free content for their website and you get a free link.

    This technique has two important advantages over other methods of raising link popularity:

    1. You don't have to clutter up your website with reciprocal links
    2. You don't have to invest huge amounts of time searching for link partners and then emailing them to request a link. If they like your article, they just add it to their website.

    Happy writing!

    (c) 2002 by Michael Southon

    About The Author

    Michael Southon has been writing for the internet for over 3 years. He has shown hundreds of webmasters how to dramatically increase traffic and sales. You can read more articles like this by joining his EPT Newsletter (FREE 3 Day Mini-Course when you join): ept-subscribe@aweber.com


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    Contest Advice for Screenplay Writers

    Introduction

    There are many screenplay contests available to the aspiring screenwriter. These contests can be a good avenue to getting one's work noticed and/or make a sale. So, it's important to make certain that you have written your screenplay to the best of your ability and according to industry standards.

    The most important thing to do for any aspiring screenwriter is to first learn the basic techniques of screenwriting before sitting down to write one. I come across many hopeful writers who think that all it takes to write a script is a good story idea and a lot of explosive special effects. While a good story is important, with or without the special effects, writing that story using proper industry standards is equally important. (Please visit http://www.coverscript.com/education.html -- Tips for Screenwriters link for further information.)

    There are specific techniques to the craft of screenwriting involving everything from act structure to proper screenplay format, which must be followed. It's difficult to write engaging characters, focused plots and entertaining screenplays without having a solid framework in which to bring it all to life.

    Before any money is spent submitting your work to a screenwriting contest, it would behoove the writer to first educate himself in the "tools of the trade". There are many, many screenwriting books available as well as workshops and seminars, both online and in live classroom situations. My advice is to take advantage of them. Then, armed with the basics, write, write and then write some more.

    Then before submitting your work to any screenplay competition have it copyrighted and WGA registered. (United States Copyright office: http://www.loc.gov/copyright. Writers Guild of America: http://www.wga.org/.)

    Advice and Suggestions

    I am a judge for many contests and as such, have read thousands of TV scripts and screenplays. I can assure you that the winners are chosen because their screenplays or TV scripts contain great stories and are written to industry standards. Therefore, putting your best foot forward is a must. Below are some pointers to keep in mind before you submit your screenplay.


    If your purpose is to "break into the business", make certain that the script contest you enter offers meetings with agents and/or producers as part of the prize for winning and not just cash prizes. Of course, if it is just the extra cash you're after, then go for it!

    Make certain, before you write that entry fee check and send in your material, that the screenplay contest or TV script competition is a reputable one and indeed has, in the past, delivered to its winners what it promised in its promotion.

    Presentation of your screenplay does count so make certain your screenplay follows the accepted industry standards. This not only includes using the proper screenplay format but also such things as a typo-free screenplay and the correct binding.

    Keep in mind that the industry professionals who sponsor some of these film and TV competitions do so in order to find good producible material, hopefully for lower rather than higher budgets. Therefore, entering a screenplay in a genre with a story that screams "high budget" lessens the writer's chances of winning. This means that
    Sci-fi special effects stories taking place on purple planets populated with giant, paisley-skinned, seven-armed, Plasmanian Wooglegorps who magically float through the air using anti-gravity belts or
    a 1920's Period Piece necessitating Model-T's, Zoot suits and flappers or
    an action/adventure story that has the bad guys blown to smithereens, along with their Lear jet, over the ocean, followed by a high-tech nuclear submarine underwater search and rescue mission while the oil slicked water burns out of control, may not be the best way to go.

    Make certain that your story is told visually. Film is a visual medium.

    Make sure you don't have "on the nose" dialogue or too much dialogue and that all the dialogue sounds natural.

    Check to make sure that your characters are interesting, engaging and have good character arcs. Nothing worse than having an unlikable hero, a wishy-washy bad guy, or a protagonist who starts out angry at the world and by the end of the story is still angry at the world having learned and changed nothing in his nature.
    Conclusion

    Once you've gone through your screenplay and are satisfied with it, have it read by someone else. After all, your story is intended for a movie-going audience so honest opinions from friends and family members will give you a feel for that audience reaction.

    Then do yourself a favor and have your screenplay read by an industry professional that has experience and good credentials in the area of script analysis. A writer can become too close to his work and not be able to "see the forest for the trees". It is to your advantage to have any possible format, story, character, dialogue and structure flaws found and corrected before it is submitted to a movie or TV script contest.

    While there is never any guarantee your screenplay or TV script will be a winner, writing one to the best of your ability and which meets industry standards is a must, as the competition is fierce.

    I wish you great success in your present and future story-telling adventures.

    Lynne Pembroke
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    About The Author


    Copyright © 2004 Lynne Pembroke, Coverscript.com

    We will be pleased to have the above article published but first, please contact pemburger@aol.com informing where this article will be published.

    Lynne Pembroke is a writer, poet, screenwriter and owner of Coverscript.com, with over 18 years of experience in screenwriting and screenplay analysis helping individual writers, screenwriting competitions, agents, studios, producers and script consulting companies. Services include screenplay, TV script and treatment analysis, ghostwriting, rewriting and adaptation of novel to screenplay. Visit http://www.coverscript.com/ for more details.

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    Search Engines And Directories - Understanding The Difference

    One thing that is so basic that it often still needs to clarified is the concept that a search engine and a search directory (article directory) are not the same thing. The traditional search engines add Web site pages to their databases automatically and then rank them in popularity in their search engine rankings based on user submissions. However, these search engines also periodically send their automatic robots or "spiders" out to "crawl" for new and updated information on websites that can also be indexed and added to the search engine rankings. Complex algorithms (that are comparable to the mysterious complex FICO Scores that are used to calculate your credit rating) calculate your web page’s popularity on a number of different factor. The most famous example of a pure search engine like this is Google

    Directories also qualify as a search site but they are not the same as a search engine. To get listed on a directory, you must actually submit your front page URL on the directory's submission form. Also instead of being evaluated by an algorithm, these pages are directly assessed by a human being. This means that your site is ranked according to the information that you submitted on your application. This is very different from a typical search engine that assesses your web ranking according to what is actually on the home page of your web site. The Open Directory, Yahoo and LookSmart are the main Internet directories that are managed in this way.

    To make things even more difficult the search sites and the search engines work in cahoots together to boost each other’s rankings. Almost all of the major search engines also work in tandem with a directory which is why, for instance, a listing in DMOZ almost automatically guarantees you a place on Google.


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    Wake Up Your Writing Spirit

    The Blogfest 2005 Writing Contest has only been running for two weeks and already the results are overwhelming. And not because we’re getting far more entries than we expected. It’s because along with entries, we’re also getting heartfelt messages from writers all over the world. I’ve run a few contests before and received quite a few entries, but I’ve never been personally emailed and thanked by so many writers.

    What’s the difference with this contest? I think the main reason is that the idea actually came from writers. Even though the writers at our company work in publishing, they find it a little sad that there’s so much focus on writing what can sell instead of writing what truly matters to you. They wanted a contest that would allow people to write whatever they wanted to write.

    From that idea came Blogfest, a contest designed to encourage all writers to get the project of their dreams done. Unlike most contests, we decided not to offer publication and not to pay the prize for a completed work. Instead, we decided to offer the prizes based on how much the writing project means to the writer. This is one contest that isn’t about whether or not your work can sell or about what your writing will mean to someone else. It’s about what it means to you.

    To enter, we asked writers to tell us about the one thing they’ve always wanted to write and to tell us what it would mean to them to write it. Now, after only two weeks, we have an inbox full of emails from people. Entries so far have included grandparents wanting to write their life story for their grandchildren, aspiring novelists, professional writers looking for the chance to write something for themselves and not for money, and a young woman wanting to capture and preserve her mother’s family recipes.

    These people have entered and then sent us an extra email just to thank us for the opportunity. They’ve told us how just writing about the project has made them so excited and full of joy. They have enthusiasm and feel delight just for thinking about finally writing. And we’ve started reading the entries and the joy is there too. As a publisher, I’m used to reading submissions and contest entries. It’s often a joy but there’s rarely as much life as there is in these submissions. Reading them, I can feel that people have that spark of excitement that is only motivated by something much greater than money or even publication. It’s the joy of doing what your heart’s always wanted to do.

    There is more to writing than publication and money and this competition is bringing out the real spirit of writing.

    My message to all writers is to think about what matters to them. Think about that one thing you’ve always dreamed of writing. I challenge you to write down what completing that project would mean to you. If you feel that spark, I challenge you to commit to your project and get it written. Not because you can make money from it, but because it means something to you.

    This contest has made me see more clearly than ever that there is far more to writing than making money. There will only be a few winners to Blogfest, and choosing them is going to be the toughest job we do all year. But I hope this idea can reach further than that. I hope all writers will listen to their hearts and complete their projects. I hope that just thinking about actually doing it will wake up that writing spirit that is in so many people.

    About The Author

    Shelley Wake is one of the organizers of Blogfest 2005 and the manager and editor of Writing Stuff. http://www.writingstuff.com.

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    Generating Massive Income writing Articles

    Using specialized article marketing techniques specifically designed to generate income, my life has changed completely. Before I started marketing articles, the traffic to my sites was growing VERY slowly, and so was my income. One month I made $3.67 from my ads, the next month I made $5.21. Hardly enough to live on!

    Most people writing articles concentrate on the increased traffic an article can produce. In the course of developing my strategy, I researched hundreds, maybe thousands, of articles on the subject. Many people provided great information on the subject, but failed to provide a link to their site. Some of the author resource boxes displayed nice looking photos, but no link. When links were included, many of them pointed to their home page. It was obvious to me that these authors were either mistaken in their strategy, or trying to build traffic to their site.

    When I began marketing articles, I focused on the income they could generate instead of the additional traffic they created. All of the articles I write are targeted to correspond to a product or service I’m promoting. This strategy has worked extremely well for me. In my first month using this method, I wrote seven articles and made $167. This represented a huge increase over prior months. Now, after applying this strategy for a little over six months, I make several thousand per month and it’s growing very nicely.

    The reason for this is simple. I believe that people who read my articles are more likely to buy from me. If readers like my style of writing, the information I provide, and the design of my article, they will click my links. If they do not like the article, they will most likely leave the article before finishing it. For that reason, only those interested in my work will click my link.

    In addition, all of my articles are targeted to compliment the product I’m promoting. So, if they liked the article, there is a good chance that they will be interested in my promotion.

    I close all of my articles with an offer for more information. I prefer to use a free information offer, as many more people will click through for a free report. If instead, you ask readers to: ‘Visit our site for more information,’ only about one third as many readers will click through. For that reason, I prefer the following: For more information on the subject, download our FREE REPORT at http://tinyurl.com/3a4s2r

    About The Author

    Jo Mark is an Internet marketing authority specializing in the generation of income through the writing and placement of articles. The successful ebooks have helped countless individuals generate article income.

    Retiring after 20 years as an Investment Advisor, I now operate several websites. Visit us at http://mysite.verizon.net/vzer1vjr/jomark3/free12.html to earn cash writing articles.

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    Creative Writing: Tips To Make Your Creative Written Work Sell

    Creative writing is one of the most difficult jobs in the world. However, you really don't need a special talent for it. What you need is a paper, a pen and a very good imagination that is worthy of telling your story to other people.

    With good imagination, you can really capture your audience's minds and keep them reading your work. However, you have to know that a good imagination is simply not enough when you are writing. You also need to consider quite a few things first before you start writing.

    It is a fact that many authors find it hard to write an article or a novel. So, if you are experiencing difficulty in writing an article or a novel, it is just natural. The first thing you need to consider is to have an appropriate environment in order for you to concentrate on work. Create your own writing environment to enable you to write more effectively and think more effectively. Consider the clothes you wear, the music you want to hear while writing, the temperature of the room, the lighting, the chair and a lot more. You should be comfortable with all these things. If you are, you will find it easier to write.

    You will also need to have a writing schedule. You have to remember that nothing can be more frustrating when writing when someone is always barging in your writing time. You need to know when you can write in order to avoid interruptions from friends, family, co-workers or whomever that may interrupt you when you are writing. You have to concentrate on writing so you have to turn off anything that will interrupt you. Consider diverting all calls to a machine, turn off your pager, mobile phones, PDA and others that may interrupt you. Remember that you will be in another world in creative writing; you have to get out of the real world.

    It is recommended that you should write when you are at your mental best or when you are not tired. However, some of the best novels were written on hours that would normally be your bedtime, try and write during these hours and determine if it will indeed affect your writing positively. If it doesn't, you should stick to your regular schedule where your mental state is at its prime.

    If you are writing about a character, you should relate to them. Imagine you are that character and know their different behaviors and talk to an imaginary character. By doing this, you can effectively show your characters personality and will definitely make your readers think as if the character is real.

    Writing is a very hard task to do. It will affect you physically and mentally. If you want to ease the tension, you have to invest in good writing tools that are readily available in the market. A fast desktop computer is a great way to start and as well as a writing software program that will enable you to write more effectively. It is also recommended that you purchase a large flat screen monitor to make it easier for your eyes.

    These are some of the things you need for you to be able to write more effectively. Creative writing is a very tiring task to do, by following these advices, you will definitely write a good novel that everyone will surely buy.

    About The Author

    Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For more information checkout http://www.ideacenter.com and http://my-updates.info.

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