Making Money with Articles: Article Directories

October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Article directories are websites that house free articles. These articles are usually put there by whoever owns the copyright to them as a promotion method. Each article has the owners byline placed under it so that those who eventually read the article will know who wrote it (or at least who owns it) and will be able to get in contact with or visit their website for further information.

Articles directories are a great place to put your articles so that they will make you money. By using this method, people who are interested in your product or service will see your article, view you as an expert in the subject, and will visit your website. Even if you cannot write or do not have any knowledge on the subject on which you are promoting (for example for you run an affiliate website), you can always hire a writer to do the work for you. Getting quality articles written will be expensive up front, but they will pay for themselves in no time, either through affiliate sales or selling your own services, and everything from then on is pure profit.

Let’s take a real life example. Imagine that you are an accountant working from home. You write an article on an accounting topic and place it on various article directories. Those who are looking for the subject you wrote about will read your article, see that you have the knowledge and skill that is needed to do a job for them, and visit your website or contact you via e-mail. Your article just gained you a new client who may use your services regularly, but will definitely give you a nice profit at least once.

Furthermore, since you have posted it on a free article directory, others who have affiliate websites about accounting will inevitably use your article for their website. Since they must attach your byline to it, this will bring you even more exposure for every website that re-posts your article. This because you will be benefiting of off the traffic that they get to their website.

There are numerous article directories out there for you to utilize. Your bet best is to put a copy of each of your articles on every one for maximum exposure. It will eventually help to bring more traffic and customers to your website, which will lead to new orders and more profit. 

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Simple Steps to Starting an Internet Business

September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Easy As 123

Here are some simple steps to starting an internet business.  The hardest part is getting started and I’m going to help make this easy.  You don’t have to over-think it and you don’t have to buy a bunch of fancy, high-priced programs.  Choose the right business to be in with the thoughts below.

Find out where the money is flowing and stand in front of the current. A common mistake is to make the product and then find a market to sell it to.  This is a painful way to start a business.  After you spend all your time creating what you “think” your prospects want, then you have to go out and convince them that they want it.  This is what is known as hard selling.  It is very difficult and not very effective.  One of the best steps to starting an internet business is to offer a product to a group of people that is already buying.  Since money is already flowing in a certain direction, all you have to do is stand in front of it.  When you take this approach, you already know that people are willing to purchase what you have to offer.  Prospects will come to you, instead of you having to go to them.

Find groups of people that are willing to buy the product that you plan to sell. Market research is one of your next steps to starting an internet business.  There are a lot of places online where you can do your market research for free.  These tools have done most of the work for you already. You just need to know where to go and what to do to connect all the dots.  I’ll show you three places to go for good research.

Be aware of trends and current events around the world. Hey, lets not over complicate things.   If you read the newspaper, watch the news and listen to the radio…you get great business ideas everyday.  I’m sure something you come across something that “sticks” with you every once in a while.  This is one of the important steps to starting an internet business. When something sticks, take a moment to record it.  Use a portable voice recorder, write out some notes, or call your voicemail and leave a message.  Here are some place to go to keep looking for good ideas.

Each of these sites can help you see about what is hot in the current marketplace.  Ebay pulse is a great tool because it shows you specific products people are actually buying.  So if you can tie an exciting topic to with a sought after product…then you’ve got a business opportunity!  How is that for some simple steps to starting an internet business?

Posted by Alzay | Filed Under Start Business Tips