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Have you ever wondered why Ezine Articles have become one of the most effective marketing techniques on the Web? The reason is quite simple. People very rarely go online looking for something to buy. They go online looking for information - free information. They want to be educated, entertained and informed. And the best way to do that is to write free Articles for Newsletters. At the bottom of your Article is your 4- or 5-line Resource Box. That's what turns your Article into one of the most powerful marketing techniques on the Web. Here are eight tips to help you write your Articles and get them published. (1) Never allow yourself to think that you've run out
of ideas. Instead, have the opposite thought: that
there are more ideas than you could possibly write (2) The Golden Rule of Five. Keep your Article titles
short - no more than five words. Ezine Editors love
short titles (they fit into the subject field of an (3) Keep your paragraphs short - no more than 3
sentences. It's much harder to read a computer screen
than a printed page - so make it easy for your (4) Make sure your Article flows properly. The easiest way to do this is to write down the opening and closing sentences of each of your paragraphs, then read what you have. If it makes sense and moves along nicely, you have an Article that is well organized and flows properly. (5) Include a word count at the top of your Article. This makes it easy for an Ezine Editor to make a quick decision on whether to use your Article. It also shows you've been thorough in preparing your Article for publication. (6) Check all the links in your Article before
submitting it. Then include a note that says: 'All the
links in this Article were checked and verified on (7) Offer a Free Report in your Resource Box. When
someone reads your Article in an Ezine, they probably
won't be connected to the Internet. So the challenge
is this: to offer something so interesting and
exciting that they'll fire up their modem and visit
your website. The best way to do that is to offer a (8) Put all your Articles on autoresponders and then
create another autoresponder that lists all your
Articles, with an autoresponder address for each
Article (e.g.: all-articles@yourdomain.com). When you
submit your Article to a List or to an Article
Archive, always include a note that says: "For a
complete list of Articles by this author please send a
blank email to: all-articles@yourdomain.com" Remember - Ezine Articles are probably the fastest way
there is of building your presence on the Web and
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