There are basically 4 steps you could take this new year that will help you with your article marketing challenge:

1. Write your own articles.
2. Find a Ghost Writer who knows you and your business, who will help you come up with a article writing plan. Once you determine  how many articles per week or month you want to have written.
3. Send those written articles to your virtual marketing assistant, who will create a marketing plan that fits with your business goals.
4. Request that your ghost writer send the articles directly to your virtual marketing assistant, so they can immediately begin your article marketing campaign.

You may be asking “how many articles should I be submitting”? I’m glad you asked! As a virtual marketing assistant, I would recommend a minimum of 1 article every week, to a minimum of 10 article directories that your target market frequents. On a consistent, monthly basis, you should see a ROI (return on investment) either by increased webvisitors, ezine sign-ups, product sales, speaking opportunities or even blog comments (think SEO).

You are not limited to article directories only, oh no, you also can mix some social network marketing also. By spending a minimum of 1.5 hours a week on your article marketing business campaign, for Article marketing shouldn’t be seen as “challenging”, instead it should be seen as a positive business “challenge”, one that will help increase your business exposure and help you become the expert in  your chosen business field.

Let’s work together by making 2010 the year that your business sees the success in growth that you desire!

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Stephanie Fish, owner of Buckeye V.A. helps business internet marketers create a social media and article marketing plan that fits their business goals. You are invited to connect with Stephanie by visiting her website http://www.buckeyeva.com to sign-up for her marketing ezine and social networking groups.

“10 Reasons to Market Your Business with Articles”

Outsourcing (delegating) a minimum of 5 hours of article marketing per month can benefit your business.  Perhaps if you have a better understanding behind the “why” you should be marketing your business with articles, then this task will never see the end of your to-do list again.

Day 10:  Recap Your Article Marketing “Why”

In the previous 9 days you’ve learned some very powerful “why’s” of article marketing and how it plays an important role in your business. So let’s recap what you’ve read:

1. You build relationships with potential clients you may not have otherwise met.
2. You use your article marketing to build trust wit h your readers.
3. You become known as the “expert” in your chosen field.
4. You generate publicity.
5. You gain pre-qualified website traffic.
6. You feed your “content hungry” target market.
7. You have the potential to be seen by thousands of people in your target market.
8. Article marketing allows you to pre-sell your products or services.
9. You market your business without having to meet face-to-face.
10. You reap the benefits of continual web traffic for years to come.

My hope was to inform and educate you, the professional business owner, on how powerful article marketing can be for your business. If you market your business on a consistent basis, perhaps as little as 5 hours per month, you should reap the benefits for years to come.

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Please contact me, today, for a free 30 minute consultation to see which service you can use for your business needs!

“10 Reasons to Market Your Business with Articles”

Outsourcing (delegating) a minimum of 5 hours of article marketing per month can benefit your business.  Perhaps if you have a better understanding behind the “why” you should be marketing your business with articles, then this task will never see the end of your to-do list again.

Day 8: Pre-Sell Your Services or Products

Article marketing allows you to pre-sell your products or services. You don’t even have to meet face-to-face in order to sell your business. By article marketing on a consistent basis, your message will be read by your potential clients. Those potential clients then follow the link in your resource box, come to your website and hopefully sign-up for your mailing list. Maybe they will also contact you for more information about your product or service and want to place an order. You never know who is going to pick-up your article!

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Please contact me, today, for a free 30 minute consultation to see which service your business needs!

“10 Reasons to Market Your Business with Articles”

Outsourcing (delegating) a minimum of 5 hours of article marketing per month can benefit your business.  Perhaps if you have a better understanding behind the “why” you should be marketing your business with articles, then this task will never see the end of your to-do list again.

Day 4: Get Me Exposed!

Once your article is published, it can easily be seen by thousands of people around the globe.  Make sure you include a “call to action” in your author bio area, at the end of each article. This “call to action” should specifically state that you want your potential client to visit your website.

Having your website visited by thousands? Now that’s exposure!

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Please contact me, today, for a free 30 minute consultation to see which service your business needs!

It seems that business owners worry that if they submit the same article to many directories, that google would see that as duplicate content and some how, penalize them for this.  There’s a post by Lynn Terry of  ClickNewz.com where she has outlined what google sees as duplicate content.

You can also visit Google.com and learn directly from them what they view as duplicate content, you’ll soon see that article marketing is still a tried and true way to bring in the search results you need,  help build incoming links to your website, and educate your target market about your business.

Enjoy your day and if you’re looking to outsource your article and/or press release submissions please contact me today!

Thanks!

Stephanie Fish, Buckeye V.A.

Articles written specifically for your clients and marketed at the right places can bring you the increase in subscribers and buyers that you’re working so hard to gain.

Your article marketing plan might go something like this:
1. Choose 1 day of the week, such as Wednesday, to write your article.
2. Choose 1 particular day a week to submit your article.
2. Create a file/folder in google docs and/or on your hard drive and name it “articles” or something similar so you know what is in it.
3. Create a simple spreadsheet and keep a list of all your article marketing efforts in one place.

Challenge yourself to write an article one week, then submit it the next week. Keep doing this for 6 months straight and see if you gain more customers and/or subscribers.

If you’re looking to outsource your article marketing tasks please contact me, Stephanie Fish, today!