Welcome back…wow! What a week this has been. If you missed it last night, Willie Crawford and Doug Champigny held a traffic generation teleseminar. This seminar was scheduled to go for two hours…when it was all done and finished, they had gone for over 3 1/2 hours!

Great stuff and you can still reserve your copy of the audio and transcript by signing up here.

It will be available on July 9.

Ok, this will be the last installment of my article marketing posts and early next week I am going to be starting a series about web hosting for newbies. Be sure to stay tuned for that, and if you want to be notified when I post for that series, sign up for my ezine.

Before I get in to the meat today, be sure to check out my giveaway event page for all of the giveaways that are either currently going on, or upcoming and if you are into list building (which you should be if you are in the IM biz!), be sure to sign up for one or two or three of them and get your gifts submitted!

As a quick review, the past posts have covered:

How to Use Article Marketing Effectively in Your Chosen Niche
How to Make Your Article Marketing Efforts Viral
Using Article Marketing to Drive Laser Targeted Traffic
Article Writing Ideas and
Five Benefits of Using PLR Articles

If you want more indepth info, you can pick up a free article marketing report over at 5 Star Ebooks…Ok, let’s get on with it.

So you’ve gone through all the hard work of writing a great article and you’ve sent it off to EzineArticles.com and submitted it to Article Marketer for distribution.

Is that it? Are you done with it? Not by a long shot. Don’t let all that sweat go to waste, use your article again and again to squeeze the most out of it them as you can. In other words, leverage your articles.

If you do this you won’t have to spend so much of your precious time writing new articles.

Assuming you have a well-written article of at least 400 words, here are some ideas for getting the most out of that article:

As I mentioned above, start off submitting the article to EzineArticles. This is the biggest article directory, and it makes sense to start here. You’ll stand a better chance of getting traffic because of their traffic ranking. In fact, if you do a search of your targeted keywords, you’re more likely to find your article showing higher in the search engines on EzineArticle’s website than from your own website.

If the article topic is something that would interest your list, you can send it to them in an email. This works better if the article is shorter rather than longer.

Alternately, you can lightly rewrite it, being sure to change the title, and add it to your blog. Then instead of sending the whole article to your list, you can send them a short email and use curiosity or a call to action to send them clicking the link to read it on your blog. This strategy gets them to your blog where they might take further action; like comment on your post, click on your AdSense, or buy one of your products.

If you’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback about the article, post it on a forum in your niche. This helps brand you as someone who is an expert as well as a helpful marketer.

Have your own article directory on your website. Set up a page with a list of all the articles you’ve written in this niche. Each article can have a blurb at the end that tells people they are free to publish the article on their site as long as they don’t change the article and keep the bio and link intact.

Rewrite your article and give it to affiliates so they can use it to promote your product. Affiliates appreciate having material they can use rather than having to come up with something from scratch.

Repurpose the article by shortening it and adding it to your newsletter that goes out to your list. Valuable information never goes out of style.

Take your article and split it into chunks to create an ecourse. You can easily add further detail to each chunk and end up with a 3-5 part ecourse.

You may have written several great articles on a specific subject. Bundle them together and create a report or ebook to give away, sell, enter in a giveaway, add to another product as a bonus, etc.

These are only a handful of suggestions on how you can leverage your articles. Every time you write an article, use it as many ways as you can and you’ll find you don’t need to write quite as many new articles.

For more tips, tricks, advice and in depth knowledge about article marketing, I have a free report available that you can pick up by visiting 5 Star Ebooks.

Look for the start of my web hosting posts early next week.

Here’s to YOUR Online Successes,

Ron

We all know how popular the social marketing site Twitter has become in the past 12-18 months. Have you joined the throngs to build your followers? Did you know that there are several marketers that are using it to it’s fullest advantage and becoming very successful with it?

Yes, there are ebooks sprouting up all over the place with instructionals on HOW to use it to it’s fullest advantage, but how many of the authors of those books have actually done it?

How about if I told you there is a brand new ebook out today that profiles 17 marketers who have used it and are extremely successful with it? Wouldn’t you consider picking it up to find out their Twitter ‘secrets’ and how they have used it to become successful?

Twitter Success Stories

My friend and accountability partner, Peggy Baron, has done something unusual. She has queried 17 different marketers about their Twittering and has gotten some juicy tips and tricks from the likes of Willie Crawford, Craig Ballentyne, Bev Clement, and Connie Ragen Green to name a few.

She has titled her new ebook; Twitter Success Stories

Peggy was kind enough to provide me with a preview copy of the book and I must say that as I read through it, I was shocked at the simple, yet effective, methods that these marketers use to increase the number of followers they have and how they use Twitter to add to their numerous income streams.

Here are a couple of the ways Twitter has been used:

One marketer has used Twitter to get past the ‘gatekeepers’ of some of a few ‘gooroos’ only to be asked to help out on a couple of projects. Find out who that was here.

Another one has used Twitter to put out the word that they were in a bind when a phone interview subject no-showed. The followers who responded ended up turning the conference call into a brainstorming session. Which Twitterer was that?

Find out who has used Twitter as a source for one of their successful products.

These marketers will tell you about their personal Twitter successes and what they’ve learned in using Twitter to grow their businesses. They will also give you TIPS to get you on the right track.

So if you’re interested in growing your business and using Twitter as another marketing tool, pick up a copy of Twitter Success Stories. I’m guessing you will come away with some great ideas you can apply to your business.

Until next time,

Here’s to YOUR Successes,

Ron
P.S. I pulled out a quote from the book for you that I liked:

“If you own a business of any size and you’re still not Twittering, you’re missing out on what amounts to a global virtual chamber of commerce networking event you can access anytime, day or night.” from Heidi Richards Mooney

I love PLR. Why? Because you get products that other marketers have put the time and effort in to and you get to take them and change the graphics, edit the ebook, change the sales page, change almost anything you like to suit your style and put your own name on them.

But here’s the big question that a lot of marketers ask:

Where do you find quality plr stuff that hasn’t been through the grinder…that hasn’t been offered by other marketers for the past few months?

That YOU can use for your branding purposes and generate your own cash flow?

The solution: Doug Champigny and Xavier Nelson

They have just launched their FREE PLR Giveaway – Round 6!

What’s so special about this one?

Well, Doug and Xavier personally pick and invite the marketers themselves. There isn’t the usual 50-100 jv partners who are promoting the event and contributing products to give away in order to build their own lists.

Nope, not in this one.

Here is just a partial list of people who are giving away PLR material in this event:

Doug Champigny

Willie Crawford

Joel Osborne

Jeff Dedrick

Nicole Dean

Mike Paetzold

Mike Mazella

Edmund Loh

As I said, that’s a partial list

Any of those names familiar to you??

The cool thing about this giveaway is the products that are offered are brand new and include ebooks, a few videos and some audios, so you can pick some of these up and turn around in a few hours using Joel Osborne’s Product Creation Success Package and be selling them on your own website and generating your own cash flow.

Unfortunately, Doug and Xavier are only keeping it open for about another week, so I would definitely get over there and pick up at least one or two of the products.

Here’s a kicker – After you sign up, you will come to a page that will give you the opportunity to pick up an ADDITIONAL 50 eproducts for an incredible price! Don’t take my word for it, get over there and get in and then not only get the PLR products that are there for the grabbing, but take a serious look at the additional products that Doug and Xavier are offering.

Have you gotten over to Ross Goldberg’s Virtual Seminar yet? You’ve only got until tomorrow evening to get over and get registered to access all of the presentations. Just like going to an offline event, but doing it from the comfort of your own living room.

Til next time,

Here’s to YOUR Successes,

Ron