Michael Potter’s Internet Marketer’s Diary

I don’t know about you but when I started to try this Internet Marketing stuff I knew one of the basic elements is writing articles. Now I have tried and tried but I can’t seem to manage 5 articles a day.

I have tried doing my own but my old brain just can’t cope with the pressure, in fact my brain hurts!!!

What are the alternatives?

Out source is one and it certainly works once you have found a good honest writer. By good and honest I mean someone who writes the article themselves. You have to be so careful these days. You can find writers in forums and on elance.com I have found a brilliant writer and she is not expensive, You can pay anything from 3 to 10 USD for a 300 word article, so 5 a day will be expensive but you have to work it out. How long will it take you to do 5 articles? Could you spend that time doing something more constructive? Only you know the answer to that one.

You can get loads of free content with PLR and MRR Articles and e books, the trouble here is that every Tom Dick and Harry is doing the same as you. There are ways round it though and the best way is to re write the article yourself. Same content but in completely different words and as you have the rights anyway you are not breaking any laws.

Article Spinners, well I have tried these and I can’t say I am over awed by them. If you put the article in and then only want say 75% of the article spun it just comes out not making any sense so you have to re write the article yourself anyway, and if you want it 100% re written, I can’t even understand some of the grammer it uses so to me they are a waste of time. If anyone reading this knows of any that work I will be interested in your views.

So thats my rant and rave’s about article writing, I guess it’s because I have been sitting here since 13.00 hrs and only managed 1 640 word article lol

You know when you start this Internet Marketing Business and one of the ways to market your product, be it your own or an affilaite product is by Article Marketing.

Your mentor or Home Study Course says the content is easy, just write what you feel. It doesn’t have to be written like a reporter just write the facts in an entertaining and informative manner so you keep the readers attention.

Well that’s all well and good but what if you find it hard to write articles. You sit there just looking at the computer screen your mind empty. Then you write something down, look at it, Nah! that doesn’t look right, so you press delete and sit for another hour thinking, looking at the screen. Get up make a cup of tea look out of the window for some inspiration, nah still blank.!!

Of course you know that to be able to promote yourself or your product you will need at least 6 articles a week and that’s the minimum. A daunting task indeed.

So what are your options, how can you make the task easier?

Well there are several solutions to this perennial problem.

1. Outsource through elance.co or you will find writers in forums related to your niche. It will cost you money, a 300 word article can cost from $3 upwards and you will have to commit to maybe 10 articles to get the best price.

2. Use other writers articles, now i do not mean copy them word for word because that is illegal and will get you into trouble. But you could read the article and then put the substance of the article down in your own words. This will make the article unique to you.

3. Use Article Spinner Softwear there are several on the market and I am at this minute testing one so I will update you when I have evaluated it fully. With these you can copy the article into the softwear and it will automatically re write it using different words and paragraphing to reach the same conclusion.

4. Use PLR and MRR articles and e books. Check what rights you get with these first and then you can segment the e book into articles and use them, always remember to check what rights you have. That was worth saying twice. It’s very important!

There you have my own thoughts on the best way to find content for Articles, I use all of these at some time or other plus sometimes I even write my own.

Also don’t forget the KEYWORDS in your Articles. Now thats a whole new story and one I will write about next time.

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I don’t know about you but since I started this Internet Marketing thing I am getting inundated with email after email with offers from so called Internet Guru’s.

OK yes I did give my name and primary email when I wanted a Free Report about a certain aspect of Internet Marketing. List Building, Web Site Tutorials, Article Marketing, Blogging etc. and yes I fully understand that once they have my name I give them permission to email me from time to time with stuff that might interest me.

I didn’t expect them to email me 3/4 times a day just bombarding me with long sales letters trying to get me to buy again and again.

All these emails have achieved is to turn me off from buying. Where is the trust building? I know how I want to be treated and thats how I expect to treat anyone that signs up on to my list.

I want a List of people that I can interact with, help them with any problems they have with regards to Internet Marketing. When I say help I mean help for free. Does that sound stupid? but why not give some help for free. I know how much I appreciated when given free help. It certainly makes me trust that person and I know I will always open his emails, even if I am not interested in buying I will read the sales page and one day there will be something I need.

My quest is to help newbies, I guess I am still one myself but I am learning, I have made some mistakes, well a lot of mistakes. I have products just stored on my hard drive. At the time being new and keen about the Internet Marketing business I signed up for loads of stuff. All useless, well useless to me anyway.

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One thing I will promise you is that you will NOT be bombarded with email after email. I want a community of Internet Marketers that can help one and another, believe me helping will generate more income than just doing the hard sell.

And don’t forget once you have started your own Internet Business you could well have something I need.

What goes round comes around……Merry Xmas one and all……………..