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<\/a>primary reason my business is so successful. One simple marketing strategy, done right, over and over.<\/strong><\/p>\nWant to make article or blog marketing work to grow your business? Use these four simple steps.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 What should you write about?<\/strong><\/p>\n If you want people to read your expert posts, make them provocative, controversial and newsworthy. Use your subject to make your target market curious about how your post can help them.<\/p>\n As an expert, you know tons of information about your area of business that could help thousands thousands of people in your target market, but remember in order to educate them and impress them with your expertise you need to entertain them.<\/p>\n 2. How can you tell if my posts are on target?<\/strong><\/p>\n Check to see how many people retweet your posts. If only one or two people did so, then you need to make your posts more entertaining, more informative and more accessible by your readers.<\/p>\n 3. You already submitted 2-3 posts and you\u2019re not getting a flood of traffic, how long should you stick with it?<\/strong><\/p>\n If you were growing a crop of corn, and you\u2019d planted 2 seeds how long would you wait to harvest it? A couple of weeks or months?<\/p>\n Article or blog marketing is the same. You need to stick with the strategy to make it work.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re new to article marketing<\/a>, the idea is to build a loyal following of readers, people who because they\u2019ve seen your posts regularly, week after week and month after month, think of you as the go-to-expert in your field. Then when they have a question or a need they seek you out, along with your products and or your services.<\/p>\n The more content you publish, the more readers will learn about you, and the more clients and customers you\u2019ll have.<\/p>\n 4. How do you get readers of your articles or posts to click through to your site?<\/strong><\/p>\n Make sure to include links to your site, to your products and services in the resource box or bio page provided. Some blogs and article sites limit what you can include to a short resource box. Others allow you to include a full bio page. If you\u2019re lucky enough to be allowed the later, go for it and include a full bio, mini- product sales blurbs, etc<\/p>\n Blog and article marketing<\/a> is one of the lowest cost and most powerful ways to grow your business \u2013 but it only works for the people who stick with it \u2013 fine tune your strategy and do the weekly writing needed to build a loyal following.<\/p>\n How about you?<\/p>\n Can you make blog and article marketing<\/a> work for you?<\/p>\n – Charlie<\/em><\/p>\n