What Advice Would I Give to New Article Marketers?

It's important for us all to share our knowledge, often it's not easy, either, because people are not ready to receive the information, or they really do not wish to hear the hard cold truth. However, I imagine that if you are reading this article you are interested in any advice I might give to my fellow online article writers.

So, I hope you are well and this information is some of what you need going forth with your online article writing and marketing endeavors. First, let me tell you that I am retired now, so, my focus maybe somewhat different than yours. You are probably wanting to know when it became apparent to me that article marketing worked?

Well, it took a while, about 200 articles before I noticed significant traffic and better search engine rankings for our Think Tank. The web and ezine publishers began noting my volume and now my average article is syndicated some 20 times. There are several uses for the article directory site venues.

First, understand the issue of "link-backs" which improves search engine rankings. Second, realize that well-written articles that are not too long get picked up by others and re-used, hopefully carrying your links. Third, realize that pop-culture articles get much more traffic in general, but the best traffic is targeted traffic and those articles are especially suited for selling things on the Internet.

Interestingly enough, I do not sell anything on the Internet, thus, I have an advantage over others, as I am not worried about censoring my articles or custom tailoring them to any type of person or trying to hit the average displacement and political correctness of the masses. Please consider this.

Lance Winslow - Lance Winslow's Bio. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/.

Article Writing For Profit - 4 Sure Ways to Explode Your Article Writing

Article writing doesn't have to be difficult. It's not like a composition that you had to write in the sixth grade - nobody really cared about how you spent your summer. But people do care when they read your articles because they want to learn information or solve a problem.

Here are 4 tips to explode your article writing:

• Show That You're Really a Person. Speak to your readers just like you would speak to your friends, not like some computer data base spitting out dull information. Place an email address in your article where they can contact you with comments or questions. And, make sure you answer their email questions! How many times have you sent an email to a company for information, e.g. about a certain product, and never received a reply. I'll bet you never did business with them again and probably even ignored any of their ads thereafter.
• Impress your readers. Show your readers that you really know your stuff! But, don't put any fluff in your article -- it's up to you to demonstrate to your readers that your article solve their problem. Give them good, relevant information about your subject - hopefully something that they can't get anywhere else.
• Keep Your Article Short. In this fast paced world, most people don't have the time to completely read your article at first glance. They usually will look at the title and probably the first paragraph and scan the rest with their eyes. Try to avoid highly technical terms as it makes your article harder to read and the last thing you want to do is bore your reader. If it passes this test, your article might be completely read on the spot or at least printed out or saved in a computer file to be read at a more convenient time.
• Promote further reading. If your reader has completely read your article and agrees that you know what you're talking about, it's time to get them to continue reading your articles. At the end of your article, be sure to place a link to another relevant article written by you or place a link directly pointing to your website for even more information about the topic.

Writing articles can be an inexpensive, yet lucrative portion of monetizing your website. For more information about article writing, I just completed a new ebook

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Sharon Zolna and Larry Zolna are authors of numerous articles as well as instructors of website creation for an online business and other related fields. Please visit our website at: http://www.newwebsiteteacher.com and sign up for frequent tips on creating your own online business website.

Giving A Speech

It is said that next to death our greatest fear is making a speech. For most of us being asked to speak before an audience causes us to panic. Our stomachs freeze up and our heart races.This can happen even if we have experiences of successful speeches. Fear freezes us up.Unlike most people I actually enjoy being in front of an audience. I suspect that like people who enjoy writing there is a 5-10 % of the population who enjoy speaking. It's interesting that people who write well are not necessarily good speakers. I owe my love of writing to my mother who made me write weekly letters to her mother.

Like most people I was scared of speaking in public since I was shy. One of my high school teachers thought the best thing was to deceive me into debating. He made me a researcher for the debate team. I worked closely with the three man team and was quite animated in private while arguing points. A few hours before the debate my teacher said that one member of the team could not made it. Therefore I had to go on and do his bit.It so happened that the 'missing' person was the leader and so I had to speak first.

Several decades later I an recall vividly how scared I was. My teacher assured me I would do well.His first advice was to view the audience like my friends and family."You are quite fluent among your friends. This is just a slightly larger group."
Then he gave me a tip that was a virtual lifeline. " Choose a friendly face in the audience and speak as if you are talking to that person."

I chose the sister of one of my school friends. Little does she know that her smiling,comforting face prevented me from collapsing on stage. That night I spoke in passionate tones to just one member of the audience. Following my teacher's advice I spoke slower than normal and imagined my voice hitting the wall at the end of the room and coming back to me. When we finished that night my friends crowded around me and congratulated me on leading the debate team to a big win. Among that group was the leader of the team who was 'ill'.My teacher then confessed his ruse to get me going as a speaker. I have not looked back since that first time. Though when I still remember how I feared the room would open up and swallow me.

Among the things I would emphasize is the need for preparation and structure . It is often amusingly said that all you have to do is tell the audience what you are going to say,tell them and then remind them at the end of what you told them.This is like a famous folk story about the success of a village fool as a teacher.

The Village Fool wandered to a town far away from his home.The town was expecting a famous scholar and mistook the Fool for him.They rushed him to the town hall and implored him to teach them.

Stunned, but living by his wits, the Fool thundered to his rapt audience:" Do you know what I'm going to teach you?"
" No,we don't,"they replied adoringly.

" You are too ignorant for me to teach" said the Fool storming out of the hall.

The audience rushed after him begging him to teach them again. He agreed to do so a week later. In the meantime he attended many events but spoke sparingly. All were convinced of his wisdom.

The next time he ascended to the platform and gravely asked the same question as he did the previous time.
" Do you know what I am going to teach you?"

This time the audience shouted gleefully: " Yes ,we do."

The Fool smiled and said as he left," Then my work is done. You already know all. "

The audience was amazed and thought that the Fool was truly wise so they asked him to speak to them one more time as they felt they knew the best response to his question.

So when the Fool got up and asked in his confident way,"Do you know what I am going to teach you?" half the the crowd said "Yes" and the other half said "No".

The Fool smiled. Then said " Well, those who know will teach those who don't know."

The Fool then left the town with all in awe of his wisdom.

Another useful tip is to establish rapport with your audience, say something that links you to them.Also it's never a good idea to try to speak about something you are not passionate about.You need the energy of you belief to move you and your listeners.It is absolutely critical that your speech has 'bridges' in it to help your listeners to cross from one idea group to another. You must give clear indications when you are moving on. So transitional phrases like "As an example of this" or "This brings us to the larger problem of," assist in understanding.

Do develop a sense of your listeners' engagement with you. Keep an ebb and flow as you go though the stages of your speech. In time you'll learn to create anticipation For example I have listened three times live to Harv Eker's Millionaire Mind Evening speech and I always marvel at how comfortably he paces the speech.Observing him close up I noticed that he seemed to 'play' the audience's energy level.Like actors, successful speakers have a great sense of timing. They speak 'to' people not 'at' people. They are aware that they have to fine tune their ability to receive responses from their audience and keep reacting to them.

When you are preparing you speech establish clearly what your central speech focus is.In one sentence, like a corporate mission statement, you must be able to say what your speech is about.Preparation is in two main parts --content and delivery.After you have got clear what you want to say practice and practice often.Observe yourself in a mirror. Try different shadings of voice. Observe your facial and body movements as you say certain parts. Record yourself on video and critique yourself. Don't be too harsh on yourself. Pay attention to what you are doing right and build on that.Above all remember that you must make eye contact with the people in front of you. Don't make the mistake of keeping eye contact with the paper on which your speech is written!

My advice is to have key points and an outline on index cards.It is possible to train yourself to speak from memory especially if you rehearse often. Work on having a memorable ending. Study good speeches and model your ending on theirs. Your audience should leave with a feeling that their time was spent in a worthwhile way.

Finally ,today, I recognize that the best way to work with people is to deal with their fears about speaking and doing well before others. I use a simple tapping and affirmation process called Emotional Freedom Technique. It has helped many with performance anxiety.

Milton Drepaul is co-author of CXC English and CXC English B . He is an Career Consultant,Educator,Writer,Business Consultant and Resume Expert. Clients can view his website at http://www.theresumexpert.com.

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What Happens to Non-Believing Christians - Bible Reading

This is a question that comes up frequently with me, while I'm talking to Christians and other religious followers from around the world. We can go on and on, with questions and answers about why I choose not to believe in most organized religions and they can go on and on trying to convince me, why I should join them, but it's a waste of time for both of us.

Muslims and Christians are always trying to convert nonbelievers to their faith. Most of the time it's out of fear, these people care about you and have a genuine interest in your afterlife. If they can convert you to believe in their religion, they have just saved someone from burning and suffering, in the afterlife.

Now get this, if you're a Christian and you have been faithful, honest, pure at heart and have worshiped God on a regular basis, you just might get to go to heaven. If there is a room of course, only 144,000 people who have lived on the entire planet get to go to heaven. I'm sure that there are still plenty of room in heaven though for you. Maybe not your entire family or all of your Christian friends, but there's probably enough room for one more person. If there are 8 billion people on the planet today, that would be one out of every 55,000 people who are alive today, I didn't add in, all the people who have ever lived, throughout our history. That would probably be about one in 100,000 people.

Most Christians don't want to be bothered by numbers like these anyway and can often come up with excuses like, there's going to be more than 144,000 people in heaven, that's not what it really means, when you read the book of revelations or how about this one, the Bible tells me, that if I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I will never die or thirst again. This sounds pretty good to most people.

Well now for the bad news for those who are non-believing Christians. Revelation 21:8 says "But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars-their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."

The un-beleiving, non-followers of Christianity are going to be put in the same category as murderers, sexually immoral, people who practice magic arts, liars and idolaters. Now I want you to think about this for a second, if I knew someone who was more giving, loving, compassionate and they're only sin in life was that they stole an apple from the store once and has never had an evil thought in their entire life, but chooses not to believe in Christianity, because of the contradictions within the Bible.

Does this make sense? Well it does to most Christians, and as a matter of fact it makes sense to other religions throughout the world. I'll tell you one person that it doesn't make sense to, ME.

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Greg Vanden Berge is a published author, internet marketing expert, motivational inspiration to millions of people all over the world and is sharing some of his wisdom with experts in the fields of writing,marketing, and personal development. Check out one of his recommended books, You Can Have It All

Greg is currently working on a spiritual advice articles filled with great subjects on a wide array of topics, like religion, self help and spiritual changes in the world. His views on religious freedom are slowly changing the way people think about institutional religion.

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Adding On

About half of the work in our office is new construction and half renovations and additions.When designing a home from scratch some of the most important elements to study(besides the clients wishes) are views, site features, sun and wind direction, and the approach to the site.

The most important single element in an addition/renovation is the existing building. Sometimes the portion you save and restore is key to the rest of the project.Although it is almost impossible to perfectly match the 200 year old materials which have aged in place, flooring recycled from salvaged barn beams comes pretty close.In the northeast we are particularly lucky to be working with craftsmen who take their work as seriously as the people who built the original homes

A case in point is a project we recently finished which included additions, renovations and restorations.Like most old homes it had been added onto by successive generations of home owners.Also like most old homes, some additions were done well and others were not thought out quite as fully.The historic portions of this home set the tone for the rest of the project.In addition to relating to the existing home and meeting the spatial requirements of our clients, it was critical that we save two large very old very large oak trees.Needless to say the oaks are doing fine.

When adding to a very old home every wall that is opened reveals the secrets of the carpenters which has been hidden away for sometimes centuries.Those carpenters often recycled posts and beams from even older structures.When times were tight, it seemed they used every piece of scrap wood they could cobble together to make the building stand.Most of all those explorations inspire awe and respect for the people who built these wonderful buildings by hand.

Not every renovation/addition project has a great existing building to take inspiration from.Often the portion which is added becomes the stronger design element and therefore influences the rest of the existing home.I don't know if that is the tail waging the dog, but sometimes perhaps the tail should do the waging at least in home design.

I must admit, that adding onto an historic home is like working with a colleague whom I respect and admire.We are challenged by those homes to do our best.

http://www.crisparchitects.com/. James M. Crisp, AIA is an architect working in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

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Flower Garden Layouts

The home flower garden is one of the best ways to spruce up your home and to lend it a bit of "curb appeal" It is used by those who dress up homes for sale. The flower garden layouts that you use will depend a great deal on the size of your yard, and how much room you can dedicate to flowers or flowering herbs. It's not common sense of course to cover the lawn with errant blooms; however settling them into niches or small areas that will enhance the overall look of your home is smart thinking. Each small flower can be part of the overall look that you are trying to achieve if planned out well.

Your flower garden, depending on the size of your yard and the style of your home, may not only enhance the home atmosphere, making it seem far more warm and welcoming but may in fact increase the value of your home by making it more desirable to potential buyers. Therefore taking the time to develop a good plan of attack when it comes to settling on flower garden layouts will be time well spent.

Your perfect flower garden layout will ideally begin in winter time and may be done if you like using some of the many different types of software that are out there to help you plan things such as variations in color, texture and height for your garden.

There are, as well as software to assist you in your home garden layouts, also several sites online which will offer example garden layouts, and help you to select plants and colors for your own garden to make the most of the space that you have available to you.

The flower garden layout that you use will be with you for most of the summer and perhaps several years so making sure that it's something you want to live with long term is in order. For this reason it is quite often a better idea to use a means of design that will let you view what the garden is going to look like when the plants are in full growth and bloom, and will give you some insight into whets in store for you with this type plant.

Too, decide on the plants that you will house their carefully, choosing them on not just colors and textures but also on the level of care that they will require, since if you're inordinately busy, you probably don't want to plant something that requires daily care to flourish.

You may select to use containers or raised beds to give you more bang for your buck when it comes to choosing the garden layouts, or to make smaller beds work for you.

Ian Pennington is an accomplished niche website developer and author.
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