Thursday, September 23, 2010

Writing Articles on Home Business

Finding topics
When writing articles on Home Business, any topic you feel strongly about is a great place to start. Any personal development books or other home business literature you've read can be analyzed and turned into great home business article content. I tend to write about what I'm thinking about. I like to put down a thought, ask a few questions and answer them myself. I have better success doing it that way; if I am thinking about it then chances are someone else is maybe wondering the same thing. Articles are a great way to provide information that you've learned and other people can benefit from. In the home business arena, articles that provide value, get more views, and drive more traffic to your website. Home business article topics are literally everywhere and endless in supply; it's all in how much time are you willing to spend creating and imagining. Remember you need to know what you are talking about, so stay invested in your own personal development. If you currently spend alot of time on personal development, write about it and make it a point to do so while it's fresh in your mind.
Article structure
Like I mentioned before, the easiest structuring I could come up with is to ask questions then answer them. It doesn't take much to get a 250-500 word article down. You don't want it to go too long but you'll still want to make sure you are answering the question you asked. Make sure your content is relevant to what you chose as a title. Also, make your titles pop with something interesting. Using a question for your title is a good strategy because people inevitably want the question answered, so they click to read your article. Articles that talk about "success" or convey a successful message will also do well in the article databases. Stay positive, too; no one looking for a home business opportunity is going to read anything coming off as crass, negative, or demeaning. Here is handy layout:

Current thought
Question 1
answer1
answer2
answer3
Question 2
answer1
answer2
answer3
Question 3
answer1
answer2
answer3
Close it out strong with a call to action and write out your conclusion to the thought. Make use of the profile box to put out your website or squeeze page and don't spam the article body with your opportunity; most distribution sites will not even accept them at all if it seems like spam.
Distribution
This seems to be the toughest one for me but once you have a profile at no less than three distribution sites, it will be a whole lot easier. There are some multi-site article distribution software applications out there, none of which I recommend. The deal with those is that hackers get into those older, low visitor sites and take authors information via the set-up process and if you don't have proper protection software like Norton or something like it then you will be taken. Nobody monitors those things and they are just waiting for some unsuspecting prey. There are only about ten sites that matter anyway and there is nothing that can keep you from submitting the same articles to the same websites. The more submissions you have then the more views you will get, plain and simple. These are the steps I use to write and submit at least 10 articles a week from home and this only a cornerstone of my whole marketing.