Article writing can be a chore.
I enjoy writing articles but most people I speak to aren’t of the same point of view.
Which means that they look to outsourcing sites instead.
I do that occasionally – usually when it’s a topic in a niche that I need to write about but don’t have much energy about.
Here are some of the sites I use for outsourcing article writing and some I don’t use. Plus the reasons why.
Niche markets are actually the only markets in existence.
No-one buys everything in a niche – they can’t. It’s just not possible. Sure, some fanatics get close but even they are unlikely to be able to get everything that’s available before they run out of money.
That means you should develop your niche marketing strategy with that in mind.
Narrow your strategy down so that it’s manageable for you and do-able for your prospects.
It’s impossible to be an internet marketing expert in the whole field of internet marketing.
It’s just too big – written content like this, video content, article marketing, video marketing, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, AdWords, CPA, PPV…
The list goes on.
Instead, you need to work out your strengths and weaknesses and play to your strengths.
And, in the process of doing that, you may well realise that you’re more expert than you thought!
As I write this, it’s the last day of 2013.
If you’re on my list, I’ve sent you a link to this page and wished you a happy and prosperous New Year for 2014.
If you’ve come across this page in a different way then chances are that it’s not the start of the year and may no longer be 2014 but the message applies anyway – it’s only our use of a calendar that marks a relatively arbitrary day as the start of something we call a year, based on the length of time our planet circles our sun.
Anyway, that’s digressing, sorry!
The web revolves around content: articles, videos, Tweets, Facebook updates, forums, etc.
This post is going to focus on where you should use the main content you’ve created, so I’m going to assume that’s something like an article or a video.
The most important place is your own website…
Building a profitable email list takes a number of things.
Obviously you need a way of sending them messages (which is where an autoresponder comes in) and messages to send them – either pre-written ones in a sequence or ones that you construct daily or a mixture of those methods.
But an essential part is the ability and willingness of your list to spend money…
Picture this:
Then reality kicks in, life gets in the way, and that shiny new product stays in that folder on your hard drive that’s full of countless other products you’ve bought but never quite used… Continue reading
People can be blinkered when choosing a niche.
They’ve bought internet marketing products so that’s what they decide to sell online
But there’s plenty of other choices!
One of my favourite niches is self help.
And that market is really big, so I don’t mind sharing some details – I think they make interesting reading.
If you don’t have a strategy for your internet marketing, you’re immediately at a disadvantage versus almost anyone who does.
Even if their plan is merely written on the back of a napkin, it’s still further advanced than yours!
Creating an internet marketing strategy doesn’t have to take hours or weeks or months. It’s enough to have a good idea of where you want to go and fill in the gaps later.
Autoblogging promises that you can simply add a plugin to a WordPress site, edit a few settings, press go and – hey presto – you’ve got a profitable site!
Does it really work?
Most of the time nowadays, the answer is no.
It has worked in the past but if you’re simply buying a $97 script and expecting to find the internet equivalent of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, you’re likely to be disappointed.