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Finding The Solution By Understanding The Problem

Filed Under (Ebooks, Home Business, Info Publishing, Internet Marketing) by Kevin Sinclair on 15-01-2008

Publishing articles is one of the best ways to encourage your website traffic, many sites advise you to do so. There are many lectures and seminars on this topic given by many well-respected internet marketers.

You will find that there is a great deal of information concerning how to make a profit with online money marketing and marketing courses, which includes the high worth of article marketing. This is all good advice, of course, since article marketing is a practical and solid way in which to promote your product or website efficiently.

However, the problem of article marketing is that many individuals do not know how to write well and many marketers do not have the extra time to devote to writing articles. Although, even if they did make the time to write, more than likely there would much challenge for them to create a decently written article.

Many find a solution in using PLR or Private Label Rights Articles; however, this strategy is not always the best solution, since it creates the problem of duplicate content. To create a website that has original content with the best search engine rankings, experts in SEO or Search Engine Optimization agree that original content is best.

You must understand, if you distribute duplicate content, the search engines will flag your site with all those who display articles that are on display all over the internet. This will harm the rankings of the search engines, rather than improving it.

Matching the topic to your promotion can become a problem. For instance if you sell dog food, publishing articles on improving your golf swing will do you no good, even if you do find some articles on dog food, they may not suit your needs. For your articles to be of worth, they will need to target your market.

Offering your readers beneficial information lends the best effects in article marketing. From a marketing perspective the best and most valuable articles are those with provide a solution to a problem. When you sell dog food, it is in your best interest to write or rewrite and edit articles about feeding and caring for a dog.

Keep in mind while publishing an article that solves a problem that you should stay with the basic concept, while researching the problems, which concern feeding dogs, dog food, for instance, why larger breeds require a special food, the significance between the special foods for long or shorthaired dogs. Food for puppies, elderly of overweight dogs and so on.

It can be a challenge to get around the issues of using duplicate content. Although, you could simply rewrite a PLR article to submit to different article distribution sites. However, this can be time consuming and a great deal of work for some marketers.

Many products claim to permit writers to create multiple articles from a single original quickly; however, some of them work well, while others do not. When you are considering the purchase of any software that permits you to rewrite automatically, it is in your best interest to do the research necessary to determine your selection, by reading independent reviews.

When promoting your salable products and services, you will not want publish articles that are twisted until they make no sense, as this will damage your credibility.

In general, there is one cardinal rule about article marketing that you should remember and that is the problem is the solution when it comes to article marketing. This means, if your article solves a problem with a good solution, it will increase the website traffic you seek.

When an article solves a problem, this builds credibility of the author for the reader for the potential clients. Creating the sense of authority is an aspect of encouraging trust while the first step is in making the sale.

One of the best investments you can make is learning how to write your own articles, when you include article marketing into your marketing strategy. However, when you do not have the time or talent for writing, you must seek out articles that match closely to your target market readers.

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It Is Time To Begin Thinking Outside The Desktop

Filed Under (Business Success, Ebooks, Info Publishing, Marketing, Small Business) by Kevin Sinclair on 05-06-2007

Information is king. It is what drives the Internet. People have discovered that they can turn to the Internet for answers to questions and solutions to problems.

Websites are the most common source of these answers. But sometimes the answers or solutions cannot be found on a website. In those cases they may have to purchase and download an e-Book. These are often in a pdf or exe file format that requires the reader to sit in front of their desktop or laptop computer to read it. If the reader has been working at a computer all day, they find little pleasure in facing a computer screen to read an e-Book.

An increasing number of people carry a PDA (Pocket Digital Assistant) around in their pocket or purse. These handheld size computers were intended to serve as organizers for their schedules and contacts. Another purpose for these Pocket PCs or Palms has been discovered. That is as e-Book readers.

Commuters to work on light rail or BART trains are seen intensely reading something from the screens of their pocket size computers. In most cases, they are reading e-Books. They may be carrying dozens of full size books in their shirt pocket. There has been an explosion of books digitalized for reading on these devices. Most are either old classics no longer under copyright or best sellers that may cost 80% of their printed versions.

There is a void of e-Books in the area of self-help, business, hobbies, and health available. This is where the InfoGoRound content is perfect. Rather than try to compete with others who are converting this content to pdf files for the desktop, the marketplace is wide open for this content to be made available for the pocket size computers.

How can you convert a RTF file to be read on one of these devices? First you need to decide which type of pocket size device you want to aim for. The Pocket PCs come with Microsoft Reader, an excellent eBook reader. This requires the .lit file format. The Palms can use several readers, the eReader is excellent and they have their own eBook Studio that creates their required format.

An excellent converter is the Text Converter from ABC Amber Conversion software that will convert RTF to .lit, .pdf, html, and several other files types, even one for the Blackberry. You can read about it at http:///www.processtext.com/index.html

You will be doing a huge portion of our population a big favor if you convert your content for these pocket size computers.

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Six Steps to a Successful E-book

Filed Under (Ebooks, Home Business, Info Publishing, Small Business) by Kevin Sinclair on 08-08-2006

Find out what they want and then hand it to them, in the form of an E-book…

The biggest mistake that “wannabe” E-book publishers make is to first write a book on the subject that they themselves would probably be interested in, and then try to hustle up a market from a related niche and persuade them, without much success, that they too should have the same interests in buying the book. Needless to say, this is not the best introduction into the world of E-book publishing.

Research the niche, discover the market and what they want, and then go about the business of putting into words, the information that they will gladly pay their hard earned money for.

Step 1 - What Subject Are You Familiar With?

Make a list of all the things you could confidently write about. It’s much easier, and less like work, to write about a subject in which you already have an interest. Do you have hobbies that others would be interested to hear about? Please don’t make the mistake of assuming that because you are knowledgeable about a particular subject, others are sure to know the same. You would be amazed at what some people don’t know.

Once you have decided on your subject, research the niches where this subject could be turned into profit. Don’t be discouraged by the fact that the niche is popular. This could be seen as an advantage. A popular niche is proof that there is already a market, and money to be made. Just be sure that your product is superior to the competition.

Step 2 - Find Their Itch And Scratch It!

You need to know what their problems are and find out what is missing in their life. The answer to these questions, and others, should be your main line of attack.

You need to focus on what they don’t have, sometimes you even have to tell them what it is that is missing and why they need it, and when you give it to them. They will reward you financially.

Step 3 - Do Your Research.

Be prepared when you intend to start writing. Don’t sit at your desk one day and then decide that today, here and now, is the time to write your first E-book, IT WON’T WORK or maybe it will, but one thing is for sure, it will be disjointed, facts will be missing and the general flow will not be right!

You must first research your subject; collect all the information you possibly can, put it into a specified folder on your PC. And when you feel you have everything together, then you can proceed to bring it all together in an organized manner that is fluent and easy to read.

Step 4 - Create Your Masterpiece.

Get down to it and start writing. Refer to your folder (the one where you stored all of your researched material), choose from your organized lists and start writing.

A tip given by many when it comes to writing, is to start and don’t stop. Write down everything that comes into your head, if you try to think at the same time, e.g. “yeah that’s a great line bit it doesn’t fit just now, I’ll save it and use it later” - WRONG! You’ll forget it and then get angry because it was exactly what you wanted to say! Get it down in print that you will be editing and correcting at a later date.

Do it in bite sized chunks! Or suffer the digestion of writers block. Most importantly, keep it simple. Keep in-mind the average reading age of adults is twelve! So don’t write as if you’ve just devoured two dictionaries and a thesaurus for breakfast. Conversational, everyday language is the key.

Step 5 - Check Your Work.

Now is the time to re-read and edit your work, check spellings and grammar, read it through several times. If it’s hard for you to read, it will be twice as hard for others to read; hopefully you knew what you were trying to say!

Pass it on to a member of the family or a good friend, ask them to read it through and give you an unbiased opinion as to weather they understood it, and if not, why not? If necessary, re-write it. After all is said and done, it will be your name hung on to the end of the content for the entire world to see.

Step 6 - Bring It To An End.

Somewhere along the line you have to decide that your book is finished. There will always be something that crops up later, that little snippet that you regret not having used. Don’t worry about it; the main thing is that you have passed on some form of information, no matter how small, to someone who was in search of that information, otherwise they wouldn’t have given out their hard earned money to buy it.

So to bring these few lines to an end; here is where your work starts, you have written your E-book, now go out and SELL IT!!!

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Understanding Ebook Rights: The Basics You Need to Know

Filed Under (Business Success, Ebooks) by Kevin Sinclair on 11-06-2006

Information products are big online. Generally, they’re PDF products packaged in what is known as an “ebook format”. Years ago another popular option was .exe but due to viruses and their incompatibility with the Mac they have lost a lot of their popularity.

An easy way to start your own web business with low start up costs is to purchase ebooks with what is known as “resale rights”. But what are resale rights? Are they the same as “Master Resale Rights”? Ebooks often come with different types of rights. Translation: The rights assigned tell you how the information can be used, and since there are so many different varieties, it’s important that you understand them.

Here’s my understanding of the various rights.

1) Resell Rights: When you purchase an ebook with resell rights that means you can sell it and keep all of the profits. One thing you can’t do is pass these rights onto the person who buys the ebook from you.

Generally they come with a canned “sales letter” in HTML format to use in your promotional efforts. Many times the sales copy is very good and other times you may want to edit it.

A “suggested” sales price is often included and if the license permits you can sometimes use them as bonus items and give them away with other products you may be selling.

If you don’t want to purchase re sellable ebooks one at a time to build your collection there are many “resell rights” membership sites that you can join and pay a one time fee to download all of the ebooks you like.

2) GiveAway Rights: This means exactly what it says. You can download these free ebooks and give them away from your own website or to your ezine subscribers. Just make sure you upload them to your own server first.

People don’t take kindly upon your using their download link and putting a load on their servers. It’s just the right thing to do. If you do a search at any of the free ebook directories online you’ll find plenty of material you can download. An excellent directory is http://free-ebooks.net

3) Branded Giveaway Rights: The same as above but the free ebook you download will come with a special “branding” software that allows you to add your name and url and sometimes an affiliate link.

If it’s an affiliate program you’re involved with you’ll make money as the ebook circulates the net and people click on your branded link and buy the product or service advertised in the ebook.

4) Master Resell Rights: the “grand daddy” of resell rights. When you purchase the ebook/ report you can sell the product and keep all of the profits and also give the rights to resell it to those who purchase the ebook from you.

5) Private Label Rights: This one is big right now. Everywhere you turn you’ll see the opportunity to purchase “private label rights”. This type of rights is very different then the others. Here once you purchase the ebook or articles, you can modify it anyway you like, re-package it, even add your name as the author.

With everyone clamoring for content for the search engine spiders, this is a very popular trend right now. The possibilities are endless with what you can do with the information you purchase.

Make sure when purchasing ebooks or articles with rights, that you’re getting them from a trustworthy source. You want to make sure they have the rights to give you the rights in the first place. You’ll also want to read over the “license” carefully and make sure you understand exactly what you are purchasing and how you can use it. For example you don’t want to give away “master resell rights” if you only have “resell rights”.

Information products are a great way to make money on the Internet. One of the biggest reasons people browse the Net is to find information, if you can supply it, you stand to make a steady income, and your inventory is all virtual, this means no shipping costs as the products are instantly downloaded.

If you’ve been looking for a low cost way to start your online business, you’ll want to take a serious look at ebooks with resell rights.

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