Archive for May, 2010

If you’re doing any type of marketing online, you know about the power of writing and submitting articles to get traffic and backlinks to your site. And you also know that if you write the articles yourself, it can take a lot of time. Time spent coming up with titles, time spent researching the topic, time spent creating an  outline, and the time to actually write and proofread the article.

If you’re able to write an article from start to finish in an hour and you need a dozen articles, you have a lot of time invested. Even if you’re able to cut that in half and do it in thirty minutes, you still have to set aside that time to do it. And you have no way of knowing ahead of time if you’re going to get any traffic from the articles after you submit them.

Writing and submitting articles is a powerful marketing strategy, so don’t stop doing it.

Here’s something to think about. Other marketers are always looking for articles they can buy. And you can be the one who provides the articles.

Here’s the downside:
People don’t want to pay a lot for an article. They can get them all over the place for around $5. If you write 2 articles an hour, you’re going to make $10 and hour. If it takes you an hour to write an article, you only get $5 an hour. Not good.

No, I don’t suggest that you hire yourself out to write articles for $5 per article.

There’s a much better way…

Write a series of articles on a market that is in high demand. It could be a ClickBank product or any other affiliate product. It could be a series on digital cameras, video games, or treadmills. What you’re after is 5-10 articles that you can write for a market.

For this example, write 5 articles on exercise equipment. You’re going to be selling these articles for $1 each for a total of $5 for the package. If it takes you 5 hours to write these articles, you’ll get $5. But there’s more to it…

The idea is to sell these articles with private label rights, and to sell several of these packages. To make it more attractive to potential customers, limit the quantity. In this example, promise to only sell 50 copies of these article sets.

You’re selling 50 sets of 5 articles for $5 each, for a total of $250. Not bad for 5 hours of work. Don’t stop there. Once you get your first package of articles written, move on to another set of articles. You can build this as big as you want.

The demand for content is huge, and you’ll never run out of topics to write about. Once you have a few sales, ask your customers what other niches they are interested in. That makes your job easy, and if you write quality articles, the word will get out and you’ll be on your way to making a lot of money selling your articles.