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Submitting Articles To Newsletters and Websites
By James D. Brausch
http://www.quitthatjob.comSubmitting articles to newsletters and websites is an extremely powerful method of promotion.
To do this you will need articles with your name as the author. Can you write? Good; get to it. You need to write one 500 word article on the topic of your site every week.
Can't write? No problem. Do you have $250 to spend to have 15 articles ghost written for you? That's only $16 per article and will get you by for the next 15 weeks (almost 4 months). If so, Elance is your answer: http://www.Elance.com
Place a project up for bid asking for 15 ghostwritten articles on the topic of your site. You can suggest the titles of the articles if you want. Dozens of people WILL place bids (they always do) and 3 or 4 will bid the minimum which is $250 in that category.
Choose from the best by looking at their credentials and sample work (most bidders will be happy to show you samples). Great; now you own 15 articles that you can legitimately put your name on... Or you can use a pseudonym (a pen name).
OK; so you have either written some articles or you have had them ghostwritten for you. Now you just add a small three line bio at the end of your article. It can say something like this:
John Smith is the webmaster for http://yourdomain.com which is the #1 resource for widgets on the Internet. Be sure to visit his complete archive of articles here: http://www.yourdomain.com/articles/
Of course you will want to put your name where John Smith is in the above byline and your domain... and your topic instead of "widgets". But you get the idea. This byline will be printed with your article. It has become a custom on the Internet. You really don't even have to demand that webmasters and ezine publishers include it. They just will.
Now, you need to submit them to as many newsletters as you can every week. Send one new article like clockwork to your entire list of newsletters on the same day of the week every single week.
How do you get a list of newsletters?
First, put a form on your site for ezine editors or webmasters to request article submissions. You will eventually start getting 5 or 10 submissions every week to add to your list.
Here are some ways to get your list going right away:
Pay $10 to get your article distributed to thousands of ezines right now: http://thephantomwriters.com/purchase/distribution.shtml
You will receive confirmations from ezines that have published your articles. Add those ezines to your own distribution list.
Want even more?
Pay $20/article (in quantity) to submit to 500 highly responsive ezines here: http://www.ezinetrendz.com/articlesubmission.htm
Once again, be sure to add the confirmations you receive to your own list. You eventually want to stop submitting through pay services and submit only to your own list (which is free).
Buy a list of 1200 newsletter editors for $47 here:
http://www.ezine-editors-list.comRemember that the real goal is to build up your own list. This is a VERY powerful method of promotion. I highly recommend it.
