11 Easy Content Ideas For Your Ezine Or Web Site

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“11 Quick (and Good) Content Ideas for Your Ezine or Website”
by Alexandria K. Brown, “The E-zine Queen”

Publishing articles, especially via an e-zine, is the
ideal opportunity to showcase your business. By sharing
your knowledge and expertise, you build credibility as
an expert, while spreading the word about your services
and products.

While I’m sure that sometimes you have dozens of content
ideas, I bet other times you find yourself staring at a
blank computer screen, grumbling that it’s publishing
time again. Well, have no fear! Here are 11 quick
(and good) content ideas for when you’re in a pinch.

1. Give real-life success stories.

Describe a problem you’ve solved for a client/customer,
and use that as a springboard to offer more general advice.
Show your readers how you’ve helped customers address
challenges — “case studies” if you will. This positions
you as the expert in your readers’ minds more than your
coming out and saying so.

2. Think of three areas in which you’d like your clients
to think of you as a resource.

Now develop content in those areas. For example, in my
past life as a professional copywriter, I really enjoyed writing
for Web sites. To help encourage my clients and prospects
to hire me for these projects, I published several articles
on how to write Web copy that sells.

3. Read industry publications for ideas.
Are there any hot issues in your field right now?

The more controversial, the better. Don’t be afraid to offer
your own opinion — your readers want to know it. After all,
YOU are the expert in their eyes.

4. Jot down 8 questions your clients have asked you in the past.

You know, the ones they ask you over and over. Answer each
in a short article. If you publish weekly, that’s two months’
worth of content, right off the bat! And if you can’t think
of any questions, send all your current clients/customers a
quick e-mail, asking them what topics they’re most interested
in learning more about.

5. Learn anything neat lately from an industry conference,
workshop, seminar, or insightful article?

No one says you have to reinvent the wheel of information!
Pass on any gems of advice you’ve learned elsewhere — just
give them full attribution. Or give your opinion of the event
or article itself. Your readers will appreciate your frankness.

6. Offer a list of your top 5 or 10 tips on a certain subject.

It’s much easier to bang out a list of tips than to put together
a real article. Of course, the tips can evolve into an article
if you wish! Be sure to list your best tip first, or at least
close to the top. (If you “fire your biggest gun” last, you
risk losing your audience before they get to the good stuff.)

7. Interview associates whose expertise would interest your
readers.

(while not competing with yours). E-mail interviews are
incredibly easy to do. Just send your interviewee 3 to 5
questions via e-mail, edit their answers, and have them approve
the final version. Be sure to give them a short plug in your
e-zine as a thank you. (A one- or two-sentence description of
their business and their Web address should be fine.)

8. Recommend books and resources that you use, and offer full
reviews on them.

In one issue of my old e-zine, “AKB MarCom Tips,” I featured
reviews of my favorite four copywriting resource books. I’m glad
I also gave my Amazon.com associate links, because I ended up
making some nice commission, to boot!

9. Invite clients or readers to write you with their own questions,
and answer one in each issue.

Right after their question, publish the person’s name, business, and
Web address, with their permission. They’ll enjoy the attention and
free publicity!

10. Invite readers to send in profiles.

Ask them to tell you about themselves — their names, businesses,
locations, and how they use the information gained in your e-zine.
Feature one profile in each issue or one every few issues.

11. When all else fails, borrow an article!

There are dozens of Web sites offering hundreds of articles that
you can use in your e-zine. The articles are free and available
for you to use immediately. The only catch is you’re required to
leave the entire article intact, including the author’s promotional
information. One of my favorite places to search for articles is
www.ezinearticles.com.

One last note: Keep in mind that if your e-zine’s main objective is
to get you more clients and customers, you should NOT feature
other writers’ articles more than once in a blue moon. Remember
our main goal is to continually showcase YOU. : )

Online entrepreneur Alexandria K. Brown, “The E-zine Queen,” is creator
of the award-winning ‘Boost Business With Your Own E-zine’ system. To
learn more about this step-by-step program, and to sign up for her FREE
how-to articles and FREE audio class, visit wwwEzineQueen.com

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Don’t be fooled by the simplicity of the tips in this article.
Creating good quality content for your ezine subscribers will
help you to turn your words into cash. Ali certainly knows her stuff!
Use her proven strategies to make your ezine into a profit pulling
cash cow.

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Nancy

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The site is aptly named WhatIsTheSecret.tv

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Focus
Visitors are drawn directly to the online video to watch from start to finish!

Viral Marketing Techniques
The number of ways in which you can tell a friend and refer others is very resourceful. The site uses traditional and new technology to maximize the ways in which visitors can spread the word about the site. Pretty damb ingenious, yet simple to replicate for any webmaster.

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BLOGMARK IT
RECOMMEND IT
DELICIOUS IT
SAVE IT

Creating A Buzz
Throughout the video you are never directly told exactly what the secret is. It remains a mystery for you to figure out on your own. Or as the case may be, get your friends to watch the video to see if they can guess what the secret could be!

Accessibility
Check out the range of popular media players to select your viewing preferences.
Even those on dial up modems have the added convenience to watch a slide show version of the presentation.

Audio Visusal Presentation
Using the power of words, classical music and movie imagery to draw people to the marketing message in a very cleverly produced mini trailer.

I am not personally affiliated with the site in any way and do not know for sure what ‘The Secret’ actually could be. I also do not endorse what product or service the site will eventually launch.

I do think it is a great model for ways in which webmasters alike can use the power of viral marketing to generate free publicity for any web site.

Just take a look for yourself and learn. Were you compelled to enter your name and email address to find out more when the site owners are ready to reveal ‘The Secret?’

Be honest!

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Jason Lewis in his post entitled ‘A Viral Marketing Masterpiece’ also refers to the forum post and quotes:

P.S. Allen Says thought that ‘The Secret’ might have something to do with ‘The Master Key System’, as that was supposed to have been ‘banned by the church’.

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Marketing Tips For Using Private Rights Articles

[1] Rewrite a sample of articles and submit them to the top article directories. ONLY your own work is permitted, so it is essential that they are rewritten in your own words and style!

[2] Many ezine/newsletter editors are always on the lookout for more content for their subscribers you can submit your articles to them for free promotion and more one-way links.

[3] Articles are a great way to inform people about a particular topic. Set up a free autoresponder course with reference to any related affiliate program or your own products and services.

[4] Rather than trying to hard sell directly to visitors you could package some articles into a free report for which you could set up a landing page encouraging people to opt-in to your mailing list in order to access the report.

[5] Create niche web sites to generate passive income by adding Google Adsense to each page. Submit them to the search engines to attract targeted traffic to your site. You can also add your favorite affiliate program links to boost your revenue.

[6] Include the articles in your blog or set up a free article blog to attract search engine traffic and encourage others to reprint your articles on their web sites.

[7] Content Is King so if you are going to use articles on any web page. It is good practice to add an introduction before the article and maybe some more tips or key points at the end of the article.

Most important of all, brainstorm your Resource Box, which is a few lines about you and your business. Forget this and the whole purpose of promoting your business, affiliate program, mailing list and one-way inbound links are lost!

Can you can see the picture here?

The beauty of having your own library of highly popular niche articles can help to broaden your perspectives by helping you to create content filled information online. If you are still skeptical or want to find out what categories of articles are currently available just send an email to the site owners.

I hope these tips help you with your decision making. You could probably think of many more ways in which to use articles to your benefit.

Best of luck,
Nancy

Wham Bam - Say “No Thank You Spam!”

Heck, I spend a week or so away from a computer due to personal issues and what do I find on my blog but flaming SPLOG [Spam+Blog=SPLOG] from gambling sites, online pharmacies/perscription sites and a few nutters I won’t even bother to mention!

What the hell is going on with this worthless pieces of junk polluting the Blogosphere.

Thankfully, I moderate all comments before allowing or deleting them, as the case may be. Who in their right mind wants a plague of useless comments about the same useless web site that has been sent with some kind of Auto Comment Blogging Software?

Yeh, right!

There are of course many ways to combat Spam Comments. One thing I would NEVER allow is for comments not to be moderated before publishing on my blog. Believe me, some of the stuff these idiots write is incomprehensible and downright offensive!

After reading the post at TeleRead regarding Blog Spam I found that the very best methods to combat Splog is to use a good Spam plug-in or use a ‘Turing Test’ as suggested by Garson Poole.

Ah well another day in the grand ole Blogosphere…

An rare rant from me.

Phase II of Paul Kleinmeulman’s Private Rights Articles

Just a quick message to inform you that Phase II of Paul Kleinmeulman’s Private Rights Articles is available to the public. Phase I sold out in a record breaking 4 days. Don’t miss out this time.

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Hope you get lucky this time as memberships are again limited.

Best Wishes,

Nancy