Whether you run a business totally online, or you operate a brick-and-mortar business and have a supplemental website, you need to implement article marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you aren’t marketing your business with articles, you’re missing a huge chunk of the marketing pie. Let me give you a few reasons why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reason #1:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Article marketing is free<\/strong>. Every business owner knows that advertising isn’t cheap. Every newspaper or magazine ad you run costs you dearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By spending just a little extra time writing and submitting several articles each month, you’ll save quite a bit of money. Best yet, article marketing doesn’t cost you a dime–just a few hours every week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reason #2:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Article marketing brands your business. <\/strong>Have you ever wondered how some businesses seem to become so well-known in such a short amount of time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n They’re getting their name out there. They’re giving away something of value for free to their potential customers. Your articles will brand your business and make it a well-known name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reason #3:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Article marketing makes you an expert.<\/strong> If you write articles about the subjects you know well, you’ll quickly become known as an expert in your field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you run a website on bird watching? Writing and submitting fifty articles on bird watching will show people that you know what you’re talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reason #4:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Article marketing teaches you how to relate to people<\/strong>. You can’t write a bunch of articles without learning how to communicate effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The more you write, the more you’ll learn how to get your message across in a friendly, personal tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reason #5:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Article marketing creates back links to your website<\/strong>. Without getting into the technical details of this, back links to your website are good and you’ll want lots of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back links help boost your rankings in the search engines, thus gaining more exposure for your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remember that article marketing isn’t the cure-all answer to advertising your business; it’s one piece of the pie. You also can’t submit a handful of articles one time and expect to see results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Article marketing requires persistence and patience. You should plan to spend a certain number of hours each week writing and submitting articles to promote your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pencil in this time faithfully and stick to it. Within a few months (maybe even a few short weeks!), you’ll begin to see the results of your hard work pay off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whether you run a business totally online, or you operate a brick-and-mortar business and have a supplemental website, you need to implement article marketing. If you aren’t marketing your business with articles, you’re missing a huge chunk of the marketing pie. Let me give you a few reasons why. Reason #1: Article marketing is free. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[542],"yoast_head":"\n