“How I Write” – Technique: Versioning
Creating boldly requires you to leave behind your anxiety and hesitation. I use a Technique called “Versioning” which allows me to mentally and creatively step forward without hesitation to try a creative and perhaps crazy notion with my script, novel or play.
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Targeting the wrong audience for digital ads can ruin your entire campaign and, even worse, cause you to lose a lot of money.
Regardless of unique and attractive your ads could be, they may not reach their full potential if you don’t pick the correct demographic.
According to official statistics, 48% on online adverts do not reach the right people across France, Germany, Italy, and the U.K. This means that nearly a half of digital ads are not being properly targeted and that, at least, billions spent on digital marketing are being completely wasted.
If you’re a marketer or a brand who’s had some bad experiences with online campaigns in the past, don’t worry! In this post, we’ll cover up what you could be doing wrong, while sharing some tips so you can stop targeting the wrong audience for digital ads.
3 Things You May Be Doing Wrong
Social Media is an important ingredient in the digital marketing recipe. Therefore, you could think that it’s a good idea to launch a Facebook Ads campaign from the get-go, to increase your brand’s overall visibility.
However, you should try to get a considerable amount of followers before you pay for Facebook or any kind of Social media ads.
The trick is to make sure that you build an audience that is right for what your brand or company has to offer. To do so, you can come out with a list of Buyer Personas that represent your ideal customers.
Think of Buyer Personas as profiles on the kind of people you think will be interested in your services. Include as many details as possible such as age groups, interests or locations and, afterward, you could use this data to target your digital ads on Social Media.
Pay Per Click (PPC) campaigns can do wonders for your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) since it allows your website or blog to rank higher on Google.
This kind of campaign is set up, for the most part, in Google ads and will show your site or a specific landing page of your choice every time that someone searches for a keyword or group of keywords.
The goal with PPC campaigns is to get your site to appear as high as possible on search results, ideally on the first page. Nonetheless, choosing the right budget is an art and a science at the same time.
If you spend too much on PPC, you may be wasting money. Meanwhile, if your minimum bid is too low and you are a part of a competitive field, you won’t appear high enough on search results… or at all.
Also, if you decide to leave your PPC campaign in the hands of a digital marketing agency, they could ask you for a high budget and, in the end, only use a 50% on that money in the actual campaign.
Although it is true that the agency spends time and effort setting up the PPC campaign, the Return Of Investment (ROI) is not enough in these cases to justify the amount you spent..
You can discover how PPC works via Wordstream.
Content Marketing is key in the world of digital advertising. Nowadays, most brands have, at least, a blog where they share updates, tips, and all kinds of articles that are useful for their audience.
But just posting content on a regular basis isn’t enough. You need to come out with high-quality articles that either educate, entertain or help your visitors, somehow.
And while, at times, you could feel that you are running out of ideas, creating a content calendar will help you fight creative block.
Think about your audience, their interests, needs, and worries. Then, start putting out content that they’ll enjoy as if you were releasing different chapters of a book.
You could also pick a particular subject that is popular among your visitors and discuss it in depth through different posts. Just make sure you do your research, and take keywords into consideration.
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Thank you for taking the time with me to learn more about marketing, news, tips and tricks for your business success.
Sincerely,
Robert Lennon
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Writing articles is by far one of the best marketing techniques. A well written informative article can bring a great deal of traffic to your website or blog. Over a short period of time your articles can be seen in article directories all over the Internet. It is one of the best ways to increase links to blogs and websites.
Success with article marketing stems from three things. Giving the article directories what they want. Giving ezine publishers what they want and giving readers what they want. If you keep the following points in mind when beginning your article marketing campaign you will soon see a huge difference to your daily website hits.
Here are a few points to consider when submitting articles to directories for approval.
· Does your article comply with the directories terms and conditions?
· Is your article TOO self-serving.
· Does your article get to the point quickly?
· Did you write your article yourself?
· Is your content unique?
Tips for getting your articles re-printed by ezine publishers.
· Is your article format correct?
· Have you spell checked and proof read your article.
· Is your article of reasonable length, i.e. 300-700 words?
· Is your article written in the third person?
· Does your article contain self-serving links in the body?
· Does your article contain more than two self-serving links in the bio?
· Is your article a blatant self-promotion?
· Is your content organized?
Points to consider when writing for readers.
· Have you spell checked and proof read your article.
· Is your article rehashed?
· Does your article enlighten or teach your reader.
· Is the theme of your article clear?
· Is your layout easily navigated and understood?
· Is your grammar and punctuation correct?
· Does your article leave your reader needing answers?
If you answer these questions honestly and positively then you are well on your way to having great success with article marketing. However if your articles are lacking in some areas now is the time edit, re-write or scrap these articles and get them up to par in order to have them approved by directories and regularly re-printed by ezine publishers.
Thank you for taking the time with me to learn more about marketing, news, tips and tricks for your business success.
Sincerely,
Robert Lennon
(AKA) Magic Marketer
For more information on Magic Marketing and our products and services, please contact us here OR Schedule your FREE 30 minute consultation to learn how we can find, follow, and pre-select your hyper-targeted customer to reduce wasted ad dollars and increase quality traffic and your bottom line.
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Everyone knows what an article is, but how does an article help you promote your business? Here are seven reasons to write articles and use them to promote your business and get more clients online:
1. Promote Your Expertise Online. Writing articles really helps to further establish your expertise online. One thing that all experts have in common is that they have written something – articles, books, reports, etc. Writing articles is your first step to becoming a well-known expert in your field.
2. Get More Newsletter Subscribers. To increase the number of your newsletter subscribers, use the Resource Box of your articles to drive more traffic to your newsletter subscription page.
3. Reach More Potential Customers. When you submit your articles to article directories, they may be re-printed by other business owners in their blogs, newsletters and web sites. Many people will see your articles, thus, exposing you and your business to more potential customers.
4. Get More One-Way Links to Your Web Site. Since the Resource Box that is attached to your articles contains links back to your web site, you will gain many one-way links back to your web site when your article is re-printed. Now people who read your articles will be able to follow these links to your web site.
5. Get Better Search Engine Rankings. One-way links to your web site are great for improving search engines rankings and getting more search engine traffic. Since search engines put more weight on one-way links, than on reciprocal links, getting one-way links with your articles will help you with your search engine strategies.
6. Reach Out to More Segments of Your Target Market. As your articles are re-printed on different blogs and web sites, you are able to reach out to the segments of your target market, that you would have never been able to reach on your own. However, with other people using your articles on their blogs and web sites, you are able to reach out to these customers.
7. Make More Money. Last, but definitely not least reason for writing articles is making money. While you will not be paid directly for writing, publishing and submitting your articles online, writing articles and promoting them online will result in more newsletter subscribers, and, ultimately, more sales in the long run for your business.
Start writing and publishing articles online – this strategy will help you get more newsletter subscribers, get better known and sell more of your products and services online.
Thank you for taking the time with me to learn more about marketing, news, tips and tricks for your business success.
Sincerely,
Robert Lennon
(AKA) Magic Marketer
For more information on Magic Marketing and our products and services, please contact us here OR Schedule your FREE 30 minute consultation to learn how we can find, follow, and pre-select your hyper-targeted customer to reduce wasted ad dollars and increase quality traffic and your bottom line.
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Submitting articles to article directories is a proven to attract more visitors to your site, give you a higher page rankings and, ultimately, make you more money. However, search engines and article directories are getting tougher on the articles you submit. In this article we give you some tips on how to submit articles successfully.
Changes in the way search engines and article directories work in recent times mean that article marketers need to be a bit more savvy about how they go about submitting their articles. There was a time when you could write a good article, submit it to hundreds, if not thousands, of directories and watch your profits grow. These days it is not quite so simple.
The easiest way to get your article published on a lot of directories quickly is to use an article submission service. It is possible to do it by hand but this is a laborious and tedious task, unless you submit to just a small number of directories.
There are many article submission services available online, both free and paid, or you can invest in software that will do the job for you. These can be effective but there is a danger that article directories will reject your content if they suspect you are using an automated submission method. In a worst case scenario you could be banned from submitting to the directory again.
So, if you are using an article submission service check that their methods will not cause you problems with the directories. If you are submitting articles yourself, do not submit too many articles to any one directory at the same time.
An even bigger problem for article marketers is that the major engines now penalize duplicate content. In the past you could submit an article to 100 article directories and the likes of Google and Yahoo! would award you for having 100 backlinks to your website. You would also be awarded when the article was picked up and used by other websites. However, this has changed.
The search engines can now recognize duplicate content. So, even if your article appears on 1,000 different websites you will still only be awarded for one backlink. You will of course gain traffic that accesses your website directly through the link provided with your article. However, this makes it much more difficult to use article submissions as a search engine optimization tool.
The only way to get around this is to submit a unique version of each article you write to each article directory. Again, if you only submit articles to a small number of directories you could tweak each article yourself so you have a number of different versions. However, if you are submitting to hundreds of directories this is out of the question.
It is not really known just how much an article needs to be changed to become unique. Some argue simply switching paragraphs within an article is enough, while others think that the text within the paragraphs needs to be changed too.
There are a number of possible solutions to this problem. Many article submission services have been quick to move to address this issue. As well as submitting your articles to multiple article directories they will also create different versions of each article for you or provide you with a tool for doing so yourself.
Alternatively, you could invest in some software that helps with the re-writing of articles. These are also known as article spinners and will automatically replace words with other words of a similar meaning. For example, the word ‘small’ might be changed with the word ‘little’ and so on. However, the software needs to be configured to do so manually. Others will simply change the order of paragraphs in articles. This can also be very time consuming and may not do enough to make the different versions unique in the eyes of the search engines.
One final option could be to get outside help. There are many websites such as elance.com and getafreelancer.com where you can post rewriting projects for professional writers. The quality of the work will vary but rates can be quite cheap.
It may be a good idea to try out these methods and see how they work for you. You will have to invest some money but it will be worth it if you find a workable solution to duplicate content.
Writing articles and submitting them to article directories can be as beneficial a marketing and SEO tool as it has ever been. However, doing it successfully is a little trickier than it was before.
Thank you for taking the time with me to learn more about marketing, news, tips and tricks for your business success.
Sincerely,
Robert Lennon
(AKA) Magic Marketer
For more information on Magic Marketing and our products and services, please contact us here OR Schedule your FREE 30 minute consultation to learn how we can find, follow, and pre-select your hyper-targeted customer to reduce wasted ad dollars and increase quality traffic and your bottom line.
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For some time now article marketing strategies has been a great free marketing method, by submitting your articles to article directories you are getting a free link back to your website. Which in turn can help you rank better for your search engines and also the possiblity of the person reading that article will click on your link.
Writing a good resource box is essential if you want to get a better click through rate on your links. It is also possible that your article could get picked up by other web masters for e-zines, blogs, newsletters and other web-sites. So writing good articles is key to getting this kind of exposure.
When writing articles to submit to free directories, focus on key words. A good key word percentage of 4-6% will make your article much more favorable for search engines, in return getting you many more readers and possibly more clicks on your links in the resource box.
A whole book could be written on different ways to market your website. I truly believe free article marketing is by far the best bang for your buck. The only downside to submitting articles is it can be a very slow process. On average, after writing your article it will usually take about 15 minutes to sign up to a directory and submit your article. So doing this all manually is not an option if you want real results.
I would recommend submitting to five of the top ranking directories manually, and using automatic article submitting software to submit to the rest. This saves you a ton of time. You can pick up some great free software at PLRProStore.com. This will get the job done.
I would recommend submitting at least one article per week into the top article directories and with your automatic article submitting software. If you keep this up on a regular basis, you can watch your site grow in rank over a shirt period of time. Just keep at it.
Thank you for taking the time with me to learn more about marketing, news, tips and tricks for your business success.
Sincerely,
Robert Lennon
(AKA) Magic Marketer
For more information on Magic Marketing and our products and services, please contact us here OR Schedule your FREE 30 minute consultation to learn how we can find, follow, and pre-select your hyper-targeted customer to reduce wasted ad dollars and increase quality traffic and your bottom line.
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