Article marketing is without doubt one of the easiest and most effective ways to get people to read your product recommendations and subsequently buy your product right away or join your mailing list to learn more about what you're selling and buy it sometime soon.
But articles are useless unless someone actually clicks on them in article directories and it's usually the teaser or preview part of your article that determines how many sales you'll make for your own or other people's products.
Thankfully, there's a very easy way to ensure your article does get read and by the maximum number of people possible.
You do it like this:- Did you see how I used ':-' at the end of the preview part of this article, that being one of the most effective ways possible to ensure your article does in fact get opened and studied at most article directories.
The reason is you've given the reader just a partial introduction to what your article is about, in this case a very easy way to make sure your article makes money for you! You've aroused your reader's curiosity and he knows the only way he'll learn your secret is to click on the title and read the rest of your article! Keeping the reader dangling this way is a practice well known to novelists who end each page with a reason for readers to turn the page and continue reading.
It's also the way film makers and television production companies ensure viewers stay tuned during a long advertising break, and guarantees also they'll turn up next week for another episode of their favorite television soap or partwork drama.
Novelists, writers, television producers and film makers keep readers and viewers glued to books and programmes using what are called 'cliff hangers', and they are equally essential to the preview part of all articles designed to get readers to visit our sites to buy our products or join our mailing lists.
Here are three extra ways to ensure your articles are read: * Ask a question at the end of the preview for your article.
Make it cryptic, excite the reader's curiosity, make it essential for him to continue reading.
Something like this would work for an article about dogs: 'During the Fist World War specific colors of dogs were used to transfer messages between soldiers and their officers.
Some colors were all but guaranteed to get the message through, while other colors usually involved dogs being killed on route! Which color do you think worked best: white or black? * Give one idea in your preview and promise a fixed number of extra ideas, or tips, in the remainder of your article.
You could, for example, say this in the preview for an article about affiliate marketing: 'Pay-Per-Click marketing is an immensely powerful way to promote your ClickBank products, but it can be expensive, unlike three even more effective ways to drive traffic to your recommendations which cost you nothing at all! * Give a promise in your title and preview and prove it in the body of your article.
For an article about getting cheaper insurance, for example, your title could read 'Cut Your Insurance Costs by 50% in Three Easy Ways'.
Your preview might give one tip and promise more.
Then in the body of your article you explain those other ways with proof they work and backed with evidence from reliable sources such as money watchdogs and price comparison experts.
But articles are useless unless someone actually clicks on them in article directories and it's usually the teaser or preview part of your article that determines how many sales you'll make for your own or other people's products.
Thankfully, there's a very easy way to ensure your article does get read and by the maximum number of people possible.
You do it like this:- Did you see how I used ':-' at the end of the preview part of this article, that being one of the most effective ways possible to ensure your article does in fact get opened and studied at most article directories.
The reason is you've given the reader just a partial introduction to what your article is about, in this case a very easy way to make sure your article makes money for you! You've aroused your reader's curiosity and he knows the only way he'll learn your secret is to click on the title and read the rest of your article! Keeping the reader dangling this way is a practice well known to novelists who end each page with a reason for readers to turn the page and continue reading.
It's also the way film makers and television production companies ensure viewers stay tuned during a long advertising break, and guarantees also they'll turn up next week for another episode of their favorite television soap or partwork drama.
Novelists, writers, television producers and film makers keep readers and viewers glued to books and programmes using what are called 'cliff hangers', and they are equally essential to the preview part of all articles designed to get readers to visit our sites to buy our products or join our mailing lists.
Here are three extra ways to ensure your articles are read: * Ask a question at the end of the preview for your article.
Make it cryptic, excite the reader's curiosity, make it essential for him to continue reading.
Something like this would work for an article about dogs: 'During the Fist World War specific colors of dogs were used to transfer messages between soldiers and their officers.
Some colors were all but guaranteed to get the message through, while other colors usually involved dogs being killed on route! Which color do you think worked best: white or black? * Give one idea in your preview and promise a fixed number of extra ideas, or tips, in the remainder of your article.
You could, for example, say this in the preview for an article about affiliate marketing: 'Pay-Per-Click marketing is an immensely powerful way to promote your ClickBank products, but it can be expensive, unlike three even more effective ways to drive traffic to your recommendations which cost you nothing at all! * Give a promise in your title and preview and prove it in the body of your article.
For an article about getting cheaper insurance, for example, your title could read 'Cut Your Insurance Costs by 50% in Three Easy Ways'.
Your preview might give one tip and promise more.
Then in the body of your article you explain those other ways with proof they work and backed with evidence from reliable sources such as money watchdogs and price comparison experts.
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