Your First 10 Articles
I’d like to know: What is the number one thing stopping you from submitting your first 10 articles?
If you’ve already blown past your first 10 article submissions, can you think back to tell us what troubles, challenges, fears or objections you had during the process of your first 10 article submissions?
Sometimes we’ve forgotten in this blog (because most of the commenters are already intermediate to advanced) what it was like to be a newbie article writer/submitter/publisher…but the reality is that only 5,552 of our current 46,576 expert authors are Platinum level with us (11.9%)… meaning, the majority of experts who are members with us need some help over the first 10 articles submission hill. :-)
Last night in a private teleclass, Jeff Herring asked me, “Here’s a question I received last week from a student that I never would have thought of myself – in your opinion, what holds most people back from writing their second article?”
My gut feeling is that many authors are trying to be (too) perfect with their first submissions and they get locked up into a state of in-activity…the exact opposite of the massive action state they need to be in to reap the rewards of this article writing & marketing process… but I could be wrong.
Your thoughts?
Although I write for our site a lot, only the best writings that I feel are useful and well-written are considered for submission anywhere as an article. Occasionally I write something off-topic or review a book and, if I feel the writing is worthwhile, that will get submitted as an article.
I’d rather provide some useful content and have a body of work that can stand on its own, rather than simply publish everything I write. I’m not looking for perfection, per se, but I know which articles are truly inspired and contain great, well-written information.
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