Angela Chen Shui writes:

Wonderful video collaboration, Gary and EzineArticles! Simple, effective and humourous use of sticky notes, movement, lists, etc to get point across.

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Rachel Agheyisi writes:

I like, I like, I like!
Well done, Gary Stickman.

You’d think that by now all marketers know that the “bullhorn” approach is a turn-off.

So let us, the “expert” Ezine article writers, show them how it’s done — with value and soft-sell approach. The results may not always be instantaneous, but it’s a more gratifying path.

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Piano Lessons by QM writes:

Not only is this the model for articles, it’s also the model for ezines, newsletters, etc. I always include a full article in my newsletter. They get the value first, and then … I ask for what I want.

If more people did this, they would experience the results they are looking for.

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YourLawnAndGarden - The Place Where Successful Contractors Meet writes:

Brilliant Gary Brilliant! But Gary you seem to haev a porblem spelilng. Go check yor notes!

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Marilynn Syrett writes:

Superb video!!

N thanks for sharing this wonderful information. I agree unless you offer something valuable to your audiences, there is no way they would handle ur self promotion.

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Zack Lim writes:

Well Done, Gary! I really like your videos as you have convey the message in a humorous way.

I agree with you that we should always give value to the customers first before we ask for anything back in return.

Thanks for the video and I am looking forward to your next series of videos.

Zack

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gdi writes:

nice and simple article Gary , thank you

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Geoff writes:

I like the practical side in which Gary shows writers what can make good quality content.

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Brenda writes:

This short video was very informative to me, being that I’m a newbie to this ariticle writing. I will be sure to follow the protocol. Thanks Brenda.

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Jason Booth writes:

Great Job! Very Classy! Professionalism at its finest! Most importantly Great Advice! Thanks for the video’s.

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Marc writes:

YourLawnAndGarden,

Spelling error? What spelling error? ;-)

All joking aside, thanks for pointing it out. You’ll note it’s been fixed.

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Ron Thompson writes:

Great Video
It’s like going back to school.
It gets the point across. I think by the end of this it will make much better article writer out of all of us. This will benefit all the readers and keep Ezine at the top for great info and high quality articles .
Ron T

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Gaynor writes:

Brilliant video guys.
Clear, to the point, entertaining without a lot of fast flashing movement, creative, not loaded with a lot of tricks that detract from your message and very helpful…..well done

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Lance Winslow writes:

Ocassionally, I’ll get a rejection on this point of contention; “Blatant Promotion or Advertising” and it quite frankly irks the heck out of me. You see, I am retired, and I am not advertising or blantantly promoting a G-darn thing. Sometimes the arbitrary-ness of the editors or artificial intelligence software that picks these things up makes a mistake.

Of course, you cannot argue with a computer or an EZ editor, so, it essentially causes a reduction of creative articles, quelling of speech, and increases the anxiety of the article author.

Now there are articles that people submit that are indeed, outrageously “press release” related and do not belong here. But I am tired of the 1:400 articles I submit that is rejected based on this rule. I respectfully request to have this rule by-passed on my account, because, I’ve never abused it and the articles that have been rejected based on it, were fine, and non-promotional.

I felt by modifying them, I did a disservice to my reader and to the Internet. So, this rule needs fixing and by-passing for authors who have no ill-intent on promoting anything.

There are simply too many rules for rejections at EZ and it is hurting the system and upsetting writers. That’s my belief. Based on the 16,300 articles I have manually submitted here, so do not discount my comments due to your need to make rules and rule.

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John Chablo writes:

Nice idea with post it notes! That has certainly set me thinking about how I produce my next video, much more fun than just sitting there in front of the camera. Well done!

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fauzi writes:

Great idea, I’d like to write articles in non sales and promotion content.

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Wessel De Guisti writes:

Thank you very much for the video. I’ll make use of that info next time in my article.

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