Eddington writes:

More great tips as usual thank you sir! I am always trying to improve mine and these tips will sure go a long way.

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Jeff writes:

‘…surely go a long way…’

Adverb required.

December 4, 2010 at 3:05 AM

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Kayla Block writes:

Do I get to leave a call to action in my comment? ;-)

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Mark Call writes:

Marc,

Awesome advise as usual, my friend!

Just wanted to take a minute to thank you for ALL the valuable tips YOU and the Team at EzineArticles give us on a regular basis.

Your tips have made my blog and submitted articles MUCH more Successful!

Thanks again,

Mark Call

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Marc, Product Marketing Manager writes:

Mark, it’s OUR pleasure. I can honestly say that we love what we do! :-) None-the-less, I’m happy to hear that the videos and other media are serving their intended purpose.

September 24, 2010 at 4:15 PM

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Dave Doolin writes:

I need these tips, badly.

I’m not much of a video person, so I didnt’ watch the video and don’t know if you provided an example. It would be super helpful to have an example in the text, because I’m about to Amplify it. (Just did.)

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Eddington writes:

Hey Dave, just thought I would let you know that your website link doesn’t seem to be working, I clicked on your name and it didn’t work.

BTW, what’s your prefered learning style then if you are not a video person? I love them and I like reading through materials too, just that some videos are poorely done and they keep hanging, which can be annoying.

Short reports are great.

September 24, 2010 at 2:28 PM

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Dave Doolin writes:

I learn by doing, no other way. Generally, text is the easiest way for me to bootstrap into the doing part.

Lecture and audio, forget it. College was hard. I did best in classes that had homework, or when I recopied all the notes (very time consuming).

From video, I can learn if I take notes, but I have to watch the whole thing to see if it’s worth while.

But I can speed read text, and decide whether something is worth implementing.

For example, I’m about write an offer, which is why I’m back on this page.

I fixed my URL for this comment. It would be very cool if someone fixed the URL for the other comment, but no big deal. I’ll be back comment again anyway.

September 26, 2010 at 10:45 PM

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Wesley writes:

Good, simple information! Thank you.

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Maestro writes:

Bravo! Very good and inspiring, although very simple.
Thanks.

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ayuan writes:

I have never used the sixth tip of “Display the Full Website Address” and haven’t realized it is very important. Thanks! I will apply these tips.

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Brad Davis writes:

An area of article marketing that often is overlooked by the end of writing the piece, great advice!

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Rudy writes:

Marc,

Just opened a uniform store and you advice was really helpful. We adjusted our marketing letter and can the the positive results already. Keep up the good work.

Thanks.

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Sherryl Perry writes:

Great use of video! If you only have one call to action, do you repeat it on each of your articles? Won’t your regular readers tire from seeing it?

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Marc, Product Marketing Manager writes:

Sherryl, a call to action may go unnoticed or not acted upon several times by a given reader. But if it’s a good and consistent CTA, eventually they’ll bite – and that’s what you want to have happen. However, it may be worthwhile to test multiple CTAs in an effort to see which work best.

September 27, 2010 at 9:35 AM

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Jeremy Selb writes:

Thanks, once again an awesome informative video to help your members. I found this one very useful personally and will put it to use right away.
Thanks again.

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Wahl writes:

thanks for your tips, Marc. I’ll follow your effective guideline.

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Subodh Sarkar writes:

Your excellent tips for writing call-to=action is really useful. I am a technical writer and normally engrossed in technology details. This kind of tips will make my articles useful for the readers.
Thanks for your good effort,
Subodh Sarkar

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Mitchell Dillman writes:

Excellent!

Thank you for this concise and valuable information regarding “calls to action”…

I will implement this NOW!

Mitchell Dillman

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Denver Painters writes:

Call to actions is the most important in article writing and Thank you Marc for sharing. Great tips keeping us focused why we write articles in the first place! In our line of work, we try providing helpful information, giving another main (keyword/link) source, for further study has been our call to action and driving force. The main keyword we wish to rank higher for is found in last paragraph and think should be included in title as well as blog posts. lol

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Glenn S. Ferguson @ Bahamas Destination Wedding writes:

Thanks Marc, I appreciate the tips and they seem really simple to do…

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CD Duplication writes:

Watched the video and naturally its all pretty simple but until someone points out these things you just dont figure it.
After watching I’ve just added some of the advice to my latest article.
Thank you.

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Mary Jane Hurley Brant writes:

Marc,

Thanks for advising us to use the full website address. I wrestle with that decision because sometimes it becomes a hot link (which I like) and sometimes it doesn’t. I don’t mean specifically here but anywhere I might post.

From now on that’s how I will play it. I would have tried it here in my comment but as I recollect that is not permitted.

MJ

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Marc, Product Marketing Manager writes:

Just an FYI: We will allow links in Blog comments provided they are not “self-serving” or spammy.

September 27, 2010 at 9:16 AM

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Danielle writes:

Marc,
Thank you. Very good advice to implement in my next articles.

D

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Wolfie (Wolfgang) writes:

Thank you for that tip Marc, but are you saying that I am allowed to leave a link at the end of my article? I thought that I could only leave a link in my bio, could you please clarify as I have a new article to submit.

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Marc, Product Marketing Manager writes:

Yes, you can have links within your article. Check out this Blog post and video for a more thorough explanation: http://blog.EzineArticles.com/2010/07/2-minute-approval-tips-limit-your-links.html

September 27, 2010 at 9:14 AM

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Felicia Brown writes:

Thank you for these tips. I actually reposted it on my blog (coming out Monday) so that my followers would see them.

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Cal Phillips writes:

Thanks for Great Call to Action Tips Marc! I see this information useful in other syndication we may be personally associated with, such as blogs. Really like the Tip “Have only one Call to Action”, as this can be very confusing having too many in one article. Thanks again, helping all of us stay focused!

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Jeff Herring writes:

Thanks Marc for some good tips on something people easily mess up.

~ Jeff

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Eric J Smith writes:

Thanks Marc…

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Sanjiv writes:

Thanks Marc,
Those were some great and useful Tips. Never did this before and now feel the urgent need to put this into practice.

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Elzabe Brown writes:

Thanks. This is great common sense information. We’ll be putting it to good use in our new business web site.

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Emily Sandstrom writes:

The plural of ‘call to action’ is ‘calls to action.’

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Marc, Product Marketing Manager writes:

How right you are! Thanks for the heads up … or is that head ups? ;-)

September 27, 2010 at 8:58 AM

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hazel wagner writes:

What are you using to put together your terrific videos with white background and pop out signs?

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Marc, Product Marketing Manager writes:

We use a combination of software packages including Final Cut Pro and Motion. The real “secret” to the quality of the videos is that they are shot with broadcast quality cameras using professional lighting and production techniques.

September 27, 2010 at 8:57 AM

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Flori Stone writes:

Hi Marc, thanks for the call to action post., I once heard the phrase or acronym BPAS used when talking about calls to action. Which stands for “Basically People Are Stupid” – meaning we assume this when they look at our sites, so we need to be very clear about what we want them to do next.

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Rusty writes:

I didn’t understand this article.

It seemed to go against what I thought I knew about EzineArticles. But I tried to put it into action only to end up with a rejected article for a call to action.

I don’t understand call to action? Where in the article or did you mean only in the resource box?

Help me understand, you seem to be saying sell in your article but when tired, the article was rejected.

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Marc, Product Marketing Manager writes:

The proper place for the call to action is in the Resource Box, not in the article body itself.

October 1, 2010 at 2:06 PM

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Rusty writes:

Okay, everything else I had written was written that way. Working on pitch and squeeze pages lately, my brain probably became focused. :) Maybe I can fix that article.

I saw it as an experiment.

October 1, 2010 at 8:54 PM

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Frankie Cooper writes:

This is some great and useful information to definitely apply to my next batch of articles.

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R S Chawla writes:

real Great information. EzineArticles has been a great help in promoting my sites

Your tips in writing good articles are really very useful

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Walter Brown writes:

Good tips, but…

I feel like I have been rejected for using a call to action that was something like “for more, visit my site…” with the explanation that telling people “for more” was the same as saying “I left something out” in the body of the article.

I STRESS so much over how to structure my calls to action to try and avoid being rejected, but I see many, many other people blatantly saying “for more, go here”

Am I wrong, or did I dream my rejection?

Regardless, good tips!

Wally

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Penny, Managing Editor writes:

Wally,

Using “for more, go here” will not qualify as an automatic rejection but we’ll be more than happy to take a look at your account. Someone from our Member Support team will be in touch with you shortly.

July 18, 2011 at 1:33 PM

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Wally writes:

Thanks Penny!

Maybe I was wrong and have been stressing over nothing.

July 18, 2011 at 1:37 PM

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Glenn @ Financial Coaching With Glenn writes:

Great video. Do you have lesson where you mention the tools you are using to get the effects you got in this video?

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trevor writes:

In your call to action tell your subscriber or visitor exactly what they’re getting when they click on something and make sure what they’re getting is the main benefit of the product you’re promoting. Thanks for your interesting article..

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