WHERE DO YOU DRAFT YOUR ARTICLES? By: Penny, EzineArticles Managing Editor
Welcome back, or simply welcome, to From My Desk to Yours. In this series, we address common Expert Author obstacles and provide stellar success strategies, tips to getting your article approved, updates to the Editorial Guidelines, and more.
Your feedback and suggestions are important to our growth and innovation and are the defining aspect of the EzineArticles platform.
This brings us to our topic today: The Body of the Submit New Article form on the new My.EzineArticles.com member interface.
We have studied data, tested new tools, pored over your comments, and much more to make the Submit New Article form easier, faster, and smarter than ever.
Now we need a little more specific input as we launch into another phase of improving the Submit New Article form on My.EzineArticles.com: (Continue Reading…)
Writing without an outline is like flying in an airplane without the frame. You’re not going to get very far and you’ll definitely encounter more than your standard fare of resistance.
The concept of flying is a great example of an idea, vision, and ambition that underwent planning, designing, testing, and more to become a wild success: the airplane. It wasn’t accidental or incidental – it was intentionally done.
The same is true for article writing. Great articles have a plan, a reader-oriented design, and are tested with proofreading and editing. With an outline to frame your article, you can add the details and focus you need to let your articles soar. Here’s how. (Continue Reading…)
Next to more glamorous errors, like spelling mistakes and misused words, punctuation is often overlooked. Without punctuation, communication would be one long string of incoherent thoughts and ideas.
So come along with us as we kick off a new series with the excitable and occasionally overbearing exclamation point.
Many will use the exclamation point (a.k.a. the exclamation mark) excessively and overdramatically. In these cases, readers question the author’s credibility as well as whether they can actually trust the author’s claims. (Continue Reading…)
Meet EzineArticles’ Expert Author Cheryl Cran in Today’s Showcase
As a leadership expert and keynote speaker, Expert Author Cheryl Cran believes the future is about collaboration, innovation, and leading change. Lending support and encouraging leaders to grow, Cheryl provides strategies, solutions, and more to deliver results and increase productivity.
For over 18 years (as long as she has conducted her consulting practice), Cheryl has written articles. After joining the EzineArticles Expert Author community in 2007, Cheryl amplified her exposure and credibility. “My clients have forwarded and re-used my articles. I see constant article writing as crucial to building my brand and increasing intellectual property,” she commented. “EzineArticles is a great marketing resource and I recommend it to authors.” (Continue Reading…)
If you’re browsing for a book at a bookstore, you may find yourself leisurely pulling books from shelves, reading dust-jackets, and thumbing the pages. Now, if you were to provide the exact same information online, would your interaction with the books be the same?
Not likely. You may be looking for a book, but you may also be chatting with a friend online, checking your email, paying bills, watching an online video, listening to music, browsing, etc… all at the exact same time. So not only are you processing information with new expectations and completely differently than you would with offline information, you’re also multi-tasking. Each of these tasks performed online competes with each other for not only your attention – your time too!
Bearing this in mind, it’s important to properly write and format articles for an audience who thrives on a speedy, effective delivery and still satisfy their needs while meeting their expectations. (Continue Reading…)
Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the people who make the EzineArticles system successful! Not only will you find out more about their role at EzineArticles, you will hear stories about what it’s like to work here, gain insider tips, and maybe even get a peek into their personal lives. In the process, you will discover a little bit more about who we are as a company, a website, and as a team.
Continuing the series is Kristi, EzineArticles Learning and Development Trainer. Find out how her entire focus is helping you make your article writing efforts easier, get a behind-the-scenes look into her role at EzineArticles, and discover her #1 tip for Expert Authors!
For your next article, consider how you can identify with your readers by promoting how they can achieve pleasure.
Let’s get started.
To identify what is pleasurable for your audience or their pleasure principles, we need to address two simple questions:
What do your customers enjoy or want to experience?
How does your niche deliver those experiences?
For example, imagine the article you’re going to write using this template is targeting small business owners who are curious about article marketing. Some pleasure principles you may consider:
Pleasure of gaining a competitive advantage.
Pleasure of having traffic.
Pleasure of building credibility.
Pleasure of increasing visibility and brand awareness.
Every month @EzineArticles provides well over 100 useful tidbits of information, and training – We’ve gathered some of the best ones from April right here. Retweet any of them to enhance your article writing efforts.
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EzineArticles Tips and Training Snippets
Repurpose articles into eBooks, videos, newsletters, and more to reach new audiences. The sky is the limit!
Need an article idea? Take a 5 minute walk. Look around – you’ll see article ideas are everywhere waiting to be noticed.
Want to make sure you have an article that garners interest? Use a keyword research tool like Google Autocomplete!
Don’t just promote your new articles, dust off golden oldies by promoting them on your social networking sites!
Meet EzineArticles’ Expert Author Nancy O’Neill in Today’s Showcase
“Common sense is not so common.” – Voltaire
It’s not every day you meet an extraordinary Common Sense Consultant hailing from Southern California! Expert Author Nancy O’Neill provides effective measures to help her readers become more confident in their own abilities, as well as become more self-reliant.
For over 20 years, Nancy has shared her ideas, knowledge, and experience through short stories, poetry, and articles. In January 2011, Nancy established her first blog and it wasn’t long before she joined the EzineArticles Expert Author community.
“To be honest, I don’t think I’m that much different from other Expert Authors…” Nancy commented. “They write with passion, honesty, and directness, which is what I try to always do… I’ve enjoyed being one of EzineArticles writers and plan on continuing to submit articles for a long time to come… Getting more exposure for my writing this year has also helped me accomplish one of my long-time goals of publishing my first children’s book… scheduled for release in May 2012.” (Continue Reading…)
A dynamic relationship with your readers will build trust in you and your platform, deepen your audience’s participation, increase your conversion rates, and more.
One of the methods of creating dynamic relationships is opening a line of communication between you and your audience. A communication strategy you can use with your readers is the power of suggestion – Topic Suggestions that is!
What are Topic Suggestions?
Your readers can suggest article topics they wish you to write on. This is done by selecting “Suggest a topic” found: (Continue Reading…)
WHERE DO YOU DRAFT YOUR ARTICLES?
How to Create an Article Outline
Spelling, Misused Words, and Punctuation – Oh My!
Target Online Readers with These 5 Tips 
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