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Volume 1 - Issue 24 9-22-06 For those who would like to read this in HTML format, this
issue of Boomer eZine is posted on the Boomer eZine website at http://www.boomer-zine.com/V1I24_092206.htm
and on the Boomer eZine Blog at http://boomer-ezine.blogspot.com. Please pass Boomer eZine on to a friend. They will thank you for it. Table of Contents for this issue..... 1. Authors Comments 2.
Tips from the Article Expert 3.
Help Video on How to Submit an
Article to Ezine Articles 4. Generate Multiple Articles from the Same Content Author's
Comments Last
Sunday we received a “nastygram” from Aweber, the company that handles the
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and cooperation. The winners of the two free Jim
Cockrum books that we gave away last week are Readers This issue is primarily about
writing articles. I know that you
are probably getting tired of talking about articles, but we want you to
understand how important article publishing is in establish yourself as an
expert on the Net. We will not carry
articles about article publishing for a few issues after this one. Tips
from the Article Expert Chris Knight is the owner
of EzineArticles.Com. He is truly an
expert on publishing articles on the Net. You
know our feelings about the value of publishing articles and the positive impact
that it has increasing the traffic to your websites.
His article discusses how to create an article for an ezine.
Apply the same logic and advice to write an article to publish on
ezinearticles.com. Once it is
accepted there, publish it on the many other article sites. I included this article
to help stir your creative juices, and see if we can jump start you toward
becoming a published author. The URL
for this article is http://www.emailuniverse.com/ezine-tips/?Ezine-Article-Ideas---15-To-Spur-Your-Creative-Writing-Spark&id=1225. Ezine Article Ideas - 15 To Spur Your Creative Writing
Spark
By Christopher
Knight
Are you ever sitting at your computer with
your eyes in a blank stare and your fingers ready at the keyboard, but you're
stumped for ideas on what your next email newsletter article should be about?
Below are my top 15 ideas to help spark your creative writing imagination to
crank out your next ezine article! For this article, I'm going to use my
favorite sport of Racquetball to illustrate article TITLE examples for each of
my ezine article ideas below. You can just replace the topic of
"Racquetball" with your niche expertise. #1 Ezine Article Idea: Give Tips Most people love to eat small
"info-snacks" so feed them what they want. Give them quick tips or
small bytes of a strategy to solve a problem or create an opportunity. Example Titles:
#2 Ezine Article Idea: How To Articles When in doubt, return to "How To"
articles as there are always an endless list of things you could teach your
target audience. Examples Titles:
#3 Ezine Article Idea: Do an Interview Become the "Reporter" and you
will never run out of quality content ideas. Find someone with an expertise that
your niche audience would value and setup an interview. You can do this via
telephone, email, live chat or in person. Example Titles:
#4 Ezine Article Idea: Make a List Lists are easy and fun to do. For a great
example, check out what I'm doing today for Ezine-Tips. I ran out of ideas so I
decided to make a list of ideas for you. Pretty creative, no? : Your lists can
be numbered or bullet points of information. Example Titles:
#5 Ezine Article Idea: Product Reviews You can review your products and give
examples of how people use your products or get more out of them. Anything that
adds value to your current clients may also be valued by prospective clients.
These can get cheesy if you sell too hard, so better to just give strategies and
techniques on how to leverage your products value. Example Titles:
#6 Ezine Article Idea: Other People's
Product Reviews If you an affiliate marketer, this is a
perfect strategy for you. Give a comprehensive review of other people's products
and show the pro's and the con's of the product and its application. Example Titles:
#7 Ezine Article Idea: Use Humor or
Comedy to Entertain Your Audience Tell a joke or a humor thing that happened
recently. Share funny things that have happened when people used your products
in the wrong way. Make fun at how absurd your business can be at times or under
heavy stress. Your readers will be entertained and relate to the human side of
you. Example Titles:
#8 Ezine Article Idea: Tell a Story or
Spin a Tale I recommend telling a "SHORT"
story. Ezine readers do not have time to read 7 page stories any more. Keep it
short, get to the point, interject some fun in your story and spin your tale. Example Titles:
#9 Ezine Article Idea: News Excerpts As
a Lead In Grab a news byte of information to lead
into your article or story. Fair use doctrines allow you to copy a short handful
of sentences provided you give proper credit and don't alter the excerpt. Give
your analysis or comments about the story. Example Titles:
#10 Ezine Article Idea: Get Visual Include charts, graphs, powerpoint
presentations, check lists, short video clips or anything to visually add value
to your article. Example Titles:
#11 Ezine Article Idea: Get Other
Experts To Contribute Articles There are plenty of other experts in your
niche that are more than willing to give you articles for free in exchange for a
resource box below their article that promotes their website address. EzineArticles.com
can help you find a perfect match. Example Titles:
#12 Ezine Article Idea: Recycle Old
Articles Articles can become outdated but base
concepts are often timeless by nature. Go back into your archive of articles and
refresh them with new and updated information. Example Titles:
#13 Ezine Article Idea: Hire An Ezine
Writer There are plenty of ghost writers willing
to work for a penny to a buck per word. Often times the lower cost ghost writers
can pen excellent articles but you should do the TITLE for the articles or
generate the theme for them to work with. Example Titles:
#14 Ezine Article Idea: Word or Phrase
For The Day There is always a new word to learn. Share
a common term from your niche and define it well giving examples of its use. Example Titles:
#15 Ezine Article Idea: Use A Example Titles:
Conclusion: Can you believe that I've never written a single article about racquetball and yet with today's Ezine-Tips article, I now have 45 excellent Racquetball titles ready for me to produce the body of the articles. You can do the same exercise with your niche expertise or core focus. Print this page out and refer to it whenever you need your creative writing genius to be sparked a little. :-) Knight vs. Fran Davis in Racquetball Camp Useful Additional Resources on Ezine
Article Content Ideas: This Ezine-Tip was submitted By Christopher
Knight -- Email List Marketing Expert, author and entrepreneur. Get your weekly
dose of Email newsletter publishing, marketing, promotion, management,
email-etiquette, email usability and deliverability tips by joining the free
Ezine-Tips newsletter: http://www.emailuniverse.com/subscribe/. Help
Video on How to Submit an Article to Ezine Articles During
the last week, I found that there is a self help video on Ezine Articles to lead
you through the process of registration and submitting your first article.
Go to http://www.ezinearticles.com/submit
and click on the “Watch the Video” on the top right of the page.
This will help get you started. Generate Multiple Articles with the
Same Content I
was in the process of rewriting one of the articles we published in Boomer
eZine, and I performed a search in ezinearticles.com to see how many articles
were written about “remote access”. I
found an author who wrote five articles of about five paragraphs each and they
were all accepted by EzineArticles.com. The
articles were 329, 280, 316, 262, and 321 words long.
The content is very similar. Bottom
line ….. This author (Josh Riverside) used very similar content to create five
articles with very little effort. Go
to ezinearticles.com and search on “remote access” to see the articles. You
can do the same. Check it out.
You do not have to be Ernest Hemmingway or John Steinbeck to publish on
the Net. That wraps up our issue
for this week. Until next week, stay
tuned. John and Linda Howe
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