I have found it best to use "notepad" when beginning to write out my articles and NOT a word processing program. This way there is NO formatting in article. It is just article in plain text.

Another point here is to use word "you" a lot. You want reader to feel comfortable while reading.

Step 7: Include two to three free resources that reader can find online to illustrate and/or highlight your article content. Using this of course is only if it is appropriate to your article content.

Step 8: Write a resource box for end of your article. Make this between 4 to 8 lines max. Here is where you tell a little bit about yourself and then highlight your website or email address. See bottom of this article for an example of a resource box. It is information that follows, "about author," below.

Step 9: And finally, with your article written it is time to reread and rewrite. I have found that reading it aloud and/or having one or two other people read it helps a lot at this stage.

Don't run into a problem many beginning article writers fall into. Many of them don't like something they wrote and try to begin again. STOP! Don't begin again. Simply edit around copy that flows.

Step 10: Now last but definitely not least, reread your article for grammar mistakes and use spell check one last time! This IS most important step.

Once your article is done you should do following two things.

1. Submit your article to "article announce" services online. An article announce service is a email service that posts articles for everyone. You have to be a member to submit your article. Once you join you can post your articles as you have them completed. Usually only one article submission to each of announce services per day.

Writers, Publishers and Website owners watch articles being announced for content that they can use.

When you join these services, it is best to use a second email address. This way large numbers of articles you will be receiving will not interrupt your personal and business email.

Here are a few article announce services to subscribe to. After you email them to subscribe, READ email they send you and FOLLOW directions on formatting your article for each of them. This will increase your ability of having your articles published in these services.

I have listed only article announce services that are located at Yahoo eGroups. After you have subscribed and read each email you receive. Go to this URL to post your articles:

http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups

Article Announce groups:

Article Announce Subscribe: mailto:article_announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

AAInternet Subscribe: mailto:aainet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Articles Archive Subscribe: mailto:articles_archives-subscribe@egroups.com

Free Content Subscribe: mailto:Free-Content-subscribe@egroups.com

NOTE: to subscribe simply send a blank email to each of addresses above.

Ok Great! Now its time to submit your article to online article archives and article directories. Article directories and archives are web sites that contain hundreds and thousands of articles from all over world. Once you post your article at one of these locations your articles will be in front of thousands of readers, Publishers, writers and website owners.

Here are three to get you started:

http://www.1st-in-articles.com

http://www.webmomz.com/users/signup.shtml

http://www.goarticles.com

Well that's it for today.

Thank you for reading. Have a great week!

Blessings Bluedolphin Crow

Praise those accomplishments: The first thing I did was congratulate him for being a first time author.

Good topic, wrong market for low income earners: The topic he was covering was actually a good topic, but he realized after fact that he had probably created a dud for an ebook because of restrictions imposed on his target market...lack of access to purchasing power.

What would you do in his position?

His question to me was what he should do with ebook. He had considered giving it away to people as an incentive for them to sign up for his newsletter, or selling ebook at $5.00 a copy. Indication of his problems: I assumed that because he only put a price tag of $5.00 on book that he was either not comfortable with content he placed in ebook OR that he was selling himself short. I would assume latter.

Summary:

The collection of data, decision time. Once you’ve collected what you think is all info required via surveys, it is now time for decision making process

Why researching right way first time will save you hair loss and disappointment:

This is why doing a thorough job in researching part of your work is so important. If he would have put a little more thought into who his target market was he wouldn’t have created a dud for an info product.

Lack of researching is number one mistake that most new authors make, take your time researching...what’s rush?