4. Focus on customer. Of course, your article content will come from your own experiences. But instead of saying, "I know this guy who" and "When I designed my website," you can project your story onto customer. It helps to address reader and ask questions: "Ever find yourself buried under piles of paperwork?" (You yourself may know this feeling, but your customer doesn't care.) It's all about reader!

5. Include a call to action. If you word your articles in just right way, you can really inspire your key customer to take action without making them feel coerced. Tap their wants and needs, offer solutions, and then spur them on to make a change for better. Of course, solution is to get in touch with you. Do this subtly in your article, and then do it again with a bit more volume in your conclusion and bio. "Visit Wordfeeder.com today to find out how great copywriting can make a world of difference for your business!" There, see how easy that was?

In general, it helps to visualize article reaching its final destination. If your article is about cooking, then imagine it on someone else's cooking website. Now imagine reader, taking in your story. What would they want to read about? How can visual presentation keep them riveted on your words, so they can make it to end where your bio and URL link is? How can you get them to click that link?

If you do get wrapped up in joyous act of article writing, that's a beautiful thing! Just remember to keep your eye on prize: your business prospects.

Copyright 2005 Dina Giolitto. All rights reserved.

Find out how crisp, targeted copywriting can make a world of difference for your business. Dina Giolitto is a Copywriting Consultant with ten years of experience. Visit http://Wordfeeder.com for free tips on branding, copywriting, article marketing, and more.

6.Autoresponder advertising

If you want to be a successful internet businessman you need to have an autoresponder. It is an essential tool which will save you hours of precious time. You can set your autoresponder up to email your prospects at certain intervals, and so take advantage, and send your new prospects emails about your new products, your special deals and your unique selling point which will benefit reader. Alternatively, if you use your autoresponder to send out your special email course, make sure you have a small advertisement at bottom and top of email. Either way, this is a way to get great traffic without you having to do any work.

7.Using power of recommendation

Nothing will make people come to your site more than having a friend recommend it to them. Everyone respects their friend’s opinions and if you can get people to recommend your site then you’re very likely to achieve a maximum amount of traffic. Word of mouth is a very common way of spreading ‘the best new thing’. To get a recommendation script to put on your website so that visitors can recommend your site at click of a button, go to http://www.cgi-resources.com or http://www.hotscripts.com. Generally, I find that people will not recommend your site unless there is an incentive. Therefore, offer a free reward if people recommend your site, such as a free ebook or free software product. Also, make sure that your recommendation form is on lots of your web pages and that it is very visible. Soon, you will have a large number recommending their friends to your site.

8.Holding a contest on your website

Holding a contest is a concept which has been highly neglected, even though it has tremendous traffic building potential. Hold a contest on your site for something that your site is based around. For example, if your site is based around video games, prize could be latest video game, which you know everyone who visits your site will be interested in. Often you don’t have to pay for prize either. Many companies would be happy to give you a free prize, because company would receive free advertising. People will come to your site, see contest, and if they like it (which you have to make sure they do), they will almost certainly tell a friend about it. This way you will collect a load of email addresses, which you can mail to, to tell them about product updates. The potential for traffic is unlimited. Plus, by offering competitions like this, your site will gain popularity from winners, and you could also offer a consolation prize to those who haven’t won, so that you get popularity from all losers of competition too.

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