It is a pretty well known tactic to submit articles to article directories as a marketing tool for your business or writing career. Whether you are a freelance writer, a small business owner, an entrepreneur aiming for expert status, or desire to do one of these things - article submitting may be the thing for you.

Many article directories do not pay money. And while that may deter you - consider some of the non-monitary rewards that you may reap from submitting original content in a subject matter that interests you.

Tip: Quality is Key! Make sure your articles are well researched, spell-checked, and edited! Poor articles make you look bad & may be rejected for quality standards.

Marketing - when you want to get the word out about you, or what you do - you use marketing to do it. Rather than paying for advertising - you can submit your articles to content directories and include a promo blurb about you or your business. People that read your article about the stock market and find the free information helpful will be very likely to click through to your website to find out more about your expertise in that industry.

Google Page Rank - this is especially important if you have a website that relies on SEO, search engine placing, search engine ranking, and advertising to pay the bills. Many article directories, like the one linked here, allow search engines to follow the links in your bio. More quality pages that link to yours - the more value the search engine robots see in your site. That improves ranking and exposure. This generally leads to hits, sales, and making money.

Note: The article directory that I’m checking out now is currently accepting original submissions. They must not be published elsewhere. Feel free to check out if Web Articles is the right site for your article marketing.

These are just a few of the benefits an author gets when they market their ideas through writing articles and publishing them in directories. Research the industry a bit and you’ll find out what features would most benefit your online business and help you make money online.

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“Hey Meg! Why so quiet?”

I got an email recently, from a reader who used to enjoy my regular posting. He wondered, “what gives?” Where was the content he used to enjoy reading?

In a nutshell - I Need to Regroup.

I’ll explain.

In the elusive hunt for everflowing greenbacks, moneda, dinero, Benjamins, good hunters and huntresses need to do one important thing to survive…

Evolve

And in the evolution of my business, as one should with any business, I must take a step back, like with art, and see the whole picture.

I’m analyzing many factors, such as:

1. What facetes of my business do I most enjoy?
   With having a “portfolio style” business, as Coach Dave Buck, CEO of Coachville, would call it - I have several main components, not just one focus. In my Coaching, Writing, Designing, and Educating - I’m looking at if there’s something I like to do more than the others.

   And in this evaluation, I come to one conclusion. Nope. I love them all. It’s the client or the project that makes the difference.

2. What do the people want?
   

   Give the people what they want - not what they should want.

   In order to follow this old adage, one really needs to study people, and their motivating factors. People are motivated in buying, and in everything they do by a force somewhere between Fear <-> Love. Where do your products and services fall on that spectrum? Where do mine?

3. What aspects of my business can I outsource?
   I have more ideas than the day is long - but everyone from the novices to the “guru moguls” all have one limiting factor in common. There is only 24 hours in a day. One needs to sleep for some of them, and if one wants a happily fulfilled life - one needs to be social for some of them, too.

   We all are working with the same limit in hours. But we can struggle with that hurdle alone, or we can get help & leap the hurdle as part of a team.

   Don’t get me wrong… I like being a solopreneur. The success of my businesses will reach the tipping point and mushroom by leaps and bounds when I can leverage the time of others.

There are other evaluation factors, too, but these are the big three that I’m re-organizing my businesses around.

I wonder how you would answer those, on your own Hunt for Money