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[Maria@IMF]

What can I do for my 500th?
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Well, I hope that you provide a really insightful, meaningful post for your 500th as a serious recognition of your transition to guruhood.
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[reedhowey]

What can I do for my 500th?
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You could just reply to this.

Now that would be really insightful
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[Maria@IMF]

500 TODAY!
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[Donn Wright]

Congrats Ms Guru!

OMG. What's next?

[Maria@IMF]

Thanks Mr Guru! Next I will take over the world, the IM world ofcourse!
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Reed, what is the next status?

Congrats Ms Guru!

OMG. What's next?

[Donn Wright]

Eric, I don't recall exactly your 200th post last month, but it was somewhere along the lines of "duh, what"

Donn

[The5sisters]

500 TODAY!
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Congratulations from me also.Another Forum Guru deeply entrenched in another fantastic thread started by Donn.Mindset says it all.

[The5sisters]

Here is another article ,considering that we are dealing with a wiley fox named Donn.,who uses article writing to make a killing on the net.

Spiders, Foxes, and Articles

By: Jay Stockman
504416 xxs Spiders*Foxes*Articles

Note: by Bill Vlasak

This is one of the posts that I am using also as a page to test a certain targeted audience.

It will remain so, until My experiment is over and I will let you know what I gleamed from the feedback.


Here is Jay's Article.

In case you haven?t ever read anything by me yet, or in case you haven?t quite twigged my angle yet, then the simplest way I could put my overall marketing philosophy, is like this, Think of a spider, and its web, and also imagine a Fox, and his Cunning ways.

To define these as strategies, I would say, the spider was Catchall type Fisherman strategy ( yes I was going to try and use a fishing analogy here but I have heard some before, and well, it just isn?t fit, ) Whereas the Fox, is a highly adaptive species, very clever, and will be able to figure out where to get food in practically any environment.

Imagine, A spider-fox, an animal with all the cunning of a fox, and the ability to spin webs too! don?t you think that fox would set some Cunning traps, in places you wouldn?t even imagine? trying his luck, as well as edging his bets with Certain Sure Win food-Traps, imagine the Spider-Foxes surprise, when it stumbles across a trap it laid some days ago, and noticed it had more food than he had caught all week!!!

That is my approach to marketing,

Some people preach the Spider web philosophy, spread a Huge web and catch what you can, Bigger the Web, the more food you get. Sure, its true, its true, go on and do your work like that, yeah, you will make money.

Then you got the Wiley Foxes, hunting down Uber-Niches no other person has hit yet, which is fine too, yeah that persons gonna make money too.

They wont get as much food as the Spider-Fox though, who takes the best of both worlds, and tries out as many different things as possible, all thought out and methodical but Laying traps in Unusual places. This means Using Every tool at your disposal, and getting AS MUCH as you possibly can out of every Resource you possess or have access to.

Thats Marketing, Thats Business.

THATS Why you Should be writing articles for your business, something thought out and professional, based on the theme of your chosen niche. You got a website about, lets say Local Bands. You would probably have a Strong opinion and viewpoint on music, perhaps you have a passion for doing your best to help talented people get appreciated. You could write an informative article suggesting to people why they should appreciate and support talent from their local area, in a nice tactful sort of way obviously.

That should now start becoming Second Nature for anyone who is reading this and expecting to get any use out of anything I discuss within my articles, Start Writing Informative Articles. Your definition of informative, and your choice of area to focus, is only limited by your own imagination. You could write about football, or footwear.

OK, so for everyone who?s asking why this is important, Saying I sell stuff, its nothing to do with books or anything, its simple.

Marketing is about exposure.

On the Internet, the majority of people that are Browsing around websites, are searching for information. Now that seriously may be someone searching for a way to keep head lice from their children from re-curring, or anything, so you have to think that they could be absolutely anywhere looking for that information, a Search Engine, some site they found, a link in an email from a friend, it could have been anything.

So bearing in mind, that you want to be Stumbled across when that person is searching for information about that product, and you can tell them whatever it is you like if they do stumble across a message from you, you now decide to write a nice Piece on how Its amazing what natural products can achieve, but obviously thats not all we can do.

Lets go back to our Music Guy Example, so he writes his article, and now, he needs to get it seen by as many people as possible for it to have been of any benefit to him. He doesn?t know who mightsee his Message at what time in what frame of mind, so hes excited but doesn?t know what to do.

THATS OK!! He remembered, he signed up to my mailing list, (all that hard work writing several articles, he nearly forgot what he was doing!), and he dug out my email and found the link to my Article Marketing Section, and picked up where he left off;

Which was Mass Article Exposure.

People WANT YOU To send them Informative Articles, and they will often have a Link back, and an Authors bio, so people can find out about who wrote the piece of writing they just read, and where to get more information.

These people have MASSIVE Directories FULL Of informative articles, and searchable databases, so perhaps one day someone might stumble across your article??

One day, someone will.

And bearing in mind we want to be a Spider-Fox, we decide, (with a little guidance from myself,) that we need to make sure that absolutely ANYWHERE and EVERYWHERE that wants to have our little piece of work is going to have it, so we set about finding places that are willing to accept our Article Masterpiece, and there are lots of these Article Directories, you just need to find them.

REST ASSURED, you didn?t think I would leave you hanging.

I have compiled a list of sites that I Regularly Submit my articles to, and heres a couple of tips – Use a browser like Firefox, you can open Multiple Tabs instead of windows, useful with lots of sites you are working with, I think.

Go to google and search for a tool like Typeitin (thats how its spelt) it comes with a nice free trial, it will help you fill out the forms a lot quicker!!

Take time to sit down, and go through the list, I have compiled a LONG List of places that will take your articles, a lot of them need you to have a Free Account, which means sign up for their newsletter usually, so you need be able to setup an email address for this, my recommendations is use something like your domain name if you can, myname@mydomain rather than a free one.

Lastly, for a tip with this directory list its all about Speed, and maximum exposure, you work out what You can do in what time You decide to allocate for this task and stick to it, if you can write an article in ? hour, and only have an hour to do anything each day, only submit to about 30 sites. If you do that, you need to be Methodical, do a different 30 every week, track the results, when you have done the whole list, you will have a list of the very best thirty sites, the ones that are most productive. Remember work hard, but more important work smart.

Go to my Resources Section and you will find my Article Directory List.

Certain things, I have left up to you, but I will mention, like this;************************ I said that you can write an article about anything, so if its a specialist subject your working, combine your clever Niche Marketing Tactics with Article Marketing by searching out sites that Specifically Want content in the same niche you work with, trust me lots of places will, Heres where it gets fun, and those that are here with me now and still looking for some juicy bits, get it here, Your Article, is Your start point, you can then recycle that work in a Number of ways. Once you have submitted it everywhere as an Article, you could package it up as an Ebook, and distribute using various Ebook Marketing Methods, similar to article marketing, its the Same content, packaged differently for a Broader Distribution.

You could use your Ebook now for various Viral Marketing Tactics, such as free content for Niche Type Site owners to perhaps give out to there newsletters.

Thats ANOTHER Reason why you need to write an article, or 10 or 100, as quickly but as Well written as possible, because not only can you send it off to the Article Directories, and not only can you distribute it as an Ebook, but you can let people use it in there Ezines, and start a whole new Ezine Marketing Campaign, use it later down the line in your own ezines!!

The possibilities are endless, and once you grasp the concept of my Spider-Fox idea, you?ll see that the Article Writing part of your entire Marketing Campaign, is MORE than essential, it is Integral, and Article Marketing, is one Necessary Spoke, in the wheel of a Truly Successful Online Business. Note- So Much for keeping it short and sweet eh??

You can get more great advice on writing articles, and building Traffic to your sites @ more Traffic Please******************** Or get More Informative articles from Martin and Other Proffesional Authors @ Active Article

About the Author

Dr. Jay B Stockman received his undergraduate degree from Boston University in Boston, Mass. where he majored in Chemistry, and his doctorate from The SUNY College of Optometry in New York. During that period, he did research at NYU medical school on Cystic Fibrosis. He received the prestigious 10 year membership award from the American Optometric Association, is a Senior examiner for the National Board of examiners in Optometry, and has published numerous articles in the fields of Contact lenses, ocular pathology and general health related topics. Dr. Stockman has owned and operated a contact lens manufacturing facility, and is a master Gas Permeable contact lens designer. Dr. Stockman is an established internet Web and software designer, and is a founding member and sits on the Board of 2 internet companies as well as being their CEOs. He is also an expert skier, and champion amateur tennis player.

Powered by Article Niche

[reedhowey]

Thanks Mr Guru! Next I will take over the world, the IM world ofcourse!
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Reed, what is the next status?

I don't think that there is one, at least not yet as Bill (the5sisters) with his 1800+ posts is a a guru too.

Maybe there will be a PostMasterGeneral or an IntergalacticStarshipCommander, who knows?

[Maria@IMF]

Eric, I am sure there was an insult in there somewhere & when I figure it out I will come back with a good answer!
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Spoken very humbly, lilke a true guru would. So unlike the fake IM "gurus".
who I call guruwankers. (Am I allowed to say that here ??

Congrats Maria:-)
You've officially joined the "I spend WAAAAAAAY too much time here" club.

Eric G.

[Maria@IMF]

Mihira better get his thinking cap on...
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I don't think that there is one, at least not yet as Bill (the5sisters) with his 1800+ posts is a a guru too.

Maybe there will be a PostMasterGeneral or an IntergalacticStarshipCommander, who knows?

[Methow]

I don't think that there is one, at least not yet as Bill (the5sisters) with his 1800+ posts is a a guru too.

I think Bill is in a class of his own. I wonder how many keyboards he's gone through in the last two months.

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[The5sisters]

I just hope it was all worth it .Just being a motor mouth on the keyboard should at least add some value occasionally.
Now we know who had the most referrals and over 350 posts,so how does that figure in with the nominations for best threads ? Or is that a separate concept ?

[Donn Wright]

Bill, while you'll are babbling about trivial stuff that isn't going to make any money, they seemed to have missed the article you posted above.

I love this Dr. Stockman! Highly educated, but writes like a hayseed. Long winded too. Reminds me of somebody.

Also, he is soooooooo right. Marketing is about exposure. Notice he didn't discuss SEO or backlinks, paid advertising, or any of that fancy stuff, just get your message in front of folks who are hungry for the information you have. It doesn't have to be perfect, just as good as you can make it. But get it everywhere your market might be.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Article marketing is so extremely powerful because it works on so many levels. When you throw an article out there, you never know where it will land, and it NEVER goes away! And it only requires your time.

Everybody knows about AM, but have you ever really tried it? I usually hear, yeah, I tried it, didn't work so I quit and went on to Joe Wizbang's hot new secret. Not making any money with that either. How many articles did you write, o wise one? Gee, I think it was 4 or maybe 5. Duh, I wonder why you didn't get rich with that much effort?

In Daniel's book, The Newbie Blueprint, his program requires that you write and submit 10 articles a day for 28 days, 4 weeks. I hear all the time that folks just can't do that. I understand that completely, that's why 97% of the people are slaves to someone they are making rich, and they will be until they die.

I also get, this is just a book about basic article marketing, I can find that for free or I already know how. Well then, why aren't you making 8 grand a month?

Daniel's book works because if you follow it, you will take massive, focused action for a month. That's more than most people have done all put together in years that they have jumped around looking for an easy way to make money.

Making money online is easy compared to digging a ditch, but it's not going to get done by itself.

Thanks again, Bill for an excellent post.

I'm off the soap box now, carry on.

Donn

[reedhowey]

I just hope it was all worth it .Just being a motor mouth on the keyboard should at least add some value occasionally.
Now we know who had the most referrals and over 350 posts,so how does that figure in with the nominations for best threads ? Or is that a separate concept ?

Has anyone seen the nomination for Thread of the Month this month, the voting button seems to have disappeared?

[josh.josiah]

Donn... do you have a coaching program? Your principles sound so much like the guy who got me to quit my Just Over Broke Status.

Now, I understand why you've got 5k to burn on a new toy... did you decide on one yet?

Anyway, I'll be gleaning on your wisdom in the days to come.
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Chow!

[Donn Wright]

Thanks Jo Jo.

No I don't. I have toyed with the idea, but I made a major move this morning that is going to require a tremendous time investment as well as major bucks. It is amazing what writing a thousand articles has turned into.

I will try to stop by and see how ya'll are progressing though.

Good luck to all.

See ya on the beach.

Donn

[The5sisters]

Has anyone seen the nomination for Thread of the Month this month, the voting button seems to have disappeared?

Mihira had to remove it because it was causing glitches.He is looking for a more stable script.

[Methow]

Has anyone seen the nomination for Thread of the Month this month, the voting button seems to have disappeared?

It's been removed for technical reasons:


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[The5sisters]

Every article I see by Jay I read.I just figured it was relevant to other comments in this thread but others didn't see it that way.That's alright.Most of my threads have not been seen,nor are as interesting as yours.
After a few other brief comments that some did not read between the lines I may have to resort to my essay writing skills from days gone by and just make them shorter ,to be articles and follow your footsteps and the advice given by Jay and that book you like so much.