Day 10: Writing Articles and Other Boring stuff

Before we start off with our 10th day, I have a good news for you. I got few emails and I was glad to see positive response(with few questions) from my readers (though I think it’d be great, if you post your comments here).

I got questions quite a few questions on the topic of product creation(actually I was expecting more questions on market or keyword research, oh well). I answered everyone who asked for my advice.

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Writing Articles & Other Boring Stuff

I know quite a few of you don’t like writing articles(hate might be better word I think). Listen either you can outsource this kind of work or you can do it on your own. You should write an article daily and submit to ezinearticles.com

If you are doing it on your own, it isn’t that hard. Ok so here are few tips which you can read to get started.

How to create perfect blueprint for your articles: Read this article, it’ll help you generate ideas to create tons of articles (specially my response to Ellen on her question).

DIY : How to write articles even when you hate it?

I use these techniques when I am out of ideas or just too bored or lazy to write. I am going to discuss 2 main techniques.

1. List Article : The best kind of articles to write specially when you hate writing are list articles. example would be “10 seo tricks to get traffic to your blog” or “5 email writing tips to get more viewers” etc etc…

Now the trick in these articles is that it should be interesting. Steve Pavlina’s one of the blog post gives you “10 Reasons why you should never get a job”. It’s interesting and its one of the most read articles on his blog.

Here’s an Idea template for you : 10 Reasons why You should not _______________ (write about the most obvious thing in your market).

i.e 10 Reasons why you should not create adsense sites

10 reasons why you should not create blogs

10 reasons why you should not build email lists

Are you seeing a pattern here? It started from just one article.

2. Story Article : In one of my blog, I once wrote a story about my newphew (4 yr old), it was related to my topic and it was one of the highest read article on my blog.

Once I shared how my brother lost 20 pounds of fat (not weight) in 2 months. This was High readership article again.

Again, notice the pattern. I am sharing my own stories. In NLP it’d be called building rapport. I am trying to use commonalities to build trust, comfort and rapport. People want to know more stories about others succeeding/failing/ etc… some wants to be entertained, some wants sympathy and some are just plain weird, yet they all can be attracted by stories.

Now, if you tell me you can’t write an article, then you are just plain lazy… So go and do it now… it’ll not take you more than 15 minutes. Trust me… As you get good (after writing 10-15 articles), it’ll take you around 10 minutes.

Ezine articles has a word limit of 250. Writing 250 words article will like taking a walk in the park for you. So I hope you implement this advice

About the Author

Varun Pratap is working in online business as a pro blogger from 2004. His blog on Imbasics (Internet marketing Basics) is all about making money online ethically without resorting to tricks, techniques and gimmicks.

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One Response to “Day 10: Writing Articles and Other Boring stuff”

  1. Anonymous on August 31st, 2007

    Do You Hate Writing Articles?…

    Do You Hate writing articles. Here How you can use this idea template to create articles without much effort….

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