Ask a roomful of webmasters how best to promote your site and prepare to be deafened by the collective yell back - “article marketing!”.
What is this magical formula? It sounds so easy - write an article, add a short bio and your link then distribute it to article directories. Webmasters worldwide, thrilled you deigned to impart words of wisdom, trample over each other to be the first to post your article on their site. You put your feet up and sigh contentedly, thinking about the millions of links to your site now spread throughout the internet. And that’s how it works, right?
Err … not exactly.
Every day the news has stories of yet another company cutting jobs or thinking about it. In this current financial crisis, it’s wise to think about how you can reduce your outgoings before it hits you personally. Would you like to start finding ways to prepare today? Here’s a few small yet effective ideas to get you started.
Published by Vanguard Press, The Compass (ISBN-10: 1593155425, ISBN-13: 9781593155421) by Tammy Kling and John Spencer Ellis is a soul stirring narrative of one man’s journey into the depths of self discovery. Following a terrible accident involving Johnathan’s wife and young daughter, he can no longer stand the life he finds himself living. Johnathan simply walks away from it all one day and travels amongst unfamiliar lands and people.
I own and edit an online magazine for writers, The Cuckleburr Times. It never ceases to amaze me how rarely people say thanks when I inform them they’ve been selected for publication. It’s not that I expect them to turn somersaults or fawn all over me because I don’t. However I was brought up in a household where I constantly heard that “manners cost nothing.” And they don’t!
A Child’s Journey Out of Autism documents the real life story of Clay Whiffen, a child diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum at the tender age of two. The book, penned by Clay’s mother Leeann Whiffen, shares a deeply expressive and touching tale of hopes and dreams for Clay’s future being alternatively raised and shattered repeatedly only to end in near miraculous results.
From the first days of diagnosis Leeann sets foot on a determined road, puzzling her way through the maze of therapies and treatments available.
This Press Release I wrote was picked up by the likes of CNBC, Forbes and Yahoo Finance. I was delighted! You never can be sure if the editors will like it. It’s reproduced here with the client’s permission.
Economy Convinces Families to Meet Online
DALLAS, Dec 04, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — With economic pressures tightening purse strings everywhere, the thought of looming holiday gift giving and travel expenses can put a dampener on anyone’s festive spirit.
