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.
What to remember is this: new business launches are always trumpeted. They have to be to succeed. The trick is to look at what’s happening in your local area as well as online or nationally.
I find it difficult to read something if there are a lot of incorrect words used in it. Simple things, like using “its” when it should be “it’s”, or “theyre” instead of “they’re” or even “there” or “their” set my teeth on edge. I lose focus on what the writer’s trying to convey while I get an ulcer over the state of the English language.
“We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.” - W. Somerset Maugham.
Are you one of those angst- ridden writers who scribbles in a frenzy with a wild eyed look on any scrap of paper he can find, with nothing but nothing penetrating that concentration- not hunger, not tiredness- save perhaps for death itself?!
No, neither am I actually. 
There’s always days when your brain refuses to function. Try as you might, you simply can’t squeeze another original thought out of it to get your creative juices flowing. At times like these, writing prompts are a good way to give your gray cells a jump start. Even if the subject matter isn’t something you particularly care about, one thought can lead to another and another. Before you know it, you’ve got a sparkling and brilliant idea to write about!
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Chicken Soup for the Soul can always be relied upon to have a number of opportunities up for grabs at any time on a dizzying range of subjects. From their current Possible Books page:
We’re Looking for Stories! We have many Chicken Soup books in development and we’re always looking for new stories. If you have a story, let us know. Take a look at the list of some of our possible books and see if there’s a fit.
