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Are you in Direct Sales? Are you thinking about writing articles for your article marketing campaign? If so, finding topics to write about within your own business niche can be a daunting task for new direct sales professionals, who are just getting into article marketing.

Today I would like to share with you how you can come up with new topics to write about each and every day for at least the next few months, if not years.

1. Talk to your fellow business associates and ask them about topics they want to learn about in regards to the niche that you represent. You can take their questions and turn them all into informative articles.

2. Talk to your newly added team members and ask them what they would love to learn about in regards to the business you represent. Often times the newly recruited members need basic information that you are already educated about. Use your education and experience in the field to draft up new articles that are geared towards beginners.

3. Talk to your customers and ask them what they would love to know about in regards to the products you sell and about the business opportunity that you represent. Use their questions to draft up new articles related to the niche you are trying to target.

4. Visit online blogs and web sites that are geared towards your niche. Spend some time reading the posts and articles on those sites to see what everyone is talking and writing about. Use these subjects to generate your own ideas for new material.

5. Visit online article directories and look for categories that are related towards your niche. Read through old and current articles that have already been published to see if any of those spark new ideas for you. One of my favorite things to do is to read old material and rewrite that material to include updated information and advances in technology.

6. Educate yourself in something new that is within your own niche. Often times when we learn something new (like new technology), we can use what we have just learned to our advantage by writing about it.

7. Join a few social media networking sites and make friends with others who are in your niche. Spend time networking and sharing information with them. Often times my article ideas have come from just chatting with other professionals on social media networking sites.

As you can see, these 7 tips are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to finding new topics to write about that pertain to your business niche. I like to keep a little notebook beside me or with me at all times so that when new article topic ideas pop into my head, I can quickly write them down.

Shelly Hill has been working from home since 1989 and is a professional ghostwriter. You can visit Shelly’s Two Classy Ghostwriting Chics web site at http://www.twoclassyghostwritingchics.com to learn about the ghostwriting services that she and her partner Chris Carroll have to offer.

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 Why do people online feel that it is okay to snag (steal) content from other people’s web sites, blogs, newsletters, social media postings, etc? Didn’t your momma ever teach you that stealing is wrong?

When you come across content online (text or images) that is NOT yours…you do NOT have the right to take it and use it on your own sites, blogs or newsletters. If you are not the author or original poster of that information/images, it is not YOURS to do with as you want. Stealing is WRONG and stealing is ILLEGAL and that includes stealing things from others online!!!

I am really getting tired of people who have been caught stealing content online saying that “They didn’t know any better and they didn’t know that they couldn’t use it.” Who are you kidding? Would you go over to your neighbors house (one that you didn’t know) and borrow their lawn mower without asking? Would you go down the street to the local store and walk out with a candy bar without paying for it? Of course not…because it would be considered STEALING!

When you come across something online that you would like to use you need to ASK the original author for permission. The only time you don’t is if you are posting an article for an article data base site onto your site and even then…you have to include the original Author’s resource box with live links with your posting of that article.

The internet is not a Free-For-All…you can not run around online “stealing” material and images that don’t belong to you! Remember…you wouldn’t like it if someone took your material and used it so please don’t do it to others!

Well folks…that is my RANT and TIP for today. Content & Image stealing is NOT a good thing!

Article Marketing to Boost Your Business by Genesis Davies

Article marketing is one of the least understood and much underused methods of free business promotion around. Despite this, quite a few business owners have been using this free method to give their companies a huge boost without spending a penny.

Let’s look at a few ways article marketing can help increase your business.

Online Reputation. Even if your business is a real world one, such as a coffee shop, establishing an online presence is vital. All businesses need a website now and to ensure that yours isn’t just one of millions of unknown websites stuck in the corner, you can use article marketing to break into the public eye.

Expert Status. While this is related to online reputation, YOU are the expert, not your business. When you have promoted yourself as an expert, whether it be in the world of taxes or shoe sales, you can take this fame and turn it toward any business you choose to start up, as well as your existing one.

Traffic. Article marketing will help your sales go up, if you have great website copy that convert. The higher the number of visitors to your website, the better the chances that you will make a sale. Article marketing promotes your business far and wide, when done correctly and you’ll see more traffic as a result, usually quite quickly.

Search Engine Optimization. A benefit of using the more popular article directories and sites where you can submit business articles is that they usually boast a high PageRank. This means that effective use of keywords in article marketing will result in your articles appearing in the top search results, with a link back to your site. In addition, your backlinks will go up each time the article is published, either on the article directory site or on someone’s website.

Education. Informed clients equal clients who know what they are looking for in a service or product. When you’re the one offering what they need, it’s quite likely you’ll be getting a boost in sales. You’ll also build client trust, as you are the provider of free, useful information that they can use. Trust is essential when you are trying to grow a business.

Article marketing is something that every business could and should be using. It’s completely cost free and requires little more than time to accomplish, yet the results are amazing.

What are you waiting for? Start working on your own free marketing strategy today with article marketing! Or, if you aren`t interested in writing your own articles, try hiring a professional freelance writer.

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7 Basic Blogging Tips For New Business Bloggers

If you are trying to build and market an online business, you should add blogging to your marketing efforts. When you have a business blog…it is a great way to communicate with your customers and clients on a more personal level.

If you are just getting your feet ‘wet’ with blogging for your business, here are a few of my favorite tips.

1. Organization: Your blog should be kept clean and organized. It is important that it have a professional laid-back appearance but not overly stuffy. Your topics should be listed in tabs across the top of the page or along the side, so that readers can easily find the content they are interested in reading.

2. Color Scheme and Layout: The color scheme you choose for your blog should be easy on the eyes and appealing. You should avoid dark backgrounds and neon colors for a business blog. Stick to contempory colors or neutral tones. Your layout should be user friendly and easy to navigate.

3. Content: You will want the content that you post to be related to your business niche. This content should be informative content. If you fill your new business blog up with nothing but sales pitches and advertisements, readers will stay away as it gives the appearance of a spam site. Readers want information…so walk a fine line between the advertisements and informative content that you post.

4. Graphics: When possible, post original graphics within your blog posts as it adds interest to the post that your readers are reading. You never want to ‘steal’ graphics from another site without that site’s permission. If you don’t have access to a digital camera and can’t provide your own graphics, you can find free graphic sites and low-cost graphics online that you can use. You will need to appropriately post ‘sized’ graphics to fit within your blog’s template.

5. Engage Your Readers: A great way to engage readers is by asking and posting questions or asking your readers for their opinion on a particular product or topic. A fun way to engage readers would be to offer the occasional giveaway of your products or business services. Everyone likes a great giveaway for free goods!

6. Back Up Your Blog: It is very important that you back up your blog on a weekly basis or after you post new content to your blog. In this day and age…you never know when your blog might go down and you will need to repost all of your material.

7. Consistency: To get a loyal following of readers to read your blog…you will need to be consistent with posting new content to your site. I personally recommend adding new content at least twice a week. Keeping your content fresh and updated will keep your readers coming back for more.

Blogging for your business can be an enjoyable and profitable experience if you start your blog off on the right foot. Spend some time reading various blogs and make some notes of what you like and don’t like and incorporate those thoughts into the design of your own business blog. Having a great blog that readers want to read…takes a lot of dedication and hard work. Keep with it and you will see fantastic blogging success.

Shelly Hill has been blogging for business for the past 4 years. Shelly owns Work At Home Business Options located at http://www.workathomebusinessoptions.com where you can find free business articles, tips, ideas & resources. Shelly Co-Owns the site Two Classy Ghostwriting Chics with her business partner Chris Carroll located at http://www.twoclassyghostwritingchics.com. Shelly and Chris can write articles, web site, blog and newsletter content for you to use on your own web site or blog.

If you have a home business with one of the direct sales companies, it is very important to have an online business presence. One of the ways you can market your business online is to hire an affordable ghostwriter. Here is what an experienced ghostwriter can do for you.

1. He/She can write professionally written newsletters that you can email out to all of your party hosts, customers, downline team, etc. This will free up your time to work on other aspects of your Direct Sales Business.

2. He/She can write professionally written blog posts for you and post them to your blog. He/She can write them directed towards your niche, keyword load them and properly do the keyword linking so that your blog posts rank high in search engine results.

3. He/She can write expertly written articles for you that pertain to your niche. You will submit these articles with your own resource author’s box on them to various online article directories, web sites, other blogs, etc. Article marketing is a great way to drive traffic to your business web site.

4. He/She can write business advertisements for you to use in your email marketing campaign, classified ads, etc.

5. He/She can write expertly written web site content for you to post to your business web site on just about any topic that you would need.

As you can see…an experienced ghostwriter can do a lot to help you market your business online. He/She can write newsletter content, blog content, web site content, articles and ad copy to help free up your time for other business tasks.

Shelly Hill Co-Owns The Two Classy Ghostwriting Chics with her business partner Chris Carroll. You can find their online web site at http://www.twoclassyghostwritingchics.com to see all of the services that they offer to help you market your business online. You can find Shelly’s home business resource site at http://www.workathomebusinessoptions.com for free home business articles, resources and tips.

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One of the hottest and free ways to market any type of business is by writing blog posts. Yes…you should have your own blog pertaining to your business niche, but you also need to write blog posts and submit them to similar niche blogs. When you spend time professionally writing up some great posts and you submit them to other blogs, you are exposing your business to other readers that you might not of reached by just staying isolated on your own blog site.

Now you might be asking yourself…how do I find a blog that will accept a few of my written posts? Well, that is pretty easy! You will want to spend some time searching out blog sites that have similar content on them to what you are writing about. If you like to cook and you are marketing kitchen gadgets…you would do a search for cooking, recipe and home life type of sites. Once you find a site that you like, you can contact that site’s owner to see if they accept guest blogger posts.

Another easy way to find blogs who accept guest blogging posts is to join a few online blogging networking groups. You will find that within a lot of these groups that the members will frequently request guest written posts from other members within the group. It is a great way to find bloggers who are interested in accepting other blogger’s professionally written posts.

When you participate in guest blogging it will open up a whole new world to you. You will reach new readers who you normally wouldn’t of come in contact with plus you will get free traffic to your blog or web site because you are writing posts for another blog site. (tip: remember to make yourself a resource box and include your bio and links in the box at the end of your post.) One final word…guest writing for another blog will give the appearance to others that you are a leader or an expert in the topics that you are writing about…which is a plus in any business!

Shelly Hill is the owner of the Work At Home Business Options web site at http://www.workathomebusinessoptions.com and has been successfully working from home since 1989. Shelly is a professional ghostwriter who specializes in writing articles, blog content, web site content, newsletter content and ad copy and has partnered with her business partner Chris Carroll in a ghostwriting business at Two Classy GhostWriting Chics at http://www.twoclassyghostwritingchics.com for information on the services they provide.