Saturday, January 24, 2009

How to write articles

Who am I talking to?
Mike Davis - Insurance
Tobbie - getting business for tile/masonry work
Mike Frazier - getting business for his A/C company

What is their problem?
How to create content for their businesses
create content - website, articles, blogs

How to Create Easy Audio Content for Your Blog
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/12/12/how-to-create-easy-audio-content-for-your-blog-video/

How to create content that will get you loads of links
http://www.internetvibes.net/2006/06/04/how-to-create-content-that-will-get-you-loads-of-links/

Learn why and how to create unique, quality content
http://www.improvetheweb.com/quality-content

How to Create Digg-Friendly Content: Cracked.com’s Template
http://www.doshdosh.com/how-to-create-digg-friendly-content/

How to Effectively Create Content for your Niche Blogs: An Introduction and Guide
http://www.doshdosh.com/how-to-effectively-create-content-for-your-niche-blogs-a-brief-introduction-and-guide/

How to create content for a web site
http://www.getitinwriting.biz/info_111506a.htm

Brickmasons, Blockmasons, and Stonemasons - Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos201.htm

Mason building brick wall
http://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/233554/mason-building-brick-wall.html

Masonry
Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by mortar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonry

How to write for the people
http://www.improvetheweb.com/how-to-write-for-the-people

How to Write an Article in 20 Minutes
http://www.copyblogger.com/write-article-fast/

How to do keyword research and learn what your customers need

Top 38 Niche Social Media Sites
http://tropicalseo.com/2007/top-17-niche-social-media-sites-that-actually-send-traffic/

1 comment:

rockscene said...

article writing from concept to content


How to create an article from something you read in your local free newspaper.
10 steps for creating content from reading your local free newspaper
article writing from concept to content

10 articles -> main website

website
links to my articles
links to resources
adsense ads
my biz opt banner
free ebook for filling out capture page
link to capture page
link to other blogs
facebook
youtube videos
site meter


take article out of paper to get idea for content

end result - blogs, websites, articles on specific niche(s)
blogs, websites, articles on the process of content creation and marketing
Take an article out of one of those local free papers that litter your driveway.
I found a little 2 paragraph opinion in the local gilbert republic titled "Going meatless benefits all"

By writing content on this idea, I will be creating multiple niche ideas - each niche may get it's own blog, articles, website
I will also be creating a process for how to quickly create and market content.


There are 3 sections of the entire process
inspiration, manufacture, delivery

1st is the initial idea or inspiration = raw data
this is where you get the idea for a business, marketing idea or content
2nd is the manufacturing or repackaging of the raw data
this is where we accumilate, organize and repackage data
3rd is the distribution or sales stage or finished product
this is where deliver or sell our finished products

I want to create a process template for taking the raw data or idea - all the thru to end product

outline the steps of the overall template


incoming content will come from: google searches, youtube videos, newsgroups, article hubs
create a data dump webpage with links, cut and paste data and articles
come up with headline ideas
figure out who am I talking to (imagine sitting across the table from them)
what are the keywords, guru's, mp3's, videos, links
answer the question how, when, who, where
the decision of what to keep and what to discard can be based on the keyword research

during the research stage - various niche ideas will spring up
separate the data by niche or subniche
each niche will get a webpage for the data dump
a finished webpage
a blog with 3-5 posts
an article or 2

what will this idea do for me?
what will this exercise do for my students?
what problem does it solve for my prospective customer

the initial goal is to just get traffic - use sitemeter to monitor
after a traffic goal is met - add a free giveaway or bribe in exchange for content info
use getresponse to collect contact info and to send email series out



Who is my target? Who is sitting across the table from me?
What is their problem?


2.I often “incubate” an article for a few days (this does not count in the 20 minutes). What I do is start roughing out some topic ideas then leave it. Because I have thought about it, ideas tend to come to me that I frequently add to my points. Of course I always carry a notebook for ideas.
create an area to incubate ideas - blog?

Ever get stuck on your articles ???
http://www.net-biz101.net/archieves/ever-get-stuck-on-your-articles/

Can You Write a Quality Article in 20 Minutes?
http://prprowess.com/can-you-write-a-quality-article-in-20-minutes/

•Making time to make. A series of blog posts on time management for creative artists
http://www.43folders.com/topics/making-time-make-time

Creating Content By Writing Smaller Chunks
http://antijerk.com/2008/11/creating-content-by-writing-smaller-chunks

How to Write Fast - From Various Sources
http://www.stephanmiller.com/how-to-write-fast-from-various-sources/

A Five-Part Guide to Keyword Research in a Real-World Niche
http://www.copyblogger.com/keyword-research/

Idea Techniques (Group A)
http://sourcesofinsight.com/2007/05/20/idea-techniques-group-a/