Content is everything if you are making a presence on the internet. Your most important content is your written word. Your written word tells who you are and what you are about. It is necessary in portraying you to your audience.

You will use your written word on your web sites, in your newsletters, in the articles you write and post, and not only on your sites, but on others as well. As you submit to ezines and article directories, blogs and other written word related publications, remember 1 thing - You are promoting yourself above all. keep it professional and keep it real.

You can have other professionals write for you, yet, they are not you. You can professionally do it yourself by following the steps below.

1. Your opening is going to tell the purpose of your article. What are you conveying? What do you want your audience to think about, to learn or to perceive? Why are you writing this article? Are you telling a story? If so, break it down into small bits and provide your story. Are you addressing a problem that you can solve? explain how your article will solve the issue and then break it down into pieces.

2. Draft your article first. When you first start out, you want to really do the research, and know your stuff, so you can present your article accurately. Once your points are outlined, you can then fill in the content with your written word. You will find that your article will flow if you write in this style.

3. Remember, you are talking to other people. These people are all different. Keep you writing self explanatory and keep it simple.

4. Keep your paragraphs short. People tend to keep a better attention span when they are reading small blocks of content rather than large blocks. You want to keep your audiences attention.

5. Give of yourself in your article. Tell your audience all in your article writing. Yes, the more you give in your article, the more your audience will want. it's called creating demand. It's called setting yourself up as the expert.

6. Be personal in your articles, give examples, personal and non personal. Like, I used to be scared to death of writing anything. That is true. Then someone showed me how to do it. Now I am not so scared any more. The same could be with you. There is nothing to be scared of and you definitely have something to give. Just reach inside and bring it out. See step 2.

7. Promote your articles benefits. What is this article going to do for someone else? That someone else is your audience. Let them know how you can help.

8. Resources are another thing you can give away in your writing efforts, and should. Show your audience where to go. You may send them to your web sites or others people web sites. Don't worry about giving away your audience. if they like you they will come back. Give them what they need and you are helping them.

9. Lay your article out with your most important content in the beginning. Then you can summarize in the closing.

It doesn't matter if you are a beginner of an experienced writer, if you follow these simple guidelines, you will have the ability to create effective and useful content for your audience. In essence, you will be helping your audience. Writing articles and submitting articles to various pages on the internet could be the difference between your success or lack of it. Write Articles and write them often.

To you success,
Randy Wood

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