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Extending the Life of your Articles
Calling all journalists and freelance writers, editors and publishers. Now is the time to breathe more life into your articles. Turn your articles into living pieces that spark measurable debate and that allows you to engage with your readers mind and soul – we’re talking revolution.
As it was in the beginning
Publishers have for many years relied on letters to get feedback from their readers and although email has opened up this method of communication it is still time consuming and difficult to monitor and process, and for the more popular articles, it is either a case of only a fraction of the received correspondence ever being used, or where online comments have been allowed, well written and good comments can be buried under poorly written and abusive comments.
As well as being an overhead for the publisher, it can also be an unrewarding medium in terms of the amount of effort required and response that is received, just consider the number of letters that go unread and unpublished.
As it is now
The Internet has brought new channels of communication and created opportunities that allow us to challenge traditional methods. The Internet is now a mature technology, no longer the preserve of the new fad brigade but a technology that has been embraced by a global population, young and old alike and it allows us now to re-evaluate the way things are done. There is now the opportunity for newspapers, trade journals, magazines and ezines to change the mental process.
When people read an article that provokes thought they now expect the opportunity to comment either by writing a comment, sending an email or writing a letter. Emails make the process of communication easier but it still takes time to compose an email and time for the majority, is what they haven’t got.
The letters page, or a list of comments, although interesting, are often only a snapshot of views, or an endless unmanaged list of comments; a well crafted and well written letter on any given subject may hold the view of the majority, or the minority, but due to its free text form it is difficult, or near impossible, to measure.
As it should be
Now consider the advantages of linking articles to online surveys where as a publisher you will have the ability to obtain valuable readership feedback in a form that can be properly measured. Communicating with your readers is one thing but having a channel that allows your readers to effectively communicate with you is just as important.
Do you want to deliver a snapshot of opinion? Did they like what they read? Did the sentiments expressed in the article have the support of the audience or do the readers have a different view?
Now it’s easy
In the past it would have taken considerable effort to design, publish and collate, a process that was too long winded and justifiable only for the niche and important topics.
However, using a hosted survey site surveys and questionnaires can be created and published via the Internet by anyone who has a pulse. Professional looking questionnaires and surveys created in minutes make the perfect complement to articles that prompt opinion and debate.
The advantages over letters, e-mails and comments are that with online surveys all the feedback gathered is properly managed and easily measured with sites like Survey Galaxy providing you with real time polls and charts that you can either keep to yourself or share with your readers.
It’s not even one or the other now
Link each article to an online survey and not only extend the life of the article as people have a channel to express their views, but involve your readers in the discussion where they now know their opinion will be counted.
You think people will still want to send an email? – not a problem – just include the facility within the survey and get the best of both worlds.
It’s fast, low cost, and easy to do; it will engage and empower the reader, provide excellent feedback and having established a dialogue you then have the opportunity to link to other related articles.
Try it for yourself and record your view of this article here:- Readership Feedback Survey
Maximise the Life of Your Articles
Calling all writers and freelance journalists, publishers and editors. It is the time to breathe more life into your copy. Turn your articles into living pieces that spark measurable debate, get closer to your readers and engage their mind and soul – we’re talking revolution.
As it was in the beginning
Publishers have for many years relied on letters to get feedback from their readers and although email has opened up this method of communication it is still time consuming and difficult to process with only a fraction of the received correspondence ever being used.
As well as being an overhead for the publisher, to most people it is an unrewarding medium in terms of the amount of effort required and response received, just consider the number of letters that go unpublished and unread.
As it is now
The Internet has brought new channels of communication and has opened up opportunities that allow us to challenge traditional methods. The Internet is now a mature technology, no longer the preserve of technical geeks but a technology that has been embraced by a global population, young and old allowing us now to re-evaluate the way things are done. There is now the opportunity for newspapers, trade journals, magazines and ezines to change the mental process.
When people read an article that provokes thought they appreciate the opportunity to comment either by writing a letter, sending an email or writing a comment. Emails make communication easier but it still takes time to compose an email and time for the majority, is what they haven’t got.
Although interesting a letters page or a list of comments are at best a sample of views or an endless unmanaged list of comments; a letter may be well crafted and well written letter but due to the free text form it is difficult, or near impossible, to measure.
As it should be
Now consider the advantages of linking articles to online surveys where as a publisher you will have the ability to obtain valuable readership feedback in a form that can be easily measured. Just as important as you communicating with your readers is providing your readers with a channel to communicate with you; a method where they know it will count.
Want an instant snapshot of opinion? How much did they like the article? Did the sentiments expressed in the article have the support of the audience or do the readers have a different view?
Now it’s easy
In the past it would have taken considerable effort to design, publish and collate, a process that was too long winded and justifiable only for the niche and important topics.
However, using a hosted survey site surveys and questionnaires can be created and published via the Internet by anyone who has a pulse. Professional looking surveys and questionnaires created in minutes that make the perfect complement to articles that prompt opinion and debate.
The advantage over letters, e-mails and comments are that all the feedback is properly managed and measured and sites like Survey Galaxy will provide you with a real time poll that you can either keep to yourself or share with your readers.
It’s not even one or the other now
By linking each article to an online survey it will not only extend the life of the article, as people have a channel to express their views, but it will involve your readers in the discussion and in a way where they know their opinion will be counted.
If you think they would rather send an email? – no problem – include the facility within the survey and get the best of both worlds.
It’s low cost, fast and easy to do; it will not only empower and engage the reader but will establish a valuable communication channel that will provide you with measurable feedback and give you the opportunity to promote other related articles.
Join the revolution and record your opinion of this article here:- Readership Feedback Survey
Article Feedback Extends the life of Your Articles
Calling all journalists and freelance writers, editors and publishers. Now is the time to breathe more life into your articles. Turn your articles into living pieces that spark measurable debate and that allows you to engage with your readers mind and soul – we’re talking revolution.
As it was in the beginning
Publishers have for many years relied on letters to get feedback from their readers and although email has opened up this method of communication it is still time consuming and difficult to monitor and process, and for the more popular articles, it is either a case of only a fraction of the received correspondence ever being used, or where online comments have been allowed, well written and good comments can be buried under poorly written and abusive comments.
Let’s face it, as well as being an overhead for the publisher, to most people it is an unrewarding medium in terms of effort required and response received, just think of the number of letters that go unpublished and unread.
As it is now
With the Internet traditional methods of communications can be challenged and replaced or complemented with new methods of doing things. The Internet is now a mature technology, no longer the preserve of the new fad brigade but a technology that has been embraced by a global population, young and old alike and it allows us now to re-evaluate the way things are done. Newspapers, trade journals, magazines and ezines now have the opportunity to change the mental process.
Readers like to have the opportunity to comment and traditionally they may have composed a letter or send an email or write a comment. Emails make communication easier but it still takes time to craft an email and time for the majority, is what they haven’t got.
Although interesting a letters page or a list of comments are at best a sample of views or an endless unmanaged list of comments; a letter may be well crafted and well written letter but due to the free text form it is difficult, or near impossible, to measure.
As it should be
Now consider the advantages of linking articles to online surveys where as a publisher you will have the ability to obtain valuable feedback from your readers and in a form that can be easily measured. Just as important as you communicating with your readers is providing your readers with a channel to communicate with you; a method where they know it will count.
Want an instant snapshot of opinion? Did they like the article? Did your readers agree with what was said or do they take the opposite view?
Now it is easy
Historically surveys would have taken considerable effort to design and publish and altogether was a process too long winded and often reserved only for the niche and bigger topics.
However, using a hosted survey site surveys and questionnaires can be created and published via the Internet by anyone who has a pulse. Professional looking surveys and questionnaires created in minutes that make the perfect complement to articles that prompt opinion and debate.
The advantages over letters, e-mails and comments are that with online surveys all the feedback gathered is properly managed and easily measured with sites like Survey Galaxy providing you with real time polls and charts that you can either keep to yourself or share with your readers.
It can be complementary
By linking each article to an online survey it will not only extend the life of the article, as people have a channel to express their views, but it will involve your readers in the discussion and in a way where they know their opinion will be counted.
You think they would rather send an email? – not a problem – just include the facility within the survey and get the best of both worlds.
It’s fast, low cost, and easy to do; it will engage and empower the reader, provide excellent feedback and having established a dialogue you then have the opportunity to link to other related articles.
Try it for yourself and record your view of this article here:- Readership Feedback Survey
How Does Newspapers Get News From All Over The World
It is a day written in gold for all Indians. An Indian shooter has reached the finals of an Olympic. Every Indian is eagerly awaiting the finals to begin, to encourage, to share, the joy of watching an Indian winning Olympic gold medal for the first time in history. His success will be the headline news in India. It will probably make the front-page of all Indian new papers both regional and national. The editors have a choice on how to cover the match. They can rely on various new-agencies and/or they can send their own sports reporter and a staff photographer to cover the event live. The editors decide to fly out their own team. The reporters and photographers arrive in Beijing well ahead of the event. This enables them to prepare reports on the finalists to build-up interest in the competition. The match is due to start. The results will be out soon. The reporters and photographers have to send their reports and photographs within the deadline prescribed. The press box is busy. The reporters can type their copy into their portable word processor. Their laptop is a remote terminal of their papers main computer. When their stories are complete, the reporters simply attaches the audio coupler or adapter to the telephones, key the number of their newspaper, and the text is sent along the wires directly into their computers thousands of kilometers away. A 2000-word article is sent in less than a minute. The final of the shooting competition ends in a brilliant and sensational victory for the Indian. In addition to their reports already sent, the reporters will now interview the winner. The photographers request other international news agencies for picture-transmission equipment. The photographers processes their films and then feeds the best negative into a transmitter. This dispatches the image along a telephone line which emerges as high-quality duplicate negatives back in their respective newspaper computers. After interviewing the shooter, the reporters prepare their final copy, rearranging and correcting the text on the laptop VDU (visual display unit) screen and transmits their follow-up article. This gives more details and visuals than is found in the news-breaking television, radio, and print reports. This final report contains additional information on the champion’s future prospects, his family background, his other interests, and an account of his lifestyle. Front-page Article The respective sports editors at various newspaper offices access the report on their desktop screen. As per their discussions earlier at an editorial meeting, the report will be the sports page lead. There will also be a front-page news item adapted from the main article which also the editor can access on his own screen. The subeditor then checks, corrects, and adjusts it to fit the space allocated on the page by the sports editor. The subeditor can access on his screen an image of the whole page showing all the other stories, headlines, and pictures plus advertisements that have already been set. The subeditor knows exactly what space there is, as the editor has already chosen the picture that will illustrate the article. The draft is now finally edited on screen to fit the space and an apt headline written to fit the picture and article. If needed, a picture caption is also written by the subeditor. Now all copy for the first edition must be set in type to meet the deadline. This is done up with all the other copy for conversion into type by a high-speed phototypesetting machine. A 2000-word article is typeset in less than a minute. The typesetter produces a ‘bromide’ (a print of the type on photographic paper) for positioning on the page according to the approved layout. This can be done by using the computer. There are many newspapers that still prefer to physically cut up the bromides and paste them into position on a page-size card. The subeditor rechecks the article and picture and makes sure that no mistakes have happened before or during typesetting. When all is set and ready (text, headlines, pictures, layout, and design) the complete page is photographed and a film negative (a large black and white film) generated from which the printing plates (plastic-coated zinc or aluminium printing plates) for the presses are made. The drafts are circulated by the sports editor and the editor. Once the pages have been approved, and checked by the proofreaders, they are taken to the printing department. Now, the final reports are ready to be photographically transferred to plastic-coated zinc or aluminium printing plates. The plates pickup the images in ink and transfer them to the paper. The papers are now ready for distribution. The papers should reach the customers well in time. The success here is determined by the speed at which the newspapers distribute their copies to their readers. To help them achieve this, they first distribute the first edition to the far-flung areas and then to the nearer areas. These latter editions may look a bit different from the earlier editions as a result of fresh news breaking out which may in turn claim space on the front page. All the newspapers in India are sold out the next morning. As Indians are enjoying and discussing their country’s first Olympic gold medal, quoting from various newspaper articles and pictures, the sports reporters and photographers are awaiting their next assignment from their editors. For these reporters and photographers their day is yet to begin.
Ruling Over the Article Marketing Campaign
You have set up your online business website. All the necessary functionalities are there, all the products are well positioned, and everything looks terrific. But why don’t you have a single sale made since? Simple! You have no traffic coming in to your site. Worse, nobody even knows that your website exists.
You don’t want just any traffic. You need targeted traffic to your website. Meaning, you need to invite people who would actually want to buy whatever it is you’re offering. To achieve increased in visitor traffic, you need to advertise your website. And remember that there are more differences in online business and offline business advertisement than there are similarities.
The most popular method to advertise a website is to write articles for article marketing campaign.
For the right person, article marketing can be totally free. If you know how to write articles, you can find free article directories on the Web where you can submit your articles for publishing. This is how you launch your campaign relatively no cost at all.
Article marketing is useful in establishing your authority over your niche. When you gain an authority status, it’s much easier for you to sell your product since people have more trust in you. Authority websites also gain higher search engine ranking – another free way to search engine optimize your website.
By writing articles, you know you get targeted traffic to your website. Only people with particular interest to your niche will read your piece so that you know if you carry them to your business website, they will find what you’re offering interesting. You are sure your efforts will not go to waste.
However, you must remember one important point when you write article and start your article marketing strategy. Remember to cater to your readers’ needs and not to yours. That is to say know what your readers would like to read about your niche. Visit online forums or chat rooms where your potential buyers are visiting often to gather information and recent develoments. Once you know your readers by heart, you can write a piece purposely dedicated to them.
Realize the power of article marketing for your online business, and before you know it, the profit starts pouring in. If you keep in mind to put service first above profit in your article marketing campaign, your success is near.
Latent Sematic Indexing Articles not PLR Articles
Attract Visitors and Search Engines to your website with SMART Latent Semantic Indexing articles
As a website or content publisher, you want to make sure the articles or contents in your website will not only attract the search engines to rank you high above others but also satisfy your visitors and readers for them to bookmark your website and visit again.
There is this new concept known as “Smarts Articles” written with LSI – Latent Semantic Indexing concept.
How LSI Smart Articles are different than the regular PLR articles:
As example, most PLR articles on keyword “Car Donation” you can buy today probably sound something like this:
* Car Donation Services
* Car Donation Company
* Car Donation Tips
* Car Donation LA
* …
These look like articles with excessive “keyword stuffing” and when the search engines “read” a site filled with these article, they will conclude that this is yet another “car donation” site and move on.
Now This is How The Articles Look Like using Latent Semantic Indexing!
Using “car donation” as main keywords, LSI written articles will be as follows:
* How Small Businesses Can Keep Inventories Fresh and Save on Taxes With Charitable Gift Giving
Don’t Donate a Car That’s More Trouble Than it’s Worth
* How the Ultimate Use of a Charitable Organization’s Car Donation Program Affects Your Tax Deduction
* Verifying the Authenticity of a Supposedly Authorized Vehicle Donations Centre
* and articles related to Charity and other forms of donations to expand the audience to ’similar’ authority sites.
That is the difference LSI articles can make? Just by using Latent Semantic Indexing and intelligent research, the car donation website has been widened into several other topics – without doing anything else!
This will increase the quality of your website and especially by providing such quality smart articles you will delight your visitors to your website and they will return again for more quality content.
You can download a set of 52 Smart PLR Articles for just $1 and get a feel of what Smart LSI article is all about
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The Benefits of Bum Marketing
When you say bum, it naturally means someone who has no home, no work, no pay, no life but when it comes to Internet and making money on the Internet, it’s different and it’s really great to be a bum, to be in bum marketing, that is. So, what is Bum marketing? Bum marketing simply means that you sit on your computer, or in front of it, seriously, and type away all day and make money. So, what do you need to type? Any articles of a topic that has potential in the niche market. You earn profit when you write an article, have it included in Google, and when buyer clicks an ad on your article, you make an income.
Well, what can you say about Bum Marketing? Good or very good? A handful of people are now enjoying their money and time freedom being in bum marketing. The bum marketing method right now is very popular and very in-demand as lots of people today are laid off from their work. With nothing to do, some of them have discovered that there really is money on the Internet and you don’t have to be a great writer, you don’t have to have skills in web designing. You just need to be very passionate about what you write and you just go on writing based on what you think and that’s it.
Anybody can be in bum marketing? The only thing you need is your PC or laptop and you bang away on your computer writing anything under the sun. Just make sure your articles are currently interesting and timely as today’s headlines or whatever is the interest of people at the very moment. For example, if there is a huge sell-out for teddy bears, why not make an article on how to write a teddy bear and all that sort of thing? Then, when you post it on the Internet and someone reads your article and clicks the affiliate links included in your article, you make money. But where in the world can you find these links they are telling you about? Nice question.