Article marketing – free content for free advertising
Published by Sam@ArticleDirectMarketing.com on 2010-02-04 23:44:27
Most of us have no funds to invest in our website marketing. Most often we try our luck with online businesses besides out current jobs. So we don't want to spend the hard earned money on some physically inexistent ad.
So what's the solution for people who want to market their products, but want to do it for free? The answer is very simple – money are not that valuable when compared to information. When placed properly and given to the people who need it, knowledge can become thousands of times more valuable than the money.
Article marketing means giving free content in exchange for free advertising. People usually hate ads. You hate ads. You're browsing the web, looking for some info and all you can see and get are all the pop-up and non-pop-up ads. Whether it's banners, pop-ups, text ads, links or flashy images, it's all annoying and it only stays in your way to get what you really need.
As a smart marketer you can bypass and even exploit this need. What if you wouldn't stop people from getting to their needed content by giving them ads, but instead give them exactly what they need and only mention the link to your website at the end of the article? Guess what – it works much better. People don't get annoyed and don't want to skip your ad. They are not pissed off and they're not looking for something else. You've just provided them the info they needed and now that they have it you also mention that they might want to check out your site. People are pleased and happy they got the info so now they are willing to actually click your link.
Article marketing is all about the trade, about the exchange. Advertising shouldn't be a win-lose process. Marketers shouldn't have to pay and visitors shouldn't have to suffer and get annoyed. This concept is not that new and it's quite common sense. Magazines and newspapers use article marketing all the time. It was the time this process got into the online world.
Bloggers use article marketing as well. Just posting useful stuff all the time creates no income. So from time to time they publish posts which only have the purpose to advertise a product or other website. But in the rest of the time they publish really high quality stuff. This way subscribers have something to win, the bloggers have something to win and companies advertising also get targeted high value traffic.
Whether you choose to blog or you prefer writing articles and posting them in article directories, whether you advertise a website or offline product, article marketing is a great way to do it.
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