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Article Marketing and How to Always Have Ideas

Guest post by: Robert Strong

Article Overview: One very recent question I got from someone that was considering article marketing had the fear of running out of ideas. While I have been doing article marketing for some time now, it is very rarely I get stumped on ideas. I have had a few conversations with other article marketers and they seem to get stuck once in awhile also.

Article Marketing and How to Always Have Ideas

One very recent question I got from someone that was considering article marketing had the fear of running out of ideas. While I have been doing article marketing for some time now, it is very rarely I get stumped on ideas. I have had a few conversations with other article marketers and they seem to get stuck once in awhile also. After these conversations I realized that the new article marketers are probably having the same problem or question so I came up with.....

Ideas to keep you Writing

• If you have a blog and are putting different thoughts or ideas on it, take some of that content and write a good article
• Go to Google Keyword Tool and type in a few keywords that interest you and see what results come up, compare the inquiries in a month and target the keywords with lower competition
• Look at magazines or newspapers in the grocery store, what headlines grab your attention. How do they make you feel? Can you use the information in the article to write your own and in your own words?
• Use Template Titles like the ones below:
• How to __________ in 30, 60 or 90 days
  
  Top 5 reasons people _______________
  
  7 Tips to help you __________________
  
  Worst 5 things you could do in your ______________
• Plug into other people's blogs, websites, articles and videos and find out what people are passionate about.
• Are you finding content that is creating conversations, if so then write about it!
• Think of when you were beginning, what did you have questions about? If you had those questions, I can almost guarantee that people before you and after you will also.
• Write an article on how it will benefit someone else. If you are like me, I love article marketing and how it helps me. If you are in the business of website design, write articles on how websites help people and their business, write about tips and tricks for websites.
• Ask your followers if there is a specific question or topic that they would like more information on. In doing this you not only get ideas to write about but also strengthens your relationship with your followers.

Have a method to catch ideas

There are many times that I have ideas or brainstorms that race through my brain, sometimes even when I am driving and watching the dummy in front of me change lanes with no signals. This idea could be a catchy headline, an article idea or a video plan, what is your plan to remember these ideas? Don't think for one second that you will remember all these great ideas, if you are like me I have 20-30 of them a day. I want you to put a post it note pad in your car and a writing utensil, think I am crazy? Just do it and then when you have that idea in your car, jot the idea down, and by the way you can thank me after writing 100 articles!

Step Outside

Now try to keep up with me on this one, it could get hairy! You heard me right, go outside and enjoy life, look around, feel your environment. Many people start a home business and then become that hibernating bear just coming out for a couple months out of the year. First thing I want to point out is that you did not start a business to be behind the computer for 14 hours a day. If you did then you got bigger problems than trying to come up with ideas on what to write an article about. Second thing is you are not challenging yourself and your mind and using your imagination. For example: I am going to be writing an article here very soon after watching some birds in my back yard for about 30 minutes. Sound dumb, well here is my logic, watch some birds go pecking through your yard some day. What are they doing? Yes they are looking for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Notice that they keep searching through your yard until they find what they are looking for, why; because they know there is something there and they don't give up. This could be just like your business, consider your yard as the world and consider yourself the bird. Your world is huge and you are looking for customers or clients, you know that they a re there you just have to keep looking for them. They could be anywhere in the yard, there is no guarantee for a percentage to be in one corner or even in the middle, but as you keep looking your search is getting smaller. There is one guarantee though, if you give up you definitely will not find them. In this example I would write an article on being persistent and consistent in your business and not giving up.

Next time you think that you have nothing to write about, remember this article - you never know, I may have had nothing to write an article about so I came up with this

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