Critical Steps to Online Success-The Absolute Best Way to Build Your List!

The most Critical Step to online success is to build your
list. Long term this will pay you more than anything else
you may do.

Why is that?

Because it's yours! You built it, you own it and if you
treat your clients well they will stay with you forever.

Article Marketing is without doubt the absolute best way
to build your list.

Have you tried it but find you're not having any success?

Are your articles not getting opened?

Do you want to know how to get your articles read and how
to get click thrus from readers?

Well there's a knack to it!

It's all in how you set up your article! Once you start
doing it right those click thrus will really start to click!

Here's what you do…

1. You must have a great title:

Getting your articles opened is all about the title. A
great title will grab your visitor's attention and they'll
click your article to see what's inside. A great title
grabs their interest-it tells the reader what they can
learn in the article, and it also arouses curiosity.

So what is a great title?

Great titles have clarity and directness. They stand up
and yell "action". They don't waffle around. They ask a
question…they promise a great outcome…they make a call to
action. They say: "Open "me" and your problems will be
solved."!

Visit a few of the article directories and look at their
"most read articles" page. There's a striking difference in
the directness and clarity of these titles versus articles
in general.

2. You must have a great opening paragraph:

Your first sentence or set of sentences must be just as
powerful as your title. You can't afford to disappoint your
reader. Tell them what they're going to get from your
article and why this will be a benefit to them.

If you don't do this your reader will feel let down…you
haven't provided what you promised… they'll click away and
look somewhere else.

3. You must continue to hold your readers' attention:
After the promise of the title and the opening paragraph
you must continue to hold your readers' attention. You must
now fulfill their expectations. Your information must be
concise, informative and to the point.

Give your reader useful information; information that can
be immediately put into action. Your purpose is wherever
possible to provide information that will make a positive
change in your readers life. You don't need to teach them
everything about the topic… that's probably a life times
work. One article of a few hundred words can't accomplish
this.

But, whatever you write…make it count. Don't just throw up
an article to get another one in the mill. People will come
to expect quality if that's what you provide and they'll
continue to look for your articles and be excited to read
them.

4. Place a compelling call to action in your bio:

At the end of the article you must place a compelling call
to action. You can also refer them to your link from the
body of your article; something like: "for more info click
my link below".

Don't just put your name and accomplishments and a link
in your bio… include a call to action. Tell the reader to
click through to your site for more information on the
topic. Tell them the benefits they can receive from your
site. Then add the link to your site. After that, put
your bio information--and your link again, or another if
you have two sites or two interesting pages.

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Critical Steps to Online Success - Want More Traffic At Your Website?

You know my thinking on this: If you do nothing else each
day, you must move forward on building your list-it's your
most Critical Step in the marketing chain.

And getting more traffic to your opt-in page is the way to
speed it up.
And by now you know that I believe article marketing is
the best way to make this happen.

Maybe you've tried article marketing, your articles
getting opened, but you're not getting click thrus to your
squeeze page?

Let's see what we can do to fix that…

First the good news: "you're doing something right"; you
must be writing titles that are attracting traffic to your
article or you wouldn't have any readers.

One reason that you aren't getting clicks on your link
might be that the reader isn't getting that far. You could
be losing them in the first couple of paragraphs.

Your first sentence or set of sentences must be almost as
powerful as your title. You can't afford to disappoint your
reader. Tell them what they're going to get from your
article and why this will be a benefit to them.

If you don't do this your reader will feel let down…you
haven't provided what you promised… they'll click away and
look somewhere else.

There's an old army adage that goes like this:

"Tell them what you're going to tell them; tell it to
them; then recap and tell them what you told them."

If you adopt this formula you'll have great success with
your article writing…but remember to keep the recap
short…maybe just one sentence or a short paragraph.

Let's say this is your title:

"Want to take Great Photographs? Is your camera letting
you down? Here's how to test it…"

You might start your article something like this:
______________________________________________________
Are you not very happy with how your photo shots are
coming out lately?

Would you like some help?

I have found that in all endeavors the best tools bring
the best results.

It just might be that your camera is falling down on the
job!

Here's a way to test your camera to find out if it really
is the culprit:

***Now you add some info on how to do this***
.
.
.

Then quickly you wrap it up:

If these tests indicate your camera is at fault you can
take steps to upgrade. Otherwise you need to look further.
Click my link below for more information.
______________________________________________________

See how we followed the formula here?

We introduced the topic in a way that created interest in
the solution, we gave the solution and we wrapped it up.

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Critical Steps To Online Success--Do You Need Help Building Your List?

Have you been trying to build your list, but it's just not
happening?

Have you tried article writing but that didn't work either?

Are your articles getting opened, but you're not getting
click thrus to your squeeze page?

There could be a number of reasons for this.

If your articles are getting opened then your title must
be OK.

The next critical step is to have 2 or 3 short strong
opening sentences or paragraphs…I've covered how to do this
in an earlier article…you can probably find it if you
search my name in the index.

If you've done both those things and you're still not
getting many click thrus then you are losing them in the
body…the "information segment" of your article.

After the promise of the title and the opening paragraph
you must continue to hold your readers' attention. You must
now fulfill their expectations. Your information must be
concise, informative and to the point.
Give your reader information that will be useful to them;
information that can be immediately put into action. Your
purpose is wherever possible to provide information that
will make a positive change in your reader's life.

But, whatever you write…make it count!

This is a performance you are staging…your reader is your
audience!

Have you ever been to a comedy show where the comic
started to lose the audience? Often good manners will keep
them in their seats for awhile but eventually if it gets
bad enough they will leave.

You don't have the saving grace of good manners to keep
your audience reading your article. If you're not
delivering the goods in an interesting, informative and
professional manner they will click away and look elsewhere.

If you think this might be an issue for you then perhaps
you need to take some writing lessons?

Meantime, here are a few ideas that might help:

Create a plan for your article: opening, body, closing. A
length of 300 to 500 words is a good size article.

Then set out 3 or 4 main points that you wish to cover in
the body of your article, organize them into an order that
lets the ideas flow, and devote a segment or paragraph to
each.

Use numbered points if appropriate.

Break up your paragraphs-keep them short.

People don't like reading text in big blocks; it's hard to
keep your place. So make sure there's lots of white space.
I like to use semi-colons, dashes and 3 dots to allow me to
make a series of short strong statements rather than a long
run-on sentence.

Vary your sentence lengths…short, medium and long.

Make statements and let them stand out as a single line.

Don't repeat words in close proximity to each other.
And finally: "write in haste and correct at leisure". If
the ideas are flowing just get them down fast. You can
easily come back and clean it up later.

Would you like to learn the secrets to start and run a Successful Online Business?

I have just completed a new book called "How to use the Secret Magic of Article Writing to Start and run A Successful Online Business”.

You can Download it FREE here: "The Secret Magic of Article Writing"

You may also like to read my other FREE book: "Three Surefire Ways to Make Money Online"

Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. He teaches people to be successful online.