Article Writing requires time and attention. For some people finding 20 minutes or 45 minutes of uninterrupted time is almost impossible. So you might believe.

1. Keep a bag, briefcase or note book in your vehicle. There is usually wasted time available when you visit the doctors office, lunch breaks at work or while the kids have soccer practice etc.

2. Speaking of your kids, do they interrupt you while your trying to work because they are bored? Take them to the ice rink, roller blade park or even to an arcade in the shopping mall. While they are having a great time, you can have several extra hours of uninterrupted writing time.

3. In the evening take the time to organize your notes, files and make a list of topics you want to write on the next day or the next week. This saves you a lot of time trying to decide where to start before writing your article.

Until next time this is the Marketing Hobo saying: Make the time - don’t wait for the time!

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Article Marketing is perhaps the easiest way to begin and is possibly the most fool proof way, to begin online marketing. this does not mean it is easy and that is a lesson that is often learned the hard way.

Probably every one accepts that the hardest part of Article Marketing is how to write a number of articles on a niche topic. Today I want to share with you, my system for an easy (easier) way to write multiple articles on a given niche topic and that is the power of 4 equals 5.

No, before you ask, I did not fail math. I know that 4 times 1 equals 4.

First: I want you to decide on a topic you would like to write about, it does not really matter what topic you choose.

Second: I want you to list the four most important things about that topic. You can write this in a few different ways:

=> The four things you need to…
=> Four mistakes not to make …
=> Four ways to increase …You get the idea!

Now you have a niche topic and the four most important items about that niche topic.

Here comes the insight into the power of 4 equals 5

Write your article about the four most important things and then write one article on each of those four topics.

You now have five articles about your niche topic: 4 equals 5

Do not get hung up on the number 4 this could just as easily be the top 10 reasons or needs. If you use the top 10 things, then you could follow this up writing 10 articles about your niche topic.

Now instead of needing to research 4 or 10 different Articles, you only need to research one topic and you will produce a number of different articles.

Hope this helps you with your article marketing

Until next time this is the Article Marketing Hobo saying stay well and stay safe.

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Get Two Thousand Visitors to your Website in just 24 hours, by writing a simple press release.

Probably not!  Yet a press release is a very important tool for getting website traffic.  It is also a tool that is under-used by most people doing Internet Marketing.

When written properly a Press Release can and is an extremely powerful tool.

I have just finished creating a new Squidoo Lens about Writing a Press Release, so if you are interested in another method to increase your traffic flow, check it out here!

Yes, I am still caught up with creating squidoo lenses.  I love article marketing and squidoo is a great tool for publishing articles.  My experiment with squidoo has gone extremely well, actually a lot better than I had hoped for.  January brought me in a 3 figure income from 11 squidoo lenses.  This amount was the total of Squidoo Revenue Sharing and Affiliate sales.

When you realize this is from actually writing 11 articles, I think you will agree its pretty good.  How often do any of us write an article that pays 25 dollars or more for a month?

The advantage of this is next month those same 11 articles could again generate a 3 figured income… How much am I really making for those 11 articles?

Now like most things there is the 80% of results coming from 20% of the effort and this experiment is no different.  3 of the article accounted for the majority of the revenue and 3 articles generated 0.  The other 5 generated very little.

I am still on the hunt for my next project so that also accounts for my creating more lenses on squidoo.  I now have a system that allows me to create a lens in about 4 hours and then I spend the rest of the day hunting.

Well for now this is the Hobo saying Stay warm - Stay active - Stay safe.

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Article Marketing may have some health benefits. Does that sound like a strange statement? I really hope not. Perhaps its because I am a little focused on aging at the moment, having just had another birthday come around. Not so unusual for me and perhaps for you, birthdays seem to make us focus more on self and issues like longevity and health.

Was listening to a well known radio and television personality by the name of Bill O’Reilly the other night and he was interviewing “Ernest Borgnine” who is now 90 years old. That Bill fellow asked Ernest what his secret to a long healthy life is and Mr Borgine smiled and replied “I keep my mind active”.

I got to thinking, I do internet marketing and I use mostly article marketing as my tool. Reading every day on different topics, creating an inventory of facts and then putting it all together to create a well written article, really keeps your mind active. If keeping the mind active does keep you healthy and allow you to live a long time, there is a side benefit to article marketing that is “priceless”.

As a final thought on this topic, there was one more thing that was noticed about Ernest Borgnines answer “he smiled and laughed when asked the question”. Being happy and smiling and laughing can also be a great health benefit. So can these two things be put together to create maximum health benefit for article marketing? Yes!

Smile and be happy while writing your articles. Remember as much as we want to see the results in readers and dollars - “health and long life are priceless”

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As you probably know, I have been concentrating my efforts on a few squidoo pages to test the results. I wanted to update you on a couple of factors.

One lens that I created on the 10th of December, “How to build a food smoker”, has already received more than a thousand views and the majority of them have come from Google searches. Realize that I have done nothing to promote this lens, no articles, no forum posts, nothing. I am shocked, amazed and thrilled by the performance of this lens.

Another Lens that I created on the 8th of January, “La Caja China”, has also done extremely well. It has been viewed by less than 100 people, most from Google Search and yet this lens has already made 1 affiliate sale.

Just the other day I created another lens called “you are what you eat” and published it. This lens has a couple of visits in 2 days and as far as I can see that is it, so what makes this outstanding? Simple really! this began with an email a friend sent me and I have added a little but not much to that email. The total time invested in this new lens is about 20 minutes and it is already in the top 20,000 lenses on squidoo out of over 386,000 lenses. This is not a topic I would have thought of and I sure did not expect any results from it. I actually put it on squidoo more out of my sense of humor than any other reason.

I will continue with the squidoo experiment and while doing it, I will begin to formulate what I believe is a working model for creating lenses. I can not be sure at this point in time but I believe I will end up with about 100 lenses, each averaging around 5 dollars per month in basically passive income. That is my current goal for the year 2008 and my article marketing squidoo experiment.

I plan to have this done in a manner that I can complete my weeks squidoo article marketing in 1 to 2 hours per week. This should be accomplished in another week perhaps two at the outside and then I will look for the next step in my article marketing 2008 efforts.

Till next time this is the Article Marketing Hobo saying “Have fun”

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