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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Lensography is a unique phrase that originated with thefluffanutta a squidoo lens master.  What a lensography is in reality is a Squidoo Lens Biography that consists of a list of your lenses on squidoo and information about yourself.

I am a little embarrased to admit that until the other day I had not heard of a Squidoo Lensography.  I found it when Jaguar Julie Lensography was chosen as the lens of the day.  I went to her lens and discovered the power of lensography.

One of the hardest things when you have a number of lenses on squidoo is promoting your lenses.  If you go to forums you can’t list 10 or 20 lenses in you resource box.  When you sign guest books, you can not leave a long list of lenses there for traffic.  The simple answer for promoting your work on squidoo is a single lens url to promote.  “Enter the Lensography”.  If you have a lensography and you go to a forum and the forum readers might be interested in a topic or perhaps more that you have lenses on, you can simply put your lensography url in the forum signature box. Simple solution to a complex problem.

I decided to creat a lensography for my squidoo lenses “DMedley The Lensography“.  By the time I completed the basic layout of the lensography, I had discovered a couple things.

1st - I had more lenses than I thought.  I actually have 30 lenses on squidoo including my 3 newest lenses.

1.  Who is Dave Draper
2.  Who is Frank Zane
3.  Who is Steve Reeves

2nd - The lensography is a great guide and map for lens creation.  When you create category listings you begin to see topics that are under-represented or the possibility for creating new topic categories.

Yes incase you are wondering, I am still hung up on creating squidoo lenses.  I currently have a goal of creating 50 lenses.  Does that sound excessive?  Well not by squidoo standards its not.  Remember Jaguar Julie that I mentioned in the beginning?  Well Jaguar Julie has 303 lenses at the time of writing this and there are actually squidoo lens masters that have many, many more lenses that Jaguar Julie.

If you have a couple minutes and would like to see an example of a squidoo lensography, check out “DMedley The Lensography“.

Till next time: This is the Marketing Hobo saying - keep writing

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Squidoo Lens of the Day is a feature on squidoo where you can submit your lens for review. If the live people on squidoo find your lens to be worthy, it can become the lens of the day. When you are chosen as lens of the day you appear on every Squidoo Lens, currently there are over 360,000 lenses. Great ego booster but what does it do for ranking and traffic?

I submitted my lens “Cajun Microwave Roasting Box” to the Squidoo Lens of the Day a couple months ago and yesterday it appeared as lens of the day. This morning doing a comparison between yesterday morning stats and this mornings stats, I found a number of great results.

Squidoo Ranking: this is nice but not something I use as a main focus, I prefer traffic from Google Search and other Search Engines. Yesterday morning the Cajun Microwave lens was ranked number 2,327 on Squidoo and this morning it is ranked number 196. Being Lens of the day really has an affect on over all ranking. This also placed my Lens as number 8 in cooking, so this should help bring some traffic.

Squidoo Traffic: The Cajun Microwave lens has averaged around 20 visitors per day, with the highest traffic day being 38 visitors on January 20th, 2008. Yesterday being Squidoo Lens of the Day brought 163 visitors to the Cajun Microwave Lens.

It becomes obvious that receiving the Ego Busting Squidoo Lens of the Day can have a profound affect on your Squidoo Lens Ranking as well as your Squidoo Lens Traffic. There are a few other side benifits from being the lens of the day:
* Lens Rated 23 times - this helps with long term squidoo ranking
* Lens Favorited 14 times - another long term ranking benefit
* Fan Club for Author increased by 8 people yesterday

If you have a Squidoo Lens and are looking to increase your Squidoo Ranking and increase your Squidoo Traffic I highly recommend you submit your Lens for Review.

Till next time: this is the Marketing Hobo saying - Stay Safe and Stay Active

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Anyone that uses Article Marketing is always on the look out for new places to publish their articles. Today while browsing around I found a new article directory. I signed up for a free account after looking through the site for only a couple of minutes.

Mr. John Frierson, the website owner, “Our goal is to become a leader in the world of online publishing. We provide syndication services to website owners, ezine publishers and more. We understand that the perceptive visitor is looking for well-written articles on a variety of related subjects, we figured that the best way to do this is through our article directory.

It’s a fact that good content is crucial to online success. Articles Of Information.com is a central location for submitting and promoting articles, in addition to being the key to a powerful resource for website owners and ezine/newsletter publishers who are searching for excellent content to share with others. when you submit articles to Articles Of Information.com, your articles are picked up by other websites, featured in newsletters, and sent out in ezines exploding your website traffic, sales, and newsletter options.”

If you are looking for another directory to publish articles on or are looking for content for a website, I suggest you check out Articles of Information today.

For more information visit http://www.ArticlesOfInformation.com

Till next time this is the Marketing Hobo saying: Stay warm and stay safe.

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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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