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Finding Your Way Through Online Articles
For me, to decide to start a home business was easy. Learning how to do it wasn’t. With a plethora of resources and information, starting one seemed like a big headache. Well, when you have guidance from someone who has been there, you have an...
The Right Way To Use Free Articles To Build Up Huge Traffic And Profits For Your Site
Writing and posting articles is becoming an increasingly important weapon and tool in any online marketing campaign. What’s more it is proving to be extremely effective for those who know how to use articles properly. Knowing how to use...
Writing Articles
You say, I can’t write an article, I have no knowledge of writing. Let me tell you yes you can! Why write an article? It can help you build your business! Yes, writing articles can help build your business. You say how can this help?...
Writing Articles, But Still Not Getting Traffic? That’s Because Your Articles Suck – But I Can Help! (Part 1)
We’ve all been there. We hear about how articles will generate HUGE publicity for a site, (the old “If you build it, they will come”) so we sit down, write an article, submit it to places like www.ezinearticles.com , www.content-articles.com , ...
Writing articles to promote your website or business
How do I know that writing and submitting articles works? I have
placed a tracking link in one of my articles, and seen the hits
from that link increasing as the article circulates. I'm sure
that the traffic will die off sometime, that's why I...
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5 Dynamite Ways to Generate Ideas for Parenting Articles
The key to selling reprints to parenting publications is the creation of dynamite ideas followed through with professional writing. Here, I’m focusing only on finding those lucrative topics.
Most topics in regional parenting publications are straightforward: finance, parenting tips, health, sports, and education. The trick is to twist them in an unusual way.
- If you’re a parent, what do you wish you knew about a topic? Write down questions that you have as you go through the day. When I was driving the other day, I complained to myself about bad teenage drivers. Then I wondered, “What can parents do to encourage good driving?” If you already know the answer to the question, it won’t make a good article unless you’re an expert on the subject.
- Take a generic topic and make it seasonal. Choose a season about four months away, because the lead-time for parenting publications is 2 to 6 months. Four months from now is April. What happens in April (or would be published in April) that I can combine with a topic like health? In April, parenting publications start printing their summer guides to camps. What can parents do to make sure their children stay healthy at camp? What are the traits of a safe camp? Change to camping plus another topic like education or finance to create unique articles.
- Who do you know who has an unusual or remarkable story – something that affected children? What did the parents learn? Write an article using the anecdote as an introduction to the information you want to give. A great anecdote can sell a story.
- Visit online parenting forums and read the questions people ask. Use some of these as a basis for your article ideas.
- When you research a piece and talk to experts, look for what you don’t know. “Joe says insurance is important for families,” won’t make an article interesting. Too many people know that insurance is important. But a quote like, “Joe says disability insurance is the most neglected area of insurance, but it protects young families from the biggest threat to their security,” will make parents keep reading.
If you give editors timely articles that readers will want to read, you’ll sell your work over and over again.
About The Author
Terri Pilcher edits a FREE weekly e-zine for writers, “Writer’s Guidelines Magazine”, that provides 10 writer’s guidelines. She recently published “MONEY Markets 2005: 101 Publishers That Pay in 6 Weeks or Less”. Her website contains the writer’s guidelines for almost 200 parenting publications. http://www.powerpenmarketsearch.com.
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