When you get into article marketing, the first thing you will need to learn is how to minimize interruptions when writing articles.
Sometimes getting away from the distractions of everyday life isn’t so easy to accomplish, especially when you have a home based Internet marketing business.
In the cases where you work from home, there are several methods to at least minimize those interruptions so they don’t use up your valuable writing time.
Most interruptions are sensory in nature.
It may sound stupid but you can virtually block out all audible distractions just by putting on a set of headphones or ear protectors that target shooters use on the firing range.
Headphones will muffle any outside noise and let your family members know you are not to be disturbed. I know one article marketer who swears by a self help meditation tape that he plays when he writes.
Some writers successfully play background music while they write to block out all other audible distractions and focus on the task at hand.
Needless to say, turn off the television set.
Most people can’t watch “Dancing With The Stars” and still write a good article on email marketing at the same time. Multitasking has its limits.
The television set and your own computer are the most common sensory interruptions that most writers contend with.
Having your email notification sound off as your write is a distraction that can take you away from your goal. Having a cluttered computer desktop is also a distraction that’s easy to eliminate.
Just set up another user on your computer and use it strictly for article writing purposes.
Time is your enemy when writing articles.
To minimize the time it takes to write your article, it’s a good idea to jot down an outline before you actually dive into your writing.
Setting a goal before you start your writing and jotting down a brief outline of each article you plan to write about will maximize the time you actually spend writing if you do become distracted.
When you do become distracted, you can get right back to where you stopped writing by simply consulting your outline.
Although some article writers are gifted enough to keep an outline about what they plan on writing about in their head and can return to their writing without much thought, most writers are unable to do that without wasting a considerable amount of time reorganizing their thoughts.
Outlines save time.
Although learning how to minimize interruptions when writing articles is mostly common sense and requires a lot of self discipline, the rewards are well worth the effort.
Using the Facebook phonebook for Internet marketing purposes is a strategy that can work as good or better than email marketing.
This strategy can be used for Internet marketing, MLM marketing, prospecting or even recruiting on Facebook and the great thing about it is that nobody else seems to be using it.
For people who know how to use it, Facebook’s phonebook has become a marketing haven for both Internet and Network Marketers.
The good news is that because a lot of people don’t know how to use Facebook to market effectively, all the rest of us benefit.
Many so called Internet marketers sign up to Facebook and piss everyone off by pitching their business and products all over Facebook. They forget that Facebook is first and foremost a social media site.
These people normally do not achieve any positive results, in fact they often wind up hurting their business more than they help it.
As an Internet or network marketer on Facebook, you should be consistently trying to add “targeted” friends who are genuinely interested in your market niche.
By “targeted”, I mean only friends who are actually interested in your business, product or service.
To do this don’t be rude and start pitching whatever opportunity it is that you’re selling to people.
Connect with people and try to learn more about them. Don’t even think about selling.
Find out what they do for a living, what their interests are, why they are interested in your target niche and what problems they have encountered.
After you discover what their problems are, then you can offer them your solution.
The idea is to be able to get access to the phone numbers of hundreds or even thousands of “live” prospects that are potentially waiting for your call.
So, how do you go about getting your friends phone numbers after you have their attention?
Easy!
Go to your Facebook profile top right hand corner and select Account.
Then click Edit Friends.
Next, on the top left hand corner select either Phonebook under Friends or just select Contacts.
Imported contacts are displayed on your Invites and Imported Contacts page and synced mobile contacts are displayed in your Facebook Phonebook.
Contacts may be used to improve the quality of friend suggestions for you and your friends.
That’s all there is to it.
Remember that a phone number is like an email address so don’t act like a spammer.
Many people are fearful of picking up a telephone and talking to someone the first time. Fear of rejection is usually the reason.
Using this strategy, the people you are calling already know your name and who you are, so the “fear factor” is virtually eliminated.
When you make your initial contact, don’t try to sell anything.
You are simply making an initial contact with your friends. However, if the conversation does happen to veer into your offer, don’t miss out on the opportunity to close a sale.
Everyone’s phone manner is different but you can say something like “Hi, I’m your Facebook friend (your name). I like to call all my Facebook friends just to get to know more about them. How’s it going today?”.
If you freeze up on phone calls you might even consider writing down a script to follow.
In any event, using the Facebook phonebook for Internet marketing works as good and sometimes better than email marketing.
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One of the most important home based internet marketing information items you need 
to digest, is how to optimize a hosted video on YouTube and other video sharing sites.
Below are some of the most important things you need to do to get your videos noticed.
- Make sure that your primary keyword or keyword phrase is up front in the title of your video.
- Make sure that your primary and secondary keywords are in the description of your video. It is best to have keywords in the first two or three words of your video description.
- Make sure the primary and secondary keywords are prominent in your tags.
- Try to get people to comment on your videos if at all possible. Commenting quickly promotes viral activity. You can jump start commenting by emailing your friends and relatives or by posting your videos on Facebook, Twitter and other social media.
- Try to encourage people to flag your videos as a “favorite”. The more “favorite” responses you have on a video, the more people are inclined to check out your videos.
- Encourage people to give your video a “thumbs up” after they view your video. Just like the “favorite” response; the more people who “like” your video and give it a “thumbs up” on YouTube, the more people will want to check out your video to see what all the buzz is about.
- Your main goal should be to drive as many visitors as possible to your videos. You can help achieve this goal by linking to your videos from your blogs or websites using the primary keyword phrase in your anchor text.
Since about 28% of all searches in the Google network originate from YouTube, you can use YouTube as a backdoor to get your keywords a first page ranking with Google.
Google offers video results on keywords typed into their search engine.
In general, any given video in the index stands a 50 times better chance of appearing on the first page of the search engine results than any text page in the index.
This means that it’s much easier getting a first page ranking on Google by posting optimized videos on YouTube and other video sharing sites, than it is to optimize your blog or a web page on your website.
You can dramatically improve your search results by first loading your video to YouTube and then posting the same video on your blog or website.
When you optimize both your YouTube video and your website for the same keywords, you can be assured of getting maximum exposure from Google’s search engine.
Learning how to optimize a hosted video on YouTube isn’t rocket science, it just takes some thoughtful planning and a little bit of common sense.
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