How to write ” General” Articles

by Kim and Charles Petty

Let the readers know what is in store for them by the ” blaze” in your first paragraphs of an article. There are two kinds of articles; those which cover things in general and can be published at most any time, and current events. The best place to start with these kind of articles is the local newspaper with a goal of syndication to many other media.

In order dor acceptance by the editor there must be a local twist of personal interest to the readers. The ununusual and odd things abot people and their vocation and gives the reader a departure from the daily drudgery are the best and most saleable articles to write about. This includes adventure,mystery, murder, money, accidents, discoveries, economy, history, illness, jail, jealousy, obsessions, quacks, struggles, taxes, etc.

You must attract attention from the first words when writing feature stories for a newspaper type publication, where as a novel or short story for a magazine builds to a climax and generally clears up all the loose ends at completion

For a magazine article to sell to the publisher “action” in the first and last part is a must, while the body copy is devoted to narrative or explanations with a number of vital incidents to keep the action alive. Keep the writing “flowing” in such a manner the reader will anxiously read ahead to see what happens next.

When it is possible to do so without distorting the truth, add some fiction to your life stories to keep them interesting and alive! Submit 8x 10 glossy print photos if possible as often the picture will be the difference between acceptance and rejection. It will pay you to get a good camera so you can snap pictures to go along with the articles.

When submitting your copy, put your name, address and phone number at the upper left cover of the first page and total number of words containeed in the article on the upper right side. If you are submitting an article to the newspaper a title will not be necessary as the editor will usually determine after reviewing the article.

Leave plently of room at the top of the pages, use double spacing and wide margins so there is plenty of space for editing. Number the pages at the top. preferable on the right hand side. Type only on the front side of each page. Enclose a Stamped, self addressed return envelope. Lay it out so your name always appears with the article so that you will gain recognition as a writer.

There are millions of things to write about so you should nver be without ideas for your articles. To get the ideas all you need to do is go through the dictionary and write about anything and everything that comes to mind, based on the more practical words.

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Bad Credit And High Risk Loans For People That Need A Change

by Lee A. Beattie

Bad credit and high risk loans are planned specifically for those who possess less than perfect credit, due either to bad credit history or a deficiency of any credit history in the least. This grouping of individuals are looked at as high risk because of their low credit score, which can make it difficult to acquire loan options and financing from regular banks. A bad credit loan makes it possible for even those with bad credit to get the loan or money they call for, and they can apply the high risk loan to build up their credit score to benefit from better loan options in the future.

One of the most frequent types of bad credit loans is a personal loan, since it can be utilized for a number of various reasons. Personal loans can be utilized to pay off existing debt, IRS debt, or yet to make large purchases, or even a combination of uses depending on the loan amount. Debt consolidation is likewise a popular use for bad credit person loans, since it makes it attainable to add every debt into one monthly payment. Individuals with low credit scores unremarkably have trouble acquiring a personal loan since there isn’t collateral required, so there isn’t a lot a bank can do if the account holder settles to default on the loan.

Bad credit and high risk loans are also accessible in some other forms, including car loans, home loans, or even credit lines that are taken off of the equity of a home loan. It is commonly hard for somebody with a low fico score to find loan options because they are thought as a high risk, but a high risk loan is designed specifically for those who need to improve their credit rating. A Person with bad credit can unquestionably profit from a high risk loan, but there are many a factors to consider before accepting the loan.

Like all types of loans, there are always interest fees that are charged on a monthly basis. With a bad credit and high risk loan, the interest rate will in all probability be pretty high, since it is based on the applicant’s credit score at the time of application. This means that the applicants can notice themselves paying hundreds of extra dollars a year simply in interest payments, and even more if a payment is late or the loan defaults. This rule is normally the same for whatever type of loan, so one should evaluate the interest rate to ensure they are going to be able to afford the loan and the interest as well.

A bad credit and high risk loan can offer up many benefits to those with poor credit, as long as the applicant is inclined to prove they are not high risk for paying the loan back. By making monthly payments on time and paying off the loan on time determined by the bank, the applicant can significantly raise their credit score and open themselves to better loan options in the future. Good credit history is reportable by major banks to the credit bureau on a monthly basis, and maintaining an account in good standing is a crucial way to improve a credit score. This is the same for personal loans, home loans, and even a loan for a car, so an individual can find themselves advancing their score significantly when using a high risk loan for their finances.

A bad credit and high risk loan is a essential chance for anyone with a low credit score, since it gives them the probability to establish that they can handle their personal finances. It is great for attaining large purchases like a car or house, or even for consolidating debt or receiving extra money obtainable. Even though there are numerous disadvantages to getting a high risk loan, it can be very preferential in the long run by bettering one’s credit score.

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10 Ways To Gain Your Prospects Attention Using Your Picture Alone

by Kim and Charles Petty

1. Use a uncommon hair style. You could style your hair to stand straight up like you’re scared or use a wig to wear a mohawk or huge fuzzy hair.

2. Color your hair a bright color. You could color it pink, blue, purple, green, etc. You could even make it match your web site’s colors.

3. Draw a lines on your picture. You could draw a black eye or mustache on it before you scan and upload it to your web site.

4. Put on silly glasses. You could put on spring like glasses, oversized colorful glasses, spinning glasses, or even 3D glasses.

5. Wear uncommon clothes. You could wear a super bright suit, a costume outfit, a weird tie or a bathing suit.

6. Make a weird facial expression. You could stick your tongue out, push your face together, make your eyes big, look like you’re angry, etc.

7. Wear an unrelated hat. You could wear a cowboy hat, a bowl on your head, straw hat, a sports helmet, a rain hat, etc.

8. Paint your face. You could paint your own ideal character or paint a typical character like a clown, animal, plant, etc.

9. Wear a mask. You could buy one or make one out of a paper bag. Just cut the nose, mouth and eyes out. You could also add other facial features.

10. Use an uncommon background. You could use an outside background, a funny wallpaper, a prop to look like you have a cartoon body, etc. —-

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10 Uncommon And Unusual Free Product Bonuses

by Kim and Charles Petty

1. Offline Directory – Create an online directory of offline resources. You could include names, phone numbers, addresses, etc.

2. eBook Of Reviews – Publish an ebook of stuff that’s related to your target audience that you could review like products, web sites, movies, etc.

3. Round Table Chat – You could schedule a group chat of people your customers would want to meet and talk to on the internet.

4. Intelligence E-mail Alerts – Allow your customers to sign up to an e-mail alert list. You can alert them when you find out news that could affect their life.

5. Statistics eReport – You could compile a report of different statistics that’s related to their purchase. It could be surveys, tests, special studies, etc.

6. Personal Notes eFile – Collect notes that you’ve taken about your industry and compile them into a downloadable file.

7. Profile eBook – Publish a profile ebook or report of people your target audience are interested in. You can list their birthdays, interests, age, hobbies, etc.

8. E-mail Lessons – Teach a class via e-mail about a subject your customers want to learn. E-mail them study materials, worksheets, assignments, etc.

9. Sample Of Another Product – Give customers a free sample of another product as a bonus. It could be a basic version, excerpt, limited service, etc.

10. To Do List Or Instructions – Publish a list of instructions or things to do in order to accomplish a goal your customers would want to complete. —-

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10 Profitable Ways To Recycle Your Content

by Kim and Charles Petty

1. Repackage your web site content in to different products to sell. You could create speeches, audio books, classes, and video tapes with your content.

2. Divide your content up and use it for promotional articles. You could submit them to other web sites or ezines for publicity. Just add your resource box.

3. Allow people to link to your web site’s content. This is a fast way to get hundreds of people linking to your web site.

4. Add to your content and create an ebook to sell. You don’t want to sell your free content, but if you add to it you can. It’s an extra profit stream.

5. Compile it into a free ebook. You could submit it to free ebook directories. Use it as a bonus for when people subscribe to your e-zine.

6. Use your free content as a lead in product for your fee based content or private site. Just allow them the option of up grading to the paid version.

7. Place it on follow-up autoresponders from your web site. This is a great way to remind people to come back and revisit your web site.

8. Create a free bonus out of your content for your main product. When you add new content, remove the old content and create a bonus product with it.

9. Use the content to create a press release. This works well if you need extra information for your press release announcement.

10. Trade content with other web sites. It will give you the chance to get new content and promote your web site at the same time. —-

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How To Draw Visitors To Your Web Site

by Kim and Charles Petty

How To Draw Visitors To Your Web Site By Holding An Online Contest Or Sweepstakes

Holding a contest or sweepstakes can draw a lot of traffic to your Web site. You can announce your site to hundreds of Web sites that list free contests and sweepstakes. Send out a press releases about your contest or sweepstakes. Ask entrants to your contest or sweepstakes if they would accept offers from your business in the future by e-mail.

The prizes should be something your target audience would need or want. Try to be as original as possible with the prizes you are offering. Always offer more than one prize, a grand prize and runner-up prizes. Use your products or services to give away as prizes. Make sure your prizes have some value, nothing cheap. Give enough information about all the prizes, so people will be interested in entering.

Make it easy for people to enter your contest or sweeps- takes. I feel the easiest ways online are from an entry form on your Web site or by e-mail. Capture as much info. as you can when they enter your contest or sweepstakes like: Company Name

First/Last Name

Street Address

City, State, Zip

Day/Evening Phone Number

E-mail Address

Web Site Address

Purchasing History

Survey Questions

Give your contest or sweepstakes a professional look and feel. Provide an “Official Rules” Web page for your contest or sweepstakes. Include a time period of how long your contest or sweepstakes will be held. Tell visitors how you will deliver the prizes. Include pictures of the prizes on your site. Tell visitors who will judge your contest. Check out other contests and sweepstakes Web sites to get more ideas.

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10 Ways To Generate Highly Read Article Ideas

by Kim and Charles Petty

1. Participate in chat rooms related to your targeted audience. Watch what questions people are asking and ask others what information they’re interested in.

2. Examine what information in being broadcast on tv, news and talk shows. That information is usually hot topics.

3. Hang out in similar message boards. People leave questions for information they’re seeking. That is a strong indicator of subjects to write about.

4. Survey your web site visitors or current customers. Ask them what type of articles they would like to see published on your web site or in your e-zine.

5. Regularly check your site’s guest books. People sometimes leave questions or comments that would help you generate high readership articles.

6. Check online bookstore’s best sellers list. They’re very good resources for finding winning topics and ideas to write about.

7. Use the time of year to come up with good topics. You could relate your content to the holiday, season, things that happen years ago during that time, etc.

8. Join some related e-mail discussion lists. Explore the question being asked and the subjects people are discussing.

9. Relate your article to a current fad that’s going on in your specific industry. The topic is usually interesting to your target audience.

10. Make a file of visitor or customer questions you receive via e-mail or phone. Usually, others have the same questions, but never ask. —-

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The Real Secret To Getting Motivated

by Theo McLanahan

There are days when working from home can be very challenging. You may be under a tight deadline and it seems that a new obstacle creeps up at every opportunity. Perhaps your business isn’t moving as fast as you had hoped and you’re ready to throw in the towel. Whatever has you ready to give up, don’t let it win. Instead, grab your motivational toolbox and get pumped up.

Your motivational toolbox is your secret weapon against stress and anxiety. These are the trainings, the audios, books, emails, or pictures you keep stashed in case of emergency. Your toolbox can be a digital arsenal stored on your computer or it can be an actual toolbox filled with tangible items.

Motivational and easy to fine, audio trainings are available from lots of online sources. A growing number of websites offer audio content that can be downloaded straight to your MP3 player. Strap on your headphones and go for a motivational walk. Listening to encouraging training while getting your blood flowing is a great relief when stress strikes especially harshly. You might choose to listen to an Internet talk radio show too.

When clients email you with praise because of the great job you’ve done, save those emails so that you can read them on a rainy day. A tremendous boost of self esteem and confidence, a quick skim through such emails can completely turn your mood around and prepare you for another barrage of tough work.

Emails from a mentor describing their personal experiences of overcoming difficulties can be a great support on rough days at work. These inspirational and motivational words are sure to help you carry on.

Looking at an inspiring picture or photo can also help stir up motivation. If you find a picture that inspires you, save it to your computer’s desktop. Perhaps it is a picture of an athlete winning a race or a completing a hike up a mountain.

Personal photos of your grandparents when they were young or your high school portrait can be equally stimulating.

Hand made cards or pictures that your children have created can also be a great motivator. You may not always feel confident, but in their eyes, you are the best at what you do.

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Beginning Investors – Listen To The Real Estate Pros

by Alexandria P. Anderson

It’s an unfortunate fact of life that regardless of where you go, you are sure to encounter cynics and pessimist. Whatever it is that you hope to accomplish, these people will be ready with discouraging words. This goes double when one is talking about money – since most people don’t have as much of it as they would like, or any idea how to acquire more, it’s easy to become jaded, believing that financial success is impossible for those who are not already wealthy.

Press about the declining value of real estate as an investment or about skyrocketing housing prices that keep regular people out of the market altogether can make the prospect of making money through real estate investment seem almost ludicrous. Yet people are doing it – real people like you and me. And you can do it too. All you have to do is listen to the right people.

Sounds easy doesn’t it? Yes it does. That’s because it is. It is very easy to find a person who knows how to make money by investing in real estate, find out what has worked for them, and apply it to your own life. If it’s so easy, you might be tempted to say, then why isn’t everyone doing it? And that, my friend, is the meat of the matter. Everyone isn’t doing it for two reasons. The first reason is that they’ve simply been told all their lives that success is very, very difficult. In fact, they’ve been told, because of the scarcity of money, success is almost impossible.

This fear and hesitancy is the direct result of listening to people who don’t know the real story.

The other reason most people aren’t making a fortune on the real estate market, is that it’s just so simple. The people who find great success in property investing are the ones who learn a logical system and stick to it. A systematic approach is reliable, but it’s also dull, and that’s why so many people forego the obvious, proven methods of making money, and get tripped up on complex, esoteric moneymaking scams. These sorts of schemes may seem more fun and dramatic than gradually building wealth through proven methods, but the problem is that they simply do not work.

Because most people think like that, those are the ideas that the media are catering to. That is why murder and mayhem is front-page news and happy things are not. That is why people slow down when they see an automobile accident and not when they see a couple holding hands. Tragedy is far more interesting. Just check out the plot line of any major motion picture. People like to believe that life is tough.

Luckily, this cynical viewpoint on the real estate market is not an accurate one. Not by a long shot.

If you can break the habit of thinking of life in tragic terms, of convincing yourself that there is simply not enough money to go around, then you will learn to start listening to the right people so you can develop your systematic plan for investing. And what does a systematic plan lead to? Financial success. We’ve established that the media and the majority of their audience are the wrong people to listen to, but who are the right people? The right people are those who have invested in property and profited significantly from those investments. People like me. Wouldn’t you rather listen to someone who can tell you how you can make money, rather than to people who insist on telling you how to stay poor?

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10 Ways To Shift Your Sales Into Overdrive

by Kim and Charles Petty

1. Publish testimonials for your free stuff. It would increase their value and if they’re viral marketing tools, you’ll have more people giving them away.

2. Give your visitors a good time so they will visit your web site again. Use a few jokes, humorous graphics and funny stories.

3. Make money from web sites that don’t have an affiliate program, by doing a joint venture. Set up the affiliate program through a third party for them.

4. Build rapport with your potential customers by teaching them something new. Provide them with free ebooks, articles, tips, courses, etc.

5. Allow your visitors to collect things from your web site so they will stop back again and again. It could be a series of software, ebooks or articles.

6. Keep each page of your web site consistent or similar. Use similar text fonts, colors, graphics and background on every page.

7. Build a popular directory of freebies. It will draw tons of traffic to your web site and you can request that submitters place your link on their web site.

8. Create traffic generators that people can add to their site without doing all the work. It can be an article directory, freebie directory, web tool, etc.

9. Challenge your visitors to buy your product or service. People love a good challenge. Tell them if they can find a flaw you’ll give them a refund.

10. Form a strategic alliance with other related but non-competing businesses. You’ll be able to beat your competition by selling to a larger audience.

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