Lately I've been reading a lot about getting into article marketing. It all sounds interested but my desire to write is low on my priority list. It's just not my thing. How would you suggest i still do article marketing if the articles don't belong to me? Can it be done?

Collette - The key is to express your ideas, opinions, news, whatever, in some way. It doesn't have to be in writing. Can you speak your thoughts? Make podcasts. What about zipping off a quick video? There are various ways to express on the web, and it absolutely doesn't have to be in writing.

You do have to tag your updates properly, however, whatever the medium; so take extra care with just that small amount of required texting.

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Mary H. Ruth/Virtual Writing & Communications
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Hi Collette,

Mary is absolutely right. The key is to showcase your unique thoughts, opinions, expertise, etc., so I wouldn't recommend using articles that don't belong to you. As Mary suggested, you can try podcasting or one of the other internet marketing methods out there.

Also, keep in mind that you can still use article marketing even if, as you said, writing isn't your thing. You can write a series of Top 10 (or Top 7, or Top 5, whetever) articles that really don't require much writing at all (check out this example in one of my recent articles). My good friend and fellow writer Linda Dessau has a free report you can download called "Top 10 Article Generator" that will help you put together your own articles. Click here to get a copy.

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You can also hire a writer as a subcontractor to write for you. That person can ghostwrite for your business and the articles will belong to you. I love to write and have done that for other VAs.

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Lindsay
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That's what ghostwriters are for!! I would say that probably over 50% of articles are written by ghostwrters. It is a great method to market and as long as you know about the topic and are ghostwriting about somthing that had to do with your services and business then there is nothing wrong with article marketing even if you don't write the articles yourself. You can reaserach topics and send the reserach to the ghostwriter or you can write out info in point form and have the ghostwriter put together an article for you. I bet you that half of the celebrities out there that have books don't write the book themselves. Ghostwriting is a very popular service and proabably one of my most popular services. Good luck!

I agree with what everyone is saying. Do podcasts. Hire a ghost writer. Do whatever you need to do in order to get "the word" out. You know, you don't really have to be a great writer to do article marketing, or blogging.

If you just write the way you talk, likely, you will find it easier to write. Most people I know who say that writing is not their thing have a fear of doing it wrong. If you just simply write the way you talk, not only will what you say be more readable, it will be easier for you.

But of course, with the advent of podcasting you can simply just Talk the way you Talk! How easy is that! You can do it!

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