If you need motivation to any writing, blog included, here is something that can work for you.

Nothing going right and you still need to write that article or blog post? There is a huge mountain of work you still need to do and you can’t seem to focus. No worries, I am here to show you a short cut that gets you going using The Power Of Choice, simply by choosing a positive attitude. This one decision that gets to make the difference between success and mediocrity or failure. Allow me to show you how to focus and you will see that article writing can be fun and rewarding, by just implementing a simple shift to your mind set.

If you have got to here, means that you have taken the first step to implementing the correct frame of mind, by wanting a positive writing attitude. You control what mood you want, by deciding on it and then taking the necessary action. It is as simple as that! It is a choice we make. Making this decision opens doors to new exciting, creative possibilities. To help you get there, here are 5 tips to work for you.

1. Think of some reward that you can reward yourself, for when you are finished?

Desire and a strong emotional surge are life’s strongest forces, getting you to take action to start! Once started it is easier to keep the ball rolling. Think up some reward that you will be rewarded with, when you have finished this scoop. What is in it for you that could bring you satisfaction of having finished it. It could be pride, self satisfaction / affirmation, taking one more step to reaching your goal or it could be just allowing yourself the pleasure of some small treat like a cup of milk chocolate or coffee?

2. Decide now that this is a opportunity to shine, have fun and it will be an enjoyable time.

Your writing attitude can never be one of have to!!! Always DECIDE that this is an opportunity now, to be taken, made the most of and enjoyed this very moment. By choosing opportunities and possibilities opens up new horizons and achievements for you. This is where fresh insights, ideas, inspiration are forged, molded and cast, so be open to receive them. Then act on what you get.

3. Determine that this piece is going to be great.

You go where you set your sights, your goals or intentions. Have a clear vision and see success and open doors ahead of you. Writing is your voice, so use it to make your message bold and strong. Always be aware of the choices you make and what attitude you decide on, because this will be reflected in the fragrance your piece that makes it stand apart.

4. The power of your intentions.

Make the whole exercise ahead of you a time to help and share with others. An opportunity to change peoples lives, to empower, motivate, educate, inform and create interest in new exciting concepts, strategies or opportunities. You have much to give, so get down and share those extraordinary pieces of wisdom trapped inside of you. Make a difference in yours and your readers lives by deciding to do just that. By making it a joyful experience, brings with it enthusiasm that inspires and motivates.

5. Visualise yourself having finished this article.

Once you have decided to do this and what it is you want as your reward, then focus, high light these anticipated pleasures and outcomes. Visualise yourself having finished this article and then bask in the delight and emotion of the moment. Start writing while holding onto the emotion of having received your rewards. This will drive you on to completion without any distractions.

By putting a reward system or anticipated treat in place and then looking forward to this pleasure, will surely cure any bad karma you may have had to writing this article. Doing this will bring focus and desire to finish what you start. Another by product to having a positive attitude brings with it an energy that is picked up to be enjoyed by your reader.

**Rod Saunders**

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1. Write on what you are passionate about.
This way your enthusiasm will shine through, and it is this that will in turn infect your reader with your exuberance. Remember it is your vibrancy and speciality that will make your piece stand out from the crowd. When you are busy with your feature, keep in the back of your mind that it is for your readers benefit, it is their approval you want. It is your audience, that will decide and judge if your offering is excellent or not…This is what gives the greatest satisfaction, getting their approval.

2. Be comfortable with your subject.
You must have sufficient knowledge or experience in it. If it is a set piece, approach it from a angle that you can relate to. This will mean that you have a firm grasp of the facts, information, terminology and have enthusiasm to carry through to your presentation. From this you can articulate your delivery in a flowing, interesting and informative way.

3. From the outset cultivate a positive attitude within your self.
As a writer you must decide that you are going to have fun, will enjoy this experience and will reap self satisfaction in successfully completing it. Now imagine your completed article that you are proud of. Plant this emotion of gratitude and satisfaction of a job well done within you. Nurturing this positive attitude goes a long way towards helping you creating your masterpiece.

4. Build from the foundation up.
Lay out, organise your thoughts to build some sort of structure. Jot down how you will build your thought piece. This means planning the sequence, from your introduction, to fleshing out the body for your content, followed by summing it all up with a well constructed conclusion. In other words your intro will explain what you are going to give your reader. In the body tell them what you got using supporting points, (When writing use these to benefit your reader that reflects the energy of your essay), then tie it all up with a conclusion.

5. Keep to the point.
Only write what is necessary, don’t ramble on or take a detour. Everything you put down needs to contribute and add substance to your build. No need for extra pieces sticking out, BUT make it unique. This means putting a little bit of your personality it to your creation. Some humour, whit, controversial idea or mystery could do the trick. This gives it warmth and life that touches and engages your audience.

6. People love stories, secrets, tips, tricks, mysteries,unexplained coincidences.
Share new ideas or answers . A story of some sort shrouded in mystery. To do this, promise to reveal some secret in your intro and only give it towards the end. This creates suspense and intrigue which is much desired.

7. Layout and presentation…
Start with an introduction where you inform your readership what to expect, then give them your message, body or meat followed by a conclusion. This is a summary to tie up your thoughts. Keep it simple. Use clear, crisp, concise sentences in a coherent manner. Your text should flow in an open and easily followed manner. Keep each sentence short and to the point, without making your paragraphs too long.

8. Express and inject some of your personality into your write-up.
Be generous with your information, methods, strategies, secrets, tips, tricks, wisdom and thoughts or ideas. Be bold and take a stand to be the “expert in your field”, if this is your passion then you would want to be that. The more you write so your skills as a writer will improve. No one was ever born a prestigious literary prize winning writer, these skills evolved and are honed through practice.

With these 8 pointers, writing excellent and successful articles will come with practice.

**Rod Saunders**

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**Christina Saunders**

1. Adapting my best blog post into +- 300 word articles.

2. Publishing these articles on ezine directories that have Twitter feed.

3. Actively building a Twitter following.

More on each of these:

1. Publishing articles in a popular Ezine such as www.ezinearticles.com is a great way to exponentially explode your exposure and expertise to people interested in your topic. Why? Because they are searching for information in that category. A targeted prospect interested in your topic… Search engines such as Google have much regard for articles published here. One article of mine has being read by over 750 viewers since December and is still working for me.

2. Publishing these articles on ezine directories that have Twitter feed. Some ezines, (in the author tools section) manages your Twitter details in order to broadcast to your followers your newly published article details. Of course when they read it, in the resource box you lace it with a compelling offer to visit your blogs squeeze page for your news letter.

3. Actively building a Twitter following. On Twitter you can find an enormous amount of interested people in your niche or passion topic. These again are a targeted audience that you want frequenting your blog… so go out and follow them. What normally happens they reciprocate back. A great force to use.

These three elements, blogs, articles and Twitter are what I am concentrating on now that gets me my blog traffic.

**Christina Saunders**

First of All what are your Business Objectives?

• 1. Cutting operating costs to reduce over spending.
• 2. Match products, supplies or services with the appropriate buyer, consumer or prospect.
• 3. The more helpful your business is to seeing to your clients needs, wants, desires, success, satisfaction and well being, the more successful your business will become. Be Helpful….

This means that you need to identify specifically who these people are, their location and financial level in the society together with their needs.

It has become important for companies to further expand and seek new markets . Engaging the Internet as a Marketing tool maybe an important step that you need to take to increase business through finding a new global market. A way to match your supply with demand.

How do you ensure that most of your target consumers will get to know of you and your product?

The Solutions:

• 1. Promotion through a business website.
• 2. Email marketing, a common Internet marketing solution.
• 3. Advertising through internet article marketing, ezines, press releases or ppc ads.

Email marketing is a cost effective way of communicating and interacting to your consumers, driving them to visit your website and check out your products. Your mailing list is built from a lead capture page and an autoresponder service. This is the client, customer getting solution that your business can not live without….

It may be in a way through using marketing articles or leading them to forums or newsletters. A newsletter has an advantage of expanding your consumer numbers as more and more sign up on it, until you can have a bulk list of prospects email addresses.

Another great Internet marketing solution is through websites. This is a good promotion strategy to employ since you can display all the necessary information for your target consumers. The website should capture their interest and be complete since every transaction, from inquiry to payments may take place. All correspondence that will be done online must be well-facilitated through the features of your website. A virtual store front without expensive real estate…

It would be a great opportunity to try one of these which will match your financial capability and expected return profit. The internet is a great advertising resource  used to draw customers to your business in a cost effective way.

To help you set up your own website and autoresponder mailing list system, a membership site I recommend is the one that helped me get this one going. Your first months newbie membership club membership cost I think is $1. Try it out and see how easy it is to follow step by simple step video instruction. If you do not like what you see- cancel your subscription.      

If you are any thing like me there is so much to learn you will get stuck in, to never look back at your business growth. Newbie  List Building Club.

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill

Incorrect action is better than no action. Take heart.

**Christina Saunders**

1. Getting email address of all customers buying from you is imperative. This is to follow up on customer satisfaction and to update any further offers that could be suitable to their needs.

2. Sending interested prospects to a landing page on a web site specifically designed to just collect their names and email address. This is to build what is called an Opt-in mailing list which is compiled with participants that have requested to receive information related to your specific topic, offer or product. There are a number of ways to get prospects to your site. Pay per click advertising (PPC), article writing, blog posts, viral marketing, using social net works and so on. Offering some sort of carrot or incentive will coerce them to exchange their vital details that are so essential to your business success.

3. Using an Auto Responder Service to manage your list on auto pilot. Emails that you wish to send are loaded into a system set by you and all the rest is auto pilot. Frequency of dispatch, time of day and even pdf files can be attached to the emails as a bonus. A double optin feature prevents any spam.

There you have it, Email marketing success formula to grow your business. The larger and more targeted your address list the more business you will bring in, plain and simple.

To help you set up your own website and autoresponder mailing list system, a membership site I recommend is the one that helped me get this one going. Your first months membership cost I think is $1. Try it out and see how easy it is to follow step by simple step video instruction. If you do not like what you see- cancel your subscription.

If you are any thing like me there is so much to learn you will get stuck in, to never look back at your business growth. Newbie List Building Club.

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill

Incorrect action is better than no action. Take heart.

**Christina Saunders**

3 reasons why writing articles is a key to building an online business success.

1. Article writing as a marketing tool is a great free way to get out there and meet the world with your passion topic. All it takes is your time and a squeeze of your creative juices to get the ball rolling. This is because over time articles (including your authors resource box) gets copied and spread to other sites over the internet, goes “viral” so to speak with no extra effort.

2. Articles get published online on sites called ezines. The most popular that I know of is a site called ezinearticles.com. All that’s needed is a free registration. First read the rules and then submit your articles for approval. This takes about a week. Your article will be categorised according to your topic. This means it will be targeted at an audience that is interested and looking for what you offer. This gets the two of you to meet that starts that dance.

3. Articles can be crafted to help promote your name, logo, new product or anything else you wish. A direct sales pitch is out but a review could be in, such as “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” style of approach.

More and more Smart Marketers are using articles as a tool to grow their niche online business. When opportunities come knocking it is time to ignite that passion and start sharing.
**Christina Saunders**

1.The main reason for publishing an article is to promote your blog site or any other idea by skillfully using the resource box at the end of your article. This is where you lead the reader into the resource box and a carrot to prompt a click into something juicy on offer.

2. On these sites, articles are allowed to be copied and published else where in their complete form including your resource box. Your article is now viral and spreads with time.

3. As your article appears on other sites valuable back links are now created which increase your search engine rankings making your site further exposed to your audience. Puts your site on the map so to speak!!!

All in all published articles sourced from your blog posts are good for exposure. The more you publish, the more traffic will arrive.
Good Luck…
**Christina Saunders**

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Master these 3 psychological tips that “Smart” writers use in their headlines to entice, compel and ignite readers to prompt that click. All of us need something…. and the million dollar question is- What? Your job as a writer is understanding that need and then craft your head line accordingly.

1. Identify with your audience, be up front with their need, fear, problem, desire, interest and then suggest a promise, solution or a offer that meets those needs. This suggests you understand and have aligned your article accordingly. A good example I saw once was, ” Are You developing a Pot Belly? This simple exercise that only takes 10 minutes a day….

2. Be Specific.- “3 Psychological elements….” “Copy this Easy 7 Step plan that earned $309.52 in 5 days…” This makes your article believable, that has substance worth reading. By using the words “copy” and “easy” gives confidence to the reader that they too could benefit. This forms interest and is compelling.

3. Seduce Your Audience with a promise that is just irresistible. We all want to be special, unique and above all want to benefit or get something for free. Remember always keep your promise, give value and go the extra mile…. This forms trust and a reader for life.

I suggest doing a search on your article topic and analyze successful headlines to see what captivates, prompts attention and action from you. This will give you a feel on how these psychological elements work so you to can incorporate them successfully.

Creating killer headlines is half the job, delivering quality relevant content is your next challenge in getting repeat traffic and further interest in your material. To help you I have a free PDF word book called ” The 101 most powerful words to use in creating killer blog and article content”.
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**Christina Saunders**