Ways To Promote Your Business When Your Passion is Writing

by Maria Marsala

Summary: If you're a writer, promote your articles and business using some of the suggestions below.

There are at least a "zillion" ways you can market yourself and your business. Marketing intelligently means finding what you're passionate about and then using your passion to market. If you are passionate about writing, below are some ways to promote your business.

• Publish an ezine using your original content. You have 9 choices on which programs to use to develop your newsletter. www.TheResourceQueen.com/ebooks/
• Each quarter, take the best of your articles and place them in your in-print newsletter to use as part of your marketing materials. Send a copy to your friends, colleagues, family and potential clients.
• Place articles on your web site. Include a line on each page that allows your article to be used by others, with permission. Then include a link to your email address.
• Submit articles to Article Banks on the Web. Find links to article banks at www.ArticleBanks.com This way your articles have the chance of getting picked up by other ezines, helping you to reach a broader audience.
• Create an ezine especially for other ezine authors who look for original articles by other writers.
• Promote your article through the signature line of your email. Make it easy for people to request your article by placing it in an auto-responder.
• Send articles to your local newspaper (make sure you include your own copyright information and bio*
• Mail, through the Post Office, new articles to your former clients, current clients and potential clients. Include a hand written note and your business card.
• Pass your new articles out at networking meetings. People seem to take this type of newsletter more quickly than a brochure (just my personal observation).
• Subscribe to some elists that are set up for authors to publicize their work. Make sure that you change your subscription to digest mode! I subscribe to a few on yahoogroups.com and topica.com Conduct a search using the words promote articles, advertise articles, or submit articles. There are new lists popping up all the time.

* Sometimes ezine and magazines have a word limit on bio's. Best to ask what the limit is prior to submitting.

Do you have a suggestion to add to this list? If so, send it to Maria Marsala and I'll publish it along with your name, title and URL in one of my newsletters.

© 2010 Elevating Your Business. An irrepressible entrepreneur, Maria Marsala sold AVON at age 14 and landed on Wall Street three years later. She became a bond trader at a time when female executives were as rare as pink diamonds. In 1998, brimming with 25+ years of business expertise, Maria created Elevating Your Business. She coaches established women B2B owners to double their bottom line using strategic business planning and execution systems, delivered one-on-one or to large audiences. Earn more, work less and live a sparkling quality of life! It starts at www.CoachMaria.com

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© 2010 Elevating Your Business. An irrepressible entrepreneur, Maria Marsala sold AVON at age 14 and landed on Wall Street three years later. She became a bond trader at a time when female executives were as rare as pink diamonds. In 1998, brimming with 25+ years of business expertise, Maria created Elevating Your Business. She coaches established women B2B owners double to their bottom line using strategic business planning and execution systems, delivered one-on-one or to large audiences. Earn more, work less and live a sparkling quality of life! It starts at www.CoachMaria.com

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