As you probably already know, writing articles to market your product or service is a great way to build your online business. Your articles should be very informative and provide the reader with information relevant to the specific niche that you are addressing. The article usually includes a link to a webpage for additional information or resources. The webpage is, of course, designed to sell a product or service that relates to the topic of the article.

The most common way in which articles are distributed is through article directorties, websites, and ezine publishers. This is held to be among the most effective ways to market a service or product on the Internet. The effectiveness of conventional article marketing can be enhanced by the use of an autoresponder – a service that will automatically send emails to subscribers without you haveing to do any addional work after the initial autoresponder setup.

You begin by setting each article up in your autoresponder. You must ensure that each article has its own autoresponder address, so you’ll need an autoresponder service that will allow you to do this (Aweber or Email Aces both allow this to happen. Next, make a master list of all your articles, with the autoresponder address for each article listed beside the title. You could even add descriptions of the articles to your master list if you want – that will help when you come back to look at the list in future.

Advertising your articles one by one can take a great deal of time but advertising one autoresponder address – the one for the master list – won’t take very much time at all. All you need to do is to add your master list to your newsletter and/or on your websites You can even allow other ezine publishers to use the list and the articles as an additional free resource for their subscribers!

Obviously this is just a start on the large topic of using autoresponders for article marketing but we will come back to it later.

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I came across a cool WordPress plugin from Bill Platt over at The Phantom Writers, one of the premier content distribution services used by article marketers.
What this tool does is enable you to take content from TPW and at the same time they will build backlinks to the posts from The Phantom Writers

I wrote in much more detail about this tool here: Backlink Magnet.

I see this a a neat complement to tools such as Article Marketing Automation from Marc and Dan at PLRPro not a replacement for it, after all, we can all use more decent content and backlinks, right?

Check it out!