You know that article writing and article marketing is the #1 way to increase your website visibility, gain credibility, improve your website traffic and get more sales. So, what’s stopping you from writing articles that make you the expert in your industry?

Is it because it takes too much of your time and energy to write the articles?

Well, today, I’m going to show you how to write articles fast. In fact, you can write your articles in less than 30 minutes once you have completed your research!

How I Created My New Instant Article Writing Template

Recently, I’ve created an article for my WebsiteReviewsLive.com partner Adam Hommey entitled:

“7 Secrets Most Web Designers Don’t Want You to Know”

In this article we revealed secrets like:

1. Most web designers have NEVER sold anything online except their overpriced services. You want a web design firm that understands Internet marketing principles and knows what it takes to convert website visitors into paying customers.

2. How it’s usually the smallest tweaks that make the BIGGEST impact on your sales. Most web designers push you into a complete and total website makeover. But if you make the same mistakes on the new website – you will NOT convert any better. It’s like putting your left hand on the stove and burning yourself and then putting your right hand on the stove thinking because you changed hands, your hand won’t burn.

3. An off-the-shelf solution may fit your business better than expensive piece of software that may actually hinder your business.

After writing this article – I said “Wow! I can use this article example to create a great template for my followers to use.”

So Here’s How to Use My Newest Instant Article Writing Template:

“What Most ___________ Don’t Want You to Know”

Step1: Research Your Competitors.

Before you even think about writing a single word, you must do your research. You must know your competitors inside out. And, you must know your unique selling proposition. This template pre-sells your products or services.

Step 2: Create Your Intro.

Explain to your audience why you are writing this article and why you’re revealing insider secrets that most people in your industry would never think of revealing. If you can, tell a story. People love stories.

Step 3: Start Writing the Meat of the Article

Reveal secret #1. Explain the trap that most people in your industry want prospects to fall in so they can make more money. Then explain, what prospects should look for instead.

Step 4. Keep writing.

Now, that you completed the introduction and secret #1, it gets easier. Nowm repeat the process for secrets 2 to 7.

Step 5. Make the close

It’s time to end the article with a powerful close that gives people two choices. Tell them that you can continue to fall in these traps and then paint the picture of pain. Then, tell readers that there is a better way if they follow your advice. Then paint a picture of how things can be better.

This is just one of many instant article writing templates that can help you write your articles in 30 minutes or less. If you want more article writing templates, you can get my complete Instant Article Writing Template Kit at http://www.StartWritingArticlesFaster.com

Article Marketing Expert Eric Gruber uses the power of articles to create online opportunities for entrepreneurs who want more publicity, prospects and profits. Now, you can get his instant article writing templates that will help you write your articles in 30 minutes or less. For a limited time, you can get 3 of his favorite article writing templates for free at: http://www.TryMyFreeArticleTemplates.com

When you hear the term “internet marketing“, what do you think of?

For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs. All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet marketing is much simpler.

At its core, internet marketing is about these things:

* Understanding the target market to which the product/service/cause you’re marketing will appeal
* Determining exactly how your target market interacts with the internet
* Positioning your content on the internet to attract the attention of your target market
* Collecting information about your target market (also known as “leads”) for follow-up and conversion into sales
* Design of offers or incentives to induce the desired actions from your leads

Since there is insufficient space in this article to give all of these topics adequate attention, let’s focus on just one specific topic with the realm of internet marketing: Email Marketing.

My best payoff has always come by focusing on permission-based email marketing. Permission-based email marketing refers to the practice of collecting information (including email addresses) from website visitors and communicating with them via e-mail with their direct consent. The “permission” aspect of permission-based email marketing is what separates legitimate email marketers from the spammers that everyone despises.

My love of email marketing is strong for one reason: It works very well. Email marketing has been much like a never-ending goldmine: It enables us to produce income on demand simply by sending a good offer to our list. When you have thousands of loyal subscribers – as we do – and you put a strong and compatible offer in front of them, income becomes nearly automatic.

However, the key to successful email marketing is the development of a legitimate trust relationship with your subscribers. If you opt to send your subscribers a request for purchases every single day, they will likely tire of your badgering and cease reading your emails altogether.

Alternatively, if you take the time to provide good content to your readers on a regular and frequent basis, you’ll discover that your readers take all of your emails far more seriously, and as a result your emails will be opened, read and acted upon with greater frequency. Essentially, email marketing is really an exercise in trust.

While there are many more aspects to internet marketing than just permission-based email marketing, email has definitely been the cornerstone on which our business is built.

I will not presume that all of you who reads this  knows really what CPA marketing means so I’ll start with a quick explanation that highlights precisely what CPA marketing is, and how it can make you money.

CPA (cost per action) is also known as PPA (pay per action) and is an online marketing opportunity that pays you based on a particular structure or model. As an example, if you took part in CPA offers, you would receive a commission each time a website visitor finished a specific action, such as registering on a domain, completing a form, signing up for an offer, or perhaps just visiting a particular domain.

The requirements frequently range from a single email registration to lengthier form processing including surveys, application forms as well as downloading screen savers, demos, scripts and software.

While CPA offers change and the actions related to being commissioned for an ‘action’, there is a surplus of high paying CPA offers and programs which you can get involved in.

It is, in reality, one of the easiest ways to make money on the internet with tiny effort in comparison to many of the traditional marketing campaigns and opportunities.

A lot of CPA Companies pay commissions anywhere from $.25 right up to $4.00 for a single email opt-in form, with other CPA opportunities paying commissions as much as $150.00 for a lengthier process or a more in depth duty where your prospect must verify their email address, take part in a free trial offer and at times, your commission may only be paid weeks later once your visitor has completed the actions.

As an example, an advertising company offers the CPA network that you’re a part of $10 for each lead generated as a consequence of their members actions. In turn, the CPA company pays you 70% of that, earning $3 for bringing you together with the advertisers.

In order to start earning money with CPA opportunities, you have to join a handful of CPA based programs. There are networks available online that house a giant number of different CPA opportunities, which makes it possible to join one web site and having the opportunity to join in more then one offers from several different companies.

CPA programs work as the middleman, connecting publishers and advertisers together, and typically coordinates the variation of offers from participating publishers and companies with affiliate marketers, in return for a little or proportion of the offer itself.

Once you’ve been accepted into a CPA program, you’ll receive an unique affiliate link, just as you would if you have been joining an affiliate network.

This affiliate link identifies you as as an affiliate marketer for the chosen offer and tracks all your activity, primarily your sales and in turn, serves you with conversion rates and other information that can help you figure out how successful your traffic generations are doing.

All of this tracking is done by the CPA network itself, where your account details is stored. One of the best things about working with a CPA program is that you are able to promote multiple CPA offers, covering a wide range of niche markets and get one commissioncheck for your total earnings combined.

Furthermore, nearly all CPA networks will assign an assistant to assist you in getting started as well as address any concerns you may have during your 1st training period.

All of these CPA programs offers different opportunities, the most preferred programs offering as much as 1,500 different offers in their database at any given time.

Furthermore, most CPA programs supply you with all of the promotional media you need, including email campaign, banners, graphic ads, ad copy and text ads.

To learn more about CPA marketing visit this Secret Cash Blueprint Review and discover how you can start making money online by promoting CPA offers.

Why should you bother?

The life blood of any business is good customer service. New customers are important but good customer service will help generate customer loyalty and repeat business. With each satisfied customer your business will secure many more customers through word of mouth and you should always keep in mind that if you are not taking proper care of your customers there is always a competitor that will.

Online customer satisfaction surveys will demonstrate to your customers that you care and are proactive in looking for ways to improve the service that you provide.

Where do you start?

Objective – Before you start compiling your survey you should first consider what the objectives of the survey are, in that way you will remain focused and find it easier to decide what questions to ask.

Analysis – In addition to the objectives consider how you will analyse the answers having completed the survey.

Keep in mind that ‘closed’ questions (where the respondent is asked to choose from a limited number of responses) are easier to analyse than ‘open’ questions (where the respondent can reply in anyway they want).

Much will depend on the predicted volume of respondents, the higher the volume the more important it is to have an easy method of analyzing the results.

Opportunity – Keep in mind that as well as obtaining valuable market research data customer surveys are also a good way to advertise aspects of your service that your customers may not be aware of.

Once you have drafted your survey read through the survey with a market research hat on and confirm that you are asking the right questions in the right way and that with the feedback information you will be able to make informed decisions.

Next, read through the survey from a marketing view point, check that you have phrased each question so that every opportunity has been taken to promote your business?

The ideal question will perform the following three functions:-

• Market research – provide valuable feedback to help you improve your customer satisfaction levels and in turn your business
• Marketing – promote aspects of your business
• Information/Education – advertise a service that you provide that your customers may not have been unaware of

For example:- Do you find the in-store baby changing facilities useful?

By asking this question not only will the store receive good feedback on the facility they provide but they will also advertise their baby changing facilities and promote themselves as a family friendly store beyond those customers who have a specific need for the facility provided.

Warts and all – to benefit most from a customer survey you need to avoid the temptation, in any way, of attempting to sugar coat the survey.

A well designed customer satisfaction survey will enable you to identify problems so that they can be addressed; regular customer satisfaction will prevent complacency and give you early warning on where you might be losing out to your competitors initiatives.

What to ask?

Although each business is likely to have specific and unique factors that are important in providing good customer services there are common areas that are relevant to all businesses be they a physical store, online internet store or a service industry. The following are some key areas to providing good customer service.

Communication – Are you confident that you make it easy for your customers to communicate with you?

When a customer telephones is their call answered promptly; are enquiries about products or services handled properly? Good businesses will make every effort to ensure that whatever the customers query it is resolved by the right person, politely, quickly and fairly.

If a problem cannot be resolvable immediately do you promise to respond in a given time period and do you deliver on your promise?

Use a customer satisfaction survey to check that your customers find your staff to be helpful, courteous and knowledgeable.

Location – Do your customers find it easy to visit you, if a physical bricks and mortar store, is it conveniently located with good access?

Making it pleasant, making it easy – For an internet business it is important to ensure that your website is easy to use and aesthetically pleasing.

Regardless of the store being a bricks and mortar or purely online web based store, is the store properly laid out and can your customers find what they need and is there sufficient detailed information and help on hand to explain how a particular product works?

The right quality products – In addition to measuring the quality of the service that you provide you should ensure make sure that the products and services that you provide do fully match your customers’ requirements.

Value for money – Cheap or expensive is rarely a good measure, value for money is.

Do your current customers consider your services as value for money, if not, why not?

Speed and attention – No matter what the business, the majority of customers will want to be dealt with quickly but attentively.

Are you doing everything to prevent any delays?

A good business will try to treat each customer as an individual, does yours? Attention is one thing but only if it leads to a quick and satisfactory resolution to the query.

Demographics and Specific issues – Take the opportunity to profile your customers, for example what is their age group and where do they live?

The better you understand your customers the more you will be able to properly target your business.

Within the survey encourage customers to highlight their problems and provide contact details.

What next?

Analyze the results once the survey has been completed.

Trends – Identify common and specific areas where the service is failing your customers.

Ask yourself if any criticism is valid and is there anything that can be done to resolve or minimise the problem?

Training – Are the staff properly trained and do they have sufficient knowledge?

Where employee training programmes have been implemented have they made a positive contribution to the business and improved the customer service?

Follow-up – If a customer who has completed a survey has raised a specific issue ensure that they are contacted and their complaint addressed.

Don’t waste an opportunity to resolve a problem and keep a customer.

Continuously Monitor – Based on the survey results make changes and then re-measure by issuing further surveys.

If you are interested in tracking customer satisfaction and would like to see a sample survey for a store that demonstrates some of the above advice please view the following example that can be used as a customer satisfaction survey template.

Many people have taken the big career step and joined an affiliate marketing business. This business can be a great career. Success in any business will not happen over night. It still takes time and effort to get your affiliate marketing scheme up and running. However, if you are persistent, determined and willing to give it your all, affiliate marketing can be the perfect career opportunity for you.

Follow their advice. They have been through what you are and know what they are talking about. Concentrate on a niche market. You don’t need to try to sell everything. Keep focused on one thing at a time. Start your business as soon as possible. Once you have some strategies worked out you can always expand.

When you have built up a store house of affiliates, you need to know how to promote. Online activity is usually best. You may try ppc if you like. Make sure you are certain. Many affiliates have gone for is option only to find that their profits have been eaten up.

Be sure to know who your market is. You will develop trust. People will start trusting you. People will grow to trust you. Your revenue and business can be stronger.

Don’t be afraid to try new things. Be sure to sign up with more than one merchant. Beware of any merchant that wants you to sign up with them exclusively. Join several programs to increase your market reach. You are also protecting your self if one merchant goes under or does not pay.

Watch current market trends. Be willing to make changes. The network marketing business is continually changing. Be willing to change. Track changes and be ready to make them.

Keep going. There are failures in any endeavor. Its not due to poor products. Don’t give up too quickly. A growth business takes time to build. Just keep at it. Try to promote your business everyday. If you keep it up you will eventually start to see results.

Affiliate marketing is great. You use your skills to your own benefit. It is a business requiring a good deal of effort. You need to build it up like any other business. Follow good advice and it will work out. Affiliate marketing is a great career opportunity. Success can be achieved with hard work.

One way to start making money online would be to become an affiliate of a program like simple sites big profits. You can earn commissions promoting the sale of such electronic products fast and easily through clickbank in this case. You can read more about it at simple sites big profits.

Like many people, I was not quick to join LinkedIn. As a matter of fact one of my friends invited me and it took me 2 months to accept his invitation and join. What I thought was “not another time wasting black whole of a social network”. When I finally joined the network I added people from my outlook and found that several of them where already on the network, a total of 30. I thought, “Cool, I know some people here” so I added them to my network on LinkedIn. After that I joined 4 different groups that where of interest to me including one on venture capital, one on marketing, another for book authors and the last one on keynote speaking.

Now I was on LinkedIn and had my 30 connections, my 4 groups and I thought I was done. Then I asked myself: “What next?” I already know the 30 people I added to the network I don’t need them to contact them. So what’s the value of this? What’s the difference between this and Facebook, or MySpace, or Hi5? What’s the buzz on LinkedIn?  Can you use Linkedin for marketing?

For months I did nothing, thinking this was a place to socialize with people you already know. One day I was looking on Google the keywords “Venture Capital” as I was advising one of my customers get some funding. I then visited LinkedIn and logged in. Then I did a search on Venture Capital once more. Wow, 50,000 + came up. Quickly I noticed that these where not just company names, I was getting the name and many times email and phone number of actual people, with photo, title, interests, hobbies, all what you would wish for.

The downside of my Venture Capital search is that none of them where connected to me directly so I could not contact them as in LinkedIn it is considered Spam. It is now clear that LinkedIn is the best social network for sales. Imagine if of these 50,000 I could have a few hundred connected to me directly. One of the things we can do is call people and ask them for their advice. I could email them and see if they are interested in my project or ask them to point me in the right direction. Now the task was connecting to them and network.

I found a handful of third level connections in my search. This means that I know someone that knows someone that knew lot’s of people in Venture Capital. This one contact was my friend Tony. My friend is an engineer and one of his clients is a Venture Capitalist. That one person connected me with 300 people at a third level. If I really wanted to speak with one of those 300 people I could ask Gustavo for an introduction through his customer; but that was not my idea, I did not want just one connection, I wanted hundreds, or thousands.

I played more with the software and did more targeted searches by clicking on “Advanced Search”. I searched by zip code to see the closest contacts to me and therefore the ones I could contact in person. Some other words I searched included “energy drinks” and “bottled water”. For every search I got great contacts. I thought this could turn out to be my very own private rolodex.

Jorge Olson is an author, speaker and entrepreneur.  You can find his latest book on self promotion and marketing “The Unselfish Guide to Self Promotion” on Amazon.com  You can read more about how to use social media and social networking from his books and blogs.