I know this doesnt read like your normal article on article marketing. But not much of what I do fits into normal anyway.
You see, I think that most people do article marketing to augment their traffic. They have traffic from the search engines, maybe they are paying for PPC, maybe they are doing JVs. But they are doing article marketing as part of their big picture.
But for me, article marketing is not just another form of traffic. It is the main entry point for my big picture. It is almost like article marketing is my big picture. It is not it is the fuel for my big picture.
Let me explain with just about every other kind of traffic out there, you send the traffic to squeeze page, and you get maybe 20% conversion 30% if you are lucky. Or you send that traffic to a sales page and you get between .5% and 1% conversion on cold contacts. Cold contacts are just about all traffic, including SE traffic, except for referred or good JV traffic.
But with article marketing, you dont send them to a sales page. You dont send them to a squeeze page hoping they will opt in. You send them to the right squeeze page, knowing that 65% of them will opt in to your what? Sure, you might call it your email list but it is not really. It is really the carburetor that processes the fuel but the email list is not the car (as many of the list gurus might lead you to believe).
The car itself, the luxury vehicle is the relationship you build with your leads, with your list. The relationship is what you are building. And you start that with your articles they read your articles and bond with your style. And that is really cool.
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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 900 articles in print and 9 published ebooks.