Hello my name is Simon J Richardson and I am addicted to Article Marketing.
I don’t have an addictive personality, normally. I do not smoke, do not drink except for socially and I do not over eat. This all changed when I started writing articles as a way to implement a cost effective online marketing strategy for my business, known to us all as article marketing.
-==It is Possible To Be Addicted To Writing and Reviewing==-
Let me ask you how much is too much?
There is a well known saying Everything in Moderation, but how do you know when you have crossed the line from normal behavior to obsessive, all encompassing, thought ownership for your endeavor?
I contend that article marketing reviews are essential to keep the niche moving forward. If we all just sit back, write our own articles but choose not to comment, review or engage with the other authors, then can we expect that we will receive anything back from our efforts or that authors will be forced, by popular decree, to write something better, fresher or more useful for us all.
When was the last time you actually read an article by another author and left a comment, never?
-==Article Marketing Is Not Just A Self Serving Strategy==-
Why would anyone want to waste hours of their lives regurgitating content that others have already covered millions of times over with the same thought process and goals in mind(generate free traffic and organic search results), and why would any but a self obsessed mind believe that this would make them successful where others had failed attempting the same methodology?
There are so many internet marketers and so many businesses all competing for consumers attention that it is easy to put on your blinkers and block out all but your own world. And whilst you are 100% dedicated to your businesses and completely focused, as you must be, on the goals you have carefully set for yourself, I suggest we take a moment and look to history and leaders in your niche or industry for a reality check.
As far back as 1937 Napoleon Hill wrote in his famous novel, Think And Grow Rich, that you should give 10% of what you earn to yourself 1st, then 10% to others. Look to current world and business leaders such as Bill gates who, through charity, donate 1.5billion! per year and that is only equal to approxiamtely 5% of the foundations net worth.
Yes, I know these are extraordinary people with extraordinary income but isn’t that what you want?
-==How can you expect to have what they have if you don’t act like they do?==-
And I am not even suggesting you donate money, all I am contending is that we all spend a few moments really contributing to the industry that we want to deliver us all so much.
Do Article Marketers Need To Be Obsessive?
Article Marketing provides us a perfect opportunity to contribute to our community and promote our business with this online marketing strategy, by way of our own articles and by letting our fellow authors, competitors – our industry friends – know what we think of their work too.
Yes, article marketing is an obsessive online marketing and search engine marketing endeavor because there is simply so much it can do for your business when done correctly and there are so many technical aspects you must master, beyond the ability write obsessively. If you are not entirely focused, no strike that, obsessed with every detail you can a) be sure someone else will be and b) your competitors will see what you are doing and copy it.
Are we now obsessed and paranoid?
-==So What, What do You Care, Im Not Hurting Anyone And I Want To Write==-
I hear you, really I do. You see, I am so obsessed with writing articles and reading and reviewing others that I think about little else. Each day is spent devising new ideas for articles and reviewing how and what others have written, comparing their ideas to others I have read and thinking about it some more. When trying to concentrate on my other online projects I have find myself sucked back into => Just having a quick research session <= and hours later realizing it is 3am and I have to make breakfast for the 3 kids in 3 hours!
In reality my obsessions is hurting my business, beyond what it is doing to the rest of my life and family. Your online marketing strategies are about:
1. building your brand, around your name
2. building a revenue stream based on the strength of those 2 key items.
What better way to grow your niche authority than to actually contribute to others, to really engage with them and in the future, after your relationship has developed, maybe even build businesses, together?
If you are so blinkered and obsessed with just your own business do you think it is possible you might be missing something that someone else has started doing? If you had only spent the time to read and engage with other authors perhaps you would have known about it earlier and tweaked your marketing strategy earlier.
I have chosen to overcome this obsession, it is not an addiction..really its not..and no I am not in denial. I have a plan in place that you too can follow if you are obsessed with article marketing, right after I finish this article that I have now written in the airport, on the plane and in the car on the way back home.
I dare you to leave me a comment and start the process of breaking the self serving cycle of only writing articles for your business and benefit, for my sanity and yours.
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