Do I have hundreds of articles to submit to EZA? I never thought of it this way. Hmmmm

[George Wright]

Hi all,

I've always wanted to give article marketing a shot. However, I hate writing articles for the sake of writing articles. I don't know if this makes sense to you but to me it does.

I had another 3am epiphany this morning, (too much pizza?)

Anyway, I got to thinking of the 10s of thousands of words I've written in my eBooks, and the thousands of words I've written in my blog posts (for my own blogs) and it hit me.

If I slightly reformatted those eBooks and posts I'd have hundreds of 250 word articles.

I'd have enough "articles" to keep me busy posting to EZA for the next 4 months or so.

What do you think of this. Is it a good or bad idea?

George Wright

[Heuristic]

It sounds like a great idea unless any of your ebook content found its way to a live site (stolen). You might have a tough time proving ownership with Ezine and they tend to suspend and ask questions later. Maybe copyscape it first?

Steve

[Jill Carpenter]

You need to keep eating more pizza

Yes, repurpose the content and get yourself some traffic and links.

[George Wright]

That's the word I was looking for. Repurpose.

Originally Posted by avenuegirl

You need to keep eating more pizza

Yes, repurpose the content and get yourself some traffic and links.

[Alexa Smith]

It sounds like a great idea to me, George.

However, I think you may find, if you want to produce really readable articles that keep the reader's attention through the whole attention and into the resource-box and clicking on your link, that it's honestly going to take a little bit more planning and thought than just "re-formatting". Just saying. But certainly a good thing to try. I'd suggest trying, initially, with some real effort and care, so that if by any chance it doesn't work out as you hope, at least you'll know it's not because you've just divided it up into random chunks that weren't too readable. Just a suggestion!

[Jhf14]

that's a pretty good idea... you could categorize your blog posts and ebooks around a certain niche so you can get traffic from those sources. However, are you trying to sell these ebooks that you are making into free articles? If not, you should def do it, but if you are just rephrasing something that you are trying to sell, then Im not sure I would do it so as to keep the value of my hard work (be it blogs or ebooks)

[Steven Wagenheim]

George, as far as ebooks go, you're going to find that you'll have a difficult
time getting quality articles out of segments unless...

1. Your ebooks are written a certain way.
2. Your segments are short enough.

Think about the typical "how to" section of an ebook. It can go on for pages.
An EZA article of over 500 words is going to be a tough sell to keep the
reader's attention.

I'm not saying not to do it, but it's not going to be quite as easy as you
think.

How do I know?

I have over 20 of my own ebooks to choose from and I eventually gave
up on the idea.

But I do hope it works out for you. Just didn't in my case.

[lakshaybehl]

What about the people who have purchased your ebook AND are regular readers of your blog?

Will they be *pissed*?

Think about them before making any decision at all.

[irenef25]

Some of the people thinks that article submission is just not a worth, but let me clear it. I too submit articles to ezine and my articles are getting me good traffic. Even if you don't get traffic directly from ezine, don't worry. Because many of my articles are picked up by many good traffic sites to share with their site visitors and via those sites i am getting traffic. So, submitting to article directories are still worth.

[George Wright]

Thanks,

Actually I'm talking about eBooks I've already sold.

George Wright

Lakshay said:
What about the people who have purchased your ebook AND are regular readers of your blog?

Will they be *pissed*?

Think about them before making any decision at all.

Originally Posted by Jhf14

that's a pretty good idea... you could categorize your blog posts and ebooks around a certain niche so you can get traffic from those sources. However, are you trying to sell these ebooks that you are making into free articles? If not, you should def do it, but if you are just rephrasing something that you are trying to sell, then Im not sure I would do it so as to keep the value of my hard work (be it blogs or ebooks)

[Andyhenry]

Good thinking George,

When you're done - remember to read them out, turn them into powerpoints and record them with Camtasia - then you can spend another 4 months submitting them as audio, slides and videos

[Vijay M]

Originally Posted by lakshaybehl

What about the people who have purchased your ebook AND are regular readers of your blog?

Will they be *pissed*?

Think about them before making any decision at all.

I don't think most of the readers would care.

Case in point: Small is the New Big By Seth Godin. the book is a collection of his blog posts and he clearly mentions it. Though I read his free blog, I still bought his book from amazon.

This way, I have his best posts available without having to dig through his posts.

the whole PLR industry is existing because of the content being "re-purposed" into different delivery formats.

[lakshaybehl]

Originally Posted by Vijay M

I don't think most of the readers would care.

Case in point: Small is the New Big By Seth Godin. the book is a collection of his blog posts and he clearly mentions it. Though I read his free blog, I still bought his book from amazon.

This way, I have his best posts available without having to dig through his posts.

the whole PLR industry is existing because of the content being "re-purposed" into different delivery formats.

True Vijay,

Very true.

However- Seth Godin's book on Amazon might have cost $20? And there would be.. like 30 different blog posts... long and tightly productized? Am I right?

And most importantly- You KNEW beforehand that the book was a compilation of his blog posts, George's customers did not. This factor alone changes the entire deal.

If I were to buy a $97 book and after some time I found the seller was openly giving away his *secrets* on his blog without even rewriting the content, let's just say I'd not be too happy about it.

And that would decrease the probability of me purchasing from the seller again. At least to some extent.

Unless, of course it was specifically told to me at the point of sale that this would happen *OR* sufficient amount of time has passed after the sale that now I do no longer care about keeping that knowledge secret (I paid for the secret info, remember?)- oir maybe that knowledge is now commonplace thanks to the latest launch tactics.

-Lakshay

P.S. I am not saying repurposing your content is a bad idea either. All i am saying is that keep in mind you have customers whom you need to cater and who drive your bread and butter. That's all I am saying.

[lakshaybehl]

Originally Posted by George Wright

Thanks,

Actually I'm talking about eBooks I've already sold.

George Wright

You mean sold *long (enough) ago*, is it?

[Nickolie0990]

There are countless numbers of ways to create content for your articles, here are just a few that are on the top of my head:

1. Visit your local book store, get a library card (whichever is best for you) and get article ideas from the books, magazines and newspapers. Use that content, re-write it and the you have a ton of articles.

2. Take your unique articles and spin them, change every single word in the article if you have to. Make it 95%+ different from the original article.

3. But the easiest way to come up with a lot of article, is outsourcing it. All I do is come up with the topics I want the articles written on and give it to my article writing team. *Side note, don't let the article directory know you have a article writing team, some of them do not like that and will banned you, It sucks

Which every way you choose to create articles, you should always proof read them before you submit them and if you are outsourcing or spinning them, use this service to make sure they are 100% unique. The link is here:Plagiarism Checker

[Intrepreneur]

Call me cynical but I would prefer to fire a lot of backlinks at my already existing content.

[George Wright]

Originally Posted by lakshaybehl

You mean sold *long (enough) ago*, is it?

Definitely,

We are talking about my own blog posts which were never "sold" and eBooks Tammy and I wrote. Months/years ago (mostly a couple of years) and We're talking $12 eBooks. Not $97. Well they were $97 eBooks I sold for $12.

George Wright

[irenef25]

@George Wright
oh sorry, actually i was little bit confused about the topic.