Article Marketing for New Writers and "English as a Second Language" (ESL) Speakers

It really depends on the individual, as to whether good English is required for someone to make it as an article marketer. If the individual employs a good human editor to touch up the articles before releasing them to the public, then English as a Second Language should not be a concern.

If someone has Microsoft Word and uses the American or British Spell Check tool, the tool will show misspellings and grammatical errors. That could help the individual writer learn to improve their writing, so long as the individual is committed to improving their knowledge and writing style.

If someone is committed to becoming a better writer and they employ the proper tools (human editor or software spell check), then I believe with practice, anyone could potentially be able to learn what is needed to become successful as an article marketer.

The same applies to newbies and those with basic writing skills.

90% of article marketing is story telling, and the other 10% is good spelling and grammar.

Before the Internet went mainstream, writers who could tell a good story hired people to edit their stories for them, so poor spelling and grammar was never really a hindrance to the person who was committed to success as a writer.

Since the Internet went mainstream, Microsoft has done a good job creating their Microsoft Word product, with an effective Spell Check and Grammar check. The software does a really good job at identifying problems and offering suggested changes.

Even with Microsoft Word in your tool chest, I would encourage anyone who speaks English as a Second Language, a newbie, or someone with only basic writing skills to hire a human editor to review their work, before publishing that work.

The human editor will see those things that Microsoft Word was unable to identify for you.

As I said previously, 90% of article marketing is story telling, and the other 10% is good spelling and grammar.

Some publishers are willing to overlook a few spelling and grammar mistakes, but most will reject any article that has a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes.

For the record, I have gotten articles published in authority newsletters and websites that had a couple of spelling mistakes. I and my human editor had missed the misspelling, and publishers published the article based on the strength of the story in the article.

So, I know from first-hand experience that spelling mistakes will not prevent some articles from being published, but the whole process of article marketing is eliminating those things in your writing that might prevent you from seeing the success you want to see as a result of what you have written.

In other words, everything we do while writing articles should be designed to increase the likelihood of achieving the successful outcome we want.

I hope this helps.

Bill Platt