Hello again good people, and thanks for coming to read yet another stellar article brought to you by AskClintAnderson.com. Today we are going to talk about writing persuasive articles for blogs… I already can hear the questions coming in about it.  Persuasive in the respect of keeping your readers interest long enough for them to take your action at the end of the article.

This is a test in article writing in itself because I have to try and talk about this and keep it interesting enough for you to actually continue reading. lol So, there are a couple things that you are going to want to do when writing your articles for syndication on your blog.

First rule of blog writing is to come up with a Title that just screams click me cuz I want to be read by you! So writing persuasive articles for blogs is lame title I know, so lets work on that a little… I was taught once how to do this, but I still have to practice it from time to time. You create a subject and some kind of shocking action statement with an odd number in there and voila you have a headline. I added the text in parentheses in order to spice up the title a little. It kind of grabs your attention. Just 3, well I have to read them.. quick and easy right..

Second thing to consider when writing persuasive articles for blogs is the body, meat portion of the article.  You want to keep the reading lite and fun.. Maybe put in a couple of your instant messenger acronyms or something.. lol right? You always want to keep the reader engaged enough to always want more, and of course you are always sprinkling bits of quality content just to keep them reading on and wanting more.  The best situation when writing persuasive articles for blogs is when you get to the end of your article and you leave the reader hanging so much, that they have to opt in for the list to get the conclusion to your suspend filled article, but you have to deliver!  Don’t deliver in that situation and you have lost your reader forever.

Third and final tip (I know you were keeping track) is always include your call to action at the end of your article. Even if it is to tell them to leave a comment, or go opt in to your newsletter, or just retweet a message. All easy things for a reader to accomplish, but if you don’t ask they won’t do it for you, unless they have been trained on how to get link juice like Justin Brooke from Sitefling.com has taught me.  I would compare it to when you are trying to make a sale. I was at Hooters one night and the waitress wanted my cousin and I to buy some special calendar right? Well, she had this great schpeal going on, told us how the ladies get picked for the calendar etc.  Showed us the back where all the sample pictures are, and the benefits of the calender.. getting to save money on food purchases in the future.  Well, she forgot one thing… You got it! She forgot to ask for us to actually buy the damn thing.  We both walked out and I laughed because I knew she forgot to ask for the sale…  I digress, so point is, just ask for your reader to do something at the end of your article.

Better get going here, lots of work to do to get online presense don’t you know!

To Your Success,

Clint

My success story? This is Chris here from AskChrisJensen.com. I have been working with Clint Anderson over the last month, and earlier today he asked me to do a guest post describing my success story as an Internet Marketer. Being a big fan of everything that Clint has done so far, I agreed to do the post. Here is my story, and I am sticking to it!

Unfortunately, I do not have a big sob story as to why I decided to get into Internet Marketing. I have been a restaurant manager for the last seven years. I am happily married to the woman of my dreams. We both have nice incomes. We have a nice house in Rockwall, Texas. We have nice cars. We have two cats and a dog. Life for us is pretty great. So, now you might be wondering, why? Why devote your spare time to making money online? Well, to tell you the truth, I miss my wife. We have all of these great things in our life, but the one thing that we do not have is the time to spend together. We never eat home cooked meals because we work opposite schedules. We get one day and maybe one or two nights together each and every week. It was killing us. We are really wanting to start a family, but we would both like to be an integral part of our children’s lives. Being that we are both in management, this will never happen. So I decided to do anything and everything to replace one or both of our incomes so that we could have the family life that we have both been missing for so long.

I started my quest into Internet Marketing just over one year ago. I started buying e-books. I started joing membership sites that promised me the world. I built websites, I built blogs, I built lenses, I wrote articles. No matter what I tried, I would do it, not see money rolling in, and then I would move on. Even though I thought that I was doing everything, I was going nowhere. I was not getting traffic, I was not building a list, I did not have a plan, and I did not set personal goals. This went on for just about 10 months. I was burned out, and I was ready to quit.

Somewhere in my quest for success, I came across another marketer by the name of Justin Brooke. I started following what he was doing by way of his blog and being a member of his list. I was really impressed with what he did, and I was even more impressed that he was actually teaching people what he does instead of trying to sell me the best new thing every other day. One day he sent out a message saying that he and his wife Chaunna would be holding a 30 Day Apprentice Challenge. This peaked my interest, so I decided to look into it to see what they were offering. They were going to start a contest for a chance to become an apprentice of theirs. They were going to give us little tasks to complete each and every day for 30 days. In the end, they will be choosing a winner who will become their apprentice.

So far, I am blown away. I have built a blog (and in my opinion, it is pretty impressive). I have started building a list. My list is growing every day. I am getting great amounts of traffic. I am getting unique visitors from the traffic getting secrets that they have been teaching me. I am so impressed with everything that I have accomplished since starting this challenge about 20 days ago that I have decided, win or lose, who cares? I have my own business. I am set up for success, and I know that this is just going to snowball even more. While I have not made enough to quit my management job, I know that this option will present itself in the near future.

I would really like to thank Clint Anderson for this opportunity to make a guest appearance on his blog. We have decided that in one month we will reconnect to see how we are both doing with our Internet Marketing careers. If you would like to see the exact things that I have done to become a semi-pro Internet Marketer, check out AskChrisJensen.com.

Go Hard or Go Home!

Chris Jensen