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Audio Articles

What the heck is an audio article you might ask and I’m glad you did. Curved Marketing, inc., in association with Article Content Provider.com is now offering professional audio articles.

Are you a multi-tasker? Many people are. There are a lot of high-quality articles that I would love to read, but my busy schedule stops me from doing so. I can’t stop and read an article online, I need to be working in other tabs or answering emails or writing content.

If there was a button I could push and hear the article, then I could listen while doing other things. That’s where audio articles come in handy.

1. Either we write the article for you ($30 fee), or you supply us with content you have already written.

2. We create a professional voiceover recording of the article. This can be a summary or the entire text.

3. We supply you with the mp3 so you can embed it into your website or blog.

The cost: $30 per minute of finished recording, after editing. So if you want a one-minute recording, it only runs you $60. if you are a good reader, time yourself as you read your article and you’ll get an idea of the cost for creating an audio article.

Call 512-322-9566 for more information about audio articles.

Article to Video and Audio Services

Are you using video articles and audio articles yet? Are you missing out on using your article content to full advantage?

Video Articles: We write an article for you, just as in normal article marketing, and you send us images or screenshots you want used with the video.

Then we produce a short video that summarizes the article, shows some images and screenshots, with special transitions and effects where needed.

And of course your website URL is placed throughout the video to drive traffic to your website. You receive both the video and written version of your article.

You can use it in your website and embed the video to play automatically or when the user clicks the play button. In addition to that, you can submit them YouTube.com to promote your website.

By submitting the written version to article directories and the video version to YouTube, you more than triple the effectiveness of one article.

And there is a link to the video version of the article from the article itself so users will be more tempted to visit your website and watch the video instead of reading the article.

Additional Note on video article distribution: For an additional $40 per article, we will do 100 social bookmarks to the article location to increase its’ exposure. An additional $20 gets you 100 social bookmarks to the video as well.

Video Articles start at $149 each. If you provide an article that we previously wrote for you, we can reduce the cost by $30. All questions or ideas on how you would like to develop more uses for this service are welcome.

Audio Articles: We create an MP3 Audio version of your article. It is not intended to be word for word, but more of an abridged version or summary touching on all the points you want to make to your readers.

People can’t read your article while surfing the web or working, but they can listen to it. Cost: $60. Average Completion Time: 10 days.

Call us at 786-317-8774 for more information.

Why Your Articles Suck And No One Reads Them

Mack Collier writes a pretty decent blog. But he’s no Brian Clark.

Of course, neither am I. But I do agree with Brian (and now Mark) that an article title can make or break your traffic numbers as well as your credibility. Mark wrote in his blog that one simple change in his blog title increased his blog readership tremendously – and the best part is that blog post title isn’t even well optimized!

There are really two things that you have to think about when crafting your article title: Optimization and Impact. But which is the greater of the two? Personally, I think impact. Let’s boil it down.

Article A is well optimized to the hilt. It achieves the highest search rankings possible, but the title sucks. No one clicks the link to read the article. Why? Because it doesn’t capture their attention. Sorry, you fail big time.

Now article B, on the other hand, does not use your keyword in the title at all, but boy did you put some punch in that title. It can’t be found in the search engines anywhere, but Joe E-zine Editor went scouring the article directories for an article on the very topic that you wrote about. He noticed your title and just had to read it. He published the article in his e-zine because you wrote a great title and an awesome article. Jack the Reader reads the article in Joe’s e-zine, published on the Web as an HTML document, and he Stumbles it, Diggs it, and Twitters it. Within two hours now you’ve had thousands of people reading your article and Digging it. All because you wrote a kick ass title.

Trust me, your article title means everything.

5 Ways To Use Your Articles You Probably Haven’t Thought Of

When it comes to article marketing, there’s more than one way to get it done. Here are some ways to use your articles you likely have not thought of:

• Read your article into a digital recorder and upload it to your website as a podcast. Distribute it to podcast directories.
• Talk your article in front of a video camcorder and upload it to YouTube.
• After distributing your articles to your favorite article directories, start a Blogspot blog and use your articles to link back to your website.
• Start a Google Knol and use your articles, linking back to your site.
• Post your articles to a Squidoo lens or HubPage and link back to your website.

Article marketing doesn’t always have to be done through article directories. It pays to get creative.

Turn Your Articles Into A Teleseminar

If you have enough articles in your arsenal you can turn them into a teleseminar. All you need to do is extract the information in them and use them as notes for your seminar.

You’ll need to be able to talk about your information at length, however. You should be able to talk for 15 minutes about each topic you write about in one article. If your articles are organized correctly then they should cover one topic each. For a one-hour seminar, you’d need four articles.

Be prepared to go into a little more detail in your teleseminar. It takes just a couple of minutes to read an article, but in a teleseminar you can cover more ground in the same amount of time. What you want to do is pique the interest of your target market and keep them buying your products and services, or interest them in such products and services. A well laid out teleseminar can do that.

You’ll need to sign up for a delivery system. There are several teleseminar providers online. We use GotoMeeting. Take the articles that you will use for your seminar and make an outline from them. Highlight the key points of each article. Prepare for the use of four articles, but create an outline of an extra article in case you finish the seminar early. If you only cover four then that’s OK.

Make sure that when you market your seminar that you tell your listeners exactly what you will cover in the seminar. And if you market that you’ll discuss four topics, be sure that you cover every topic. Also allow some time at the end of the teleseminar for questions.

It’s a little more involved than this, but this is a good snapshot for what to expect when turning articles into a teleseminar.