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How are things going for you on the 30 articles in 30 days challenge?
This weekend while my kids are out of town I decided to buckle down and write several so I could get ahead of the game. So far I’ve written 6.
Some of you are writing down a list of 30 topics so you can just tick them off as you write.
I am doing it a little differently. I chose the 4 or 5 websites I want to promote with my articles, and am looking around for things I’ve already written on those topics. I’m also keeping a pen and notepad handy for ideas that come to me.
I’m using shortcuts wherever I can so I don’t have to write as many from scratch.
The first and fourth articles were two that I wrote a couple of months ago for Moms Talk Network. The ladies over there require exclusive content for 30 days, meaning you can do whatever you want with it after they’ve had first dibs.
So I took that article and changed it just a little, then submitted it to EzineArticles. I also sent the article to my affiliates to use in promoting a related product.
The second article I grabbed from my website. It was a book review. I submitted it to EzineArticles.
The third was also an article I had previously submitted to a place where I guest blog. I changed it somewhat and submitted it to a few directories and another website where I write content.
The fifth and the sixth I mostly wrote from scratch, but I grabbed ideas from blog posts and a PLR article also sparked the idea for one.
See? This isn’t so hard. We internet marketers write so much that we often forget to repurpose our content.
I’m going to be more systematic about it. From here on out I’m committing to doing a monthly review of my best blog posts, and editing that content to create articles.
So, how are you doing so far?
Tomorrow I’m going to share some suggestions on where to submit these articles, and later on I’ll talk about what to do with them for even more leverage.
Cool, I can’t wait to see, I have completed one so far and will work on at least three tomorrow.
Carrie,
What a great idea. And an awesome challenge. Content is so important to most online business’s. And fresh content everyday for thirty days is an amazing way to step up your game.
Great work Carrie, and I look forward to reading more.
I have 6 written all from scratch. I don’t have any titles for new ones, but hope to have some ideas in the week ahead.
Over the weekend, before I heard about this challenge, I reworked several of my blog posts into articles and submitted to Ezinearticles. So I’m ahead of game with 8 articles waiting to be approved. Now with the shortcuts out of way, I’m ready to start banging them out from scratch. Thanks again for the motivation!
I’m doing one a day. Started on Sept. 1st to make it easy to remember when I’m at. I’m writing one article a day, and immediately submitting to ezinearticles.com.
Then the next day I submit it to another place, etc. (so all the articles don’t go live on all article directories the same day). Also plan to submit as guest posts, etc.
And by writing, I mean stealing from my eZine, blog, radio show, and my book & editing the content to be a free-standing article.
~ Elizabeth
I am pretty much doing the same thing. Using blog posts, tips from my sub list, articles submitted to other blogs, and even show notes to create my articles. If I have to do them all from scratch I know it won’t get done.
Re-purposing is a wonderful thing!
I am on track so far. Doing the same, going back and touching up previous articles, posts and such. I have just started submitting to article directories, and this challenge has given me the motivation to finally get around to that.
I am hoping this weekend I can get ahead…
Thanks again for this challenge!
I’ve also got six in the bag so far! I’m working on no.7 this evening…
I’m really enjoying this! Thanks ever so much for prompting me to do this, Carrie!!
I`ve done 5 so far (started on Sept. 2), all from scratch, but based on ideas I`ve used before on my blog. I haven`t submitted any yet, though. :S
Someone on the original thread mentioned the 60 Day Squidoo challenge and I googled it, so I`m doing that as well and plan to do at least 10 lenses that link back to my main blog, which I think counts.