The Net is a writer's Paradise and Writing is an Art ! If you want global exposure, the best thing is to use the pen which is mightier than the sword ! If you use your writing abilities, you can achieve fame within a short span of time. Write  Articles

The mantra on the Net is 'Publish or Perish'. The Net is defined as the Information Encyclopaedia. It is a repository of free information and resources.

You can write on the subject which deals with your area of expertise. The main ingredients of content creation are Research, knowledge, skill and style.

Research

Read books on the subject. You can go to search engines and type the subject that deals with your area of expertise. You can subscribe to other ezines which deal with that subject. And thus study more about the subject.

All information is available on the Net. All you have to do is to go to the search engines and group lists and find out information about your subject.

Knowledge

You have heard the proverb " Knowledge is Power". There are many types of knowledge. Technical knowledge, marketing knowledge, knowledge of language etc. We have to be accepted by the target audience. For this we should convince our customers that we are experts in our field. Be a specialist first, then be an expert and then be an authority, a self-development expert used to say. If you know more than your competitors, definitely you have a competitive edge over your competition. If you can establish that you are a scholar in your field and is head and shoulders above your competition in knowledge, they will come in droves. Why should they go to somebody who is less knowledgeable?

So it is imperative to develop professional knowledge, to study more and more about the subject we are dealing with, even though it is time-consuming. Remember on the Net, there are so many scholars in various fields, each claiming to be experts in their field. On the Web, the competition is fierce and is only a click away. So our
chances of survival are bright if only we are equipped with the latest knowledge in our field. The customers are not fools and they will evaluate us as well as our competition.

Skill

Writing skill does not come all of a sudden. Writing is basically intuitively inspired and comes from within. But this creative talent is in all of us. We have not tapped this divine resource fully. If we give ourselves to Meditation and lapse into silence, we can see that this talent blossoms of its own. Age is not a factor for we see Goethe wrote "The Faust" at the age of eighty and Chaucer wrote "The Canterbury Tales" at sixty!

Start by writing whatever you feel about the subject you are handling in your diary. Group these small bits of information. When you assemble these tiny bits of info and arrange them, you will be surprised to know that you have written an article. Improve on what you have written. Let it take some days and after some days of improvisation, you will come to know it has become a great article.

It so happened to me. The first article I wrote was about Astro Numerology and I sent it to some friends. They hailed it as a great article. This was a great boost to my morale. I started an ezine, the Z Files and published my own articles which was well received by the multitude. This furthur boosted my confidence. I then submitted my articles to
the ezines which deal with Astrology. The publishers thanked me and published my articles. My hits trebled. Now I have many requests from publishers to use my articles in their Site or Zine.

Style

Every man has a style of talking and a way of writing. We have not written much and that is why we are not aware of our hidden talents. If you start writing simple ideas in your diary and then later expand these ideas, you will be stunned to see that you are an excellent writer. Just imagine what would have happened if Dante had not written the Divine Comedy or Shakespeare had not written his dramatic poems! Where would English Literature be without these gems ?

The pen is mightier than the sword. The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr! Write yourself to glory! Write yourself to fame ! Writing can take you from obscurity to omnipresence!

If your marketing plan does'nt include writing, better incorporate it immediately. The whole Net belongs to writers. Isn't the Web an Information Encyclopaedia? All people want content and you better give quality content to be recognised amongst the multitude. Your web site must have good content, something original and unique.

Now here we focus on using writing skill as a marketing tool.

The place where you can deposit your articles on the Web is called an article bank. You can post your articles to these article banks. You will be surprised that many people read your articles, visit your site and subscribe to your newsletter. They may hire you or pay you for your future articles! This is FREE ezine advertising and you can save thousands of dollars which otherwise would have gone to marketing !

You can write copyright info and bio on every article you submit and in some article banks you can include your photo.

I used to visit www.WritingTree.com and post my articles there. This is a site which encourages writers. Writing is an art and this is recognised by this site.

You have to market your articles. For this you can design a web page like www.eastrovedica.com/html/articles.htm  and link all the articles into an article bank. It gives the visitors option to read any of your articles.

Another good site where you can submit your articles is http://www.selfgrowth.com/  Their newsletter is pretty successful with a large circulation base. Your article may be published by them if they like it.

I always submit my articles to http://www.marketing-seek.com/

They have ezines dealing with a lot of subjects despite the fact that they concentrate on marketing. You can get
your articles published in their ezines.

You can open a new Web page and publish your article in your Site. I wrote an article on Pranic Therapy and published it recently on my site. To see how I have done it, click on this link

www.eastrovedica.com/html/pranicmain.htm

The reason for publishing your article on your website is that some sites which have a Web Page called Submit Article want it to be published on the Web. They ask for the url where the article can be found.

When I wrote Vedic Astrology Lesson 4, I instantly published it on the Web due to these Submit Article websites needing one to do that. My Web Page www.eastrovedica.com/html/vamain.htm became an instant hit !

Publish or perish ! Use your Nature-given talent to write and write your way to the top. Dont let the inhibitions in the mind block you from being a successful writer. Dont let age prevent you from writing !

Chaucer at Woodstock with the nightingales,
At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales !
Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last,
Completed Faust when eighty years were past !

On the Net, Content is King and Email is Queen. Take advantage of this equation. People are ready to pay for branded content !

In our earlier articles, we dealt with the wisdom of creating an Ezine and distributing it.

How do we do it? There are softwares available for bulk mailing.

One of the popular Group Mailers is the Aureate Group Mailer. It is capable of 650000 emails in one hour. I use this excellent Software which goes to 12500 subscribers of my Free Ezine, The Z Files ! You can click on this link to get it.  http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?B=3939&U=49503&M=1465  

Another software you can use for the purpose of submitting your Articles, free ezine ads and ezines is the Ezine Announcer. You can Get it at this link

http://wetrack.it/eza/af.cgi?362  

Site submission is also important. You can submit your site to100 search engines at one click using an Automated  Submission Software. Click on this link

http://www.submitplus.com/scripts/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=zodiac20

or you can submit your url from Eastrovedica Home Page

http://www.eastrovedica.com

If you want more data about writing, you can go to http://www.about.com/ which has a forum for freelance writers and screenwriters. Just type "writers" and you will be stunned at the information you get.

A website where you can deposit your articles is called an article bank. Dont think all sites pay you for your articles. Only one site in my list pays at 2 cents per click. With that sort of money you cant become a millionaire instantly. You have to place copyright info and a bio on each article. Many will read your articles, subscribe to your Zine, write to you, visit your site, hire you or pay you for future articles !

If you dont have enough articles for your ezine, you can visit an articles bank. Even if you dont have the time to write
you can do the same. These article banks allow you to use articles from their sites!

Marketing these articles is difficult. If you design a page on your website, you can link the artilcles you have deposited into an article page.

Here we are giving the names of some article banks for you to use.

1) http://www.themestream.com/ - This site will receive all your articles. They have a newsletter and your articles may be published there.

2) http://www.topten.org/  - This site sends out daily newsletters and you can publish coaching tips and quotes.

3) http://www.ideamarketers.com/ - This site will market your articles for a small fee.

4) http://www.top7business.com/-  If you post your articles to this site. it will definitely bring in a lot of traffic.

5) http://www.makingprofit.com/  - This is another site you can submit your articles to.

6) http://ezinearticles.com/- Different categories have been given and you can submit your articles to any of them.

10) http://www.writebusiness.com/  - A business articles directory.

Happy writing !

Other Article Submission Centres which you can use for gaining exposure