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You can continue recycling the tons of old articles you have written.  There is still an audience out there for the articles.  One idea you may consider is turning these articles into a product, a digital prouduct you can sell.

People around the world spend billions of dollars each year for information.  Decide  on a set of articles you believe people can use right this moment.  Craete a PDF document or ebook and offer it for sale.  Add a sales page to your website then go to ClickBank at www.clickbank.com  and sign up.  Make it possible for affiliates to sell your e-book.

Now doesn’t that sound easy?

Creating a membership with your articles is another option.  You will need to rewrite many of your older articles or create unpublished ones for this.  Articles that already have been published will make your membership site less productive.  It doesn’t take much to give your articles a new slant.

You can hire a fulfillment company to create a Powerpoint presentation from your old articles and turn them into a CD for sale.  Make sure you have freshened them up so they have a new look.

The above examples are just a few ideas of digital products you can make from your articles.  Make sure you use only your best quality work for these things.  When people pay out their money, they expect a quality product in return.  People will know if you just throw something together or take the time to make it worth something for them.

Articles can be profitable in a variety of ways. Posting written articles for distribution can increase sales for you by getting people to your site. You can also use them as a free download for others to use or allow affliliates to use them to increase their own sales.

Sell the private label rights to your articles is yet another profitable way to benefit. By doing this, you lose your recognition as the author because that is given to whoever buys the articles. What you gain from this method is simply money for your articles.

Start by gathering several articles on the same topic and placing them together into a zipped folder.  Upon completion, upload the file to your website and make sure there is a link to it.

If writing articles is something you like to do, you can start a site where people pay to become a member.  You then write and upload new groups of articles with private label rights for the members to download and use.

You can even hire someone else to write the articles based on topics you give them.  The topics will be decided by requests from your members.  If the articles are good, you could make quite a bit of money from this endeavor.

Creating a private label rights license is a necessity.  You will include this license in every bundle of articles you produce and will post it somewhere on your membership site so it can be viewed.

There is an option to creating your own membership site. You can find owners of already established membership sites and make a deal to sell the articles to them, and they can in turn sell the articles.  It is advisable to find out before writing these articles if the owner is willing to make this deal.

While everybody loves getting something free, you are going to find free reports even more lovable. Use free reports created by other authors as the basis of your article will not only create additional publicity for the author but will also help you. You can create an article quickly from this, which in turn leads people to your website.

Your goal is to gather the information contained in free reports to compile into an article or a white paper of your own.  This is done for the domino effect created by viral marketing. You have the choice of using pieces of only one article or gathering pieces from several and putting them together in one article. Creating a series of articles from free reports is another idea.

Finding free reports on everything imaginable is easy. Google the words free report and any other terms that describe your area of interest. Reports are often longer than articles, usually over 1000 words, and often use more technical language. These reports are more likely to use facts and figures to convey information.  You are not likely to find how-to reports.

This difference is useful. By taking a hard-to-read report and making it understandable to your readers, you help them understand. This in turn makes you seem like a more reliable expert in this area. Readers begin to trust you to provide them with the newest developments even if they aren’t created by you

Again, don’t forget to share with others where you got your information. Don’t copy the whole article but just pieces that help enhance your article. Once this is done, allow readers to obtain the entire report if they so choose by providing source information and a link to the entire report.

Wherever your business is, online or off, forums can benefit you. These benefits Take many forms for marketers. Forums can be a source of information on what the market needs an as a means of letting people know how that need can be met. You can post articles on forums, find tidbits of useful information for writing more articles and you can learn from others as well as teach them.

It is common for forum owners to allow members to post articles.  Some even have special pboards set up for you to take advantage of this privelege.  It’s there, use it.

You risk looking unprofessional and appearing desperate when you end up posting your article inappropriately.  Take the time to read the particular procedure for each forum you post on.  Not following rules exactly could cause you to be restricted from the forum.

Becoming active in your chosen forum is a good idea. Check to find out if you can post ads, links, articles or just information in your signature line.  Whatever the rules, follow them.

To repeat,  finding topics to write about within your area can be done on forums. By finding out what people want to know and then providing that information, you increase the chances of your article being read. You can find out what people want to know by conducting surveys or simply reading posts, both past and present.

There are forums on every topic if you take the time to find them. Google your chosen field and add the word forum to find out what is available. The sheer number of related forums may surprise you!

The Warrior Forum at http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/  is one of the most popular around. It has been in existence for greater than six years and do encourage members to post articles.

Keeping your articles working for you is easy if you use all the available channels. Posting articles to the article directories or repositories, publishing them ezines from your compiled list, creating an article blog of your own and using other people’s blogs to gain interest in your articles, Using available members only sites to post and posting articles to industry specific forums are all viable options.

You haven’t exhausted the available places out there yet. You write articles to get people to your website, yet many people forget to post their own articles there. Your website needs information.  Why not provide that with information you have already written?

Compiling all the articles you have written into a free ebook is another avenue.  All you need do is create a PDF file.  This allows you to announce the ebook in directories set up for just that purpose.  Allowing others to give the ebook away is also a good strategy.

Create an email course and use your articles as the lessons. This course should be offered free of charge. Put a sign up box on your website, set up an autoresponder to send the material at scheduled times and you are set to go. This has too advantages; it gets your material out there and it helps build a mailing list for you.

Set up a zipped file on your website of all your articles. Allow anyone who asks to download this file and use it as they want as long as the articles are not changed and your author information is included.  Let others know of this file through your email signature.

Keep your eyes open and look for many other creative ways to distribute your articles.  The places are out there and waiting for you to find and use them.