As the President of the Association of Web Entrepreneurs I help entrepreneurs create systems and automate their online businesses so that they can make more money and enjoy more freedom in their lives. To do this, I teach them only the most effective online marketing techniques, and article marketing is one of them.

Here are my 7 favorite ways (and a checklist for you) to market online using how-to articles. Don’t worry about writing completely new articles for each of these; just reuse your articles. To be more productive, create a system and schedule a day for writing and a day for posting your articles once a month or even once a week!

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As the President of the Association of Web Entrepreneurs, I help entrepreneurs create systems and automate their online businesses so they can make more money and enjoy more freedom in their lives. Here are 4 things you must do to build a strong foundation as you grow your online company. Skip one of these and you simply won’t be able to create a long-term sustainable online business.

You Must Find Your Ideal Target MarketWhen someone visits your website or reads your marketing materials, one of the very first things they think is: “Is this service or product for me?” They want to know if your business or your services are designed for people like them and they want to know if you understand them, if you’ve worked with people like them before, and if you appreciate their situation and problems. This is huge!

To define your ideal target market, here are some questions that you can ask yourself–it’s kind of a fun way to do it and what I find is that a lot of business owners in the start-up phase don’t think about who they love being around. They think about who they’re going to sell to, who is going to want this, instead of thinking more about who they would actually serve well.

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NAWW Member, Susan M. Heim, author of Oh, Baby! 7 Ways a Baby Will Change Your Life the First Year (Hampton Roads), “Twice the Love: Stories of Inspiration for Families of Twins, Multiples and Singletons” (TWINS Magazine), and the upcoming It’s Twins! Parent-to-Parent Advice from Infancy Through Adolescence (Hampton Roads), has launched a new blog entitled, “Susan Heim on Parenting.” Read Susan’s news and views on parenting at www.susanheim.blogspot.com. Susan has also started a new online column for the parents of multiples called “Loving and Living with Twins and Multiples,” which can be accessed at www.mommiesmagazine.com. And, finally, coming soon: Susan Heim will be a new “parenting expert” on multiples for ClubMom, co-founded by Meredith Vieira. You can check out Susan’s other projects at http://www.susanheim.com.

If you’re thinking about self-publishing your book, NAWW Member, Barbara Florio Graham’s free checklist will help you decide. Go to www.SimonTeakettle.com, and look for Self-Publishing Checklist at the bottom of the Mentoring page.

NAWW Member, Kathryn Schleich, is pleased to announce the addition of her blog, http://women-write.blogspot.com/ to her website, Women Write. The blog will focus on writing related topics from a woman’s point of view, culture, media, politics, current affairs, and other topics of interest.