If you are like many service professionals I know, you probably submit your articles to article directories once in a while. So what do you do and how do you write these articles to more results from them? How do you get more web site traffic, more leads and more clients from your articles?

My recommendation is to think about what you want your article to accomplish before you write it and submit it to article directories.

The goal of your article is to have your article readers to click on the link in the Resource Box and subscribe to your newsletter. So how do you do that?

- Write an article of interest to your target market

- Create a headline that makes people want to read your article

- Make your Resource Box a continuation of your article

- Offer a free resource in the Resource Box that is of interest to everyone reading the article

- Create a good squeeze page that offers the free resource in exchange for an email address

- Link to the squeeze page from the Resource Box

Your article is a mini-funnel that leads a person to subscribe to your newsletter.

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