Today was a record article writing day for me.  My goal was to submit four articles and I ended up submitting five.  They really are getting easier to crank out.  The other part of the record is that I have eleven articles in EZA's queue.  I doubt I'll be able to accumulate that many pending articles once they award me Platinum status.  I'm told the approval process for Platinums is much faster.  I am three submissions away from getting my account reviewed.

After I wrote four articles I dove into more training.  Since I spent the entire last month promoting WA I decided a logical next step was to join the WA super affiliate program.  Today I worked through the article marketing training, which took me back to several tutorials I'd read before.

One of them dealt with the purchasing cycle.  I'd read it before but obviously it hadn't clicked yet because I know most of the keywords I've targeted intercept people much earlier on in the purchasing cycle--the part where you have to work really hard to turn them into customers.  Apparently that's a common newbie mistake.

I decided to do a bit of quick keyword research and see if I could find a few low competition keywords that reached out to people on the verge of buying into some sort of Internet marketing training program.  I then realized I had an awesome keyword right under my nose.  In fact, it has been on my website since day one.  I just didn't think of it as a keyword until now.  It's "top online marketing school" and yes, that's my page where I start braggin' about what a great program WA is!

A ready made static page like that surely deserves an article, and no it couldn't wait until tomorrow.  I whipped out an essay about what to look for to decide if the program you're looking at really is a top online marketing school and linked back to my top online marketing school page in my resource box.  Then off it went straight to EZA.  I might also submit it to ArticleBase just for good measure (and faster approval time).

Once that article gets approved and ranks (and with a competition score of only 16 it really should rank), it really should generate a sale or two.  Tomorrow I may give my static page some tweaks to make it even more relevant to the article--make sure it mentions all the features the article does.

I think I'm starting to get the idea of how this game is played.

I'm also getting the idea that continuing to expose myself to training while also taking action is going to serve me well.  Many of the tutorials I'm reading here are really well done and have great information.  Information that is worth revisiting; information that makes more sense to me now because I've learned and done things since the last time I read it.