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Hi and a big warm welcome to you all. I hope everyone is enjoying mostly sunny days so far this summer.

Jimm and I have encountered mostly sunny skies this last trip and it's been a real blessing. Those rainy, overcast skies are kind of difficult to cope with day after day, aren't they? I'm back at home in Elie for a bit and once I've checked in with my doctor, I hope to be back out on the road with Jimm soon.

One of the best tools you have for online advertising is writing your own articles. Each article you write allows the author to include a resource box that will feature your name as well as a bit about you and a link. A lot of people feel they 'can't' write but if you just present your information as if you were talking to another person one on one, it becomes much easier. Plus it's very effective. Today's Feature Article is Where to Post and Read Articles Online by Abdallah Khamis Abdallah. It's loaded with information and tons of places where you can post your articles when you've finished writing it.

Writing articles is an area you should give serious thought to because it will increase your online advertising without costing you anything but a bit of time. It's also a great way to boost your internet presence.

Going The Extra Mile comes to us from Kathy Gates in our Special Feature today. If you think you are committed to a goal or plan but something isn't quite working - you should take time to read this article.

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The internet is one of the best depositories of informative articles especially on business, marketing and writing. These articles can be a very invaluable source of knowledge and information for starting and growing your business. If you are a writer and wish to see your articles published or read what others have written then the internet provides good forums for you to satisfy your needs.

For webmasters and online marketers, publication of free articles on article databases, ezines and other websites is a highly effective and long-term traffic generator. It is in an inexpensive and targeted marketing method for attracting visitors to your website. However, you need to write a substantial number of articles or regularly write and post the articles in relevant high traffic article databases and ezines to be more effective.

There are very few lists of article databases or websites which accept articles submissions for publication and in this article I attempt to list a few prime websites which accept articles for free publication. New websites come up every day while others are pulled down after some time so to get maximum exposure, post your articles to as many sites as possible, save the articles on disk and print the articles and file them for your own reference and record.

Before posting any of your articles, read the submission guidelines on every website you wish to post and follow them if you are satisfied with them.

Here are some of the websites that will publish your articles for free (without payment to or by you):

While some websites will publish your articles without reviewing them some will check them for suitability and conformance to their requirements.

To enable people to visit your website, include your full url in your bio/resource box below each of your articles so that readers can click on it to go straight to you website. Now, visiting your website is one thing and buying what you provide on your website is another. You can have over one hundred thousand people visit your website in a month but none buying anything from you.

This brings us to the issue of what you sell on your website. Do you offer a unique item or service you have created? Uniqueness need not be absolute but do you offer something new, refreshing or useful? Does it solve a common problem or satisfy a common need? This and many other questions need to be answered by you and acted on. Provide gifts, feebies, special offers and free content such as free articles and ebooks to attract readers to your website and to make them buy from you.

The above listed websites can also provide you with useful articles written by others, news and forums to assist you with information to enhance your personal and business productivity and possibly enable you to place advertisements for high visibility and attention.

Some of the listed websites are part of large networks of websites and posting your articles may lead to the articles to be syndicated in a few other websites and ezines. Others are visited regularly by ezine editors , publishers and webmasters looking for new and useful articles to publish and they may pick and publish your articles. All these serve to increase the exposure of your articles and by extension your name and website url.

To know where your articles have been published, go to www.google.com and type the title of your article in quotation marks ( " " ) in the search box and search. To know where all your articles have been published go to the same search engine and type your name as written in your articles in quotation marks and search. Do this at least every two weeks and you will find that your articles have been published on many ezines and websites. However, the results could be at times disappointing. If your articles do not contain useful, fresh, how to, problem-solving ideas or are not interesting to editors and webmasters, they might be spurned and will not be syndicated.

Do not confine yourself to the above websites or article databases only but also approach ezine editors. Ezines are online newsletters usually sent daily and weekly to opt-in subscribers. These ezines are in need of content and if your articles meet their requirements they will publish them for free. This might give you high exposure as some of the ezines are read by thousands of voluntary subscribers who are hungry for fresh ideas and information. You can find most of these ezines by searching for "ezine directories" at www.google.com or at:

So start today to write and post articles to the above websites and ezines to receive high exposure and traffic to your website.

Abdallah Khamis Abdallah is a freelance writer. Find articles, money-making special reports,ebooks,etc at his website at:
http://www.qualitywritingsolutions.com. Send feedback about this article to: abdallahkhamis@hotmail.com

Whatever the question, love is the answer.

I once gave the refrigerator repairman several of my books and tapes. The repairman asked, "How do you ever expect to make any money when you give away all your stuff?" I replied, "When the day comes that you don't have to ask me that question, you'll have the answer."

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you're doing, or it comes out flat. You can't fake your way through this.
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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.
- Rocky Aoki

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
- Edwin Louis Cole

Going the extra mile turns losers into winners, and winners into champions. And you will need good old fashioned commitment to see it through.

The goal is only the beginning. Dont let microwave mentality fool you. To reach any goal will take true commitment and -- I know this will come as a big surprise to a lot of you -- NOT even to the ultimate goal, but to what you are doing right now today.

Commitment starts with what youre doing right now.

• I am committed to losing 20 lbs. First you have to be committed to losing 1 lb.
• I am committed to being debt free. First you have to be committed to not acquiring any more debt.
• I am committed to finding some free time. First you have to be committed to saying No.

Commitment helps you state a direction, intent, purpose. It helps you announce to yourself and the world how you will devote your time, attention, energy, money, effort.

Assuming commitment is easier said than done -- and we all know it is -- how do you create commitment?

Conscious choice creates commitment -- or more specifically, conscious choice creates TRUE commitment.

Whether you intend to or not, you ARE committed to some things in your life. You may be committed to a job you hate. You may be committed to a relationship thats unsatisfying. You may be committed to sitting in front of the TV or surfing the net every night. You may be committed to accumulating the clutter in your office or house. You may be committed to overspending every month.

Going that extra mile -- true commitment -- however is made through Conscious Choice. For example, lets say you have $100 extra dollars in your budget. If you have committed to reducing your debt, you would apply it to a bill. If you are committed to improving your health, you would spend it on a dentist appointment, or a session with a personal trainer or nutritionist.

If you have not consciously committed to anything specific, even though you want to reduce your debt or get healthier, you spend the money here and there, and experience no real benefit from it.

When you go the extra mile, you fully commit your time, your money, or your energy in a specific, mindful way. Without commitment, you just waste your time, your money, and your energy on things that are not meaningful and don't fulfill and regenerate and uplift you.

Life will constantly test your commitment to your goals. But the reality is -- as simple as this may sound -- it is the one ingredient that separates the winners from the losers. The one thing that people who are getting what they want, and people who aren't is that they kept moving. They stayed committed to moving forward on their goal every single day.

Make a commitment to wake-up and consciously choose how you spend your time, energy, money, and effort. Think about your day. Think about your week. What do you do with all those hours? What are doing with your day that is contributing your goal? What are you doing with your day that is contaminating your goal?

Consistently commit your time, energy, money, effort, support, and opportunities to something thats important to you. Its impossible not to win.

Kathy Gates is a Professional Life Coach in Scottsdale, Arizona. What is Life Coaching? Your life -- only easier, happier, more joyful! Learn more at www.reallifecoach.com for products and services and sign up for her free newsletter.

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