I have just completed a brand new ebook on how to succeed with article marketing. It is like nothing you've ever seen before, I promise! This was all written straight from my head and my almost 5 years of experience. I am looking for 5-10 people to review it for me. Please be honest! Sorry for the short notice, but I would need the reviews by Saturday. I would prefer only serious article marketers of any experience level respond. And please, I want your HONEST opinions. Thank you so much for your time! Allen Graves
Hi Maxell, Well, if you have done any amount of article marketing, I suppose you'd be a candidate! Just shoot me a PM or respond here if you want to read and express your opinion. Thank you! Allen GRaves
I'd like to review it. I've circulated articles before, although probably not in the same depth as some. I can certainly offer you an honest opinion, relevant feedback and a well-written quotable review. Plus you can have the review tomorrow evening (UK time).
First of all, apologies for what might look like tardiness in completing this review. I was shocked when receiving the draft version of the e-book from Allen that it ran to 76 pages of single spaced text (that's over 25,000 words for those of you keeping count). The version I'm reviewing is certainly a draft; although the writing is of a high quality the book is waiting for screen shots to be added and to be 'nicely formatted' for sale. I'd imagine that means looking at a 150 page document when everything's neatly spaced out and ready for release. Allen has compiled his experience in article marketing into a chatty tome, which advocates a slightly different process to the standard approach of just submitting an article to a load of sites, or by submitting automatically spun versions to those sites. The book details where articles should be best sent to maximise results. The key change to the approach is to add what I would a further stage to the article submission process carried out by many - obviously you'll have to buy the e-book to find out what this is. I must admit to initial scepticism as to whether this further stage is the most effective way off using the extra time, but this is what Allen's expertise has shown in the past, so it is surely a valid technique worth pursuing. I can't admit to have read all 25,000 words in detail, but Allen's passion for the article marketing niche comes through throughout 'The Article Marketing Handbook'. The first chapters are perhaps a little basic, but if you're a beginner at using articles as promotional tools you'll be taken by the hand as to why articles are important and how they can benefit your online business. Allen then suggests a number of useful (and free) tools to deploy and a simple methodical process to follow to create articles of value. This isn't strictly a writing manual - so if you want to find out how to write an article in detail you will need to use some additional sources - but I found myself reading with great interest the sections on what to do with the finished article and how to best submit it. There are many little finishing touches presented that I wouldn't have thought of. As with most e-books, there is a little bit of sell towards Allen's wider business, which, perhaps unsurprisingly is his own article site. This is mild compared to many e-books and the author doesn't pad out the book with affiliate links or other distracting information. The final chapter of the e-book is devoted to how Allen's site is providing a higher quality of articles in its overall corpus, which will increase the site's value as a potential marketing channel. This certainly suggests that it is a site that any would-be-marketer should explore. I enjoyed the text from start to finish. It adds great value to the loose collection of article marketing techniques scattered around the Internet. One final comment I must make is to praise Allen for offering to continue to update the handbook and provide the updates for free to purchasers. The most successful marketing techniques will continue to develop as Google's algorithms change and the Internet as a whole develops and this means that you could be getting valuable expertise for years to come. Overall I highly recommend 'The Article Marketing Handbook' as it fills a clear gap in the market and adds useful techniques to the arsenal of both beginners and the more experienced alike. I believe that it is the missing article manual. I will look forward to seeing a version of the e-book in its finished tidied form and would be glad to promote it - something which shows my level of faith in the handbook and its teachings.
Wow! What a thorough review! I had to go look up what "chatty tome" meant, though. LOL Thank a lot for your feedback. It was honest and well-thought out. I appreciate it. Can I use this on my website? Respectfully, Allen Graves