Jun 09 2009
Posted by Keries under Report Writing
Creating a Free Report – Step-by-Step!
Creating free reports as a way to call attention to affiliate products that you want to highlight is a common practice. The trick is to come up with a free report that people want to read, and that you can easily distribute to large groups of people.
Here are some tips to help you write a free report that will capture the attention of your targeted niche audience.
One of the first things you need to do is determine the content of your free report. To a degree, this will be governed by the affiliate products you want to highlight either within the text of the report or in the ads that accompany the report.
At the same time, you want the subject matter to be focused enough so as to provide relevant and useful content, without being too vague.
For example:
Instead of writing a general article about office management, you may want to go with a narrower topic, such as “Seven Effective Ways to Deal with Habitually Late
Employees.” In focusing in on one aspect of office management, you help yourself in two ways.
First, you have created a topic that will have a high chance of being listed in the search engines.
Second, you have laid a foundation for a whole series of free reports that can focus on other aspects of effective office management.
One thing to keep in mind with your content is that people love to read stories. This does not mean you have to provide a full-blown story with each point you make. Just
keep in mind that quick illustrations can make your points and still play like the recitation of a story in the eyes of the reader.
This will motivate and gain the attention of your reader, so he or she will be eager to continue reading to see what you will present with the next point.
The focused topic also will provide you with the ability to include links and ads that will be relevant to anyone that is interested in helping an office run smoothly. Placing the links so they make sense in the course of the text is very important.
Keep in mind that your money from the free report is going to come from people clicking through the links to either merchant sites or ads and in some cases buying a product.
So failing to include relative links in the appropriate places will simply derail the train of thought and possible lead to the reader switching off before giving the links and ads any consideration.
If the link is positioned properly within the text, it will seem almost natural to click on the link and investigate what is on the other side.
Circulating your free report can be as easy as offering the report on classified ad sites that allow you to post for free; or as easy as putting a link to it in your signature and posting on forums.
Just make sure that you use the classified ads sites that actually generate a lot of traffic; you can easily set up a capture page for your free report so your visitors can
receive the free report by email and you can followup with them at a later stage with additional information or products.
Placing your free report online, advertising it at online classified web sites and making sure it gets massive amounts of exposure on forums will make all the difference in the world in how much success you will have with the free report method.
Why not try one out today and see what type of revenue it generates over the next month?
Keries
