Ezine Articles is giving us another opportunity to challenge our literary and marketing skills with the 4th Hundred Articles in a Hundred Days Challenge.

Participating in this challenge is a valuable chance to increase your web presence while polishing your writing and keyword skills.

Why is it important to write?

When you are using the internet to market your home based business, you will need to have a web presence that shows your value as a leader.

These days, when most people want to know something, they turn to the internet search engines.

Writing blogs and articles is a great way to get search engines like Google to recognize you.

So, it is in our best interest to court the search engines when marketing our businesses.

The challenge begins today, May 1st, and ends at 11:59 PM CST on August 8, 2010.

Ezine Articles has made signing up for the challenge a breeze by logging into your member interface.  They’ve written a blog post to guide you through the process.

If you read my previous post about how I did not the make the challenge…how I even fell far short of the goal at 28 articles submitted…you may wonder why I am even trying it again.

Because it is a challenge.

It is challenging me to rise above my current marketing performance and strive to reach a new goal.

This is what growth is all about.

This is what leadership is about.

Step out and enter the race to better yourself.  You are guaranteed to learn something and gain new skills.

You will also be braving new territory that your business associates will want to follow you into.

Believe In your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.net

Here it is, just over 3 months after we all made our New Years Resolutions.

People have historically made goals on January 1st and failed to achieve them.  It is almost a given and widely joked about.

When we are in business for ourselves, particularly if we are running a small home based business, we often set goals for ourselves throughout the year.

Our goals include personal and business growth.

It is our intention that we achieve all of our goals.  We are a community of success driven dreamers who fully intend to reach those dreams.

There are those times that we do not reach our goals.

I have just experienced one of those times.

A few months ago I made the commitment to enter the Ezine Articles 100 articles in 100 days.

I was on a roll, then things changed on the homefront and I  didn’t have the time to continue writing.

I didn’t meet the challenge of 100 articles.

What I did do was write 28 more articles than I had before the challenge. 

Most of those articles are ones I wouldn’t have committed myself to writing had I not been in the challenge.

You see, we are better off when we set goals for ourselves, even if we don’t achieve them.

It gives us a personal challenge to grow and practice success.

If we do not meet our goals, it is important that we look at what we did accomplish.

By setting the bar high, as long as we work to reach that goal, we have achieved the goal of trying.

As everybody knows, there are two groups of people:

1.  People who give lip service to success.
2.  People who push towards meeting goals.

So what is the next step?

Evaluate what you did.  Identify what worked, what didn’t, and what you need to do differently next time.

Then, set a new goal.

It really is that simple.

In the world of teaching it is called Review, Reflect, & Revise.  We must always be doing this to ensure that we are being effective.

Believe in Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

Wow!

This is exciting news from Ezine Articles!

They have created a plug-in for WordPress that will allow you to submit one of your blog posts as an article to Ezine Articles!

Talk about a time saver and spreading your valuable content around the web!

Fantastic!

Check it out on Ezine Article’s Blog.

Happy Writing!

Believe In Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

What a fabulous way to start the New Year off!

Have you started thinking about your Goals for 2010 and thought about including writing some ezine articles?

If so, this is your opportunity to jump right in and get as much practice and exposure as you can.

Ezine articles is kicking off their 3rd 100 Articles in 100 Days Marathon. 

Each article must be at least 400 words, written under the same author name, and accepted for publication.

Remember, Ezine articles must be ORIGINAL  works!

It starts at 12:01 AM CST-USA Friday, January 1st and ends at 11:59 PM CST-USA Saturday, April 10th.

Are you up for the challenge?

I sure am!  Join me in the greatest marketing race of the year!  Put your pledge in writing at the Ezine Articles Blog.

See You There!

Believe In Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com