From the Desk of:  Richard J Runion President, Geostar Publishing & Services LLC St.Louis, MO, USA. Date: January 05, 2009 Dear Article Marketer Mate, I’m an e-Publisher. I’ve sold eBooks, to tens of thousands of customers, in niches such as Sudoku, Pet Parrots (like Cockatiels), Wastewater Treatment Plants, Content Management Systems, and more). I also blog. So, I KNOW how powerful article marketing can be! (You can Google my name "Richard Runion" or my company's name "Geostar Publishing" if you want proof). I've always seen the potential for article marketing to increase my sales by at least 100%, ... and my profits by 200% (because the traffic is free!) I love writing. Yet, until recently, I was unable to submit enough articles to accomplish my sales targets. Because, I could never find the TIME I needed to do it. I‘ve been so busy, I often chose the easy way out, depending more on PPC marketing. (A friend of mine used to pull my leg saying, "You’re just plain lazy, hiding behind the mask of being too busy." Know what? He may well be right!) These eBooks, software, articles and blogs -- do get us good reviews, and of course, revenues.   I love writing; it comes to me naturally, being a publisher. I know how powerful a tool Article marketing is in online business. It can increase my sales by 100%, and the profits by 200%. Yet, I’ve been unable to submit enough articles to accomplish my sales targets. Because, I could never find the TIME I needed. I‘ve been so busy, I often chose the easy way out, depending more on PPC marketing. (A friend of mine used to pull my leg saying, “You’re just plain lazy, hiding behind the mask of being too busy." Know what? He may well be right!)   I’d tried various tools and techniques available for Article Marketing to see if I could increase the number of articles I write and submit. I got nowhere. I tried PLR articles , but unless they were rewritten, they didn’t get me results. I tried software rewriting tools , but they did a very bad job. I realized that at least till natural language-processing software comes of age, I can’t depend on software tools for writing or even rewriting. I tried auto-spinner software . They produced such horrendous junk that my name, image and sales would only suffer if I were to use them. I tried semi-automatic software to rewrite articles . They took a lot of my time, and yet the output didn’t pass rigorous ‘duplicate content’ tests. Besides, search engines didn’t like the use of such software. I understand that complex ‘sentence structure detection and matching’ tools are under development, to identify these duplicate content. So, soon even the best of such software will be in the museums. I even explored outsourcing the work . The cheaper services weren’t good enough, and the barely acceptable ones were too costly, making the viability of article marketing suspect. I had almost reached my wit’s end, unable to find anyone who could help solve my problems. It suddenly occurred to me,… and I jumped up in excitement: “Eureka! I’ve found the right man for the job - It’s ME, stupid!” After all, I’m in ‘publishing & services’ business; and article marketing fits very well into it. Not only can I use this service myself, but I can also offer it to a service-starved market. While I may still not find the time to write and submit all my articles myself, I could hire professional writers and editors to help me and my clients. I decided that if I were to enter this service business, my service had to be the very best in the industry. In every single way. I couldn’t be just another article marketer. So, I set very tight specs for my article marketing system:                Writing high quality articles           Re-creating 550+ different versions, each as good as the original          Registering with the top 10 Social Networking sites, Top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites, Top 10 RSS Feeds, and the top 500+ Article Directories          Submitting one article version to each of the top 10 Social Networking Sites          Submitting one article version to each of the top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites          Submitting one article version to each of the top 10 RSS feeds          Submitting one article version per directory to 500+ Article Directories          Submitting in the right categories of every directory          Using variable article titles & anchor texts to get full back-link credits         Monitoring & Reporting when the articles got submitted Hmmm…not quite easy. No one offers ALL OF THESE. But these are MY initial specs for a good article marketing service. I decided I’d walk the difficult path. (In fact, I have even more demanding specs, already cooking in my mind. I'll share these with you in the coming weeks.) I did an elaborate survey of article marketers, both experts and newbies, to understand their problems and frustrations. Oh boy…what a response! I realized three things: One, their major problem was TIME , exactly as in my case. Two, the experienced article marketers found the existing tools inadequate, just as I did. Three, newbies lacked knowledge of how to handle article marketing effectively. I decided to address all these issues in my service. Not only as an end-to-end solution, saving you precious TIME, but also addressing every single problem and frustration of beginners and buffs in article marketing. And "1 Click Article Marketing" service was born. My company can claim a fair level of skill and expertise in this domain. While Ganesan, my partner with over 30 years of experience in Education, Paperless ePublishing and Communications, could manage the content part of our business, I could be content managing the business part.  Do I guarantee traffic, sales and profits for you? I wish I could. I don't know how much the top 10 Social Networking sites, the Top 10 Social Bookmarking Sites, the Top 10 RSS Feeds, and the Top 500 article directories would value your niche, and how many directories would carry your article. What I can promise, however, is that I’ll use the right professionals and tools for article marketing. And help you get the best results possible, with your niche and directories. If you use ‘1 Click Article Marketing’  service, I can also promise you that I'll always be available to answer your every question. I'll give you better than our very best service. Frankly, this is no extra favor I offer to you; I’ve always been providing an exceptional quality of service to my customers in my ePublishing business; customer service of the highest order is my basic business philosophy. Here's to an insanely profitable Article Marketing experience,      Richard J. Runion