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01 June 2009

How To Make A Resume - What Software is Necessary?

By Cynthia Penfold

It's easy to get caught up in the excitement of creating your first resume or even updating an old one. You\'ll notice, too, that there are expensive resume services and software vendors just begging for your business.

However, you can build an attractive resume without using any special software at all so don\'t fall for slick sales letters that claim you must have their software in order to produce a great resume. However, you will save a great deal of money by creating your own resume.

You can use your word processor to make a resume. Anyone with a computer loaded with basic word processing software can make a resume that will really stand out. Microsoft Word is considered to be one of the well known and popular word processing software programs available but other programs work just as well. These other programs often cost a great deal less but work just as well. The only difference is some of the less expensive software packages may not have built in templates to make it easy to make a resume.

However, to take advantage of this you will have to have access to the Internet. You can use free online programs such as openoffice.org to make a resume. This program is free to use and can not only help you make a resume that will stand out but can also meet all of your word processing needs.

You may find these types of programs work well for you as soon as you download the software. However, some of these programs allow users to make suggestions about improvements to the software.

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Cynthia Penfold discusses how to make a resume at her How To Make A Resume Blog

01 May 2009

Simply Write Articles for Business Promotion

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by Leigh-Ann Lemire

If you have just started writing articles to promote your business, the simplest article to write is the list article that uses numbers or bullet points to give information.

In your niche, you can easily write about the top 3 best ways to get sales or the top 4 tips to succeed or the top 8 things to watch out for. By expanding to a larger sphere about your specialized subject, your list article can be about the worst places to promote or the best advice on marketing.

A list article is rapid to write because it only needs a catchy title, an introductory paragraph, the list of your tips and you can end with a paragraph that summarizes it all if you wish.

Making the article larger is easy to do with a few extra paragraphs at the beginning and giving a fuller explanation for each tip that you are writing about. Make the beginning paragraphs interesting enough so that your readers will want to continue to find out about the tips that you are providing.

Here are some key tips to writing a successful article:

1. Give useful information with each tip.

Focus on how the information will be useful for the reader. Explain thoroughly how using the tip will help. Giving real, beneficial information will help you to gain a larger readership.

2. Your article should be aimed at the people that you want to reach.

Speaking about that latest fashion tips in your article when your business is about book reviews is not going to get people to your site or increase your readership. Write your article on how to do a good book review with your resource box with the same type of information at your site, does increase your readership.

3. The appearance of your article should be clean and easy to read.

Providing a clean, easy to read article is inviting to potential readers. The way to do this is to create small paragraphs that have 3-4 sentences of different lengths. When a person starts skimming over an article that is clean looking, he is more apt to stop and read the article.

4. Speak to an individual when writing an article.

Doing so preserves your personality while at the same time, by making it personal, your readers will enjoy your articles more. Making an article that only give facts erases your personality and comes across as boring.

5. Check for mistakes in your article.

A professional article gets a better following. Have you ever read an article or web page online that had spelling or grammar mistakes? Did you keep reading? You need to spend the extra bit of time to ensure that you created a professional article. Check the spelling and grammar by going to http://www.spellchecker.net/spellcheck/. Also, if you are like me, you may have cut and pasted some information into your article or deleted or changed the wording in some way - be sure to check to ensure it flows properly so that your article is easy to read.

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Traffic = Sales. Find out how you can increase traffic to your online site by writing articles at Natural Growth Marketing. You are welcome to reprint this article - but get your own unique content version here.

23 April 2009

Improve Your Article Tips

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by Leigh-Ann Lemire

If you want to have extraordinary success with your online endeavors, articles should be at the very top of your marketing list. The success of website owners using article marketing is phenomenal because articles are such a key element to making a site work and to earn a profit - not to mention other benefits that occur such as speaking engagements, interviews and more.

Driving traffic to websites because of information searches online is what articles have been known to do. People find your articles with your link and go to your site to obtain more date. Another key point is that article directories are used to find articles by website owners to use at their site or in their newsletter - your signature line stays intact which send lots more people to your site.

The large volume of people going to your site because of your article marketing efforts boosts your ranking in search results. Doing article marketing often gets the word out about yourself and your site, more traffic goes to find out more which in turn makes the sales improve.

Mediocre articles don't get you the results that you want when marketing articles. Certain key ingredients should be included within the articles that you write in order to get the outcome that you are looking for. Meeting key points will get the best results that you need for your site. Writing your articles well makes people look and become interested enough to go to your site, buy and arrive again to find more info.

Following are four tips to help and assist you in making your articles the best they can possibly be. With the essential items included in your articles, you will find the success that you are looking for in your endeavors of high traffic to your site and earning profit.

Include keywords and keyword phrases in your article

First thing to do is to get a reliable tool to help you find relevant keywords and keyword phrases. My favorite one is free and you can find it here www.tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/

The article needs to be centered around the keyword or keyword phrases that you select. It is best to use only one keyword or phrase per article instead of trying to include many different ones.

The internet originated as a place to find information and to this day, it is still the place to go to find information. Sometimes a person is just browsing the internet to while away the time while others are searching for specific information - to find out information on a subject, to learn, for a report, to get ideas and the list goes on.

When writing articles, stick with the same subject as your site. Do the same when you select keywords. The reason is that a person that reads your article and likes the subject will click on the link to go to your site. If you site focuses on a different subject altogether, you will loose a potential client.

Keyword Volume

The number of times a keyword or phrase is used in the article can make it or break it. If you use it too many times, the search engines push it way down the list and if you use the correct amount of keywords, the search engines are your best friends because your article will rise to be at the top of the list in search results.

A quick search to find out how many keywords or phrases to use in your article will give you volume amounts or complicated mathematics. To keep it simple, here's an actual figure that you can use as a guideline: In an article that you write with around 500 words, which is a good size article to get the interest of your readers, use the keyword or phrase 12-13 times.

The Article Should Have First-rate Info

You want your article to entertain the reader or at least keep the person interested to learn about what you are writing. Providing good information is key to getting, keeping and increasing a readership. Write articles that are related to your website.

Do a quality check on your articles before sending them off to go into an article directory or to a blog. First go over the spelling to ensure that it is correct. Your word program or browser may have an automatic spell checker. If not, you can always go to spellchecker.net to use the free spell checking tool.

Misuse of words and confusing one word with another should also be checked. Use your home dictionary or go to www.dictionary.com to access a dictionary, thesaurus and a reference library. Some examples of often confused words are were and we're; which and witch; then and than.

Get Credit for Your Articles

The first way to get the credit for your articles is to put "written by" or just plain "by" at the top of your article. This is how your name will start getting known.

And, at the very bottom of an article, be sure to include your signature line. A signature line is a resource box and should contain a brief description of your site with a link to your site which helps the person to find your site, more information and to become a customer.

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Learn how writing articles can maximize your business success at Natural Growth Marketing

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