In my first post, I told you how to get great ideas for your affiliate marketing writing needs.
After you’ve gone through all of the areas noted looking for ideas, it’s time to sit down and write the article. You should now have a good idea for the article, but you need to figure out who is the best target audience for this information.

If you’re writing for a pet-focused group, you do NOT want your article to be about making money or self-help. It should solve a pet related problem. If you are submitting your article to article directories, be sure they have a section that includes your niche. Otherwise, you’ll be wasting your time submitting to them.

You should take about five minutes to brainstorm and write out some questions that you want to answer in your article. Don’t worry if you don’t know the correct answers right away — you can do more research later.

In fact, it’s a good hint you are on the right track if you don’t know all the answers. That usually means that you are not just writing on something that is common sense or too obvious. You’ll likely have valuable information and a different point of view to pass along.

After reading the niche articles you found, your mind will be focused on the job at hand. You’ll find that after about five minutes of brainstorming, you will have some interesting things to write about.

Now that you have some ideas for the article, and you know whom you are targeting, you need to determine what you want your article to accomplish. Are you writing to give your readers interesting information? Do you want them to click on a link to your website, subscribe to your ezine or buy something from you? Always begin with the end in mind.

In part three of this article writing series, I’ll show you how to properly format your article, so keep reading – and keep writing!