Did you know that you can have your own article directory for free?

I bet a lot of people know about it, but do you know how Article Directory can be a multiple source of income for you?

I once ran a few article directories. I didn’t know how much time it needed to be spent on maintaining them and I did not have a long term plan for these article directories.

So, I ditched them.

From this experience, I know that running one article directory is enough to take a lot of your time (unless you hire someone to approve the articles on your website).

The lesson is - if you want to build a business based on article directory approach, have one running smoothly before you consider building another article directory.

OK, now, once you get the article directory running, what should you do to monetize it?

There are a few ways to monetize article directory.

The more popular ones are selling ad space, putting up adsense codes and selling products on the website.

However, I wanna touch on one important way to monetize from this article directory website.

I call it “article directory mailing list gold”.

You heard people say that the money is in the list, and here is how you’ll get thousands of people in your list in a matter of weeks.

I’ve not seen anyone mention about it yet but you can make full use of the list of authors who submit their articles to your article directory to promote your product or affiliate program.

However, building a mailing list at a warp speed through article directory has a trick.

You can promote your article directory on your own but unless you do it in a bog way, you’ll never be able to build a huge article directory or mailing list.

Here’s what you can do.

1. After you built your article directory site, find a few article submission services to accept articles on autopilot. An example of these services are articlemarketer.com and isnare.com.

2. Contact them or find instructions on their websites on how you can accept the articles published on their websites by installing a few codes.

3. Install these codes on your article directory site and get ready to receive thousands of articles together with thousands of emails of the authors from these article submission services.

That’s it.

Not only you will receive articles that will populate your article directory in no time, you will get a mailing list that you can promote anything to them.

I normally send out promotions on products related to writing articles or software that will help authors get more exposure through their articles. And that works well because these products are targeted to these groups of people.

You can also build an article directory that focuses on a small niche and promote products that this group are looking for.

So, let me know what you think about article directory and leave your comment on this blog.

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Zamri Nanyan believes that anyone can make money online successfully, provided they have proper business mindset and persistent action. For more great business tips, go to http://www.zamrinanyan.com and subscribe to his “Online Profit” e-course for FREE.