From the course: Writing Articles

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Promote your article

Promote your article

- It used to be that once you wrote and submitted your article, your part was done. Editors would make adjustments, publishers would share it with the world, and writers would bask in their glory. Well those days are over. Today, writers need to take an active role in promoting their published work. And there are two reasons why. First, you've worked so hard to create this article, and you want to get as many eyes on it as possible. But there's a seemingly endless supply of content out there for readers to choose from. It's coming at them from email, social media, cell phone alerts, postal mail, grocery store check out lines. If you really want to be read by people who are being bombarded with things to read, then you can't leave it to chance that they'll even see your article in the ocean of content that washes over them daily. You've got to help bring their attention to it, and social media is a terrific way to do…

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