Youve heard everywhere that submitting articles may increase your online exposure, but heres a quick run down of all the other benefits you can expect. Believe me, it really is worthwhile writing articles.

1. You will brand your website, business and yourself by submitting articles to ezines. You could add your name, business title , your credentials, website address and e-mail address in your resource box. With more articles published, your title will become synonymous with quality products.

2. You will become known as an expert on the topics you write about. This will give you and your business excess credibility which will help you compete against your competition.

3. Your article might also be placed on the publishers home page. If they publish each issue on their home page this will give you some extra exposure.

4. You might get more exposure if the ezine publisher archives their ezine on their page . People might want to read the back issues before they contruct the decision to subscribe.

5. You will get costless advertising. This will allow you to spend your profits on other forms of selling . You could buy advertisements in other ezines that dont publish your articles.

6. You might get more income from all the people wanting to hire you to write other articles, books, or even inquire of to speak at seminars. This is a nice way to multiply your income.

7. You could allow ezine publishers to publish your articles in their free of price ebooks. Since everybody give them away, your branding could multiply all over the internet.

8. You will get your article published all over the web when you submit it to an ezine publisher that has a free of price content directory on their web page . Theyll allow their visitors to republish your article.

9. You will acquire peoples trust. If they read your article and like it, they wont be as hesitant to buy your merchandise or service. You will then be able to increase your profits.

10. You could get your article guaranteed to run in an ezine. You could agree to run one of their articles in your ezine if, in exchange, they run yours in their ezine. Its a win/win situation.

The real benefit of writing articles is that it is a long term promotion strategy. Yes, you will get visitors straight away, but as instant goes on, your article will be picked up instant and measure again.

Roger Mayne is the author of Traffic For Words. Never spend another cent on promoting when you learn the power of viral selling articles. To find out more visit http://www.trafficforwords.com