Article Cupboard - My Favorite Free Article Directory

There are an astounding number of article directories available on the worldwide web. Many of these are truly fantastic, but just as many are deplorable. If you are a professional copywriter, you will want to stay clear of article depositories that accept content from anyone, regardless of grammar, punction, spelling and reading flow.  Some of these directories contain postings that would make a second grade teacher gasp at the improper verbiage.

As a writing professional, you should only post your material in an article directory that scrutinizes submissions to ensure they are free of grammatical errors and are composed in flawless English. When you demand these parameters, the number of viable free article directories drops significantly.



Free Article Directory

 Very few free article directories boast editorial teams that review submitted content. One of the best, boasting an editorial team consisting of accredited, professional copywriting editors is Article Cupboard. Fortunately, their editorial staff weeds out submissions that are substandard. In fact, submitting authors who continuously attempt to post material that contains grammatical errors, mispellings, poor reading flow and unauthorized HTML tags in their content, will be banned by the service from future submissions.

This ensures that your articles will be posted in a directory that is often used by webmasters because of the high quality articles it contains. It also means that your talent will be viewed by more people, as folks tend to go where they will find superlative reading material versus piles of trashy text.

If you want to increase your visibility on the worldwide web as a professional copywriter, then do yourself a major favor.  Ensure that Article Cupboard is on your list of article directories where you regularly submit content.

Discovering the Benefits of Copywriting Tools

The job of a copywriter is no picnic; there is much pressure to produce copy that gets the attention of the target audience. Customers pay copywriters to increase their sales and expect exceptional results. You can read all about discovering the benefits of copywriting tools right here in this article.

One of the best ways to get the reader involved in what you have written is to use a conversational style of writing. Providing copy that is reader friendly makes a big difference in how long you hold the reader’s attention.

Copywriting is an art and we need all the tools of the trade to help make each creation a successful one. Infusing copy with warmth and enthusiasm along with useful information is very important to writing good copy.

All of the effort you put into it is one aspect of good writing. The other essential aspect is access to the best and most appropriate writer’s tools to help you achieve success with the writing you do.

There are several copywriter tools that can be used to enhance writing productivity, so let’s find out about some of the top rated writing tools that will help you achieve success in your writing.

Books are an invaluable resource and there are some books that are considered perfect writer’s tools. These include books on grammar, punctuation, dictionary/thesaurus book and a freelancer’s glossary among others. Have two sets of books if you do a lot of traveling and need to write on the go.  These are essential and valuable tools that are must haves for your writing; as such they should be part of your laptop checklist for travel.

Software is another one of those valuable tools for copywriters. There are several really brilliant software programs available that will help you write excellent copy. Impressive software packages that analyze copy for efficiency and profitability are really worth the investment you make in obtaining them.

There is a very good software package called Scribe Juice – it helps produce highly responsive copy in relatively short time spans. It also helps you turn dull and boring copy into exciting, attention grabbing copy. Knowing the right words to use and being able to select the ones that rivet the readers’ attention while urging them toward buying a product is what good copywriting is all about.

Using writer’s tools for effective copywriting is very beneficial in terms of time saved. Hunting out the right words to persuade the target audience to convert to paying customers is quite a task. Playing the guessing game is nothing but a waste of time. Knowing for a certainty what works best in the online market is a great way to cut down on time spent writing copy.

The internet has brought us many advantages and one of the best is finding ready to use tools for copywriters. With these tools it is imminently possible to turn out copy that really gets the reader excited and motivated. Why not unleash your creative genius by letting your imagination soar to heights you never dreamed possible with the right tools for copywriting to assist you in your work.

About the author:

Michelle Antonio is a staff SEO copywriter at Precise Authoring Services, LLC. Her consistency and creative writing talent has resulted in attracting and maintaining thousands of clients who demand her skills for their website content, articles, press releases and more. Michelle’s copy is in syndication across the worldwide web.

The Individual as Webmaster, Copywriter and SEO Expert

Your Website

One edge that large corporations and international organizations have over the small business owner is the luxury of higher staffing levels. With the ability to expand staff comes the advantage of hiring specialized experts to handle every aspect of their online visibility. Many large enterprises have complete web development teams that include designers, graphic artists, copywriters and SEO specialists. For most small business entities, this level of staffing is unattainable.

 There are basically three options that a small business owner may consider.  The first is to opt not to promote their company online. Although this will eliminate the extra work involved in building, maintaining and promoting a website, it also means disregarding a large section of the population and its inherent market share. Unless your company’s products or services are localized, only for your base demographic, this is probably not the optimum option to achieve success.

The second option is to engage the talent you need for each project on a contractual basis. Depending on your organization’s cash flow, this may be a viable alternative. It is important to realize however that hiring subcontractors for every aspect of your online presence can end up being rather costly. As with almost everything in life, you tend to get what you pay for when selecting the companies or individual freelancers to handle the building and promoting of your website.

Yes, you can find copywriters who will accept work at cheap rates, and the results you will receive will almost always be substandard. Content and article written by these individuals who claim to be copywriters is typically abhorred, containing misspellings, grammatical errors and less than stellar reading flow. The same hold true for SEO specialists, graphic designers and web development companies. If you entertain thoughts of subcontracting your website development, promotion and maintenance, it is highly recommended that you verify references and require work samples before you engage any individual or company.

The third option is to attempt to handle some aspects of your online presence on your own. Before deciding to utilize this approach, take an honest and frank look at your skills and capabilities. With thousands, if not millions, of free web templates available online, you may decide to forego hiring a graphic artist or web page designer.  Many hosting services provide free templates that are easy to edit as part of their hosting services.

The world of search engine optimization can be quite confusing for a novice. Optimizing your website helps it to gain ranking on the major search engines, which in turn helps to increase traffic to your web pages. Increased traffic is needed to increase sales and revenue. Keywords, meta-tags, titles, descriptions and content on your site have an impact in the SEO process.  Most expert copywriters are talented and recognized for their ability to meld keywords into content text without negatively impacting reading flow. They are also very astute at creating web page copy that entices readers to remain on your site, purchase your products or services and promote return business.

If you choose to write your own copy, then it may behoove you to utilize some of the copywriting tools available online. These aids assist with grammar, spelling and keyword selection and placement. Additionally, for those who are severely challenged when it comes to the written word, there are software programs that can assist you in developing your content.  If you opt for this methodology, it is wise to ensure you proof read and edit the copy generated prior to loading it on your website.  Often text developed using these types of software packages will have contextual errors and less than adequate flow.

Whatever approach you decide to embark on to create an online presence for your business, remember that every new endeavor often includes obstacles that may inhibit your progress. One should not despair, but view the trial and error as an opportunity to build and perfect one’s skill sets. Persistence, aided with perseverance will pay off in the end.   

About the author:

Melissa Parken is the senior editor and an expert SEO copywriter at Precise Authoring Services, LLC. Her consistency and creative writing talent has resulted in attracting and maintaining thousands of clients who demand her skills for their website content, articles, press releases and more. Melissa’s copy is in syndication across the worldwide web.

Brevard Seniors Search the Web for Services

Seniors on the Web

Living in Florida, I am always amazed at the number of senior citizens who make up my local demographic. Having parents that are members of the geriatric group, I have often been astounded at some of the hurdles they must jump through just to find senior service providers in their local area. I was also rather astonished to find that my parents, as well as hundreds of seniors like them, use the internet to locate what they want or need.

In a recent conversation with my mother, I was disturbed to discover that she had spent several hours weeding through search results to locate a provider in her area, and source the specific items she needed. Although much less expensive than driving around going from pharmacy to pharmacy, or making numerous calls from her mobile phone, the web search process exhausted her.

Seniors Surf

In an attempt to help her out, I stumbled upon the Brevard Senior Directory online and have now added it to her bookmarks. This resource, specifically focused to Brevard seniors, is a powerful directory of every service imaginable in a simple to use database. All that is required for a person to do is select a service category to conduct a search.  They can further limit the results obtained by also filtering by city.

Just like any other web-based search engine or directory, use of the search is absolutely free, which is a big plus for those living on fixed incomes. Better yet, this comprehensive online directory contains data for every type of service possible, from hair dressers to physical therapists, pharmacies to travel agencies, even pet services such as dog sitting and grooming establishments. Every service a senior could imagine requiring is listed in the directory!

I wondered how the search service operates without charging seniors anything for using their site.  Come to find out, the businesses listed there may list for free, but also have the option to expand their listing, add graphics, links and promote their companies by purchasing a paid listing option. With a little comparison shopping on marketing costs, the fees charged by the Brevard Senior Directory are extremely affordable.  The free listings and the low prices for the premium listings are surely one of the reasons why the BSD is so comprehensive and inclusive.

My parents are so enthralled with the ease of use - they have shared the BSD link with all their friends in the Brevard senior community. To have instant access to a directory of services targeted to seniors with just a few keystrokes and mouse clicks has made searching for local services simple and uncomplicated. Mom and dad are both in agreement, they’ll turn to the Brevard Senior Directory every time they need to locate a product supplier or service provide within the Brevard senior community.

About the author: Melissa Parken is a senior editor and SEO copywriter at Precise Authoring Services, based in Brevard County, Florida. Many of her articles and e-books are currently in global syndication across the worldwide web.

Tempted by the Forbidden

Forbidden Fruit

Since the age of human awareness and the tempting of man with forbidden fruit, that which is prohibited always draws people in. As children, we received the list of forbidden places that we were not allowed to visit. Even some body parts, such as genitalia, were forbidden places for our touch or that of another.

Why does the forbidden attract us?  Perhaps it is the pure mystery of what is unknown.  From the desire of pubescent males to visit the forbidden places of sexual arousal, such as a strip club or topless bar to the young girls trying to peek inside the boy's locker room door, the places that were off-limits were attractions to be desired.  The "not knowing" creating a level of curiosity that many have trouble subduing.

Even as adults, forbidden places draw us in. How many politicians have seen the demise of their careers due to a night of lusty temptations at a brothel? Just look at the periodicals by the retail check-out stands and you'll find that pursuit of the prohibited is the major topic of most covers.

Video cameras constantly capture every day people going where they shouldn't or engaging in activity that is not acceptable. Whether it's sneaking into a storage room for a quick encounter or pilfering from the supply locker, forbidden places and activities are commonplace in society. Humans, in varying degrees, are drawn to investigate those things that are not allowed.

Practically everyone has an underlying urge or fantasy about forbidden places and illicit activities. These private meanderings of our minds are often kept secret. Perhaps that is the way we maintain our uniqueness, remain mysterious and entice the attentions of others. Perhaps our desire for the unknown and forbidden is what has kept us, as a species, from extinction!

However, it is just that meandering, that short excursion into the world of the forbidden, that has brought our society to the level of apathy and abhorrent behavior that is so prevalent today. Perhaps puritanical approaches have made the forbidden ever more appealing, that legislative restrictions have inspired some to push the limits further and engage in what we consider deviant behavior. Certainly history shows that prohibition of alcohol created mass communities of those who flagrantly violated the law.

If nothing else, it certainly provides us with fodder for consternation. A greater mind than mine will be required to develop a methodology for making the forbidden less attractive to future generations.


About the author: Melissa Parken is a senior editor and expert SEO copywriter for Precise Authoring Services. She consistently contributes thoughtful articles, web content, press releases and more for syndication on the worldwide web.

Breast Cancer Genetic Testing Impacts Health Insurance

Prior to consenting to genetic testing for breast cancer chromosome mutations, one should understand the impact that such testing may or may not have on health insurance underwriting. With the dawn of this new technological ability and advances in identifying genetic mutations rapidly becoming available, the legal system hasn’t quite yet covered all the bases for protecting individuals from discriminatory practices based on results obtained from the procedures.

BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic testing identifies alterations or mutations in the genes that identify a higher risk for breast and ovarian cancers. Most major health plans will cover the costs of this genetic testing for women who have a family history of breast cancer.  Typically, if a woman has a first-degree relative who has been diagnosed with breast cancer under the age of fifty, she will qualify in most major medical plans. When an individual covered under a group health insurance plan is treated differently from other participants due to these genetic testing results, this is a discriminatory practice. If you are contemplating a BRCA test, there are a few important facts you need to know.

If the tested individual receives a positive result for the BRCA alterations, they may incur difficulties with insurance underwriting.  It must be noted that if the person is covered under an employer’s group health insurance plan, they have some protection from this.  The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Acct or 1996 (also known as HIPAA) prohibits group health plans from discrimination based on genetic test results if there is no disease present. A participant in such a group health plan may not be denied coverage based on a genetic test result. However, the Act does not restrict insurers from obtaining genetic test data.  Furthermore, an employer is not required to provide health insurance benefits to its employees. Most employers offer health insurance coverage as part of an employee’s compensation package to remain competitive in the talent acquisition market.

Currently, there are no specific US Federal anti-discrimination laws to protect individuals whose employers have knowledge of their positive BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic test results.  It is worth noting that in 1995, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) considers people who have a positive genetic test result that places them in a higher risk for contracting genetic diseases as “disabled”.  ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, offers some level of nondiscrimination protection from employers who make employment decisions based solely on the individual’s disability. As of this writing, there has not been a case before the courts, so there is no precedent set regarding genetic testing based discriminatory behavior.

Several states have laws regarding employers and group health insurance plans with regard to genetic testing.  These laws vary from state to state, so it is in the individual’s best interest to research the laws applicable to the state where they reside.  Several national non-profit agencies such as Komen for the Cure and the National Breast Cancer Foundation continually strive to raise awareness to this issue.   As there is currently no cure for breast cancer, early detection will provide the woman her best chances for survival.  BRCA genetic testing will assist in determining risk, and may make prophylactic surgery a woman’s best option.  The fear is that women who should be genetically tested will not do so out of fear of discriminatory treatment.  This could impede the woman’s options for any prophylactic treatment.

About the author: Melissa Parken is a Senior Editor and SEO copywriter at Precise Authoring Services, a consortium of professional authors. She and the P.A.S. writing team provide expertly written articles, SEO web content, press releases and more for a myriad of global clients.

When Marriage Counseling is Advised

Lack of Comunication Skills

How to go about saving a marriage when it’s falling apart stitch by stitch, seams tearing in places where once strength abounded? As a couple, both you and your once beloved have lost the foundation of belief you once had. Spite and anger are now the swords that you do battle with. You may no longer refer to yourselves as a unit, a couple. You see yourselves as two beings engaged in war-like conduct, whether verbal or physical. Historical arguments and pain are consistently referred to and this makes conciliation unlikely without intervention. Individually, you may have both engaged in sexual conduct outside of your marital vows.

Even when facing such major issues, marriages can be repaired. This is rarely an easy task and one that requires commitment from both parties. One of the most successful routes to pursue for reconciliation is professional marriage counseling.

The mere term marriage counseling and therapy terrorizes many couples. The stigma attached with marriage counseling are of failure, an acknowledgment of disappointment and an admission of guilt. Family counseling statistics show that in the recent years, the success of divorce has led to a catastrophic breakdown of the revered institution of marriage. According to recent statistics, in the U.S.A alone, divorce rates quadrupled from 1970 to 1999. It is reported that nearly 1 in 5 marriages lead to divorce but may be even higher than that. Also, 60% of divorces take place within the first decade of marriage.

Countries all over the world are experiencing a surge in divorce rates. Because of the stigma attached to these failing rates, people may shy away from marriage counseling programs even though they are offered by professional marriage counselors. Instead, these conditions are ideal to foster a new-found interest in marriage counseling for marriages that are, either at the brink of divorce or couples who want to give their marriages a second life.

Marriage counseling and/or family counseling is a form of therapy in which a clinician sees both spouses together to resolve problems in their relationship. This was virtually nonexistent within the mental health establishment during the early part of the 20^th century. Marriage counseling is essentially personalized education in relationship building skills to make good marriages better and bad marriages good by offering love advice and methods for resolving conflict.

About the author: Melissa Parken is a Senior Editor and SEO copywriter at Precise Authoring Services, a consortium of professional authors. She and the P.A.S. writing team provide expertly written articles, SEO web content, press releases and more for a myriad of global clients.