The following is a guest post from Ben Pei at Peiprofit.com, where he teaches how to make money blogging. I waited for Ben to finish active duty to hopefully respond to comments directly .

To all bloggers out there, now is the time to start getting those creative writing skills back.

With modern advanced technology in communication comes the popularity of info-based marketing, which is one of the oldest and most effective techniques in getting targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers. This is why article writing, submissions and publications are also getting popular.

There are already many platforms and services that people can use to make the process of distributing their articles more easily. Though this is invaluable in getting the contents more exposure, which is only half of the story.

Are you making one of these common mistakes that most people do before submitting their contents to article directories?

A joint venture is a strategic alliance where two or more parties, usually businesses, form a partnership to share markets, intellectual property, assets, knowledge, and, of course, profits. Source.

About a year or two ago I read an article that I would like to share with you now. (Sorry, I don’t recall now who it came from.)

This article will teach you 10 great tips and show you the power of doing joint ventures. Many believe hands down that JV’s are the easiest way to start profiting from your business.

Personally speaking I rarely use words like “easiest” as it sounds so hype-ish, but these 11 ideas are definitely worth learning and they’re things that pretty much anyone of you could accomplish!

1. Find someone in your target market that either publishes an ezine or has a website.

Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message voluntarily. Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, interactive Flash games, advergames, ebooks, brandable software, images, or even text messages. Source.

Got that? Excellent! It’s an easy to learn and VERY effective technique, that should be a part of every online marketers arsenal (offline marketing as well).

Replicating your promotions in this manner will bring you RSS subscriptions, newsletter sign-ups and sales for weeks, months and even years down the road!

The following is 8 effective and (somewhat) simple ideas with which to achieve this. There are many many more of course, which we will surely get to over time.

1. Purchase Branding Rights To An Existing Viral eBook.

This is an awesome article from Dominique Goh. Just like the last guest, she writes completely from her own personal experience. This isn’t the average “tips” piece either. She chose instead to give personal insight into people she admires and websites she uses in the Article Marketing niche…

Enjoy!

Mommy Blogger Article Marketing Experience - Dominique Goh

2008 marked a great change in my online career. I had a “new baby” which I wanted to nurture- From Dominique’s Desk.

Being an educator writing articles is not really a problem for me as I am quite used to writing 300-400 word articles since my study days.

Getting inspiration and time to really sit down to pen out my thoughts & ideas was a challenge as I have to deal with two hyperactive boys aged 1 and 4.

The following guest post is from Andy, who writes for and manages DaBlogger.com. What I like most is the fact that he writes it all from Personal Experience as you will see. This is after all, the best way to write an article when applicable .

In the past few years, I have watched many social bookmarking sites grow and have huge effects on the internet. Many people don’t realize that they can use these sites to promote their own sites and get vast returns. Below are benefits that I have seen these sites have on other websites.

#1 - Instant Traffic
Social bookmarking sites can give your site an instant traffic boost. Getting one link of homepages of digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us or any other bookmarking site can give me huge traffic boosts.

Most traffic will be targeted since your post will be under specific categories and you can attach keywords to your posts.

Article marketing has long been considered by many to be one of the best ways to promote an online business. However, is it the best for YOU?

If you’re looking for promotion methods that cost little to nothing monetarily, then Article marketing might be your ticket. If you have the time to do things properly, then I say go all out and write! It has consistently proven itself as a very effective marketing strategy and shows no signs of slowing down.

Ahh TIME, this is where this method falls flat with a thud for many people. Between the writing and then submitting, this form of marketing can take a considerable amount of time; and this is time not everyone has spare. It can and has been successful for many businesses, but if you don’t have much time to spare, perhaps this is not the method for you.