This may be the most important tip I've ever written about getting results from article marketing. If you implement this, you will see big impact to your results. You may feel skeptical, but read on anyway. It won't take you long.

As you begin to get traffic from your articles, you may start wondering how much traffic you will need to make the first sale. With the trickling traffic, it may seem forever to break into the first sale.If you don't follow up, that may be true. Site owners often brag about millions of hits in to their sites but that doesn't matter because hits don't have a cherub attached to them.

The real question is how many of them actually buy?

As article marketers, you should think long term. Focus on capturing the name and email address your site visitors. Offer them something valuable they cannot resist but take the offer.

Once you let them in, you are free to give more information and educate them about the problems and benefits of your solution and your products.The Internet makes follow up a cost effective process. You can automate the follow up once you have written the series of messages and loaded them into the auto responder system.People rarely buy on their first contact. If you follow up, you increase the chance to get the sale. Researches find that it takes 6-8 times of contact before the prospects will actually buy.

If you expose them to the product immediately, you will only get some impulse buyers and not maximizing the potential of article marketing. Sure, you need to optimize the entire process from resource box to your site landing page, but once you have a rounded strategy, you will get better results.

Seeing this from this standpoint, articles are just traffic generation strategy. It brings you traffic but it is up to you if you want to capture that prospects or not.

Do you want to learn the secrets about article writing and marketing? If I can drive more than 12,688 unique visitors to my site each month, you can do it too if you know the secrets.