Why Use IdeaMarketers?

IdeaMarketers is one of the most highly visited and quoted content sites on the Internet. Pick up just about any book or ebook that covers online marketing and you'll find a recommendation for using IdeaMarketers to garner publicity for your business. Educating people on your area of expertise with a well-crafted article that is placed on sites and ezines throughout the internet and in print publications establishes you as an expert in your field. You can't beat this type of free publicity! When people read your informative article and then see your resource box and link, a large percentage of them will click to visit your site to learn more about how you can help them.

What Is an IdeaMarketer?

IdeaMarketers.com is a place for ideamarketers, so it's only logical that a definition of the term would be the best place to start when telling people what the site is about and what they can do with it.

An ideamarketer is a very specific type of individual who is different than just your ordinary person with an idea or the everyday person peddling a product. Just as the word "entrepreneur" conveys a different feeling and connotation than the word "businessperson," so does the noun "ideamarketer" from the term "marketer."

definition:
ideamarketer
 i-de-a-mar-ket-er
- noun

  • a person who is passionate about an idea - so passionate that s/he takes the necessary action to turn their idea into a reality;
  • a person with deeply held beliefs or philosophies who feels compelled to share them with the rest of the world;
  • a person who generates innovative thoughts, plans, products or services and then takes action to create, implement, and promote them;
  • a person who feels s/he has a message to share and is willing to make the world a better place by sharing it.

Given this definition, it is the mission of IdeaMarketers.com to be an environment where ideamarketersTM thrive - where they can share their message, promote their products and services, and have a springboard from which they can improve the world.

Bottom line… ideamarketersTM aren't just out there peddling any old product or service from which they think they can make a dollar. There are people with ideas, and then there are IdeamarketersTM... people who turn ideas into action. If you're such a person, IdeaMarketers.com is here to help you do it.

What Is IdeaMarketers?

IdeaMarketers was created in December of 1998 allowing individuals to post articles to be featured on the site. Articles are stored in a searchable database. Web surfers, researchers, publishers, webmasters and ezine editors can then come in and find content. If you're a publisher or a webmaster, there's a link on the top of every article that you can click on and "Request Reprint" permission from the author to use the article. The author can then accept or reject the request. The answer is almost always yes, because that's why they put the article on the site anyway! The general custom is that you get permission and then you can publish the article as long as you use the author's bio/contact information.

A Few Statistics

IdeaMarketers is the longest running article directory on the Web established in December 1998 and still run by the original owner! In May 2008, we served up over 4 million page views to over 500,000 people. An average of about 11,000 new articles are added each month to IdeaMarketers. Currently we have 300,000+ articles in our database.

If you're a writer or a publisher, and would like to learn how IdeaMarketers can help you be more successful in your business, Click here.

The last 60-days worth of submissions are accessible for free. To get access to the full library of 1,000's articles, you'll need a subscription to Publisher's Toolbox PRO ($14.95/mo) or Publisher's Goldmine ($9.95/month). These are two tools that help you find content for your newsletter, website or other publication. Most of our authors have preauthorized their articles for PRO and Goldmine Subscribers. This means no waiting for permissions to come back.

If you mainly just want access to content, consider the Publisher's Goldmine.

Publisher's Toolbox PRO is a newsletter/site builder that can build web-based and email newsletters or Web sites. You select the articles in a shopping-cart style fashion and it builds the pages or email ezine for you. You can even stream selected articles or articles-by-category straight onto your Web site - saving you hours in article formatting time. Click here for details. To use the newsletters that it builds -- you just drag & drop them into an email message, make any changes you want, and send it out.

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Who Runs This Site?

Marnie L. Pehrson is the creator of IdeaMarketers.com and owner of C.E.S. Business Consultants which was founded in May 1990. 

Marnie Pehrson has been highlighting truth and talent her whole life. Whether she's writing a novel that spotlights individuals who've made a difference in the world or helping a talented entrepreneur create a platform for his life's work, or giving a seminar on how to live your purpose, Marnie's life is about underscoring truth and talent in innovative and compelling ways.

Marnie, a mother of six, illuminates the world by providing a stage from which positive messages can be presented. Her Web sites IdeaMarketers.com, SheLovesGod.com, BelieversAtWork.com and IAmJoyful.com are designed with this objective in mind.

Through writing and speaking Marnie teaches the principles behind a life well lived - the laws that bring both personal and professional blessings. Then she offers practical automated tools for creating your own WOW online.

Listen to Marnie's daily Create a WOW Podcast here. Read her personal Power of Gratitude Blog for more insights. IdeaMarketers also maintains several other topic-specific expert blogs here.

Marnie's projects include (among others):

IdeaMarketers Staff

Operations Manager
Luanna Rodham 
Oversees day-to-day operations of IdeaMarketers.com and the Expert 360 Program.
Proofreading 
Betty Morton
Betty fulfills proofreading requests. All articles Betty proofs appear on www.ReadyToPublish.com and have the RTP (Ready to Print) logo next to them on IdeaMarketers.com 

Blogs and Social Media
Greg Pehrson
Greg manages our expert blogs and promotes our experts through social media outlets.
blogs@ideamarketers.com 


Audio/Video Production
Laurel Pehrson
Laurel handles audio and video production for IdeaMarketers and the CreateAWOW.com podcast.


Recommendation

"I heard about this thing called 'article marketing' and that's how I came across Marnie and IdeaMarketers.com Marnie is the President of this mega portal for writers and business owners who want to promote their businesses, books, products and services by offering helpful advice and articles that benefit others. This priority of helping others first is at the heart of Marnie's own philosophy. She works tirelessly to put her clients needs first and foremost in her business decisions. The result is a web site that's much more than an "article site." It's a resource that inspires people with great ideas, connects aspiring entrepreneurs with valuable contacts and tools, and does it with a minimum of cost, if any at all.

Thanks to Marnie and IdeaMarketers.com, I now receive about 1/3 of my lead flow free through articles that have been syndicated/published off her site. That means less money out the door to Google Adwords and other PPC engines and a higher calibre of clientele. If you think I'm high on what Marnie does, you're right... I spent 18 years running an ad agency and this is one of the best returns on investment I've seen. She lives and proves the idea of 'give and it shall be given.'" - Phillip Davis of Tungsten Brand Marketing