Today there are over 300,000 online newsletters and electronic magazines (often called “ezines”  
for short) and the numbers grow daily. They cover virtually any topic you can think of, ranging  
from working at home to parenting to genealogy. 

But here’s the biggest secret of all:  most of them rely on outside contributors for their  
information. In fact, many ezine publishers are starving for quality content.  Consequently, they  
need experts (and you are an expert on something, aren’t you?) to provide short articles, tips, and 
advice to their readers.  And we’re not talking major treatises or giant tomes here; most ezines  
publish articles as short as a paragraph or two. 

Usually, you won’t get paid a dime for your contribution.  However, because the publication will  
run your byline (which includes your name, company, and address-either physical or cyber), you’ll  
end up getting leads in the dozens or hundreds every time your article runs.  That’s dozens or  
hundreds of new visitors to your shop, Web site, or publication.  For free. 

So, just how do you go about finding ezines that want what you have to contribute?  Well, you can  
find and approach individual publishers and offer your articles or tips.  But that’s often  
time-consuming, frustrating, and difficult.  The single best approach is simply to post your  
contribution to one of the growing number of free article distribution services that are sprouting  
up across the Web.  These services are frequented by ezine publishers looking for content and  
posting information about your article is the quickest way to get noticed. 

Depending upon the individual service, you to post your article on their site, set up an  
autoresponder (a reply service that sends your article automatically to anyone who requests it; all  
without your intervention), or include the article or information about it in an online announcement 
service that they offer. 

Here are my favorite places to announce your articles: 

EzineArticles web site.  
Provides an ezine and a web site with archived and autoresponder-based articles. You can  
subscribe to the E-ZineZ Article Distribution Digest at http://www.e-zines.com/publishers.htm.  
You can find articles at http://www.ezinearticles.com.  You can submit article summaries to both  
the ezine and the web site. 

Free Content ezine. 
This ezine lets authors submit article summaries and publishers list needs. The editor prefers  
article summaries, but recent issues of the ezine have included complete works. To subscribe,  
send  a blank e-mail to: Free-Content-subscribe@onelist.com 

IdeaMarketers web site. 
A very thorough site.  If you’re looking for broad exposure,  I’d make this one of your first stops.  
You actually post your complete article to the site. http://www.ideamarketers.com 

MediaPeak web site. 
Provides free content to over 2,000 online publishers.  The content is distributed to publishers via  
an email service, to which you can subscribe by sending a blank e-mail to e-wire-on@mail-list.com. 
Submit complete articles and up to four-line taglines to either: mediapeak@mindspring.com or  
submitnews@aol.com.  Articles are archived at the web site, http://www.mediapeak.com. The web  
site also has a content exchange section where publishers announce their needs. 

PublishInYours ezine. 
Designed primarily for you to post complete articles.  To subscribe, send a blank e-mail to:  
PublishInYours-subscribe@onelist.com 

Web-Source web site. 
You can submit your article reference, as long as it’s in an autoresponder, to the web site at the  
following: http://www.web-source.net/links/Articles_For_Publication/.  You can also subscribe  
to and submit articles to the companion ezine, the “Writer and Publisher Connection,” by sending a 
blank e-mail to: article_announce-subscribe@egroups.com. 

WriteBusiness web site. 
In the  “Articles Reprint” section. http://www.writebusiness.com 

Writers & Publishers Online ezine. 
If you’re a publisher with article needs, or an author with articles you want to distribute to online  
publications, you can send a summary of your needs to: submit@list-content.com 
To subscribe to this excellent monthly publication, join-wpo@list-content.com>.  I suggest 
subscribing first to get a feel for a style of the publication and the format of your submissions. 

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Michael Werner is the former President and founder of two-time INC. 500 company, InfoSource, 
Inc.  He is currently the CEO of intellectua.com, a publisher of how-to, business, computing, and  
Internet e-books and tools. You can subscribe to the company’s award-winning, all original-content 
ezine, The DirtSmart Netpreneur, weekly news and tools for the small enterprise and home-based  
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