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Writing articles and submitting them to a worldwide audience online can be very exciting in the beginning.

You start out with great ideas. Youâ??re motivated. Youâ??re inspired. Youâ??re ready, willing and able to educate audiences worldwide. Youâ??re psyched to start building your list with targeted leads so you can make more money online selling your books, products and services.

But, after a while, you run out of steam.

You find yourself sitting at your computer with your eyes in a blank stare and your fingers ready at the keyboard. But theyâ??re not typing.

Youâ??re stumped!

The muse isnâ??t so amused anymore. You start hunting for things to write about. And, when you finally get yourself together and try to write an article, it doesnâ??t flow. There is not much to say. Things are awkward. You donâ??t know how to begin and how to end.

So where do you turn when your idea arsenal is running low?

Here Are 5 Ways to Eliminate Writerâ??s Block So You Can Write Articles Fast to Build Traffic, Leads and Profits:

1. Uncover the Hidden Source of Story Ideas with Surveys

Marketing professionals have turned towards web surveys to do research, plan projects, get feedback, develop new products and services, and create public relations and marketing opportunities. So why arenâ??t you using surveys to drum up ideas for articles. Surveys are hidden sources of story ideas, providing rich, timely, interesting and intriguing information that you can use in your own articles.

2. Go Blog Hopping

Weâ??re all guilty of doing reading blogs from our blogroll on a regular basis. We canâ??t avoid it, even if we wanted to. However, the next time you blog hop, read your favorite blogs with the purpose of finding ideas to write articles about and ask yourself:

â?¢ What are bloggers and their readers interested in at the moment?

â?¢ What is the most popular topic that people blog about?

â?¢ Do I want to write about it too and create an article around that topic?

3. Use Your Own Blog as a Content Source

Your very own blog can become your best friend when it comes to writing articles. Your blog is a tool that will help you analyze what your audience is interested in. Review your blog posting archives. Find out which postings received the greatest number of reader comments â?? both positive and negative. Figure out which postings got the most views. Now you know exactly what your audience wants to know. So give them what they want, by writing articles based on your most popular topics..

4. Explore Article Directories

Article directories like EzineArticles.com are gold mines of ideas for article writers. Read articles written for your target audience to obtain ideas, but never plagiarize the actual articles.

The best article directories list the most popular or newest articles. Use this as your starting point. Then add your own ideas and experiences to develop the article ideas.

5. Relax Your Mind & Enjoy It All

By turning article writing into a burdensome, repetitive task, you will pay for it in stilted prose and cliché ideas. You must learn to relax and enjoy educating the World as you establish credibility, build link popularity and increase traffic, leads and sales.

A relaxed mind is an open mind. And an open mind is prepared to accept new and creative ideas for your article writing and marketing efforts.

Every single day I remind myself to enjoy the craft no matter whatâ?? and Iâ??m the article marketing expert. I know if I donâ??t remind myself to relax and enjoy writing articles to educate authors, experts, marketing professionals and business owners just like you, I would not be able to write articles on a daily basis.

I write articles for article submission. I write articles for my blog. I write articles to be posted on ArticleMarketingExperts.com. I write articles for the PR LEADS Article Markets Secrets & Breakthroughs Newsletter.

And, guess what?

I never ever run out of ideas, and you wonâ??t either if you relax your mind, enjoy the art and follow the strategies, I described in this article.

To really benefit from article marketing, you need to submit lots of quality articles with targeted keywords to the article directories. This way the search engines will pick up your articles, and expose them to people who are looking for your keywords.

Article marketing is a numbers game. The more articles you submit, the bigger chance publishers will use them and bring visitors to your website.

Now, a problem that you may face when you want to write lots of articles is finding a unique article idea.

There are a few ways to get inspiration. You can do your research online by using Google, or other search engines, to find new topics that you can write about. But did you know that Amazon is also a great place to find topics for a new article?

Picture yourself, standing in a gigantic bookstore. Now imagine that you had all the books on the subject you were researching, open at the same time right in front of you. How would you like to be able to flick through all the books, and instantly find the pages with your subject’s keywords on them?

This is exactly what Amazon has done for you. They have created a brilliant tool that is perfect for researching content, called Search Inside.

It’s an article writer’s dream; laser-targeted pages of content that you can read, digest and rewrite, and best of all, delivered to your computer in seconds.

Here’s how to do it.

Log in to Amazon. In the search box at the top, select Books and enter your search term or keywords in the box beside it. It is like a Google search but only 100 times better.

Example: if you want to do research on vegetable gardening, enter the exact term in the search box.

A whole list with books that cover your niche will appear. When you click the Search Inside link on top of the book cover that interests you, you can peek inside the book.

When you open the book, the table of contents appears. You can take notes of the book contents, and use them later to create your new article. If you have an Amazon account, you can even read whole chapters of the book for free.

Another great way to use Amazon for your research is the option to see all the keywords that are being used to bring up the book. You can place these keywords strategically in your own article, to get the search engines happy, and attract more visitors.

Amazon is an incredible and free to use resource tool. You can use it to do unlimited searches on any topic that you can think of. All of the books listed are written by professional writers, who know what they write about.

Every time you need inspiration for an article, you can go back to Amazon. It’s a great and fun place to find unlimited article topics and ideas.