As part of your personal branding efforts it is a good idea to write articles about topics that support your career strengths, and to post them on online article banks.
When you have written an article it is very thrilling to find that others have reprinted it on their websites and blogs and in their newsletters, especially when you see that your article has been translated. When you add your articles to article banks, people are welcome to do this, however there is a rule, they must also reprint the ‘authors bio’ box in full too.
Do, be sure to check once in a while to make sure your intellectual property is not being stolen. Simply drop in the URL of the page your article is published on into the tool on this page: http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/url and any and all reprints will come up.
If your article is being plagiarized, contact the perpetrators and insist that they either add your bio or take your article down. If they ignore your request, you can, and should report them.
For more information about this and for great marketing ideas attend my next weekend seminar - where in one weekend we will take you from where you are now, to having a full page of Google hits, at least one article published online, and you presenting a topic of your choice live on Youtube!
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