Coffee Break

I got me a new coffee mug - but it’s not just any ol’ coffee mug this time. It’s a bona fide I Love ezinearticles coffee mug and it showed up in my front hallway this morning - a complete surprise!

If you do any Google searches at all, chances are good that you’ve run into ezinearticles.com in the results. They’re one of the oldest - and definitely the best known - article directories on the web. Thousands of writers have been posting their expert articles on EzineArticles.com for years. They practically developed the ‘free articles for promotion” model for article directories.

The idea is that you write articles about your area of expertise, and post them on Ezine Articles along with an author’s Resource Box that includes your name and a link to your web site. The articles have to conform to fairly strict guidelines for quality writing in order to be approved, but once they’re approved, they are made available on the Ezine Articles web site along with permission to reprint the article in full as long as the Resource Box and any links contained in the article and resources are kept intact.

I wrote a handful of articles at Ezine Articles back in 2006 as samples to bring business in for a freelance writing network of which I was part - and then more or less forgot them until recently when another of my customers asked me to write several articles a month at Ezine Articles with links back to his site. Since it’s a cause that is near and dear to my heart - environmental and technology related - I agreed happily, and posted another five articles over a couple of months.

That brought my total articles on Ezine Articles to 10, which triggers a review of your account for upgrading from basic author status to basic plus author status - that allows you to post another 25 articles on the site. That’s how it usually goes - but if the editors really like your work and all of your articles have been approved with no problems, they sometimes skip you right past Basic Plus to Platinum membership - which allows you to post as many articles as you want, and shortens the length of time you wait for article approval.

To my surprise, I was one of the writers that got skipped past Basic Plus directly to Platinum membership, making me a very happy camper. But that was nothing to how delighted I was when my son stepped out in the hallway to take out the trash and returned with a package from EzineArticles in hand - it apparently was delivered yesterday and overlooked. Inside was an EzineArticles mug - and a packet of totally nummy Lighthouse Blend Coffee from Door County Coffee - which I am thoroughly enjoying right now, and may just order for myself so I can enjoy it even more.

So - thanks, EzineArticles! Love the mug, adore the coffee, LOVE EzineArticles.com!

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