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Your articles offer you the unique opportunity to gain expert status in your reader's eyes.

What are the perks of being regarded as an expert?

Imagine a potential customer typing your name into Google and being greeted with a lengthy list of your articles, all on your specialized topic, and written in a way that makes the reader think, "Wow--he really knows what he's talking about!"

When a reader sees that type of display of your authority, it builds his confidence in your abilities, your products, your website, and your services.

Yes, there is more to article marketing than just building links!

Here are five ways you can convey expertise in your articles:

1. Actively work toward increasing your knowledge, and aim to be an expert in your field.

You may not think of yourself as an expert, but if you own a business and/or website on a certain topic, you need to either be an expert or be actively working to increase your knowledge so that you reach expert status.

It may take you a while to achieve a really in depth knowledge, but in the meantime portray what you do know with confidence.

2. Develop a teaching mentality.

Write in a way that beginners can understand. Teach specific lessons. 'How To' articles are always a good idea. Watch your vocabulary--don't use niche jargon that the average reader would not understand.

3. Submit articles consistently.

The sheer volume of quality articles that you submit over an extended period of time speaks to your expertise in your field.

Imagine that there are two professionals in a field. One of them has only submitted a handful of articles while the other has hundreds of helpful teaching articles on all aspects of a specific topic--which one would you regard as an expert?

The one with the largest collection of quality content on his or her topic would be seen as being more of an authority.

Maybe you are knowledgeable, but you are not the absolute top dog in your niche (yet)--you can make up for that by consistently writing and submitting articles.

4. Your writing (and your knowledge) will improve with the more articles you write.

Writing articles is a great way to stimulate learning for yourself and your readers. No matter how confident you are of your knowledge, five years from now if you look back at the articles you're writing today you're bound to think, "Wow--I've really grown!"

Look at 'expert status' as a work in progress. It takes time and effort. Be patient with yourself.

5. Expertise is relative.

If you're just starting out, write on what you understand. You can be an expert at teaching introductory concepts. Do not pretend to know more than you do, but fully explore what you do know in your articles.

As a newcomer to your field, you actually have some advantages. You can easily tap into the best way to explain a beginner concept because you remember what confused you when you were starting out.

Remember, the next time you sit down to write an article--you are an expert!

Present your ideas clearly and carefully. Work to expand your knowledge on a consistent basis. Write consistently and accumulate a library of articles that speak to your authority in your field.


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There are several common misconceptions about dial-up connection speeds. For example, even if you are using a 56K modem, you are unfortunately not really connecting at 56 kbps. Because of physical limitations and FCC regulations, the highest connection speed possible on dial-up is 51-53 kbps. Most people connect at about 24-48 kbps (kilobits per second).

When you first get connected on dial-up, you should get a pop-up in the lower right corner of the screen telling you your connection speed, e.g., “You are now connected at 32.4 kbps.”

If you don't see a pop-up, you can also check your connection speed while you are connected. From your control panel, open your Network Connections window and double-click the icon for your dial-up connection. Your connection statistics should show in that window and the speed will be listed first.

Once you determine your speed, you can determine download times. However, you must first understand units of measurement and conversion rates. When measuring transfer rate (ie., how many bits can be downloaded per second) of Internet connections, the size increments are 1000. Therefore, a kilobit is 1,000 bits, and an megabit is 1,000 kilobits, etc.

Storage capacity on hard drives and cell phones, etc., and sizes of files or software programs, etc., are measured in bytes. This is not to be confused with bits. A byte is 8 bits strung together. Bytes are notated with a capital B, and bits with a small b. Therefore, a “kb” is a kilobit and a “KB” is a kilobyte. Bytes are always in size increments of 1,024 since they use the binary counting system used to store information on computers. Therefore, a kilobyte is 1,024 bytes, and a megabyte is 1,024 kilobytes, etc.

Since everything you download from the Internet is measured in bytes (webpages, files, pictures, and programs), you have to do a little math to understand how quickly dial-up (measured in bits per second) can download it. Remember, a byte is 8 bits, and one KB is 8 kb! First, multiply the file size in kilobytes by 8 to convert the file to kilobits. Then, divide it by the number of kilobits per second your connection will transfer.

For example, if you want to know how quickly a 500 kilobyte (KB) file (perhaps a picture that was emailed to you) will download on a 40 kbps connection, first convert the file to size in bits. 500 kilobytes (KB) = 4,000 kilobits (kb). Then divide the bits by 40 kbps. 4,000 kilobits / 40 bits per second = 100 seconds, or almost two minutes.

Larger downloads are often measured in MB's, which means you have to convert them to KB's before you can convert them to kb's. 1 MB = 1,024 KB = 8192 kb. 1 MB on a 40 kbps connection would download in 204.8 seconds, or just over three minutes.

A song is usually about 3 MB, so it would take about 10 minutes. If you downloaded a large program like Adobe Reader, which is 35.7 MB, the download time would be about 2 hours on a 40 kbps connection.

The actual download time will be close to your calculation, however, your connection speed can change while you are connected if your modem has to adjust its speed to accommodate line noise. Your download times may also be longer if other processes on your computer are using your Internet connection, such as automatic updates or web-surfing while you wait. Minimize your online activity during a download and check with your local computer technician for ways to eliminate bandwidth-consuming processes faster downloads.

Written by Hannah Miller, Director of Online Marketing and Customer Service Rep, Copper.net.

Copper.net is a nationwide Internet Services provider that is all-American owned and operated. Call today, 1-800-336-3318 or sign up online. Check out my blog for this and more great articles! http://www.copper.net/wire.

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