My friend Richard from Union, NJ writes, “What’s with all these dumb A-Z series? Haven’t you got better things to do with your time?” No Rich, I don’t. Deal with it. LOL. Anyway, we’re up to the letter Q in our series and Q stands for quality. While I know the word itself needs no explanation, perhaps, as it applies to article writing, it does. Why? Because there is a great lack of quality in many of the articles I read.

Quality comes in all shapes and sizes in regard to writing an article. First and foremost is your grammar. Now, I don’t want to be a grammar policeman here, but some of the stuff I read is downright awful. Just today, I saw the following sentence. “Is email marketing work for an affiliate program?” No offense my friend, but the sentence should read “DOES email marketing work for an affiliate program?” If you can’t get basic sentence structure down properly, please do something else with your time because the chances of your article being read from beginning to end are slim to none.

Beyond grammar, there is the actual information being shared. Some articles say absolutely nothing. You know, it’s amazing how many people can ramble on forever and say nothing. How about sharing some factual information that can be useful to somebody? How about giving some opinions on a subject that have some validity? How about saying something that, at the very least, makes the reader go, “Hmmm, that’s interesting?”

Finally, there is the way you express yourself. I hate to say this, but there are probably more people who get the first two points above right but fail at this level. They sound like they swallowed a dictionary and are about as interesting as a ten pound bag of fertilizer. I don’t want to read an article that’s going to put me to sleep. I want to be entertained, at least a little. I don’t care if you’re writing about how to install a replacement window. It doesn’t have to bore me to tears. You have a personality…use it.

There you go. These are my three requirements for a quality article. Trust me, these are the bare minimum requirements for writing. If you can’t meet these, maybe you should try your hand at selling that fertilizer.

You might have more luck.
To YOUR Success,
Steven Wagenheim

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