You've probably seen various movie stars appearing every night on the different talk shows, such as on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, or the Late Show with David Letterman....

These movie stars usually only go on these shows when they have a new movie coming out. Of course, once they're on the show, they talk about their lives, and naturally they also talk about their new movie. They show a clip, then it's an ad break, and over to the next guest!

What these movie stars are doing is similar to writing free articles for ezines. These movie stars give the talk show something - an interesting and famous guest to talk to, which the audience is interested in. In return, the movie stars get to promote their upcoming new movie, and boost the movie attendances!

When you write an article, it is as if your article is "guest-starring" in someone's ezine. You provide them with something - a great article full of your wit and wisdom. In return, you get to promote your web site to the ezine's readers, and boost your sales!

It's really the same thing, in principle. So if you look down on writing free articles - just think, you're doing essentially same thing the movie stars do. :)

- Dien Rice