Writing articles and allowing them to be freely reproduced can really get your name somewhere by helping you build your profile as an expert in the first place. Secondly, by drawing traffic to your site and finally helping you build a database of potential clients through associated e-courses or a newsletter.

However, the writing process of a satisfactory article is not as easy as it may sounds. What makes it tedious is the inability of a writer to write an article that would grab the readers' attention in the first paragraph.

Oh...yes, the first paragraph is almost everything that matters in your article, remember, the first impression is always the last impression. Therefore, strive hard to make it as catchy as you can. Thirty seconds of your reader is all what you have to impress him or her. So strike while the iron is still hot. Once your article has retained your reader's attention until the end, then you deserve to congratulate yourself, because the reader has found something wanting and satisfactory, otherwise he or she would not have wasted time going through the whole article. For that matter therefore, you are hundred percent certain that, this same reader will come next time searching for your articles.

Any article consists of a head, a body and a tail. But this is no longer the concern of writers, as what matters most is your writing style of presenting your message to your readers. Is it something that you want or something that they want? For instance, any writer MUST learn how to strike a balance and give the readers useful information that they are seeking for. Remember, your readers are your first priority.

Below are four useful steps that would give you a blueprint for writing articles that captivate your readers.

Fulfilling your readers' reading desire

A good writer must always be a good reader. By reading widely and extensively, you will be able to know what topics exactly need further elaboration. Reading also would enable you to know other peoples' views regarding certain topics. In other words, reading is similar to researching.

Grabbing your Readers' Attention

Once you have established your topic of discussion, start with an interesting opening sentence that would instantly grab the readers' attention. You can achieve this by first of all, concentrating very hard on your first opening paragraph, which is known as the intro.

Be natural by writing as you speak

Be as natural as you can. By being natural, it simply means, writing as you speak. Up on the success of employing this approach, it means that, you would be able to convey your message in a layman's language hence making it more understood by readers of different understanding capacities. Also, by writing as you speak enables you to use punctuation marks such as coma, full stop, exclamation marks, question marks and so on. All these marks are used to indicate how we speak, that is by pausing, asking questions, and so on.

Try as much as you can to use descriptive words in your writing exercise. This enables the readers to draw a mental picture and become part of the environment you are about to explore.
Descriptive words would also portray your mood, feelings and tone.

End on a High Note

The last message seems to stick into a readers mind than the first one. It is natural and no complain about it. Some people say, it doesn't matter how you start, but it matters how you end. Here both cases matters a lot. How you start and how you end are the most paramount parts of your article.

Your last paragraph must leave your readers satisfied with the way
you have handled your subject and how you have concluded it is also important. If it is a subject that need you take a firm stand at the end of the article, then better do so.