My Process for Selling Feature Articles

This may not be the proper way to do it. It's just how I do it.

I've found the easiest articles to sell are the ones that will help the readership of any particular publication solve a problem. People read stuff when it has an easily identifiable benefit for them - or the editors of consumer and trade magazines prefer to buy that type of article. This advice also works for the lifestyle, business, senior, family section of newspapers.

Think about what you'd like to write about. Idea...