Why Article Marketing Is Time Consuming

I found this snippet in an article at a popular article directory:

However, if you are lazy I do not suggest that you try this strategy. It takes time and you need to have hundreds or thousands of articles out there to get it to work properly. This is the main reason that many people do not take advantage of this as it is far too time consuming.

Article Marketing is time consuming. That’s why a lot of people don’t do it. But if you saw the profits that came from your efforts then you’d either do it yourself despite the time it takes or pay someone to handle the details for you.

This author is correct. It does take a lot of articles. That’s why you must be consistent and persistent in sending out articles. You can’t just do it once or twice and expect windfall results. Too many new webmasters try to take the easy way out and just send out five or ten articles to one article directory and think they are doing article marketing. That’s not the right way to do it. If you want real results from your article marketing efforts then you need to consistently send out articles to at least a half a dozen article directories (and I like to follow up with a mass submission to iSnare).