How do you scale up article marketing?

First understand more clearly that the "article marketing" model is comprised of writing articles as well as marketing articles. It seems you are spending most of your time on only half of your business. You will get more results by shifting your schedule around to writing less and focusing more attention on getting published. In other words, balance your schedule by scaling down your article writing and scaling up your article marketing.

It is a common misconception that "article marketing" is about writing massive quantities of articles, and perhaps a major factor behind its infamous high "failure" rate by the nefarious and misinformed. Assuming you are working one niche, just one or two articles per week really should be more than adequate. Using resources such as "Writers' Market", Directory of Ezines, niche-specific organizations, trade directories, etc, you should be able to quickly find suitable publications for scaling up the missing side of article marketing - marketing articles.

I confess that's (slightly) more than I've ever managed, myself. And I have multiple different niches. 2-3 articles per month (per niche) is plenty for me.

It's not about how many articles you have. It's about who reads them, i.e. where you manage to get them published that has the already-targeted traffic you want to attract to your opt-in.

Good question! It is time-consuming. It's one of those non-linear things where in the early stages you seem to do an enormous amount of work without making much income from it, but later on, when you've got a big syndication-list for your articles, it becomes very much easier and produces far more income with far less work. (Which is when you can start "adding a new niche to your repertoire and duplicating your business model", or whatever you want to do.)

There are many people who do, of course.

I haven't done this, myself, because my own article-writing skill was what I started off with, so I've always kept that part of the business for myself, even as I've gradually outsourced more "other stuff involved".

Yes, this can work, too. It's not a terribly difficult thing to train a virtual assistant to do, once you've found someone intelligent and reliable and available (that's the hard part that usually has some trial and error involved!).

Myob would be a great person to answer this, as he's done more of it than I have, has outsourced more, and has done it for very much longer. I have a VA who searches for online and offline syndication outlets for my articles, but I write the initial emails to them myself. Once a publisher accepts your articles regularly or even semi-regularly, you can ask a VA to handle that for you, too. The first instance, with each publisher, always feels "qualitatively different" to me, because all I'm really trying to achieve then is just to get my elegantly high-heeled "foot in the door" with them, and once I've done that, they'll always take more, anyway.

What concerns me, though, reading your post above is why you're producing 7-9 articles per week, rather than 2-3 per month. It's emphatically not about "how much content you have". In the early stages you ought to be spending far, far longer "arranging publication" than writing, surely?

Sounds like you have about 10-12 times as many articles as I had, when I was starting off, but I don't think that's going to help you, very much. (Maybe a little bit, and perhaps I shouldn't comment too much without even knowing what your niche/business is?). I don't know how long you've been doing this ... but you must have a huge stock of articles, by now? If they're suitable articles for syndication, you could probably stop writing for many months, now, and concentrate on getting them syndicated?

Have you seen this post? http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6575732

Edited to add: sorry, I posted at the same time as Paul, above, and had not yet seen his post.

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Thanks guys, I couldn't locate the first thread so I opened a new thread. (the moderator can delete the duplicate thread). I was trying to build up enough articles on my new site and I thought "article directory marketing" was the way to go --- I just realized article marketing a few weeks back on this forum. I didn't even know that there was something called article syndication partners.

I just started writing in November 2014 when I bought a domain name and hosting. I write one article a day and I was just trying to build lots of content for my website, when I found out about article marketing using article syndication partners.

Article marketing is a good way to drive visitors to your website but you should clearly know how to use it. Article marketing is a one kind of advertising where you write short articles and submit it on free article marketplaces.

The best way to do that is to hire out. On Odesk or elance you get really good writers who try hard to please you.

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