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Possibly, Potentially Maybe The Easiest Article System Ever

by hebsgaard
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OK. I'm looking to maximize my article writing efforts. And if you are reading this I bet you're no different. That means spending as little time as possible on each article. How do you do that? Well, you can use templates, spinners and various other methods. Here's what I think.

Templates are a viable option. They provide the structure you need to get things done really fast. EZA offers free templates that you can go and use right now. Having a predefined structure is bound to increase your productivity immensely. No doubt about that! IMO that makes it a viable option. Having said that, I rarely use templates. Not because they don't work, simply because I'm too lazy to get them when I sit down to write articles.

What about spinners then? Well, personally I hate them! If you don't that's fine. As far as I'm concerned they don't offer the level of quality I require from my articles. That's a personal thing though, and if you want to use them go just go ahead and do it.

So, what do I actually do? I read about a method somewhere, don't remember where though, but it's something I have refined over time.

  1. Pick your topic.
  2. Pick 3 subtopics.
  3. write 4-6 sentences on each subtopic.
  4. Write and introduction introducing the content in 4-6 sentences.
  5. Don't write anything to summarize on your article.
  6. Instead write 4-6 sentences leading into your offer/action steps.

That's it! Practice a bit and you'll write your articles in less than 10 minutes guarantueed.

Remember to use a "talkative" language. Short sentences and cut down on the fancy vocabulary. That should be enough to get you going.

What's your approach to speeding up article writing? I'm just dying to hear it!
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    I tend to concentrate more on quality than speed. One comprehensive, well written article can easily outperform 10 articles with little depth. It really depends what you are trying to achieve with your articles. Never let speed compromise your quality.
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    • Profile picture of the author Britt Malka
      Hi WillR

      Originally Posted by WillR View Post

      I tend to concentrate more on quality than speed.
      Like Mike, I aim at both speed and quality.

      One comprehensive, well written article can easily outperform 10 articles with little depth. It really depends what you are trying to achieve with your articles. Never let speed compromise your quality.
      Do you have any kind of documentation for your claim that a well written article can outperform 10 articles with little depth?

      Now, although my guess is that a well written article often - but not always - would perform better than a badly written one, there are several points where we disagree:

      1: A slowly written article doesn't mean that it has more depth than a fast written article. If somebody knows his topic, he can write about it a lot faster than somebody, who knows next to nothing about it.

      2: A slowly written article often tend to be boring, because the words are almost dragged out of the keyboard instead of flowing freely down on the virtual paper. A boring article will not perform well.

      3: I've seen badly written, low-quality articles on the top-lists on Ezine Articles. I don't recommend writing that kind of articles, but apparantly, sometimes they do perform well. Nobody knows whether it has taken the author forever to write it, or ten-fifteen minutes.

      4: Quality writers like Jason Fladlien, John Schwartz and Rob Howard all have a system to write an article in 8-15 minutes.

      5: What's your purpose with your article? Agreed, if you're going after the Pulitzer price, you will probably have to spend more than just ten minutes writing it, but if you're doing article marketing, spending hours writing an article, when you can come up with ten in the same period of time, seems to me to be a waste of time. Especially, when we see that it's not always the highest quality articles that reach the top-lists.

      6: Finally: A fast written article can be of higher quality and more in-depth than a slowly written one. It all depends on the author and his knowledge and way of writing.
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      • Profile picture of the author Sophist
        Elementary school English 101:

        Intro, 3 main points, 3-6 subpoints for each main point, closing.

        Simple and to the point. Works 100% of the time. I know it doesn't have the magic words that get people going like "Method," and "Formula," and "Magic Potion that will have you pumping out high quality 500 word articles in 4.8 milliseconds flat!" but it works. It always works. It's worked since the beginning of time and will continue to work until the end of time. It works on a short form level and it works on a long form level. College level English teaches you the same thing accept they help you add more detail in your subpoints. But it's all the same process. This process will write you a 50 page research paper and this process will also write you a 450 word blog post. I've been using this process since elementary school. In college I wrote 75-page research papers for athletes and brainiacs alike that couldn't write to save their lives. Trust me this process works. Professors use it, professional blog writers use it, playwrights use it, copy departments use it, children use it.

        I guess I should wrap my magic formula in attention grabbing words and sell it as a WSO. hahaaa.

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  • Profile picture of the author Lazy
    I use the method my journalism teacher drilled into my brain in high school.

    1. Tell people what you're going to say
    2. Say it
    3. Tell them why you said what you said
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by hebsgaard View Post

    That means spending as little time as possible on each article.
    I'm very sorry to hear it.

    With apologies for such a strongly dissenting view, I really do think it's a highly misguided and inappropriate approach to article marketing, and I know that it's actually directly responsible for many people's failures.

    My own objective is to try to spend longer on each article.

    In terms of money earned, building up a business, and continuing to be paid increasing residual income from work already done, quality is everything. Quality can even produce quantity (of traffic and backlinks) on its own, through syndication.

    Quantity alone produces very little.

    People who fail at article marketing all fail in more or less the same way: it's a way characterised by short, quickly-written articles, "writing for clicks", salesy resource-boxes, fast traffic, mass submission, obsession about their "CTR", poor quality backlinks, high quantity of articles, and constant "rinse-and-repeat". This business model does actually work for a few people, though (just not very many as a proportion of those who try it - the rest silently disappear or come back a year later and start a thread here under the title "Article marketing doesn't work any more"!).

    In complete contrast to all of that, people who succeed at article marketing and build growing businesses based on increasing residual income tend each to have their own slightly different ways, though the one thing that probably unifies all those slightly different ways is a primary objective of ensuring quality, and a lack of concern about quantity and writing articles quickly.

    Originally Posted by hebsgaard View Post

    What's your approach to speeding up article writing?
    I strongly encourage people to avoid it. Sorry.
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  • Profile picture of the author ELK
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    I can't PM anyone yet as I don't have enough posts. Is there another way I could access your newsletter "full method"? Thanks - looks intriguing. I'm all about trying to make article writing easier on myself. Otherwise, I tend to get perfectionistic and don't do ANYthing.
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