These are major road blocks that prevent the articles from being written. We're still not talking about distribution yet. Without the articles, there's nothing to distribute. Expert article marketers always advise their clients to distribute 10-20 articles on a weekly results to see really good results. After all, it's unreasonable to expect to make thousands a month with just a handful of articles out there. And these experts are right. They have done it before, know that article marketing works, and are now teaching the same thing so that others can achieve their kind of success.



But work is work. It still takes time, effort and sometimes money to get it done. There's a difference between knowing and doing. Those who have done it, know that even for prolific writers, it takes somewhere between 10-15 minutes to write a three to four hundred word article. And that's assuming that it's a familiar topic without needing much research. If someone types slower, or get writer's block all the time, imagine having to sit down in front of the computer each for half an hour or more just trying to complete an article. 30 minutes to write an article is not unreasonable and many people do indeed need that amount of time just to write a decent article. If you do your sums, writing ten articles each week will take up a full five hours. And that still doesn't include the hours required to distribute the articles.

Let's say one takes 1 hours just to distribute an article to over a hundred article directories. (That's a very conservative assumption). To distribute ten articles will take ten hours. That makes a total of fifteen hours required each week just to write and distribute ten articles. With a 50 hour work week, that's thirty percent of the time gone into distributing ten articles. No wonder so many people give up!

But yet, time and time again, we see people achieving success with article marketing. And they've proven that it's possible to make a consistent effort to distribute ten or more articles on a weekly basis. How do they do it?

Their secret is outsourcing. They record some tele-seminars, and get somebody to do the transcripts. Others simply hire a team of writers to write for them. I know it sounds expensive but it's really not. You can get decent articles written for less than $3 per article.

But if you really want to write them yourself, keep these tips in mind. Plan your schedule on a weekly basis and write down all the possible topics that you want to write about. If you want to write just ten articles, make a list of at least 15 topics. Then block out time for writing. Treat that as a appointment and don't miss that appointment. When it's time to write, concentrate, and just write. That way, you've got your topics ready and won't get writer's block so easily. And if you really can't complete them all, you can always outsource the two or three articles to someone else.

And finally, engage an article distribution service to distribute your articles for you. With rates at less than $10 per distribution, it's definitely money well spent. So pick up that pen, write down those topics, and create those articles. You'll achieve success before you know it.