Writing articles for eHow and Bukisa can take a tremendous amount of time. Generating ideas, determining decent keywords and physically writing the article can take anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour (sometimes even longer). If your goal is to publish 3 to 5 articles a day, you may run out of time before you finish.

After reading Julie’s post over at Write for eHow, it finally occurred to me that I was wasting valuable time. Instead of creating my articles in Word, or Notepad, I was typing each article into the designated template. What a waste of time! This content is mine to do whatever I want to do with it. As Julie points out, the content that I create is mine and I am just sharing it with eHow and Bukisa.

All of a sudden I realized my productivity could have been twice as good as it is. I have published 38 articles on eHow in the three months I have been a member. If I would have been smart, I could also have 38 articles on Bukisa, 38 articles of Triond, 38 articles on ezinearticles, 38 articles on my various blogs… See a pattern here?

As the content I create is mine, all I really need to do is make some minor tweaks to each article to make it ready for publication someplace else. Of course, each article will demand approximately 5 to 10 minutes of modification, but that surely must be better than an additional 30 minutes. I would anticipate that this will have a dramatic impact on my future earnings.

What do you think? Do you recreate all of your articles from scratch or do you modify them for additional publication?

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