Yes, it's true. Article writing does take time, especially at the beginning. But once they are done, writing articles will actually save you time in the long run - because they give you the ammunition you need to do other tasks quickly. Let me explain...

The one thing any online marketer needs again and again is good quality content. Rather than taking hours creating completely new content, you can simply re-purpose your articles.

Now, I don't mean just cutting and pasting. I'm talking about using your articles as inspiration - so that your content is still original.

Here are some ideas:

• Use your articles as inspiration for your own blog posts. They will be well received as those who take the time to read your blog posts are interested in what you have to say.

• Repurpose your articles as Forum posts - the other members will appreciate good quality free content and will click on the link in your Forum signature to see what else you have to offer!

• Use your Article Titles as tweets and give a link to your Article - you will be surprised how much traffic this generates.

• Use parts of your articles on other relevant blogs and try to build up a relationship with the blogmaster. You can then contact him/her and offer to do an article just for his/her blog - with a link back to you!

• When you have written a few articles on one particular topic, compile them into a report to offer free and use it to build your list.

Hopefully you're beginning to see what a wise use of time article writing actually is.