Some readers have asked me this question. It does work, if your submissions are effective.

One example of submitting articles ineffectively is if you’re submitting to a bunch of dead addresses. In fact, some of those who have asked me have no idea what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the e-mails that come back to you after a submission with the subject “failure notice” or “Returned mail: delivery problems encountered”. Those who submit to editors with an e-mail address they don’t check can lead to bigger problems.

After I submit an article to a list of publishers, I check my e-mail to see if any messages haven’t gone through. Any returned mail gets removed from future article submissions. It is rare to submit an article without getting at least one of these messages.

Then there are the e-mails that do go through, but an editor replies to your message telling you to submit to a new address. This is good, as long as you’re updating their e-mail address in your list. There are also editors that reply with the subject “REMOVE”, which is pretty obvious they don’t want any of your submissions. Remove them from your list before your next submission.

That’s one part of the process. Another important part is customizing your message so you sound like an author, and not like an obnoxious marketer. If you’re using Artemis Pro to submit articles, there’s a template.txt file you create so you can personalize your message. This plays a large part whether your article is going to be submitted or not. You can even perform your own tests to see which template gets a better response from editors.

Article submission works, no question about it. Whether your article is going to get submitted depends more on the content of your article, and how you address editors.

I recently created two procedures on how to find more editors to submit to. They can be performed by you, or anyone you give the procedure to. They include videos with step-by-step processes for finding more editors.

The first one shows the procedure I use to find e-mail addresses for the editors of ezines/newsletters:

http://kunaki.com/sales.asp?PID=PX00ZW5I3W

The second shows how to submit articles to individual publishers. These publishers will often have only a website to submit articles to. In most cases, you’ll be submitting your article using a form, however, some of theses publishers will just leave their e-mail address for you to submit to. This actually makes it far easier to submit articles to them if you’re using Artemis Pro. Here’s the link to the individual publisher procedure:

http://kunaki.com/sales.asp?PID=PX00ZC8I00

- Aaron Brandon