Not every marketer has the time, ability or the desire to write their own content for article marketing. Thankfully for them, there are many great resources that can be turned to for well-written content. Below you will find some of the top ways to gather content for your marketing purposes.

There are freelance sites on the Internet that you can post your need for content. These sites include oDesk, Elance, and GetAFreelancer. On these sites, writers bid on the job you have posted. You then give the winning bidder the opportunity to write the needed content. You read it and decide if it was what you were looking for. More times that not, you will get the content you need at a higher-quality than you would have ever expected.

Websites, like Fiverr.com, have a steady flow of freelance writers looking for work. The site has ads listing writers seeking work. You can contact the writers, tell them your needs and what you are willing to pay and everything goes from there. You can get great content written with very little effort on your part at a price that is affordable.

There are companies online that specialize in selling content for marketing. Many times, these sites do cost more than using the other sites, but normally they have a guarantee that you will be happy with the articles you receive. This is the most common route that is taken if the content needed is in large quantities.

If you are not looking for unique articles written specifically for you, you can look into purchasing pre-written PLR articles. They are often much less expensive than any of the other options that you have looked at. You can get articles in bulk for very little cost. Keep in mind that many times these articles are not going to be unique and that you will have to spend some time rewriting them or spinning them to post them as unique.

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a great website to use to hire many freelancers in one shot. You pay a small fee to post your work, thousands of workers will have access to it and will write the articles you need. You can get great articles written for about a penny a word. This price is not set. You can set your price to a level you can afford to pay, but keep in mind that the lower the pay, the less quality you will receive.

You could opt to use online classified sites, like Craigslist, to post your need for articles. You will likely get quite a few responses in very little time. There is no fee to post your ad, but you also do not have any company backing the writer that you are considering. Use caution with sites like these, but you can be pleasantly surprised by the articles you receive and the prices you will pay.

You can now see that there is no reason to spend your time writing when there are so many resources to use. Look into the information above and find the resource that you are comfortable with. Before you know it, you will have more content than you know what to do with.