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Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

Chris Clarke — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:46:53 -0000

I certainly am considering hiring a writer to take some workload off my back in the future. For a good quality writer, how much should I expect to pay? Just trying to get a feel for it

Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

Nicki D. Harper — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:54:21 -0000

Some of the most brilliant thinkers are very poor at communicating in writing.

As a ghostwriter, I use notes, outlines and interviews to learn just exactly what the "author" wants to say, and how they want it said.

And then I write it. The "author" reviews and asks for corrections. When it's right, it is published.

It is hard to trust a financial or marketing expert who cannot spell, or who uses poor grammar. Why should the world be deprived of an expert's knowledge because their skill-set doesn't include writing?

Because it takes more time to learn what the "author" has to say than it would to simply write from my own knowledge or research, I charge quite a bit more than 2 cents per word. But the product does truly belong to the "author."

Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

John Cow — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:35:39 -0000

People like to feel they are talking to the source and I think if people who pblished books actually admitted they did not actualy write it, a lot of people would not buy them. I 100% agree with you but I do understand the concern people have.

Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

Daniel — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:54:07 -0000

Seriously, why does it matter if someone else is doing them? Who cares as long as they are useful.

Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

mr nice guy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:09:26 -0000

You don't know much about outsourcing Dave. Your kind of commenting without posting your contact link is a kind of cowardice. Be man enough man. Don't hide. :grin: :grin: :grin:

Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

mr nice guy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:07:09 -0000

Dave's comments are an example of cowardice since he did not post a link where we can also see his blog and what he can offer. Be man enough Mr. Dave.

Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

domainpubber — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:23:49 -0000

Why wouldn't you outsource content creation? You can't do it all yourself! I've had great luck with a number of writers and, yes, you do have to train them and edit their stuff.

I pay by the post in some cases (e.g. $10 a post), by the word in other cases (2 to 4 cents per word) and by the project in other cases. I don't know how you'd pay a writer by the hour though ... writers are much more motivated when they are paid by the word, post or project.

If you don't hire writers it will be very hard to scale your online business in my own experience. I don't own and operate web sites for personal reasons; its just a way to pay the bills without working a 9 to 5 job.

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Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

dave — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:29:20 -0000

Mr Nice Guy's comments are exactly the reason I can not outsource writing confidently. They need to be read and edited.

Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

Wealth Dzesire — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:15:10 -0000

I am not and will never be against bloggers who outsource their writing. Well, you can contact me if you want to find someone to help you write the content for your blogs. :twisted:

Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

mr nice guy — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:42:52 -0000

I am one of the writers of an outsourced company in Europe which earns around $100,000 a month. IN fact we are 15 in the group. I will be launching an ebook by December to reveal how real outsourcing really works.

Well, for those who wants to outsourced you can contact me and we can discussed about it.

Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

Nicki D. Harper — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:01:40 -0000

As a professional ghostwriter, I often write blogs, especially for clients whose ebooks I've ghosted. Though a good ghost can match a client's own style fairly well, some clients do not write well at all. To avoid a huge disconnect between the style of the book and the blog, the "author" has me write the blog.

Ten cents a word is a low price. I work in a group of 4 writers through Elance, which I highly recommend as a site that matches buyers with writers. You can find experienced writers who are new to the Elance site who are willing to work for even less. You can also find writers who "cudn't spel wrytr yisterday n today I are 1."

I charge between 20 and 50 cents per word for blogs, depending on the research involved. That is a typical range for experienced professionals on whose work you can rely.

Do be aware that some Elance providers either have a staff or sub-contract your job. While a staff can be helpful by keeping the work fresh and by covering for one another, you do want to be sure the person who discusses your job is the one who will actually do your work.

Nicki
at HarperCo on Elance

Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

dustbusterz — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:17:03 -0000

Well, this is a little off topic, but,I just felt I had to comment back on Geeks are Sexy'S assertion that you cannot live on $10.00 and hour.
I don't claim a family could live on $10.00 an hour. But if your single, and you cannot live on $10.00 an hour,something is seriously wrong here.
I can live on less than that (when working full time).I don't have a wife and my family is grown up , so I don't require lots for food and other things ou might have when raising a family. So $10.00 per hour pays my bills and keeps me fed and I even have money at work when no one else does.So who do you suppose everyone comes to when they are in need of a loan? me of course.

Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

MalcP — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:53:35 -0000

I use a mixture of my own 'creations' and material 'borrowed' from news sources.

But your post raises the possibility of my being a blog/article writer to supplement income.

As well as the ezinearticles.com site, where else would you suggest as the optimum sites to promote writing skills?

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Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

John Cow — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:10:55 -0000

Excellent points Debra!

Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

Debra Conrad — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:49:57 -0000

Big difference between articles (blog posts) that are How-To or very subject focused and articles that are focused on an experience is huge.

Hire writers to do the How-To stuff. It's really not about your "voice" so much in those posts. The visitor just wants the info and Now!

But... say your writing an article about your experience at a convention or the problems you had getting your travel arrangements or a rant about some product... Those should all be written by you.

Thank you so much for this article John! You Rock!

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Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

Tom - StandOutBlogger.com — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:46:37 -0000

great point there John. A lot of the time the research is the longest part!

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Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

ChrisBlogging — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:04:26 -0000

I agree with the comment that this is particularly useful for niche blogs where having the same "voice" throughout is not as important.

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Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

John Cow — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:51:41 -0000

Well actually, I personally DO write 95% of the posts on this blog. I do however have a writer that I get filler content written from, that I use for days that are busy and some weekends. Over the past 5 months, I have had a writer contribute 9 posts... so out of 150+ posts, 9 where not from me.

Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

Deepak Raj — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:28:40 -0000

Well I thought the posts in JohnCow were written by you. Now you let the secret out. I know someone else is writing this post. I am unsubscribing to your blog ... :twisted:

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Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

Ben - frogstr.com — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:51:17 -0000

Thanks, I'll consider that option!

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Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

Geeks are Sexy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:47:13 -0000

Definitely.. what can you do with $10 per hour today? Not much, unless you're a student and are living at you parent's place.

...or living in a third world country :)

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Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

John Cow — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:42:58 -0000

I just said the min you could expect to pay... i agree that is low.

Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

Geeks are Sexy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:55:56 -0000

$10 an hour? That's horrible.

I have many contributors on my blog, but I let them write under their own name, and I pay per word, not per hour.

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Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

Kacper — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:10:49 -0000

Interesting.

Currently I would be happy to write a post for somebody for 10$. On the other side, I think I will also pay 10$ for a good post that fits my blog.

Both options look attractive for me. What is strange is that when I write for my blog, it doesn't have this "deal" factor and it is somehow...boring?

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Re: When To Outsource Your Blog Writing

John Cow — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:07:52 -0000

Well one strategy is to use them for the research portion of the content. Then you take what they wrote and rewrite it BUT... you can submit the version they wrote to a place like ezinearticles.com and link to your post, since they will be each unique ;)