In this article, I want to share with you my experience of outsourcing content for some of my websites and how you can do the same.
Hiring a ghostwriter is something that people think only celebrities do or Presidents do when they are writing a book. However, there are writers all over the internet that will write articles for you on any topic that you can think of.
One of the things I picked up from a friend of mine named Tomaz who is a six figure internet marketer is that there are two thoughts to approaching an internet business.
1. Making money from your passion
2. Being passionate about a part of your lifestyle and finding something to fund that part of your lifestyle.
I do both.
I LOVE anything about business, marketing, and internet marketing. I could talk about it 24/7. I am lucky that I can make money from it because it is a subject that people are interested in and always will be.
However, I also have websites which make me money but I am NOT passionate about. For instance, I have a travel site that pays my mortgage each money without me having to work. It was ENTIRELY written by ghostwriters from NAA.
Benefits of Hiring Ghostwriters
By hiring ghostwriters to write for me…
1. I could focus on other aspects of my business like traffic.
2. I didn’t have to research and write about topics that I wasn’t passionate about. I could let the good writers over at NAA to research AND write on my behalf.
3. My time was spent doing things that I wanted to do with my life (time is VERY important to me).
Hiring ghostwriters didn’t mean that I couldn’t add value to people which is extremely important to me. It is the same thing as McDonald’s franchise owners hiring others to make the hamburgers and provide value to the visitors/customers.
Places To Hire Ghostwriters
Here are a few places that you can find ghostwriters to write for you. These are in no certain order.
1. Google – Shocker right? You can google just about anything and find what you are looking for including ghostwriters.
2. Need An Article – This is the site that I use and have used for three years to hire my ghostwriters. I know the founder, Scott Foster. He is a good Christian guy and provides a great resource. Basically you join for $9.95 a month and you can post your project in the members area. A writer will then pick up your project and have it back to you within forty-eight hours! Crazy right?
The cool thing about the site is…it is cheap! I pay $6.27 for a 550 word article and about $9.75 I believe for a 750 word article. They do press releases and all sorts of things.
3. Elance - This is an auction site where contractors bid on your project. (Think Ebay but the opposite.)
4. Odesk - This is another very popular site where many of my friends hire full-time contractors from overseas to work for them. Contractors bid for jobs as well.
5. Vworker – This is another auction site that I have used for six years now to find good workers for all sorts of projects.
NOTE: If you would like to know how I outsource my business and have NEVER been ripped off then you can check out a video I created called Simple Outsourcing Video. It seems to be very popular with people who are afraid to outsource.
Check out those resources and decide which one works best for you.
My 6 Best Insider Secrets For Hiring Ghostwriters
I would like to give you my best secrets to hiring writers to write over 400 articles for me in 3 years. If you have outsourced article writing before as well, I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below.
1. Test first – I don’t load up a writer with a bunch of article request until I have tested them on a small scale with a few articles first. Once I test them out, I roll it out BIG TIME.
2. Work history check - I like to look at what a person has done in the past before I hire them. Ask for samples and/or look at testimonials of what others have said about the potential writer.
3. Compliment - Writers are humans too. 
Make sure that you compliment them when they do a good job. People do business with people they know,like, and trust. If they like you then they are more likely to give you their best work. We tend to like people more when we rceive compliments.
4. Pay a bonus - When people are offered incentives, it is a known fact that as long as the incentive is good, people will do better or more to make sure they get the incentive. I like to let my writers know that if this “project” goes well, I will pay them a nice bonus. My bonuses are usually cash and are maybe $100-200.
Remember something, the content that they are writing for you is something that you will make money on for YEARS to come so it makes sense to pay them a bonus to get their BEST work.
5. Work with them long term - Most people hate marketing and trying to find new customers. I like to let my writer know that I like to work with people long term and if they do a good job, I will send them more work. Again, this helps get the best out of my writer. They WANT to do a good job.
6. Give them examples - If you want them to write good content for you, make their job easy. Include good places that they can research and even examples of articles that you would like them to model.
In closing, start viewing yourself as an internet property manager and start doing high level activities. Consider outsourcing your content.
Dave
