Should You Outsource Content Writing At The Beginning?
Posted on August 24, 2008
Filed Under Work From Home
Here’s a Q&A with one of my friends about content outsourcing:
Q: Hi Tomaz,
I’m in the middle of day 2 progress with SBI.
I’m an avid reader of your blog. About developing a site concept, learning from SBI, one need brain and motivation to make things work. What keeps me wondering is, I read from your blog about how you built your vacuum site, when you have no deep knowledge about vacuum cleaner, but you hired article writing services to develop your content, and it now works like a charm.
I’ve bought one of Dr Andy’s niche package, a couple of months ago. The niche is about ‘”…..’. I have no knowledge at all about this niche. Do you think it may work well for me if I hire someone else to develop content, as you did with your niche on vacuum cleaner?
In other words, I have no brain nor motivation in developing an ……-niched site, but to think of I can outsource the content to third party, while it seems simple enough with less work in writing my own content, developing this site may cost substantially higher than budgeted.
A: My vacuum site was first an experiment to make a little bit more money. That was my motivation.
But it turned out to be a great earner. Eventually I saw the light at the end of the tunnel – I could see that I can become free from a job if I make the vacuum site dominate the niche.
So my motivation is freedom and there’s nothing stronger than that for me. Money is just the tool…
Yes, the price for outsourcing is quite high and I did it when I earned enough money with my tennis site. And that’s also my suggestion; stay in the + (positive).
Earn money and invest part of that money in content writing or something else. Don’t go into – (negative) because then you become anxious and impatient and make mistakes or look for shortcuts where there aren’t any. 
If you upload 3 articles per week, that’s 12 per month and each costs $8 your cost will be $100 per month. If your first site makes that much, then you can outsource 12 articles per month…
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Tomaz,
I’ve used getafreelancer a few times. Can you recommend any other sites that do copywriting or is getafreelancer the best? Have a great week!
Ryan
Hey Ryan,
I’ve tried Elance but getafreelancer seems to have the most writers bidding for content writing. So far I am sticking with GAF…
Tomaz,
Thanks for more great information. In the Aug 4th post comments you said : “I have almost the same amount of impressions, Chitika has leveled again and one more thing which I’ll show in my next post” Curious about that one more thing
Thanks!
Chris
You’re right, Chris! Ok, let me type this post now…
Hi Tomaz,
I had posted a Craigslist add for freelance writers and got some that seemed to be pricing alright. The problem was that I didn’t think any of the writers could write the content I wanted for my technology website techsack.com.
Have you had any trouble finding writers to write relevant content for your particular niche?
Andy
Hey Andy,
Yes, I got the same question / complaint from one of my friends when we were chatting recently. Let’s put it this way – if you were importing mango from Thailand to Europe, there would surely be some rotten mangos and the end of the trip.
Or some mangos that would get damaged during transportation. That’s a certain percentage of lost revenue.
I look at content writers in the same way. I test a writer (with 10 articles) and if it’s not good, I work on those articles to make them good enough for article submissions. And then I test another writer.
Eventually you get the right person but you need to accept some losses along the way. That’s the price of quality…