Outsourcing Your Blog Posting Needs And How To Do Well At It
It is too much to expect that you will be able to blog as much as you want, even if it is to take your business ahead. There are too many things that are going to occupy your time soon and you won’t find time to blog properly. Also, you may not really have the literary talent needed to rivet a potential visitor’s attention onto your blog. These things can but really take a toll on your business prospects. So, what can you do?
The simple answer is that you can outsource. You will find a ton of online marketplaces where freelance writers sell their services for worthwhile remuneration. They will blog for you and relinquish the rights of their works to you. Such ghostwriting can be great to keep your blog going. You get professionally written stuff in a time-bound manner and the post will be made in your name. If you did not know about it already, this is the way more than 90% of the business bloggers of the world are doing their things right now. Outsourcing is not a bad thing if you get the right person.
But yes, this is where we come to the stumbling block – Where do you get good writers? What are the things that you must look at? To answer the first question, you will have to sign up for an account on any online freelance website and make a post stating your project requirements. You can mention the timeframe you expect the deliverables in and the budget you are working with. The following are links of five of the top freelance websites where you can get expert writers from all over the world, ready to work for you.
- Get A Freelancer (www.getafreelancer.com)
- ScriptLance (www.scriptlance.com)
- Elance (www.elance.com)
- EUFreelance (www.eufreelance.com – this one is specifically for European requirements)
- Guru (www.guru.com)
Now, to get a good writer that meets your requirements, you have to look at the following:
1. Insist on checking samples of their previous work. However, there are writers who will pass off already existing work as their own, so you can have them write a paid sample post for you and then think of taking things ahead from them. It is great if they have past writing experience in your niche, but that isn’t required if they’re good.
2. See if the writer is acquainted with blogging. Some of them will do the posting for you too and will handle the replies that the blog gets, i.e. keep it updated. This is of great help; you can keep your blog completely operated through them.
3. Make sure that they will stick to guidelines. Take a commitment from them on the same.
4. All the sites mentioned above have reviews of providers. These could be a parameter to base your decision of recruiting them on.
5. Mention to them that they will have no rights on what they have written once you have made the payments to them.
