As I mentioned in my previous post, I decided to look into outsourcing articles for my hubs. It takes me one week to barely get 20 hubs done (5 done on mon-wed and friday). Since I work Thursdays, I lose a day. I just thought it would be better to use the income I earn from working on thursdays to outsource articles using oDesk. Now I know I mentioned using oDesk before for a different project which turned out to be an absolute nightmare because the designer was completely clueless when I explained to him a million times that the design needed to be integrated as a wordpress theme. *sigh* gives me headaches just thinking about the run around conversations with that project.
Anyhow, finding article writers on oDesk seems to be such an easier task. You look at their work, interview them (just an email) and ask for samples of their work. I currently hired 3 writers over the weekend. I hired writers that showed a lot of creativity in their articles and they also spoke perfect fluent English. So that’s 30 articles I will have written for the price of about $35.00. I decided to take a chance with these writers. None of them have any feedback yet so it means they are rather new to oDesk. but each of them have taken their assignment with me very seriously, asking questions for clarification if needed and are extremely polite in their emails.
It has been a lot of work looking through the applications for my article writing position. Interviewing and reading their samples plus the biggie…actually finding and giving them their list of keywords to use. I am hoping that things work out with these writers and that I can start a long term relationship with them and hire them weekly to write for me.
My next assignment is going to be to hire rewriters so that they can re-write the articles that I will submit to ezine and infobarrel to back link these hubs. I found some pretty juicy keywords and I am gonna push to back link them as much as possible.
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I’ve never heard of oDesk. Thanks for the tip. Hope the writers work out for you!
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You can get just about any service met with oDesk and very cheap work too. but like Carrie said below, looking for quality writers can be tough.
That’s a pretty good rate. Look forward to hearing how the quailty turns out. I have not had good luck with low cost writers.
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Well, so far out of the 3 I hired, one of them sends me finished articles as soon as she completes them and so far out of the 2 I have received, I am really impressed. In fact, I am so impressed that I may end up paying her extra just so I can keep her on board to write more for me. I know $13 is really cheap for original articles but I knew I was going to target new providers on oDesk with 0 feedback. You don’t want to shell out a lot of money to people that have no history with oDesk.
Oh and a word of advice, don’t hire any providers that require 100% upfront payment. Some people put 50% upfront and even that is a risky chance to take unless they have a lot of good feedback.
Great articles nice build link?