Not much progress made recently. The weekend was out, as I met with a friend of mine who will be leaving these shores shortly. Although I didn't plan it, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to hang, even though I knew it would hit my articles progress.
Monday was a continuation - all play and no work, same goes for today (Wednesday) though Tuesday was pretty good.
I'm seriously beginning to doubt some of the Wordtracker keywords. Some of the so called gold are such narrow terms that nothing can be written on them!
So back to outsourcing - it has been said that a single bum marketing article will yield one sale per month. So let's assume $30 per article per month. Then, in order to make $30 per day, I would need 30 articles. And in order to reach $150 per day, I would need 5 times that, or 150 articles written.
If we assume an outsourcing cost of $5 per article, then 150 articles will cost a grand total of $750 (about £380).
Now, if these articles yield $150 per day then we break even in about five days! Of course, it will take time for indexing in the search engines so this is a little simplistic but outsourcing does seem to make a lot of sense.
There are a lot of crap writers out there but I am hoping to choose a few writers and get them to write, say, 20 articles each. Then the best writer will get the contract for the remaining articles.
I think I'll still write the author bios though as this is the major selling pitch that I need to retain control of.
Have you had any experience of oursourcing? I'd love to hear from you so please leave your comments and share with all of us.
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Hi,
Watch out with outsourcing - I would recommend giving them 3 each to do with the promise of more if they are good (to keep the costs down for those 3). Then you will find some genuine people who do it right and you can rely on!
But first I'd make sure you start getting some sales from your own articles and then you know you are on the right track and can outsource - afterall, you'd be more gutted if you paid for the articles and they didn't make any sales wouldn't you?
All the best - Superfrog
Hey thanks, as you can see in my last post, it is getting difficult to find decent writers. Thanks for the advice, I am trying several writers as you suggest.
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