Just need ideas. I'm writing my own articles at the moment as I'm testing new products but I'll be so busy with promotion so I can only do a few articles a day. So I was thinking of outsourcing the work and then paying the writers once the sales start coming in but how would that work? I don't want to use anyone from digitalpoint because people here are just very useless and highly unreliable - no offence, they tell you they will write articles for you then you purchase the domains and set up the landing pages and you never hear from them again. anyway, any suggestions? thanks. I was thinking of heading over to elance, but I think you have to deposit money first....
I just don't really see this as a possible scenario. I'm a writer here on digitalpoint and i use the funds to market my own sites. In the two years i've been doing this, I've found that a few people have asked me for this type of thing. I just don't think it's a good deal at all. The stats are against me that I would ever see a dime. The fact of the matter is that over 90% of all internet websites never make any money. The investment is where most people who do make money will decide whether it is worth it for them to invest their own money or not. If you have the time to do a few articles per day, this is enough to get your site moving. Try to find some funds to invest into a marketing budget, whether that marketing is buying content or doing some direct advertising.... you will need a marketing budget of some kind.
One advice would be to be realistic about the price you want to pay for articles. You can't expect to pay pennies and nickels and get good results. It's just unrealistic. Also, I don't think there will be too many people who would be willing to write articles and get paid based on whether or not you make money off those articles on your site. At the end of the day, freelance writers are looking to get paid for their services and not invest in something for free that may or may not make money.
I think anybody would want to build castles in the air. You offer is not enticing enough. Be realistic, an article can cost between $5 to $10. And you expect someone to write articles and anticipate to get paid whenever you make sales. If, so making money will be as simple as a b c. My advice, start learning how to write your own articles. It doesn't require any special skill so long as you are good at english. Just find a topic and discuss about. The above is a short article - thanks to you.
lol you can't be serious? Did you consider the possibility that your articles may not make sales? If you don't have the cash flow you write the articles yourself. There is no other way to go about it you're living in fantasy land if you think there is.
90%? where did you get that figure from? thanks for replying by the way. The reason I posted was because I had seen posters saying when they first started out they didn't have any capital so they hired writers and paid them after each project with what they made on the sales. I just thought it was feasible if other people were doing it. I couldn't find their posts so just made a new thread. As I said above I saw others posters saying they did this which is the only reason I thought about it in the first place. I get your point though. I guess the writers initially thought it was a good idea and realised there was no guarantee so chickened out. Look I'm not an experienced marketer so don't shoot me down. I did consider that, that's why I'm testing all the products first and writing my own articles for the products that I am testing (I've written about 150 - 10 for each product so far) but still waiting on Ezine for approval.... when I can see which products are converting, what keywords to use, then I planned to outsource and ditch the products that wern't doing well so it would limit the risk for writers and for me aswell.
Sorry I was a bit harsh only because what you proposed is living in fantasy land and not the real world. You are completely missing the point. Freelance writers do jobs for the immediate cash flow. If they wanted to take a risk to profit more in the long term, they would write articles for themselves and make 100% of the affiliate sales. Only a crack head would write articles for someone else and only get paid for the articles if they make sales for the client.
Ok, I guess so. It seems like a bad deal from their perspective. I did think I would have a hard time getting writers to agree. I also thought you'd have to be a stupid/not use your initiative to write articles and get paid on sales. (like you said) Ok thanks for the feedback. That will be it.
Yes! Ooh and guess what! My first article has just been approved at Ezine and they've already given me expert author status!
Woohoo! If it doesn't make a sale then at least the freelance writer didn't have to write it I'm kidding of course. If you follow the advice on dp religiously you will be making sales soon enough.