Making money on the net, real money, is like any other business. Essentially what you are doing is buying a product from an employee – his time and/or talent – and selling it to someone else at a profit. Whether you make cars, aeroplanes, tomato soup or hamburgers, your staff build your business from the burger flipper to the franchise manager.
Making money online is no different, so if you have ambitions of making it big then you have to leverage others work. And the work we need for blogs? Content.
Yep we need content, good articles, good reviews, good tips and generally a good experience for the reader. You can choose to do all this yourself, many do, but you are going to get a lot further if you have people helping you.
So where do we find them? Freelancing sites. I must admit to you, I have only recently taken it upon myself to employ freelancers, mainly because I am happy to bang out a couple of articles a day myself, however, moving the business forward is requiring more concentration on the projects which we are developing. As an experiment in making money from this blog we need to have content written by other people to make it time viable and useful for readers.
So what have discovered?
Well.. the average freelancer wants in and then wants out. If you set a 500 word article as a project you will get 501 – 520 words… there is no going the extra mile here.
Most people who bid on your project will not be English speakers as a first language and that has something to do with cost. I use GetFreelancers.com. I put in a project for 50 articles on my subject and offers came in at anything from $30 (yep) to ($160), I ended up paying $130. The bids came in thick and fast, however, once selected the articles didn’t. So far I have received 10 and have rejected 2 and it has been about a week.
Also, the quaility is OK, but not that great. If you are looking for fully written and researched articles ready to drop into your blog, you either have to pay much more money,find a diamond in the rough, or you can forget using freelance sites.
If, on the otherhand, you are looking for a cheap way of having a framework for your articles that you can build upon and expand into something that your readers may be interested in, then I would say go for it, just expect to be working on those articles yourself.
This as an interim measure I think will work for us and, hopefully, using such sites may just give us the opportunity to come across someone who we can work with full time… we shall see..
Regards
David
@TheMarketMaker
Making money online is no different, so if you have ambitions of making it big then you have to leverage others work. And the work we need for blogs? Content.
Yep we need content, good articles, good reviews, good tips and generally a good experience for the reader. You can choose to do all this yourself, many do, but you are going to get a lot further if you have people helping you.
So where do we find them? Freelancing sites. I must admit to you, I have only recently taken it upon myself to employ freelancers, mainly because I am happy to bang out a couple of articles a day myself, however, moving the business forward is requiring more concentration on the projects which we are developing. As an experiment in making money from this blog we need to have content written by other people to make it time viable and useful for readers.
So what have discovered?
Well.. the average freelancer wants in and then wants out. If you set a 500 word article as a project you will get 501 – 520 words… there is no going the extra mile here.
Most people who bid on your project will not be English speakers as a first language and that has something to do with cost. I use GetFreelancers.com. I put in a project for 50 articles on my subject and offers came in at anything from $30 (yep) to ($160), I ended up paying $130. The bids came in thick and fast, however, once selected the articles didn’t. So far I have received 10 and have rejected 2 and it has been about a week.
Also, the quaility is OK, but not that great. If you are looking for fully written and researched articles ready to drop into your blog, you either have to pay much more money,find a diamond in the rough, or you can forget using freelance sites.
If, on the otherhand, you are looking for a cheap way of having a framework for your articles that you can build upon and expand into something that your readers may be interested in, then I would say go for it, just expect to be working on those articles yourself.
This as an interim measure I think will work for us and, hopefully, using such sites may just give us the opportunity to come across someone who we can work with full time… we shall see..
Regards
David
@TheMarketMaker
