My First Outsourcing Experience
As some of you may know, I recently outsourced some work for the first time. I always imagined that the outsourcing phase would come after I was making “a ton of money.” But quite frankly, I couldn’t wait that long.
I currently have 4 fully-built websites. Out of those 4, most of my income comes from only one of them. It is a “get your ex back” site for women. I decided I should build a second “get your ex back” site for men. Do more of what works, you know… Anyway, I was so tired of writing about relationships from doing the first site, that the thought of doing more of it made me want to cry. So I decided to outsource it since I already knew that I could make money with this niche.
I shopped around a little and I found a guy on the Affilorama forum who was just starting an article writing / spinning business. I contacted him and we shot a few e-mails back and forth. Before you know it, I’m having him write and spin 25 articles for me.
He got me my 25 articles written in one week, exactly the amount of time he said it would take. I took a look at the articles, and some of them were truly amazing! Much better than I could even dream of writing myself. He then proceeded to spin the articles. Of course this took longer, but he would e-mail me a few articles every day or so. These articles are pretty good too.
Overall, I am incredibly impressed with the value I got for the price I paid. Outsourcing is really exciting stuff. All it takes is a few e-mails and you can have someone else do what would have realistically taken me about one or two months of work. Pretty frickin’ cool!
Anyway, if you’re looking for an outsourcer, I’d recommend you talk to:
jamesbryan2009 (at) gmail.com
I understand he plans on setting up a website, but as far as I know it isn’t up yet otherwise I would happily link to him.
His prices are very good (less than elance) and the quality of work is also pretty good as well (often times better than what I could do myself). He is very responsive and gives updates on project progress. I’m very happy with how everything went.
February 10th, 2010 at 6:59 am
Thanks for the tip Clayton. I’m just at a point when I need some new articles.
February 17th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Clayton,
I’ve been periodically looking at your stuff since october, since i joined affilorama.
Very very good progress.
Thanks for the tip on a writer.
I outsourced all articles on my site, through a guy at elance.Would you be so kind as to give me an opinion?
I live in everett.
I’m an old coot, but think young.
I’m going to contact your guy and see if will write me an autoresponder series.
Mike
February 17th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
@Mike, Hey, your site looks pretty clean to me. Just two things come to mind after taking a quick glance at it.
First, I’m not sure if it’s just my browser, but your article text is showing up REALLY BIG. I’d consider bumping that down.
Second, you should use redirects for your affiliate links…especially since you’re in the IM niche. You can do a simple PHP redirect and it will cloak your affiliate links so that instead of seeing a nasty hop link, visitors can see something like http://www.affiliatetraininghelp.com/TrafficTravis.php
I’ve hear the IM niche can be difficult for affiliate marketers, but I know that a few people have gone on to be successful with it. http://www.cashash.com/ was built by an Affilorama guy. I think he said that he was making $100 a week from it, though, so keep at it.
You live up in Everett? I’m in Seattle. Good to meet a fellow mossback! If you’re not busy on Sunday, there’s a bunch of internet marketers meeting in Redmond at Azteca at 1:00. It’s good to meet other people out there that talk about crazy stuff like SEO and backlinks. LOL! Stop by if you have the time. http://www.meetup.com/Eastside-Online-Business-Professionals/