I just recently paid a little over $500 to hire a 10 different writers for a total of 50 articles on eLance. I hired some very inexpensive "cheapy" writers and a few of the more expensive writers and everything in between.
I did this because finding quality writers is difficult, and no matter what the price, you're bound to find "duds". The only real way to find quality writers you can go to time and time again is to use a trial and error process (combined of course with your own due diligence). The other reason for hiring so many is because my topics were limited, and to get sufficiently varied content when your topics are few but you need many articles, you typically need different writers.
Anyway, I saw that FuryKyle was looking for reviewers of his content writing service at nearly the same exact time I was hiring these writers for articles and I thought I'd give him a try...not only to get an extra article at a time I needed it, but also because I pretty much always need content and quality writers and wanted to see if I could add FuryKyle to my "list of go-to writers" so to speak.
Well, I definitely can do so (and have) added him to that list. I asked FuryKyle to write an article about
View attachment 47719 (using an image to prevent thread showing up in search results for that keyword). Now this is not your average topic...this requires real research to effectively write an article about...which is really the ultimate test when looking for quality content. If the writer(s) are unable to effectively research and "know" what they're writing about, it is glaringly apparent and the content that comes out of it will be virtually useless.
Well he and his team did a really excellent job researching AND writing an article for me. In fact, I'm so pleased with it, I was able to use the article right on my money site...I'll even share it with you so you can see for yourself:
http://goo.gl/Fv8fZr (using a link shortener, again, to prevent indexing of this thread in association with my site).
So to sum up, I'm really pleased with the result, especially given that the article was only 400 words or so. I'll be going back to FuryKyle again in the future, as the extra few bucks per 100 words is in my opinion an absolute steal for the high quality content that comes out of it.
Thanks!