Content Writers - Hiring vs Just Outsourcing

I've outsourced plenty of articles in the past and I've hired people full/part time as writers.

And honestly I don't know if paying someone full time is work the effort.

If I outsource my articles somewhere like iWriter I pay say $5 an article (obviously this varies depending on the writer and the word count but let's go a rough price for a generic article).

If I hire someone at what say $400 a month (not counting the time and fees to find the right person and hire them) then they'd need to be writing 80 articles a month to match what I'd pay to have it outsourced.

So 80 articles a month. 20 a week. Assuming 5 day week that'd be 4 articles a day. I know I could knock that out but can I really expect someone I'm paying $400 to? Not to mention this is the bare minimum just to match outsourcing price.


Outsourcing articles:
+ I'm only paying for the articles I skim and think are worth posting.
+ I can have a dozen writers work on a dozen articles rather than waiting for one writer.

- A lot of them will likely need edited to some degree and if I need something specific it'd be harder to explain to a one time writer.


Note: I know quality writers charge a lot more than the numbers I'm using here. If I was paying for great content I'd be paying a lot more but I'm talking average fluff pieces here.

Outsourcing article is a better option for you imo.

Anyway you might wanna test BHW's writing services on the marketplace. It has affordable rates and decent quality compared to iwriter.

Looks like you already made up your mind.

You don't really list any reasons why you should hire a full time writer, but you list every reason why you should outsource the articles. So just outsource them.

alwaysinvisible said:

Looks like you already made up your mind.

You don't really list any reasons why you should hire a full time writer, but you list every reason why you should outsource the articles. So just outsource them.

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It's because I don't see a whole lot of reasons to hire over just outsourcing unless you want to train that person to do something specific. Happy to hear if someone has a different experience though.

LatteGrande said:

Outsourcing article is a better option for you imo.

Anyway you might wanna test BHW's writing services on the marketplace. It has affordable rates and decent quality compared to iwriter.

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I'd also go with the marketplace's offer. The prices are really good, the quality also seems to be pretty nice too!