Getting Content for Free

This may be a no brainer to some of you, but for those who may never have thought about it, I thought I would share. I use this method primarily for blogs, but I suppose it could be used for any website where you allow some level of socialization. I currently own an authority blog on a subject that a lot of people are passionate about. While the blog does make money and gets a buttload of traffic, it's more of a labor of love so I only post on it once a week. After numerous emails from readers requesting that I write more often, I put up a notice on the blog that I was looking for people who would be interested in writing for the blog (for free). Within 2 weeks I had enough people to fill a writing slot every day of the week. That's 6 days of content that I don't have to write . . . completely free of charge. I tell everyone who wants to write for the blog how long the articles needed to be and gave them a quick lesson on SEO. Needless to say, the blog has been growing even bigger and bigger ever since (and produced more income as a result). All I do is log on once a day, approve articles, ping and social bookmark them.

The moral of the story is, if you have a blog that has knowledgeable dedicated readers and you don't feel like writing for it everyday, you would be surprised at how many of your readers would probably be thrilled to write for your blog for free.

Just thought I'd share. And in case you're wondering, yes, I do screen everyone before I allow them to write for the blog.