Finding an expert author who has personality and creativity?
I have a website of mine that is based in the health and fitness niche. It gets a steady amount of traffic at the moment and makes a couple hundred dollars each month.
It started off with myself being the sole writer for the blog. After I had earned some decent money I started to outsource the content creation side of things to oDesk. That started freeing up some time to grow the site in other areas.
Now this is where the problem comes in. After outsourcing various posts there was always something I wasn't happy about. I felt the articles and posts didn't have much personality or creativity in them. I wanted the posts to engage me better - something they failed horribly on. Don't get me wrong they were all written well but they weren't something I could enjoy reading.
So then at the end of last year I decided what I needed was an expert author - I mean someone who was an expert author in the area of any given subjects must be the answer, right?
Well, after reading through some of these articles I still feel the same. Yes they are well written but there's no real personality in them.
I feel as if the quality of the blog has dropped since I have stopped writing so much (I still write the odd post.)
The idea going back to creating all the content myself isn't really an idea I want to look at as I have all sort of other projects going on at the moment. I could post a few job adverts for writers on other sites like freelance or elance but I fear I'll get them same sort of quality. What would you do?
1. Are there any places I could find fantastic expert authors?
2. Also, what would be your ideas to grow the blog?
DONT USE TIME CARELESSLY FOR IT CANNOT BE RETRIEVED. -LURK
Cheers, Laurence.
Writer/Editor/Proofreader.