Do you worry about giving your niche ideas away to article writing services?

Most people you outsource articles to, aren't in a position to make moves on their own. Of course there are exceptions but you are probably pretty safe. It is no different than submitting the article and someone finding it. Your niches aren't safe whether you outsource or not.

No, I would not worry about that.

Most niches are far from being a secret anyway. Plus the people writing for an article writing service aren't the ones who seriously want to build their own niche business in most cases.

You can't stop building your business just to keep secrets. A business not build is not worth much, even if the idea was gold.

Ralf

Anyone can steal your niche idea when your site goes live. Random internet surfers, competitors, even those who buy your products. But as someone else said, ideas without muscle are fairly useless.

As a writer I can pretty much guarantee that most writers are too busy writing to steal ideas.

Anyways, giving your niche away to one writer or service is not enough to saturate it.

I don't think most article writers will offer stiff competition. That said, I do wonder about it sometimes.

Which is all the more reason to find a writer that you trust and stick with him/her.

This is the totally unbiased opinion of an article writer.
Rose

It's quite unlikely this would happen to you, but I wouldn't say it will never happen. For myself, I am too busy creating content to even think about stealing your ideas. Once the articles are out, they go straight into my client folder and I never look at them again.

Chameleon, you forgot to add this part in:

Nope. I never worry about it. Even if they are good marketers. Why? Because I come from a place of abundance and believe there's plenty to go around. People steal ideas. That's never going to change. If you focus on your core business and take care of what's going to grow your business, more competition isn't going to bother you. I stick by what the late Cory Rudl preached over and over again:

"Take care of your customers and the competition will take care of themselves."

I've had many people copy my products, my websites, my sales copy, yet they very seldom know how to put ALL the pieces together to really make it work and convert well because they are not privy to what goes on behind the scenes. Do I monitor it, yes? But do I worry about it? Heck no.

If a writer that I hire wants to dive into a niche that I'm in, hey, more power to them. Have at it and good luck, I tell them. Maybe we can JV together.......heheheh. It wouldn't be the first time or the last.

RoD

TheDog

Yes you are.

Remember: the more you share, the more successful you will be.

At the end of the day, people are lazy, so you can GIVE any of these writers you're working with your best idea, and if you gave it to 10, more than like 1, or maybe .5 of a person would try to implement it.

Ultimately, there's nothing new under the sun but the faces walking the face of the Earth.

So whatever your idea is, I'm willing to go out on a limb and bet someone has already did it, or thought about it. Whether they took action is the key.

Boom!

Hustle Time,
D

From the perspective of a writer, I wouldn't worry. From the perspective of a marketer, I'd only worry a little.

If you're writing for cash, you're probably writing about three or four different topics every day. Heck, I've written about three very different things today (reminds me of a certain quote about six impossible things before breakfast ), and I'm switching gears for the fourth right now.

You also are focused on short-term cash: research, write, get paid. Even for long-term cash, the process is this: do the research, write the articles, get paid, get good results for the client, get a referral or repeat business.

This business model doesn't allow you to "snipe" niches. You don't have the time to build competing sites, figure out what their method is, copy it, promote it, and blah, blah, blah...

There are exceptions, but it isn't the norm.

If you're truly worried, give them a slightly different keyword or niche and customize it.

For instance, if you're getting them to write about a certain brand of hearing aids, just tell them to write about behind-the-ear hearing aids, or Siemens hearing aids. Get the article back, replace "behind-the-ear" or "Siemens" with "Oticon" and you're off to the races.

Your site is going to be found most likely by some marketer unless you
are doing sniper sites with no links.

It's just a matter of when. If you're getting links there on someone
elses site.

Just go hard and turn out more quality content if you're paranoid.

Of course outsource this from different sources.

Looks like you got plenty of great responses but I asked a similar question and was concerned about this very issue. It never prevented me from outsourcing work but I in my eyes it was similar to feeding your idea to a house cat or a lion. It's one thing to have IMers come across your site by chance and another to send your ideas, articles, and backlinking strategy directly to them. However, the overall response has been not to worry about, so I won't.

But heres a link to it:

Stealing a Niche Idea

My opinion - don't worry about it.

I occasionally sign NDA agreements when I work with clients, but I am already in business for myself. I have no desire to go out and copy other people's work - freelancers aren't all the same...

Don't be paranoid. If it happens, it happens. It's a compromise you have to be willing to accept!

Dean

Not really. People are always focused on what they're doing.
For example, a cake baker is more interested in how to sell more cakes, not how to sell more cake mixers. So cake bakers and cake mixer salesmen would be able to survive and help each other. While a cup cake guy would always pose a more immediate threat to a cake baker because he could easily learn how to bake cakes and steal the cake baker's clients, LOL

Article writers, as a general rule are so focused on writing articles and growing that business that they don't have time to focus on anything else.
Usually what happens is that when they move on to something else in internet marketing, they will also stop trying to write for others and just write for themselves.

One thing I like to do is if it is a very competitive market or the product will be competitive, then hurry up and grab the .com, .net, or .org domain name then buy the content that way you have the domain name that holds more weight + the article.

If they steal your ideas or rewrite or spin your content then that's ok. Because you'll already have what they need but can't have. That's the "keyword" domain.