Hiring Writers from the Phillipines

I suggest you just go straight to the Warriors for Hire section - we've got some great writers here

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I've hired Filipino writers many times, and I would say 8/10 you'd either get very low quality articles or articles that are straight up plagiarized. I now mostly hire them for articles that I use for backlinks. If you need quality content, I'd suggest hiring someone from this forum.

Go to oDesk, create an account. Create a new jobs. Any start interviewing applicant.

oDesk is another great way to find people.
You can funnel options to get the best people (such as choosing people with 5/5 English, 4.5/5+ rating and over 1000 hours worked.

You can go to elance.com or freelancer.com. I've found good philippine writers from these sites.

Filipinos speak conversational english, but writing good english is even difficult to find among native English speakers. Just think about how many terrible writers you see on boards that are native English?

Most filipino writers you hire will be difficult to filter. I tried a week ago craigslist Manila? finding one. just for backup. No responses zero. 2 yrs ago I would have gotten 30 responses. I guess they are all on fiverr now

Fiverr.com is the best place, you really get good people there.

Shahid

You may also find good ones at onlinejobs.ph or directory.outsourcingautopilot.com. I suggest you pay them by the number of words they write.

Whoa,

Ok... I see a lot of bad advice here...

First, Where NOT to hire people from.

You don't get writers from Fiverr unless you want crap. As much as I love the warrior forum, I wouldn't hire from here either (because most people here are in the marketing mindset. They see posts of people making 10k every day, so if you're paying them 3.50$/hour, they won't be happy)

Second, you hire people from big job sites:

1. On Odesk you'll get a few, but they are competing for many assignments... not a bad first choice if you're just starting off. You'll want to quickly "get them off the site" once you find someone you like (even if this is against their TOS)

2. Freelancer.com is great for more technical things, I find good people there but once again, there is a lot of competition so you get people that are job whores. (not what you're looking for)

3. Philippine directories are great (craiglist, jobstreet.ph, and a few others.) Just Google "philippines jobs" and you'll find a bunch. If you want an excellent writer, then find someone that's a great writer... and someone that's not into internet marketing.

When you post a job on those sites, you'll usually get 8-10 replies and it should be fairly easy to choose from there.

Have a Skype interview, find the one you like the most and pay them hourly with Paypal.

Start by paying them daily (Offer them 3-5$/hour) at first (for the first week or so). This will build trust on both sides.

Then move to paying them weekly... and eventually you might want to increase it to twice a month or even monthly, but it will depend on your relationship with the person.

That's really the best way to find a great writer that does excellent work.

All the best,

I have used Easy Outsource (www.easyoutsource.com) with pretty good results.

Eric has some very good tips on his post. You have to ask them for a quick trial run to see how they actually write with the topic you requested. You have to interview and sort through a lot of people to find the quality gems. If you can bump up your hourly a bit then you can find better people faster. Still have to sort hard.

Hey guys,

If I hire a writer on Odesk, Freelancer.com, elance.com, etc. Can I pay per article? If so for a 400 word article what is the going rate?

Odesk, elance, etc.

You can find some decent writers on the "write-for-hire" sites as well. Anywhere where you see a ton of great feedback for their writing. But be careful of fake reviews.

Hello, I am a freelance writer from the Philippines, I want to apply, I hope we can communicate with each other so that you can test my writing skills.

It is said that Writers.ph is also for Philippine freelancers. Probably you may check this site for more information.

These days you can get writers in the USA or UK for the same price... You just have to find the right person. Freelancer.com or fiverr.com is great to start with low risk.

Go for the Warriors for Hire or for those freelancer sites.

The most commonly used modes of payment is the contractual, project or per-job basis. Of course this is good for the contractor (you) because you will only pay after the project is done. This is, however, a bit concerning for freelancers because they are not assured of payment.

Other contractors have some sort of a retainer basis where they pay the writers a fixed fee per period regardless of what or when jobs arrive.

Anyway, the best way is just to pay per project (1 article or a group of articles).

Location actually doesnt matters a lot, even we see guys from big countries working on content & providing us spinned copy. So if you are not a part of a community, where a trusted provider can be found, we must find someone here in WF in the hire section which is possibly more better than anything else.

You may need to test non-US writers for their writing skills. Though you can find good writers sometimes outside the US, UK and other English speaking countries, I have found that foreign(non-English) writers tend to make errors when they convert words and phrases from their native language into English. As a result when you publish your articles on your website a keen observer with an eye for detail will definitely spot errors made by a person whose first language is not English. Hence you need to weigh the cost of exposing your outsourced articles against the savings from cheaper rates for articles. Good writers in the Philippines may charge as much as US writer would charge for an article.

Been there, done that. Lesson learned.

Personally, I don't believe in outsourcing to Non-Native English speakers. From past experience, it turned out to be too much of a pain because 99% of the time I ended up having to rewrite/edit the articles myself.

If you're paying $2.50 for a 500-750 word article. Do you really expect the quality of the work to be top notch? Expect spun PLRs (eBooks) or regurgitated web content.

Don't be cheap because this is an area where you often get what you pay for. Therefore, invest a few extra dollars in hiring a quality Native English speaker/writer from the U.S.A., England, Australia, etc. Just my two cents.

Make sure to checkout outsourcefactor.com

Http://outsourcefactor.com

Hire direct. Train your employees.

Though this is just a 're-incarnated' thread, I'll share my two cents.

Our writers are from the Philippines and they've been with us for years already. We pay them per word count requirement on SEO-based articles, web contents, product descriptions, product reviews, press releases, e-books, and reports. Though they write really very well, their work needs to be 'Americanized' so as to say. That's the reason why our copy editors (final proofreaders) are native English editors who are copy editors by profession. On top of their regular tasks as editors (fixing grammar issues, placing proper punctuation marks, ensuring that the client's requirements were met by the writer, etc), they are responsible in 'Americanizing' the content, putting a little humor on the content, adding some finishing touches of an English culture somehow, and things like that.

Writers from the Philippines are literally very good (of course, you need to find only the best) but you need to have a native English editor to put some finishing touches for the reasons I stated above.

I hope this helps.

I used to hire people from the Philippines, gave them 50% up front and 50% when the work was finished.

Recently I've been outsourcing to people on Freelancer and some of them are really great writers.

I've hired many Philippines writers and got acceptable articles. But it was very difficult to keep connections for a long time. Sometimes they say No power, Flooding, Health problems etc ...
It's a big problem with them. we can't rely on them for a long term business.

Textbroker dot com is another good hiring source