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The most important thing when you deal with ghost writers is that you give them clear instructions regarding your expectations. Many ghosts also do their own article marketing and understand the importance of titles, summaries, and resource boxes. But if you don't make your objectives clear, they cannot help you much.

Keep in mind that writers work with numerous clients who each have their own criteria on what makes a good final product. For instance, some want keyword rich titles while others want to write the titles themselves. Most writers will do it either way, but you need to make everything you want crystal clear. It cuts down on frustration for both you and the writer that way.

As far as pricing goes, if you can give a ghost writer a good volume of steady work - particularly in a handful of niches - you'll get a better deal.

You need to know that you're going to have to invest some money in "test" articles before you find a writer who is a good fit for you. Try testing 3 to 5 people with 10 articles each before committing to someone long term.

Never let them write the title. That is one area you must master. And feel free to change the beginning and ending to suite your needs.

I write the articles myself. And I write articles for other people as well. Usually, keywords are already provided by the clients. Or I may have to do the search myself then submit it to them before I even begin writing.

Outsourcing makes a lot of sense when you known what you want and can give the writer clear instructions. In many cases a professional writer will write articles better than you can, especially if you are new to article marketing or writing at all. This is also true for the resource box.

Beside that, it's usually a waste of your valuable time to write the articles yourself. Time that could be spent much better on other things that bring your business forward.

Also, there are situations where outsourcing is the only solution, even if you are the best and fasted writer in the world. What if you are building many Adsense or mini sites. What if you build an army of blogs. How long will it take to get all the content together for these sites? You then will need even more content when you start promoting these sites. It's impossible to write all that yourself.

Gunter

The last articles I submitted to my ghost writer I simply gave them the basic punch line then let them build the entire article as they seen fit. This gave them an understanding of what I need and also gave them the ability to work as they seen fit. Yet I have also gave them just the title which worked out rather well.

I write my own articles, but time can sometimes be short so I think when I do eventually trust someone else to write for me I would do the title, summaries etc initally to point the writer in the right direction. I would however ask them to submit them too with the article, then I would decide if theirs was better than mine (which if they are good quality writers probably will be!!!)

Outsourcing to Philippines best option in my opinion, great English and low cost.. I like odesk.com

If you can find a talented writer who specializes in EZA submission then they will likely be pretty good at writing intros, summaries and resource boxes. Obviously, not all talented writers have experience with EZA, and vice versa. Find a writer that meets both criteria and establish a long term, mutually beneficial business relationship.

Before I outsource any article to anyone, I have to have written a couple on that topic myself, and the articles will all have a certain theme or style to them.

For example I may decide the articles will all be in a story form which will eventually lead to a moral in the end.

Once I've established that, I can then translate my request to a writer.

I also do the research and give them the topics I want them to write on and the exact style

As a result I end up paying like 50, even up to 150 for an article depending on the style and length

For more basic review style articles I can get them done for like 2-3$ per $350 words article and I have my in house team insert the specs to make it up to about 450 or so

Against my better judgment, I got one lady in WSO from USA to write some articles for me, very short 180 words articles only, but they were in a specific style. I gave her many examples and explanations to understand the structure, she was confident that she could do it... I asked 3 times , she said yes... The result was a mess

she also started giving me excuses of blackouts in the state she was in because of winds etc...

I then said np, just give me what you have and I'll walk away

I think there's a danger zone when you talk about the $2-$3 price range, if you find someone that works for you hang on to them..

There are a lot of college students and native English speakers that will gladly write articles for a spare income.

I'll usually order an article or two as a test, give them a subject and a keyword. At worst I have an article that I have to tweak, at best it works out.

I'd write my first 250 articles myself and then parlay the profits into outsourcing service such as Need an Article -- Automated Article System!.

Hope it helps.

Best,
Esh

article marketing is the free way for you to start your internet marketing career. So, my suggestion is try to write the articles first before you outsource to others to write for u... by writing yourself the article, you will familiar with how on earth the whole internet marketing is all about...

hope this help...

I write my own articles.
It usually takes me no more than 5-7 minutes
to write a keyword targeted article.
And I also use an article submission service
which allows me to submit each article in under
a minute time...

Igor

I ask the writer to come up with interesting title for the article. If it's good, I will use it. Otherwise, I will change it to my liking (based on keyword phrase that I want, of course).

I used to pay someone else to rewrite my content however then I found an easier way of doing it myself which did the trick for what I wanted the content for, its free too

Hi Vuedoolor!

Like everything else in the Internet Marketing business I feel that it is best to start by learning how to write an article yourself. It's not difficult but there are things you need to understand eg how to use keywords effectively.

If you start out by outsourcing your article writing you will always feel a bit out of control. Ezine Articles are the best but they are fussy. Having an article accepted by them will give you a great confidence boost! And by educating yourself you'll know better how to recognise a good article writer when the time comes that you do have to outsource.

Hope this helps!

Elaine

People generally only pay about $5 per 300 word article in my opinion.