Looking to build a team of writers, where to look?

I'd go to Constant-Content and just identify regularly-selling writers there, in whatever niches you want, and give them private requests of regular work. It's about as good a guarantee of genuine quality and proven reliability as you're going to find anywhere, I think. Realistically, you're not going to find people much better "vouched for" than that. It's perhaps a little bit on the expensive side, but you'll probably get what you pay for and might well be able to negotiate "discounts" for the promise of regular employment?.

If looking elsewhere, call me a skepchick, but I think you need to be really careful to check out independently verifiable references (i.e. people you speak to yourself, not just "available testimonials" which may not mean a lot, and/or articles which the writers may or may not really have written themselves).

I always know plenty of writers here, because people chat with me about getting work and how/where to do so, etc. I have no idea whether or not I might be able to help you (I don't write for others and have never myself employed a writer, so maybe not!), but let me know privately if you want to chat about this, "just in case" I can help.

You could have a talk with Rose. Here's her Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rose.g.anderson
She's very good, and as a writer I'm not easily impressed.

I would say it depends on the amount of content you need. Content mills are good if you require a ton of work in a short amount of time. If you're looking for higher quality content, then I'd suggest searching for freelancers. The majority of top writers that I know avoid content mills like the plague for various reasons, so you may get stuck with lower tier writing if you choose that option.

Like Alexa mentioned, Constant Content is awesome. I've sold a ton of stuff on their in the past, but expect to pay a much higher rate than anywhere else.

I have a few sold, but cheap, people that I would send your way.. charging $5-10 bucks for articles but they are brilliant and I don't use that word lightly. PM me if you want their details. I have an inhouse team as well but listen closely.. if your 'plan' is to auto blog.. aka have them write articles, post them on sites, build backlinks to those articles and let them cruise.. think again.. thats the old way of doing it. Sounds like this is going to be a new project so 'bring it up a notch' and jump on the modern version of content marketing and its methods.. not the stuff you find in ebooks and what not. If you need help I'm NOT a mentor, can't sell you a PDF on it.. but I can point you in the right direction.

Everyone, I tried to thank you all, but my thank you button has disappeared.

I've taken everyone's advice and will be putting it into action, Yes i do believe a lot of testing is in order to find the "Good writers", which i don't mind doing. After all, quality over quantity wins every time.

I'm drumming up a list of writers as we speak, whom I'm looking at contacting.

Is there any other places such as Constant Content, that i can have a look at?

Appreciate everyone taking the time to share very useful information for me.

Richard

I agree with the Constant Content recommendations above. I was just accepted to their site a few weeks ago, and although I haven't sold anything yet (I've only posted a couple articles so far), I can vouch for the superior quality of writing that you will find there. Constant Content has a testing process that you must go through before being allowed to submit articles, so most of the writers there are good at what they do. Even after becoming a member, you must go through a strict review process before each new article is accepted.

Anyway, get a hold of me if you're still looking for writers. I could probably help out.

There are no superior martial arts...

Only superior martial artists...



Your best bet is to personally test small with a variety of writers... And find some who match your style and don't suck...

Just my humbly submitted $.02...

Richard, What I can tell you is there are many places that you can hire writers to work for you full time like odesk, Elance, Freelancer, gurus, onlinejobs.ph this are awesome places for hiring writers. all you have to do is to make your job tile clear and be specific and if you can test them before accepting them to work with you

I've personally had some success on Elance. But one thing I've learned over there is never to go for the cheapest bids. It's a recipe for disaster.

Go to Freelancer it is best place to find article writers you can get them on long term basis.

I normally find my writers from elance as they have quality checks and tests to ensure the writers are capable and not crappy

Hello Richard, I read your post in my thread last week. I sent you a PM for my reply. Please check it out. I might be able to help you.

Charm

Hey man

If your looking to hire some of the best freelancers to work for your company may I suggest using either Elance or you can hire someone on Odesk

From my experience they are very professional and get the jobs done in a timely matter, not to mention that they're prices are wicked

I suspect the people recommending sites like Odesk, Elance, Freelancer and Guru, would not recognise quality if it fell on them from a great height, riding a piano.

PS. I've just seen my smiley appears to be a very toothy Asian fellow. I find this disturbing.

I outsource my writing to Freelancer.com. I have build up a pretty good team of writers who i regularly approach to write bulk articles across various niches.

Look into that & keep it as an option. I've certainly not had reason to complain.

Az