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6 Places You Can Find Writers to Help with Your Blog
As much as we’d all like to write posts for our blogs, it’s not always that easy. You may find you don’t have enough time to dedicate to your blog. Or you may lose your passion for the topic after writing about it for so long. So why not look for another writer who can help you out?
Always be on the lookout for people who:
Demonstrate knowledgeSeem genuine and generous in helping othersCommunicate wellPut themselves out there and look for opportunitiesAre interesting and differentUnderstand social media and online communicationSix places you can find writers for your blog:
Guest Posters:If you have published guest posts in the past, take a look at them. How much traffic did they get? What was the quality like? How easy were they to work with? Did they go above and beyond with the post? If one of the guest posters stands out, contact them.Readership/Commenters: Look at the comments people leave on your blog, and contact the writers who know a lot about the topic, are genuinely helpful, and are well written.Commenters/Participants in Other Places:Check out comments people leave in other places, such as other people’s forums and blogs, Facebook pages/groups and podcasts.Magazines/Freelancers:Find people who already create paid content elsewhere, whether it’s as a freelancer or on their own blog.Word of Mouth:If you’re looking for someone, put the word out through friends, colleagues, business partners and others.Advertising:Use tips and tricks when looking to hire by advertising on the ProBlogger Job Board. If you’re willing to put a little work into going through the applications, you’ll usually find some gold.Once you’ve found someone and they agree to help, do a trial run with them to get a sense of what they’re like to work with, their content, and how your audience responds to them.
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Full TranscriptExpand to view full transcriptCompress to smaller transcript viewHi there friends, it’s Darren Rowse from ProBlogger here. Welcome to episode 248 of the ProBlogger Podcast. My name is Darren Rowse, as I said and I am the blogger behind ProBlogger, a blog, podcast, event, job board, series of ebooks, and courses all designed to help you to start an amazing blog, to create some great content on that blog, to grow your audience, and to build profit around it. Also, you can find more about what we do at problogger.com.
Now, in today’s episode, I want to talk about where to find writers for your blog, particularly where to find paid writers- those writers that you want to add your own voice and to help you to create more content for your blog on an ongoing basis.
I want to share with you the five places that I found writers for free without having to advertise for them at all. These are five places that are probably under your nose right now, they may be writers already in your network and it’s about how to unearth them. And then also, I want to share some tips of how to advertise for writers as well if you can’t find them within those free places that I’ve talked about.
You can find today’s show notes over at progblogger.com/podcast/248, where is a full transcript of today’s show as well as any links that I mentioned along the way as well.
Today’s show was inspired by Richard, who’s one of our listeners who sent in this question. He writes, “I’ve been blogging for three years now, and while my blog is making enough income for me to probably go full time with my blog. I also have a full time job that I love and don’t wish to leave. As a result, I’ve decided to look at hiring a writer or writers for my blog. To this point, I’ve only ever featured my own content and one of guest posts unpaid, and have no idea where to even start when it comes to finding writers. Where should I look for writers for my blog?”
Thanks, Richard, for the question, I appreciate it. Firstly, congratulations of building your blog to a point that you’ve come to already. I think it’s great that you have built to this level where you could full time but also I think it’s great that you’ve decided to keep your job. That must have been a tricky decision to make but one I do applaud. Because I do know that a lot of listeners of this podcast dream of going full time but also have work that they really love as well. So you can do both.
One of the ways that you can do both is to outsource aspects of your blogging-one of which is the writers. Onto your question, where do you look for writers? Some people are probably thinking that I’m going to just