Andrew Wee, Headhunting for Writers, and Crowdsourcing
July 17th, 2007 by 
Amit
I’m back in Chicago right now for the Perry Marshall’s Roundtable meeting. And I gotta tell you, I’m learning stuff that would totally blow your mind. I’ll tell you more about it in future posts (what’s not confidential anyway).
My friend and fellow blogger Andrew Wee has a great post based on an awesome thread of comments on my last Affiliate Summit post.
Andrew has some really great insight on how to crank out content sites that generate $1k/month-$2k/month. Andrew answers a burning question a lot of people have: How do you find good writers (especially overseas) that will write quality (ie sticky) content.
Here’s what Andrew has to say:
“The reality is that you will get what you pay for. Proven quality costs.
A workaround is to find new guys on sites like elance, workaholics or rent a coder, who’ve yet to establish themselves and might be willing to do quality work on the cheap in order to build some positive feedback.
If you’re going along this approach, you might like to farm out a batch of 3 articles, and solicit 10-20 freelancers to work on your project. You could then do a ’survivor’ style elimination and work with your favorite 2-3 writers.
The important thing to note is that you need to spend time scanning and headhunting quality. You might be really lucky and have a talented freelancer fall into your lap, but it’s not likely to happen.”
And that’s great advice!
Finding good people, whether it’s a content writer, programmer, graphics designer, is a matter of going through the numbers. I’m personally willing to pay more for quality content, however, they’re lots of excellent writers out there that will crank out great content for you for $5 an article. You just need the patience and perseverance to find them.
However, there’s one really powerful shortcut, it’s called crowdsourcing. You can do this on sitepoint.com.
What sitepoint.com allows you to do is setup a contest for anything web design/graphic design related. You set a cash prize for the contest, and let talented web designers from around the world submit their entries.
You pick the best entry and only pay that person! 
The superaffiliatemindset.com logo was done through sitepointe.com, it only cost me $200. And my company found a very talented logo designer!
They REALLY should have crowdsourcing for writers.
andrew wee content writers crowdsourcing perry marshall sitpoint contest
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Amit,
Now we’re letting all the secrets out!
Another site which is populated by designers is DesignOutpost.com.
Again, it’s on a reverse auction basis, you list your job and requirements and many designers will put out low-resolution drafts and you pick the winner.
I understand the competition is really intense and you might get your logos at sub-$100…
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If you’re working on a long term strategy, I’d suggest getting people working with you in-house or on a retainer basis though.
You boys are so darn generous with your experience and ideas. I learn something new here everyday. It’s like a free education. Good karma to both of you!
Hello Amit,
Sorry for the off-topic. But I’m referring back to another post you made about tracking which sites you see your ads appear on for Adsense.
After you find the no. of sites your ads appear on, how do you track which sites convert? Do you just place the Google Analytics code on the merchant thank you page and the conversions is tracked automatically?
I havent used the content network before and for the search network, I always knew traffic came from google.com and the keyword
Hi Tim,
I share your sentiment & I totally agree with you. Amit is awesome and Andrew just adding value after value unselfishly. I sincerely pray for only the best for these excellent guys. Kudos to the contributors (& go Singapore!)!
Hi Amit, I love your blog. So much information that people pay hundreds to download (end up being scammed).
I am a newbie in affiliate marketing, I bookmarked all the best blogs in the industry and signed up on forum and started reading. So much info I was blown away! I put up a couple of campaigns on adwords and well no clicks so far. BUT I received 2 sales on ClickBank. Can they be legit sales? I mean I have no clicks in adwords and I am not promoting that offer anywhere else. How did I receive those 2 sales? Or are they even sales? Can you let me know how do you find out if they are legit.
Thanks.