Where Can You Hire Great Writers? | Ep. #304

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In Episode #304, Eric and Neil discuss where you can hire great writers. Tune in to learn how you can easily find great writers in your space and why hiring a full-time writer may work as a disadvantage to you. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:27 – Today’s topic: Where Can You Hire Great Writers? 00:46 – Eric and Neil both use Problogger religiously for finding their writers 01:05 – It’s cheap to put a job posting and there’s a lot of great people you can meet there 01:12 – Neil checks his competitors’ blogs and reaches out to some of the writers 01:22 – They usually accept any writing gig 01:30 – Don’t hire full-time writers because the ROI isn’t there 01:37 – People get burned out, so find someone who will write for you just a couple of times a week 01:51 – Find the most popular writers in your space based on comments and social shares 01:56 – Social shares mean they’re driving traffic and comments mean they’re engaging the audience 02:07 – If you’re doing audio and video podcast, go to Rev and have them transcribe podcast episodes 02:55 – Marketing School is giving away a free 1 year subscription of Sniply which allows you to overlay CTA or forms over social links that you’re sharing 03:07 – Subscribe, rate and review Marketing School 03:12 – Text MARKETINGSCHOOL to 33444 03:33 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: Problogger is a great place to find your next writer. Find great writers in your space based on how many social shares and comments they receive, then offer them something reasonable. Transcribing your audio and video creates another way for your audience to engage with your content. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from
0:06.8	entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any
0:11.4	marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school with
0:14.9	your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
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0:55.0	Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Sue.
0:56.0	And I'm Neil Patel.
0:57.0	And today we are going to talk about where you can hire a great writer.
1:01.0	So this is something Neil and I have actually talked about a couple of times on this
1:03.7	podcast, but we haven't dedicated a specific topic to this. So we're trying to make this more searchable for you. So in terms of where you can hire great writers,
1:11.5	we'll just get this off our plate right now.
1:13.2	Neil and I both use this place religiously.
1:15.9	Jobs.prologger.net, I think. But just go to Problogger, you could Google it and
1:20.9	then look for their jobs board. You can find a lot of great writers there and you know for me I found people that write about machine tools,
1:27.0	technical writers, just really across the board people that you think that you'll never find
1:32.0	they're basically hanging out on boards like this.
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