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E-zines| Article #82: HIRING A WRITER FOR YOUR E-ZINE

Okay, you’ve got the ideas for your e-zine but you’ve also decided that writing is just not for you. However, you’ve also decided that you don’t want to dig up rehashed content for your e-zine. Well, in that case, the only thing left to do is hire a writer.

Work for hire on the Internet is not as easy to get accomplished as in the offline world for many reasons that are beyond the scope of this article. Suffice it to say, it’s a question of who blinks first.

Let me try to explain with an example.

John Doe decides that he wants to hire a writer for his e-zine. So he looks around the Internet and finds an email address of a Sally Rogers. So he emails Sally and tells her that he wants her to write 5 articles for his e-zine. Sally replies back saying that the 5 articles would cost him $50. He says fine.

Sally then emails John Doe and says that he has to pay $25 up front.

Now, think about this. All John knows about Sally is an email address. For all he knows, she doesn’t even have to be a Sally. In theory, and unfortunately what happens way too often, John Doe sends $25 to Sally’s PayPal account and then never hears from her again. He’s out $25.

In defense of Sally, if she’s one of the honest ones, what happens all too often is that she delivers the articles and never gets paid. She’s now put in all that work and has nothing to show for it.

This is why dealing with these type of things on the Internet are so difficult. In the offline world, you simply go down to the store with the money in your hand and say, “Are my articles ready?” The person who wrote them then hands you a package and you hand him the money.

So, the first thing you have to do when you hire a writer to write content for you is to work out the terms in advance. If the two of you can’t agree on delivery and payment, then there is no point in doing business with this person.

After you have worked out the terms of payment and delivery, you can then get into the details of what you want for the e-zine. Again, you have to be very specific about what you want right up front. If you have to, write up an outline of how you expect the articles to read. You may not be able to write yourself, but you should at least have a decent idea of exactly what content you want in these articles.

This is just another one of those reasons why I strongly suggest writing your own content, to avoid problems like these.

However, if you should find a really great writer who is easy to work with, hold on to this person. As you develop a working relationship, you will find that they will probably start to give you discounts on your requests.

These relationships are rare and hard to find, but when you do find one, hang on for dear life.

You may never find another one like it again.

I am speaking from experience.

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