Seed Money, Who Needs Seed Money?

When I logged on to the Affiliate Article Writers private forum today I had this question from a fellow member about my $1000 seed money that I referenced in my last post about affiliate marketing.    I thought it was a great question that I would share with all of you.   So here is the question:

Just curious about the $1000 seed money: is that for outsourcing your article writing? Apart from that, will you also be writing the articles on your own?

First off the $1000 is partially for outsourcing article writing.   You see I don’t really like writing articles all that much, so outsourcing is very attractive to me.  Plus it provides a great time leverage.

The money that I don’t use for outsourcing I’ll be using to pay my 18 year old high school senior.  He’ll take the articles I’ve outsourced and clean them up,  add some additional relevant content and give them back to me to be published.  This will help my son continue to work on his writing skills that will become very valuable to him in college.

You maybe be wondering why I need my son to clean up articles that I paid to have written.   Well,  my past experience with ghostwriters is you need to paid a pretty good sum per article to get a good one,  like $10+ per article.   When I’ve paid less I’ve alway had to tweek them some to make them useable, to my standards anyhow.

So I’ve decided to go to the other end of the spectrum.  I’m paying $2 an article for around 350 words.   These articles are pretty good and only need a quick read, some small grammar fixes, and then an additional paragraph or two of specific information about the product its promoting.

So between paying the ghostwriter and my son I’m coming in around $4 an article.

I’m happy, my son is getting lots of good writing experience, and money to run with his friends.

Life is good and that’s why I’ve set aside some seed money for the venture.