If you’ve been reading my posts here you remember that I outsourced the writing of about 100 articles on water purification in September.  I put an ad on rent a coder contracted with the writer for two dollars per 400 word article. But I got back was between 300 and 350 words that made little or no sense. And of course after trying to work this out with the author I just gave up and chaked it up to a lesson learned.

But even though the articles aren’t in any shape to be posted they do provide some research for each of the topics. So I’m just taking them one at a time using the data in them and rewriting them to be useful.

But since I have such a great love for writing articles, not. I’m not letting this experience cause me to quit looking for outsourcing help.  I’m just basically looking for someone to write for me that I can just take the article and able to posted directly to e-zines without me having to change it at all.

So I recently found an outsourcer on digital point forum. He charges a penny a word and guarantees US writers 100% perfect spelling and grammar.

So I ordered 20 articles from him and recently got them back. Well I must say they’re better quality articles then I got before and are well researched but they still had a number of grammatical errors in them.  So I contacted the author and he’s going to go through them again and fix all the errors.

I really hope he comes through so I can use them again in my quest for a ghostwriter, I’ll let you know how it turns out.

Now for a quick wrap up on the week,  I did get five more articles posted this week and made some adsense income and have another sale at xtend-life.

So through October 11 I have just about doubled my income from September, while still not much money but were going in the right direction.

Here’s wishing everybody a good week and more sales and you had the week before.

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.