Outsource Freelance Writing To The Philippines And Save Money Setting Up Niche Sites

A freelance writer, required to provide content for your niche websites

, could be expensive. You can save some money by offshore outsourcing to the Philippines where a low cost of living makes savings possible.

Suppose you need 10 or more 500-word articles to set up a niche web site. You need maybe 20 more articles to submit to article directories to create back links. If you are submitting via an article submission service such as SubmitYourArticle.com or UniqueArticleWizard.com, you need spins of the articles as well. (A spin creates unique-appearing, equivalent versions of your article. It may be constructed from equivalent, alternate titles, paragraphs, and resource boxes, such that any article created from the original article by randomly substituting alternative paragraphs will still be well written.) You may need 15,000 words or more, and you need many niche sites to earn a decent living.

The Philippines is becoming a popular outsourcing destination. U. S. English is the language of education, government, and the media. The many colleges and universities are turning out well educated workers who have access to the Internet.

Consider the Cebu province. There are over a dozen colleges and universities. The region is one of the most economically productive in the nation.

An easy way to outsource is to put an ad in Craig's List. There are local Craig's Lists for Manila, Cebu, Iloilo, and six other regions of the Philippines. I'd recommend looking through the writing/editing and the resumes sections to see what people are offering and requesting and to get an idea of what information the postings usually contain.

The normal unit of writing is the 500-word article, which you can probably have written in the US for $10 to $20. I find in Craig's List for Manila, ads for article writers are frequently offering $1.00 per article. In Craig's List for Cebu, the ads usually offer at least Php 100 ($2.19, when I looked, Jun. 18, 2010). One advertiser was offering Php 100 to Php 150 ($2.19 to $3.28) per 420 to 450-word article and Php 60 ($1.31) per rewrite. Another was offering full time employment for $250 per month for six articles per day, five days per week. That would be about 120 articles at about $2 each.

Naturally, in their postings in the resumes section, writers ask for a higher amount. One was asking $1.20 per 100 words, or $6.00 for a 500 word article. He indicated a willingness to negotiate. An example of his articles, which he pointed to online, is in very good American English.

How well does this outsourcing work? Sources I trust are wildly enthusiastic about it. I will report my own experiences with it in subsequent articles.

Nevertheless, nearly everyone reports a lot of early frustrations in finding a good, reliable writer. Some tips: ask for and check references, request a test assignment of three articles on a topic you choose, always check for plagiarism with Copyscape or at least by feeding some sentences from the article into Google and seeing if there is an exact match.

Does it disturb me to offshore American jobs? Actually, there is only one person whose job would be outsourced. I am that person, and I don't object at all.

If you plan to make money targeting small niches, you will find a freelance writer is required. Consider outsourcing some of your effort to a region of the Philippines where the quality of knowledge workers is high, and the cost of living, for the moment, is low.

by: Thomas Christopher

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