If you write original content for your business, you know how quickly it drains your time and mental energy. It’s extremely challenging to write articles or blog posts that readers find engaging, clear, and eloquent.

You may have considered hiring a freelance writer, but it’s daunting if you’ve never done it before. Where do you find writers? How much does it cost? How do you ensure quality?

• Overview: Hiring Content Writers
• Part One: Finding Writers
• Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description
• Part Three: Screening Candidates
• Part Four - Working with Writers
• Part Five - Terminating Writers (this section)

If you’ve followed this guide, you’ve hired writers on a trial basis, which means that many of them won’t work out. This section explains how to gracefully end those relationships and refine your search for future candidates.

• Overview: Hiring Content Writers
• Part One: Finding Writers (this section)
• Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description
• Part Three: Screening Candidates
• Part Four - Working with Writers
• Part Five - Terminating Writers

There are thousands of working freelance writers in the world, but if you’ve never hired one before, you don’t know where to find them. In this section, I describe the places where I sought writers and which sources were fruitful.

Highlights

• Is It Keto continued its streak of growth, with a 72% jump in revenue to an all-time high of $389 for August.
• Given that Is It Keto is doing better than any of my other projects, I decided to stop ignoring it.
• I finally got a high-ranking domain to link to Is It Keto, but the experience soured me on guest posts.
• Zestful had its best month ever, earning $728 in revenue.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

I derive immense satisfaction from outsourcing my chores. All of my friends have heard me encourage them to place a higher value on their free time and delegate their errands. Few of them heed my advice, and it’s probably because they know about the time I paid someone $96 to clean a $39 keyboard.