Content Providers Guide

How do you find good content writer's for your website? Users won't linger at your site for long if it's full of hard to read or boring, misspelled words. You need fresh copy, and lots of it, especially if you run weekly newsletters, which tend to peder out after the first year due to lack of fresh copy.

The following is a brief guide and reviews of the best places online to hire a copywriter:

www.ifreelance.com is relatively new to the scene, boasting hundreds of service providers ready to bid on your project. Service providers are not charged by the bid, and so tend to charge slightly less for their services.

www.freelancewriting.com is a good resource but at last check was revamping their site and not working properly. Check back often as it is a great site and can only be getting better.

www.guru.com is a favorite of northwest freelance writers, but serves writers and buyers from all over. Free to post your project, hundreds of service providers will bid on your project. Guru is the second largest online freelance service provider website, and has a great feed back rating from buyers who contract for content provider's for websites.

www.elance.com is one of the largest and most successful online freelance writer's sites. It costs a pretty penny for the service provider to join, around $40.00 a month for writers, more or less for other service providers like graphics and illustrators. It's worth it, though, read through their reviews, they police the site and make sure everyone is getting the copy, and the provider is getting paid.

This is just a short list of site you can visit to find a freelance writer. Read their feedback ratings and score carefully, and always ask to see a sample of their work before hiring them. Don't be taken a back if they do not want to post some of their work when making the bid, those are often not "read-only" pages and a freelancer can lose their work to unscrupulous service providers who log on just to steal copy. Like anywhere else online, there are people who troll these sites waiting to take advantage of people, so be sure to have a contract in place before hiring someone. Online is a great way to find good copy for little money. Most college's journalist departments encourage their students to work online just to get a feel of the huge marketplace. If you'd rather not shop online for website copy, another alternative is to get in touch with the English department of your local university. These graduate students are English majors looking to earn a little extra while they finish school, and are a great way to help yourself and a budding journalist.