Ghostwriting Your Small Business Idea
A Home Business Article Contributed by Sharon Hill
Putting Your Small Business Idea into Words - with Help
Let's say you've decided to give away some material on your web site - always a great idea for generating visits to your small business site. You are not an accomplished, or even a good, writer. What do you do?
Ghostwriting - the Help You Need for Your Small Business Publishing Idea
You hire a ghostwriter - someone who will listen to what you want to say, take the materials and your words, and turn them into something well written that you can post on your site or even publish - or both.
Let's take a look at how to find a ghostwriter. If you're interested in doing this the economical way (and who, as a start-up small business person, isn't it? ) the idea would be to avoid using paid advertising at first. And then move on to inexpensive advertising, if doing it at no charge hasn't worked.
Free Small Business Ghostwriter Hiring Ideas
The best free-of-charge idea for finding a small business writer is to be where the writers are. Join writer's online groups.
Go, for instance, to www.yahoogroups.com and do a keyword search for Writers. You'll find numerous writers groups. Some are by invitation only. Forget these. You'd have to be an established writer, editor or publisher to get an invitation.
Others, however, will allow you to join just because you have an interest in writing. And you do, correct? You're wanting to write something. Now lurk for awhile. Don't send any email. Just read the others. And, if a member list and profiles are available look them over. From the profiles and emails you may find someone or several writers who just might fit the bill for ghostwriting your project. Email them directly.
If this doesn't work, then e-mail the group. Writers groups will welcome the opportunity to find out about your job. You don't even have to say you're the owner of the project. Just a , "Hey group, look at the opportunity I found." And set up a free email address for receipt of responses.
If this doesn't work, there are writing job-related sites where you can find writers postings of availability for small business freelance projects and ideas.
Guru.com is just one site that puts writers together with potential clients. There is no charge for their services. There are two ways you can use the Guru.com site to find writers. You can go on the site and, free of charge, post the position. The registration is simple - your name, company name and contact information. The site also walks you through posting the position. It asks you to choose how many responses you would like and from what geographic area.
You can choose globally, nationally, by area of the country, or even by city. You post the details of the job, the qualifications you require and the budget (what they'll get paid for doing the writing for you.) Then you wait for responses to be emailed to you.
Your other alternative is to search the site. Again, you can be as specific about geographic location as you wish, narrowing it down as much as the actual city. Once the names are displayed you'll be able to see their contact information as well as their training and experience. Best of all, you haven't paid a penny yet. You'll only have to pay the writer you hire.
