5 Reasons to Outsource your Writing

Hiring a writer can be expensive for some but well worth the cost in many cases! You wouldn’t rewire your house if you didn’t know how and knowing how makes all the difference!

Writing is everywhere in our world. You see thousands of writers everyday and probably don’t even realize it. While you are driving in your car to work, who do you think writes those gigantic billboard ads? When you surf the web, who do you think creates the content for all those website pages? When you are grocery shopping, who do you think wrote those ads on the cereal boxes? Writers! We are everywhere and when we write it is for a purpose, most likely for our clients’ financial gain, which is you!

Here are five really good reasons to hire a professional writer:

1) Professional and technical writers know what they are doing! Many have been published, worked with editors and even newspapers and magazines. This gives them something you probably don’t have, which is the knowledge of the business! They know what the editors will and will not read, what a certain magazine will and will not publish and this will knowledge will give you the edge!

2) Writers know writers and writers know people in nearly every corner of the writing world. When your freelance writer writes you a press release, they probably will know where you should send that particular press release and the people who should read it. They know editors by name, owners of publications by name and probably have them in their address book. That knowledge is priceless!

3) When you write your own press release and send it out to editors, journalists and publications, they won’t recognize your name. If your professional writer sends it, you have the upper-hand! A good freelance writer has been around the block and for a small fee may just give you some names or even send the piece out upon your request.

4) Let’s say you are writing a press release, you bought two books to cover your questions and you are struggling with some unanswered questions. You are surfing the web and you get a million hits on format, boilerplates and body content and your mind is lost on who’s advice to take and what format to follow. This would not have happened if you had hired a writer in the first place! Writers know where to look, who to listen to and probably have every reference book ever made on technical and professional writing if they don’t already know the answers!

5) So, now how long have you spent writing this press release? A couple hours? How much of your own time have you wasted? Do you reimburse yourself for your time? A writer would have that work done within the hour, sent by the end of the day and you would be receiving replies by the next morning. One hit could mean that you’ve already earned the writer’s fees back. See? That was easy!
So do yourself a favor and hire a professional freelance writer!

By Charity Prater

charityprater@charityprater.com