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by Gustomaximus 1719 days ago
>"Do not outsource the writing. Vetting good writers is difficult and time-consuming. They are also expensive. If you are just starting out, you probably do not have the time and the money to do it right."

Not sure I agree. Outsourcing is great IMO but you need 2 things;

1) Give them a solid brief on what you want. This take times but not as much as writing. And a bunch like KW research you need to do anyway before you would write.

2) Rewrite what they wrote after. Don't accept the article as finished, take it as a template to base your own off. Ask for a higher word count than you need and you can cull back content while adding more and rephrasing. At least for me I find it personally much faster re-writing an article that's been given to me than starting from scratch.

Particular for point 2 I find an efficient middle ground between writing and not.