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Location: Northern Califorina
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I am a writer, and I have hired a lot of writers. Based on my experience, I offer this recommendation:
First, please realize that you are the only expert about your website. You have the best knowledge of anyone concerning the audience you are trying to reach, the unique value proposition of your offer, and the reason why your site is better than a competitor's. For these reasons, you should either write it yourself, or if you lack the confidence or time, hire someone to write it for you.
A hired writer would have to interview you, submit an outline that you would review and approve, write the actual article, and then submit it to you for review and approval. You are the expert. You sign off on everything.
Finding a writer may be your preferred choice. Locating a writer may be much, much easier than you think. Consider looking at your local high school for a student interested in journalism or who has a reputation as a good writer. You may know some parent, who in turn knows a student who is a good writer.
Students are good resources -- they may be looking for experience that they can include in their portfolio, and they probably are hungry for some extra cash. For some kids, writing is easier than washing cars or mowing lawns.
Whatever you do, don't copy any content that someone else has written and posted on the Internet. if you hire a writer, let him or her know that you will run the article copy through a plagiarism website. You can find them with a simple Google search -- so be sure to find one and use it!
You don't want your article to contain stolen content.
There is a big lie circulating that anything posted on the WWW is fair game for copying. This isn't true.
So check among your friends -- online and in person. You'll find a good writer who will be very reasonably priced.
Good luck -- please report back and let us know how it worked out!
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