The best way to Hire Bloggers and Start Your Own Blog Network - Part

Taking a look at the number of blog networks that are close to, I wonder what it will be prefer to start one of my own. I am sure you happen to be familiar with names like 9rules, b5media, Gothamist, Weblog, TechCrunch and more. Indeed, they are all blog networks.

While browsing through a list of blog network that I obtained online, I came across a familiar name -- Paul Short.

Paul Short and I were advisors at a private discussion board about a year back. Paul and am each have our own unique experience when it comes to running an online business. I do plenty of list building and affiliate programs, while Paul is a master at running a blog and search engine optimization.

And little do I know, over the past one-year or so, John has been quitely building his own little blog network. It's called Gomaud Media.

When I learned about this, I sent Paul an email and requested if he'd help me with this concern. I want to know how to hire bloggers and build a blog network. I was not sure that I'd be doing it, but I sure want to learn how it is possible.

So he replied and later on we got on the phone referring to that one thing -- how to employ bloggers and start a blog network.

The call lasted for over an hour. Plus Paul shared interesting things about starting your own blog network. One of the things involved where and how to find a good blogger to blog for you.

It's hard training people how to write and how to weblog. When you want someone to blog for you, begin focusing get an actual blogger. Maybe you will find few things that you can teach the blogger, something about how many articles they should do a day and things such as that. But in general, you want someone who is already blogging because they are already familiar with the technology and the lifestyle.

And to do that, you can look at sites like Technorati and Digg. These two websites index the content of blogs from all over the world.
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What you need to do is just look for blogs within the niche that you are pursuing.

Now, here's a tip when looking for the blogger. Look for a blogger that has her/his own voice when writing. What I mean by this is that they must have views on things and not just sit on the fence all the time. Why? Because blog owners like this will attract a lot more readership. People would always want to know what you think.

Now that you have your blogger, you can start building your blog.

How do you work with your blogger? From what I understand, if it's your blog, you need to prepare the blog, do the hosting, get the domain name, do all the designing, do all the optimization, install all the plug-ins, do all the advertising... and your blogger, will just sign in and blog.

And how much do you pay a blogger? Well, there are numerous models that you can use. But for Paul, he or she offers around $5 per publish and expects around 60 to one hundred posts. But when revenue from the weblog grows to a certain level, they might go into a revenue-sharing model. Yet I guess, by the end of the day, you need to talk about this with your blogger and agree with something that the both of you are comfortable with.

I think that's a fair deal.

Of course , Paul and I talked about more things during the call. We talked about how much to pay a blogger, how to advertise your blog, how to monetize your blog and a lot more. But I can't tell you everything that Paul distributed to me without having to write a book.