Hi hackers,
Answer all or any if you don't mind!
How often do you write content?
Do you believe that interlinking content and using researched keywords in blog posts effects search rankings?
What is the dollar price you would put on an article written by someone with experience in your field or product.
Would you trust someone else to write about your service/product?
You've probably guessed I've got a product idea and I'm looking for validation. Basically, back in the day I used to work for a digital agency. They would charge $2000 a month to their clients for 4 articles a month. Our agency would spend about $20 over at textbroker to get a badly written piece. Then I would totally rewrite and SEO it. 20 articles a day. It was a bad process and I lost a lot of faith in agencies and content marketing.
On the other hand, I got awesome at writing content for a huge variety of clients. I believe it could be done better and at a larger scale.
Could you use something like this? Or should I take this idea out to the street because tomorrow is garbage collection and my can isn't full yet.
My startup experience differs from what I experienced before as marketing executive.
We planned to write 1-3 articles per week, but now write less than 1 per month. Bootstrapping => no time for "important but not urgent".
The latter definitely does, if there is enough search traffic in the industry (semrush is a great tool for keyword research and tracking competitors).
We could afford around $70-100 per article (given current conversions). We're in Russia -- everything, including writing, is relatively cheap.
Now we're not letting anyone write for us, but that's probably a wrong approach. Your idea ("Write good content from the start. Dedicated writer per client. The writer should understand the field") seems nice.
Good luck!