When you start posting blogs, you will start as one man. You will be writing. You will be editing. You will be posting on the blog. You will manage the administration of the blog. All the tasks are accomplished by you alone. As the days and weeks pass by you might be overwhelmed to perform all tasks yourself. The growing work demands lot of time and effort. In addition to the tasks mentioned earlier, you have to manage user comments also. You have to support your audience through social networks. You need to participate in discussion forums and you may want to write guest posts as well. All these activities become so hectic and you may strive for help from others.

Distribution of work

Blog related tasks can be handled by distributing work to additional people. You can explore one or two writers on freelance basis. You will be able to manage these writers by paying per article basis. As per your blog posting frequency, you can add more writers as and when required. As the number of articles to be posted on blogs increase, it will be difficult to manage the editing work by you alone. You need a helping hand in this aspect also. You can hire an editor on freelance basis. You can also explore web designer and website administrator to help you with the growing work. Web designer will help you insert attractive images in between the text lines in your articles. Web administrator will look after the overall performance of the website. He will be responsible for addition of new resources like web space, data backups, protect the site from virus and hacking, keep track of the site statistics and updates and keep safe the site in times of heavy traffic. You can consider hiring an accountant also if the accounting and auditing work reaches that level. Now these are all the possibilities and it doesn't mean that you have to use them all. In fact outsourcing everything is not good because the blog won't have your touch at all. You can choose what to outsource wisely.

Planning

Planning is essential for any kind of business. Blogging requires planning to utilize your resources to the optimum level. Planning can be done for short-term and long-term goals. Effective planning will help you achieve things in right time. You will be able to post the set number of articles per week before the deadline. Planning is also essential for building links, developing SEO and so on. I remember how we planned when we launched our other discount coupon site that offers autotrader and jupiter discount coupons on everything including guest posting on behalf of that blog. And our planned efforts surely did pay off.

Budget

You should be able to figure out the budget. All planning should be done within your budgetary constraints. Borrowing money in anticipation of future success will be detrimental to your growth.

Placing a virtual team

You can source people to work from their own locations. You can advertise on free or paid portals for writers, editors, etc. You can also mention on your blog inviting new people for write-ups. You can take the help of existing members and friends whom you can trust in this aspect.

Quality and trustworthy freelancers

It is very important to find quality people who can deliver quality content. You will be able to check trustworthiness of your team by their ability to follow the instructions and delivering the assigned tasks on time. You can assign more tasks as your members feel more responsible and loyal to you.

Communication

Communication plays vital role in any business. In engaging virtual team with various tasks, you need effective communication. Email and chat services are most effective means of communication at the initial level. As per your requirements, you can extend the communication to shared documents and social media platforms.

Clarity

There should be clarity in communication. All the team members should follow the general guidelines. There should not be room for ambiguity. The tasks you are assigning should be understood by your team. You should clearly explain the tasks in step by step manner. You should inform the payment made for each article. You can set the deadline for these tasks. Your team members should acknowledge the tasks and submit them before the deadline.

Roles and responsibilities

You should create roles and responsibilities for each of your team member. For example, when you hire a freelance writer, you should mention what kind of topics is dealt. How many articles are to be submitted per week? What is expected from them and how they are going to be utilized in future can be mentioned.

Training and Feedback

Hiring the right set of people for penning your blogs is not an easy task. After careful examination and filtration of the candidates, you should pick some whom you can groom in future. You can train them and mould them as per your expectations. Regular feedback to writers and other team members will let them know where they are standing and help them pickup to perform better.

Overall management

When you are able to pull the work with many hands, you will be able to move forward with overall supervision and giving a direction to your team. You will be able to manage many more blogs in this way.


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