You may notice that I offer free 20 minute discovery calls for all potential clients. This isn’t just to entice you with something free, but a valuable step when looking for a potential blogger for hire. Before you hire anyone for your projects, I highly recommend you arrange a discovery call.
What’s a Discovery Call?
Before you can arrange one, you need to know what one is. This is usually a call that lasts between 15 and 30 minutes. It’s a chance to share what you want to gain from blogging, learn how the blogger can help you, and gain quotes for your work.
It’s more than that for a blogger for hire. This is a chance for the blogger to learn more about your project, your expectations and your needs. A blogger will be able to determine if they can work on the project, will be able to deliver to your expectations and more.
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Why Is a Discovery Call So Important?
Both you and the potential blogger for hire will learn more about each other than the project. This is the chance to learn more about experience and understand the way blogging and this relationship will work. It’s a chance to find out more about what you’ll gain through blogging and any other services the blogger may offer.
At the same time, it’s a chance to see if your personalities will mold together. You don’t have to choose the first blogger you find. You’ll want someone that has the personality of your target audience, so they can get into the minds of your audience and understand more of what your audience will want.
The blogger will also want to get to know your personality. This helps them determine if they find it easy to work with you.
Discovery calls have no obligation. They’re a good way to get information from a few bloggers to find the best one for you and for bloggers to compare a few clients to determine the best projects to take on.
A discovery call is one of the most valuable tools when looking for a blogger for hire. Use one to your advantage to find out more how a blogger will help you with your exact project.
Would you like to book a discovery call with me? Get in touch via email today and let me know dates that work for you!
Oh goodness – what a lot to worry about. I start to think I may as well do everything myself when I read that but it’s the same as employing anyone in your business – you have to recruit the right person, train them and monitor them until you can leave them to work independently with occasional checks.
It is the same as hiring someone within a business, Ana. You’re right there. The benefit of hiring a freelancer is there is usually enough online to determine whether the blogger is any good. Samples are always a good thing to ask for before outsourcing to any of them.
Don’t have a business, but I get where you’re coming from. Low quality and plagiarized content is very bad.
Definitely is. Thanks for stopping by.
Great blog pointing out some important points, pays to be careful who you ask to help you x
It really does. Unfortunately hiring the wrong person can have a lot of negative effects before anyone realizes.