 I literally never seen Stevie's shit, ever. Same. What's up guys and welcome to the best publishing channel on YouTube because we're focused on providing the most value and information that you want to hear about that no one else is willing to talk about. Yes, sir. So in this video, we're going to be talking about and showing you how to hire a ghostwriter to write your book for you. And where are you going to get that done? Let's just forget everywhere else. We're going to tell you exactly where and that's Upwork. Upwork is an online freelancing platform where freelancers go to to offer their services of any variety you can imagine. So you can basically go there to find workers, essentially. And we're going to use Upwork to find a freelance writer to ghostwrite our book for us. So there are two primary methods that you want to use Upwork to find a ghostwriter. And the first one is to make a job listing, which is essentially where freelancers come to you. The other option is where you explore the profiles of ghostwriters on Upwork. So you're essentially going to them instead of them coming to you. You want to use both methods to find your ghostwriter. But first, let's walk over to the computer where we're actually going to show you the actual how to of doing this shit. Oh, this is a disaster good here, Doc. Mid video, what's this dog doing? Uh, is he catching? Where'd he go? Let's chase him. Look at him. Look at him. Look at you. You know you're not allowed to be here. He's barged in. What are you doing here? Get out of here. You look a little bit like Stevie, but I can tell you're not him. Get out of here. No, you better not piss. Leave, leave. No. Alright guys, we're at the computer now. And before we dive into Upwork and show you guys how to use it and how to find a freelancer for yourself, I want to talk a bit about like the pros and cons and why you would choose to find your own freelance writer. As opposed to using a ghostwriting company to write your book. So the big con of hiring a freelancer to be your full-time writer is the hiring process. Yeah. It can literally take, I mean it can take months until you find the right person, right? So it's all the time and effort. You have to put it up front with no return, right? You can put in so much time into training and then they turn out to be not good. Which is why it's not ideal for a first-time publisher. Yes. But for an experienced publisher, you definitely do want to give Upwork a shot. But once you get past that phase and you find the right person for the job, this is by far the superior method to use your ghostwriting company. Right. If you can get past and actually find that perfect fit for you. Right. Because the big con with ghostwriting companies is like two big things. It's the lack of involvement in the project and the lack of communication. Because all communication goes through the ghostwriting company and then to the ghostwriter, then to the company, then to you. It goes like this and it's very inconvenient when you want to be super hands-on with the writing of the book. We want to skip this part and just go back and forth like that. Yeah, exactly. That's what we do with the freelancer. So when you hire a freelancer on Upwork, you can literally Skype with them. You can talk with them on the phone. You can even set up a Google Doc so that you can literally see where in the process your book is at all times. In live time, you can see them writing the book. So you can be super, super involved. People who want that want to do this. That's why we're here to make this video because it is a massive help. If you guys can actually get someone, like, it's just guys the limit for your publishing business. It's just the hiring process. That's a bitch. But that's where we're going to show you in this video how to actually hire someone. Okay? So shall we get into it? Let's jump in here now. So the first thing that we mentioned is that you could post a job on Upwork and so let's walk through that process and show you how that's done. So you're going to make an Upwork account. This is just a job listing that I made a few weeks ago. So everything's already filled in but that makes this a lot quicker. So this is what the process looks like. First step is getting started. Step one, enter the name of your job post. You're looking for a ghostwriter so you're just going to want to put something like ghostwriter needed for ebook about puppy training in this example. Specifically, we write puppy training because we want someone who has at least some experience or background knowledge on that subject. Well, you want to let the ghostwriter know what the topic is about so that only people who are interested in writing about it will apply for the job. Yes. So you're going to just go like that. And then the next step you need to do is move on to step number two which is the description. You're simply going to provide a description for what you're looking for with this job. So what we have written here I'm looking for a skilled and reliable ghostwriter to write a 30,000 word long book about puppy training. I will provide a very in-depth book outline so that most of the research is already done for you. I'm looking for a writer who cares a lot about the quality of their work and that is what is most important to me. And then I give a little bit more information about what's going to be talked about in the book. Hey guys, we are here to do as much of the work for you as possible. Which is why we're the best publishing channel on YouTube. And which is why we'll let you guys copy and paste this job description if you'd like. Yeah, comment down below if you want that. I guess we could make a document where you guys can just copy and paste so you don't have to spend the time looking at the screen and writing it. So step number three is details. It's very simple. What type of project do you have? This is just a one-time project. Just put in one-time project. It might be ongoing but you can't guarantee that. So one-time project, move on to the next which is the expertise section. Now this section is honestly not that important but it's something you have to fill out. It's just providing the type of skills that you're looking for in the Ghostwriter. Good writing skills, we have fact checking. Humor was one that popped up as suggested. We're like sure. Humor in your book especially if you pick this one or that one it's not going to change the writer that you're going to get. It's the other parts that are much more important than choosing these categories. So just don't stress about it to my point. Writing genre, this is non-fiction. What additional skills and expertise are important to you? These are all auto-suggestive. We just click the ones that apply to what we're looking for. Ghostwriting, crave, writing, proofreading, editing, ebook writing, English grammar. They're just obvious and self-explanatory. But we're just going through the motions to show you everything. And then for location, you want to do worldwide. You don't want to limit yourself to just U.S. only writers because for one, worldwide writers are going to be cheaper because it costs a living in different countries to give you cheaper writers. And there are phenomenal English writers who are not technically native English writers from the U.S. And then just regional preferences. I just like to add every big content. America's Asia, Europe, Oceania. We're going to move on to the next step. Right here, visibility. Who can see your job? Just make it anyone. Again, it's one of those situations. You don't want to neglect anyone who can't find your job listening because you did Upwork Freelancers only or Invite only. You're just looking for one freelancer, qualifications, optional. It's just not necessary. And then the next step after that is your budget. So for your budget, you have two options. And for ghostwriting, you do not want to do pay by the hour ever to be honest with you because that honestly can just start drama. Now that is part of another con that we haven't talked about yet with hiring a freelancer. When you hire a ghostwriting company or when you use a ghostwriting company, they handle all the customer service and dealing one-on-one, like the personal relationship side with the freelancer. Dealing with people. When you're working one-on-one with a freelancer, they could scam you. If you're working with them, they deliver it. You don't like it and you want it revised. They might not give you revisions. They might argue about the price you really agreed upon. Things like that. Now that part is annoying, but it just comes along with it. It just comes along with the territory of hiring your own freelance ghostwriter. So you're going to want to pay a fixed price every time and then do you have a specific budget? Again, that's up to you. The higher budget you set, the higher price writers you'll attract and also higher quality writers you'll attract. So when you put in your budget, this is not saying anything. This is how much I'm going to pay for the book or anything. It's just giving a ballpark figure. You should give a ballpark figure. Don't say you'll pay $2,000 for a book, but in reality you just want the good ghostwriters. You just want to lure them in and then offer them $400 for the book. You don't want to do that. Put something realistic. We've chose $900, which is exactly $3 per 100 words over 30,000 words. I'm absolutely willing to pay that for an epic book. Level of experience. A lot of these things are not important. The important thing is the job description essentially. So just do intermediate. The last thing is the review. You can simply just review your listing and then you're going to go down and click post job now. Then it's going to be on Upwork and any ghostwriter on Upwork who is searching for work will be able to find that job listing and they will send a resume, they'll apply and then you now have some resumes to go through. That starts the interview process. Now that's a video for a whole other time. We'll actually make a video about that because it is super important and that is probably the hardest side of this. That's like the big con to hiring a freelancer. We want to help you guys as much as possible to do that, but that won't be this video. Right now we're showing you how to go into talks with qualified ghostwriters. So then the second way that we mentioned is where you go to them instead of them coming to you. So what you're going to do is simply just explore ghostwriter profiles on Upwork. It just involves going on here. One of the big categories Upwork has is writing. Just click on the writing section and then you can scroll down and there are a lot more subcategories for writer skills. You can simply just open up some of these categories, ghostwriters. If you want a business book, businesswriters. Yeah, ghostwriters is something for ghostwriter, but that doesn't mean that's the only category you should go through here. Then there's also for US writers you can look through that as well. If you want a fiction book, fiction writers. The point is there's tons and tons of tons of options on Upwork. So let's look at ghostwriters and here we just have a bunch of profiles and this part is very simple. You're just going to explore Upwork. You can see that look through any profile that looks interesting. So we'll look here at Marie T. Go into her profile. She has a little resume about herself and if you go down you can see her previous work history and feedback. If you go further down you should be able to see her portfolio. Right here is a portfolio that you can see of her previous work. You basically just want to explore all these profiles. Figure out if any of these are a good fit for you and then contact them and work something out from there. And then they are now in the hiring process. I think the two most important parts to explore of their profile is one their portfolio. So you can see their previous work and you can read it and like, is this something I could imagine this? If yes, good, if not, no. And then also the ratings and reviews. That's massive. Marie has a 100% job success rating and then if you go here and work history and feedback you can see exactly all the jobs she's done. On seven jobs she has 100% rating. So that's very good. Earned over $4,000. That's unheard of, like 100%. I don't see that very often. She's only done seven jobs. But anything above 90% is really good. Once you start dipping into the 80s and below I wouldn't even bother trying to interview them. No, no. Because then you're going to be dealing with someone. Again quality is most important for us. But even just like dealing with a headache of a person. But that is basically how you use Upwork to hire a freelancer or at least to find freelancers. Now the hiring process begins there's a lot to talk about with that as well. It involves going through their work having them write a sample for you. Things of that nature. And then the final thing to do is simply give them a shot because you don't know how good a ghostwriter will be until they actually write for you. The resume and portfolio, everything can look perfect. And then when it comes down to it, it's just not the right fit. It's the best you can do. So that wraps up this video. If you enjoyed it, please leave a like. Please comment any questions you have regarding this. We're here to help you as much as possible. And subscribe as well for the audio. And with that this magic emoji of the video is the pencil. Not the pencil emoji. There it is. Free training in the link in the description. See you guys in the next video. Bye.