If you would / could hire / get a staff member, which type of staff member would you

[Triple7]

As a sequel of this topic ( https://www.gpwa.org/forum/what-size...222307/p2.html ) a question for the affiliates that do not have any staff yet.

What would be the first staff member you would hire or if you could have - hypothetically - one qualified staff member for free, which staff member would you choose?

For myself I think I would hire a web developper.

[agsgroup]

definitely a good, full time content writer

[vardan]

Yes, a good and smart writer or a professional journalist.

[Triple7]

Yep, that's better than a webdevelopper. A webdevelopper is useful sometimes, but a professional content writer is useful daily. If he could write 1 master article with researche and 3 or 4 news articles of good quality, would be awesome!

[edgarf76]

Professional journalist by far. Also someone do do research I think is important

[sweetbet]

I'd choose a full time content writer.

[wettFORM.AT]

Agree! I would also hire a very good content write. It would be amazing to send 10-20 articles a day to the index. This would push the site a lot. I hope that we can invest some money for content soon.

[golfbettingsystem]

To begin with probably an administrator of some description with adequate enough spreadsheet/database skills to take away some of the junk that clogs up the week, that way I could be far more productive with the stuff that actually adds value.

[RyanWeb]

Yes a writer, a quality, creative one is one of the hardest things to find!

[RacingJim]

1. A high quality UK Wordpress web developer, I have enough ideas and projects to keep someone busy and enough current sites that need tidying up a bit. I have previously used cheap freelancers from India and they served their purpose when I was starting out but now I tear my hair out each time I need something doing - it's not an enjoyable or productive way to work.

2. An SEO specialist - by this I mean a good all rounder, someone knowledgeable in organic and PPC and the overall landscape. I fear letting someone with this knowledge into my world though for fear of them taking the idea or variations on the ideas and doing it themselves. With a techy/developer you just hope they are a real techy type who isn't really interested in business themselves but we all know that SEO guys can quickly have realisation moments and want to do things themselves.

3. Content writer, definitely a distant third for me but would still be an important addition to get one really solid writer.

[Triple7]

Yes a writer, a quality, creative one is one of the hardest things to find!

Yep, i didn't find so far a quality content writer that is specialized in gambling and write entertaining articles...

[RacingJim]

Yep, i didn't find so far a quality content writer that is specialized in gambling and write entertaining articles...

I only found that in myself

I've tried a few content writers and I'm always a little disappointed, but then how can I expect a 'paid per article' content writer to have the passion and commitment to the articles as I do myself.

[Parth84]

Yes, I would also like to hire a quality content writer as well as a web developer.

[TravG]

Content writer all the way. Between what I pay for content now via third party I am probably close to having a full-timer but it is also nice sub contracting it out. It may be a little more expensive monetarily, but no headaches managing someone or all the other stuff that comes with having staff. For me personally - that is what works anyway.

[allfreechips]

I would hire someone to update bonus details, managing 400+ casinos is a daily barrage of changes from aff managers thinking they are the only casino out there.

[Triple7]

I only found that in myself

I've tried a few content writers and I'm always a little disappointed, but then how can I expect a 'paid per article' content writer to have the passion and commitment to the articles as I do myself.

Hehehe, same here

Well, I do not overestimate myself and for sure my articles are far from perfect, but compared with the articles of free lance writers I've hired, my articles are great.

With free lancers, exactly the same here. I hire them, expect a lot and it's Always disappointing in the end. A lot of them every time do prove they are able to write 600 word articles full of nonsens and phrases that do not say nothing... Last time there was something about only scratch cards and the free lancer wrote like "

Heb je bijvoorbeeld een winnende combinatie met een kleine winst, dan win je natuurlijk minder geld dan wanneer je een kraslot hebt met een winnende combinatie die erg winstgevend is. Zo kun je een klein bedrag aan winst krijgen bij het krassen van de scratch cards, maar kun je ook erg mooie winsten maken.

Which means:
Do you have for example a winning combination with a little profit, than you win less money than when you have a scratch card with a winning combination with a high profit. Like this you'll be able to make a small profit when scratching scratch cards, but also big wins.

And 600 words per article like this. Phrase after phrase, article after article. It was 10.000 words of ####. I cancelled the order with this free lancer. This was way too crap and it seemed to be written for some analfabete people with an IQ lower than a gamba.

I need somebody that has some passion about gambling and is able to write correct Dutch in an entertaining style. Almost impossible to find. The ones who can do this, are having their own website ofcourse. Writing all this, perhaps I would do something easier: hiring some one for responding e-mails, updating promotion details, game details, etc. It's quite a lot of work to change every day details... casino A cancelled the no deposit, so I need to change some tables, articles and banners, casino B withdrew of the Netherlands so I need to delete their Dutch banners. casino C has a new bonus offer so I need to change it, etc. An annoying job and quite easy to find someone for that easy jobs. Way easier than a good writer.

[Christiaan]

I agree with all the others. A good content writer. It is so hard to find.

It would be great to have a good content writer working for me. Not always looking for freelancers who can write and in the end working longer on correcting their text than it would have taken me to write it myself!

[vardan]

I need somebody that has some passion about gambling and is able to write correct Dutch in an entertaining style. Almost impossible to find. The ones who can do this, are having their own website ofcourse. Writing all this, perhaps I would do something easier: hiring some one for responding e-mails, updating promotion details, game details, etc. It's quite a lot of work to change every day details... casino A cancelled the no deposit, so I need to change some tables, articles and banners, casino B withdrew of the Netherlands so I need to delete their Dutch banners. casino C has a new bonus offer so I need to change it, etc. An annoying job and quite easy to find someone for that easy jobs. Way easier than a good writer.

If it is difficult for you to find good writers in dutch, and the quality is priority for you, order content in English and than translate the articles into Dutch.
JMT, may be that would be useful for you.