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I have a social travel product (http://wherescool.com http://wherescool.com) that I launched in 2009 with a team composed of 65+ "writer interns" I found off of
by rwhitman 14y ago
I have a social travel product (http://wherescool.com http://wherescool.com) that I launched in 2009 with a team composed of 65+ "writer interns" I found off of the NYC Craigslist jobs section. We filled up the site with so much quality content it was written up by the NY Times within a few weeks.
Pretty sure I was inspired by Reddit at the time, and also Yelp which actually was mostly seeded by paid writers in the early days.
There's an art to seeding communities that I wish I had more opportunity to dabble in...
- matt312 14y agoIt seems difficult to get such a large team of quality writers. Did you pay them?
- rwhitman 14y agoNope. Everyone was an aspiring writer so the quality was significantly better than most user generated content
- exim 14y agoBut after you get (or got already?) substantial income, I think you should buy them a beer, at least.
- rwhitman 14y agoI have bought more than a few of them lunch / dinner when they're in town, some of the top writers I've written recommendations for and helped them find jobs. But it wasn't because of any substantial income, those nice lunches & dinners probably got me a net operating loss for the year...
- maayank 14y agoHow did you pitch it to them?
- rwhitman 14y agoThey were interns looking to fill out their resume and clips with writing samples. There wasn't much of a pitch, some of them started contributing before they even responded to the ad