Do You Need To Outsource To Earn Six Figures Blogging?

Do you need a team of writers and coders to earn six figures online, or can you do it alone?

Most people start out at Wealthy Affiliate, and in the affiliate blogging space on a bootstrap budget. They start with no experience, and are learning how to run a successful affiliate blog by themelves. They are a single person, learning, writing, publishing, emailing, and doing everything needed to run their business by themselves.

They are one owner, wearing many hats.

I was the same at one point. In fact, I was exactly that person for many years. It's only been within the past 2-3 years that I've really started to delegate tasks and hire people do some tasks for me.

Earning Six Figures Online Without Hiring Anyone

Let's be clear to start.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO HIRE ANYONE TO EARN $100,000+ PER YEAR DOING AFFILIATE BLOGGING.

I've done it. I've seen other people do it. If you are thinking that you need a "team" of writers and multiple websites, then you can stop worrying. It's very possible to earn six figures online as a one-person team.

Working online full time, it's really not that big of a deal do do a full article every single day, plus a video or two per week. Very doable, assuming you're working online "full time", M-F, 8-5.

Even with a full time job, you can still do 2 articles a week (1500 words each), which would be 100 articles per year, and after 2-3 years, you'll have 300 articles on your site. That's plenty to be earning amazing income with your website.

If you have 300 articles and your site isn't ranking or at least earning a little money, you need to change your strategy!

Do You Need To Hire Writers?

The first thing most people progress to as they grow their business is starting to outsource articles. I think people start with this first because they see the connection between the volume of content they write with the traffic results they see.

Most of the time, more content = more traffic. So it's easy to see that hiring a writer to publish more quality content for your blog is a direction path to more traffic, thus more clicks, and then more affiliate sales.

Hiring writers is an art to itself, so if you start hiring writers, expect to learn a lot along the way (that's code for make mistakes & waste some money).

Do you need to hire writers to be successful online? Is hiring a writer something you absolutely have to aim for with your business? No!

The thing is, though volume of content has worked for me many times, there are plenty of blog owners out there who focus more on improving the quality of their content over time instead of doing a high volume. Some of the best websites out there, like Mr. Money Mustache (a finance blog), or Art of Manliness (a self-improvement blog) have always been a single personality behind the blog.

Just one person writing.

Many YouTube channels are like this too.

If you have a passion for your niche and spend the time to run your site right, it's very possible to create a six or even seven figure blog as a single person without hiring any writers at all.

Will You Make More Money When You Start Outsourcing?

Yes and no. It's my belief that when you start outsourcing, you'll have better potential to scale, so therefore more potential to earn more money in the future. If you can hire someone to help you make $1 net profit, then you can hire 100 people to help you earn $100 net profit. That type of thinking.

The trouble with that is you need to actually figure out a formula where you are guaranteed to gain profit from your hires.

The difference between doing the work yourself for free and paying someone to do the work for you is that even if they don't produce results, they still get paid (by you). When hiring, if you start a project which ultimately doesn't produce the income you expected, you end up in the red. That means you need to make even more money in other areas in order to just break even.

Had you done the work yourself, you wouldn't have lost any money, and any profit from other areas would still be actual profit, and you'd still be in the black instead of just breaking even.

Do You Need To Outsource To Earn Six Figures Blogging?

The clear answer is no. You do not need to outsource anything to earn six figures online. You can earn earn multiple six figures from a website doing all the work yourself. I've done it, and know people who have done it.

You don't need to be some kind of Silicone Valley genius to get it done. You do have to put in a lot of work, but it's not rocket science. Keyword Research. Publish Articles. Google Analytics. Have a genuine interest in helping people.

Those are pretty much all you need to reach $100,000+ of online income with affiliate blogging.

On a longer time scale though, I personally found that I got tired and a little burnt out. I also saw the insane potential of what I call "time arbitrage", meaning that I pay for other people's time in order to have more of my own time.

To scale my business, without scaling my own time investment, I had to change my mindset. You don't have to do that, but I would imagine that most of you will. Don't feel pressure to do it right away.

Would You Rather Make Lots of Money Online Managing A Team And Or Do It Yourself As A One Person Operation?