One alternative in producing an information product is to pay someone to make a product for you. There are dozens of websites out there where you could easily get someone to do this. For several, bearing their name on a best seller is just not as important as getting a dollar bill in their billfold. They are willing to precede the name acknowledgement and often, they do so for what appears like very little money.

These authors are called “freelancers” or “ghost writers” . Remember, although, that even if you end up hiring someone to make your product for you, you’ll still have to do the initial research to arise with the idea for your product. Only then, you will be able to hire someone to create it. You can look into the following sites for freelance product creators:

http://www.elance.com
http://www.guru.com
http://www.rentacoder.com
http://www.scriptlance.com
http://www.allfreelancework.com
http://www.editor.com
http://www.getafreelancer.com
http://www.programmingbids.com (this one is great for software products)

At several of the sites above, all you do is register as a member (normally free of charge) and you’re permitted to put up your project for freelance creators to see. Well, the only mystery here is to draw your product sound like it will be the next Amazon best seller. You would like to energize interest among the freelancers so that they’ll bid against each other and making your cost to lower down further. Once again, you will want to be more creative here.

Are there other methods that you are able to compensate a ghost writer other than by an up front fee? Perhaps a flat portion of each copy sold? It would be unlikely that you would get someone who would execute the work without paying any money in advance, but you could be able to find the cost brought down if you are able to offer something on the back end as a result of gross revenue.

When working with any of the freelance sites, make sure that you clearly specify the terms of your contract in your offer for the work to be done. For instance, do not forget to discuss the intellectual property rights to your product. This is for you to make sure that you are the owner of these rights. Otherwise, if you are not careful here, you could find your ghost writer trying to get a copyright on your product to claim it as created by them!

Other than the above, you would want to make sure that you check references of those who bid on your project, though. Ask them to produce some samples of their recent work. Of course, they usually can’t tell you what products they have “ghostwritten” as this would violate their prior business arrangements with other product owners. (Think about it, do you want them peaching that they were the “brains” behind your product or not?) So, please respect them if they can’t tell you right away. Simply ask them to show SOMETHING that they have done in the past and make sure that their work is up to your standard of requirements.

To develop an idea of how to work on with a ghost writer, go to any of the freelance sites and scroll through the projects that are already posted by category. This will as well let you determine approximately how much you should expect to spend for your project as well. For instance, in a review of projects on Elance.com, I came across many requests for bid on article writing service. And the topics been requested are varied from identity theft to insurance and cell phones,I just name a few for example. Most of the requests were for 7 to 10 articles and there were plenty of bidders even when the projected price was listed at less than $250.

One other note about working with a ghostwriter is to make sure that you have a “Work For Hire” abbreviate in writing …. Either written by electronically or in hard copy. This is important so that you will have the ability to prove that you own the copyright to the product if in case this should ever become an issue in the future. At last, you can certainly find some written sample of agreements in Google search that you can use for your newly created product.

Kenny Tan is specialized on sourcing and creating quality niche contents & information products with private label resell rights which you can find his quality work at his site: http://www.niche4wealth.com and his marketing blog at http://www.kenny-tan.com/blog