This realistic, helpful list of blog tasks to outsource to teens will help new and seasoned bloggers alike get the most bang for their buck!
Blog Tasks to Outsource to Teens
Summer is on its way and with that comes the curiosity of what your teen can help do for your blog. Whether you are seeking for ways you can pay your teen to do work or trying to prepare your teen for adulthood, this list of realistic blog tasks to outsource to teens is a great starting point.
Another bonus that comes with hiring your teen to help with blog tasks is that you can write off their payments, up to a specific cap. A tax deduction, more time for you, and teaching your teen a skill?
Win-win!
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Chore Threads
This is the easiest task you can assign a teen. Chore threads are Facebook groups where a community of bloggers post links that they want to have shared over social media or get comments on. If you allow them access to your social media accounts, a teen can easily do Twitter or Pinterest threads.
It might be a good idea to keep comment threads to yourself unless you trust the teen implicitly. This is your business, after all, and a silly slip-up could do damage to valuable blog relationships.
Edit Blog Content
Perhaps you are overloaded when it comes to blog content writing and you need someone to finish each post. A teen can certainly help with editing blog content, uploading photos and assigning the proper publication date to save you time.
Schedule Social Shares
Have your teen help with the scheduling out social shares. Most bloggers utilize some automation when it comes to sharing content on their Twitter, Facebook and even Pinterest accounts. Teach a teen how to follow your social media calendar and schedule out content. This can be a huge time-saver for any blogger.
Update SEO on Posts
Have you neglected SEO on the blog or need to update older posts to better rank? Your teen can easily do keyword research or rewrite content for identified keywords. This is the perfect summer vacation project for your teen because they can do this during downtime and it may take most of their summer to get it done one hour at a time.
Summary
Hiring your teen to help with your blog is all about knowing what your teen wants to learn, can handle, and is ready to do. Knowing realistic blog tasks to outsource to teens can also teach them the important aspects of content marketing.
This is a great idea. My initial thought was the teens in my neighborhood, but hello!, my nieces and nephews in other states could work for me too. And I bet they would work for chocolate chip cookies, at least in part.
Haha Heck, I’d probably work for chocolate chip cookies!
Great ideas! Should save people so much time, and most of them (including me) could never think about it!
Help comes in so many forms, doesn’t it?! I love it when the blogging community comes together to help each other and when we can find creative solutions to our time management for blogging.
These are really great tips! I’m still far out from having teens, but this is a good list of things that can easily be outsourced to others that might want to learn a little about blogging!
Interns are another option for bloggers, especially social media marketing interns. Often, they’ll work with a group of bloggers to get experience and move up to a small- to mid-sized company.