Couple options to try for content generation.

For a long-term hire I think your best budget option is the Philippines (Virtual Staff Finder being the most well-known recruiting option, but that’s for full-time workers).

If your budget allows, you can find talented writers closer to home on Elance.

In both cases, like you mention, a super-detailed spec is key to success.

Any other questions or concerns, feel free to send me a note — nick @ the domain linked above!

I am looking for the best and cheapest option for content generation for our new web site. I can give very specific information about creation and am curious which one of these services you guys would recommend for this kind of thing?

Thanks,
Vincent

But. I researched a lot, read a lot of forums and blogs [like here] and my ultimate take away was two companies were my best bets, Tasks Every Day – http://www.taskseveryday.com/ – and BPOVIA – http://www.bpovia.com/

I found Tasks Every Day first and Tasks Every Day would have won, early on, if they didn’t require a 20 hour commitment per month going in. I was not ready to do that going in so I kept going. And found BPOVIA. Which had a hell of a lot of good talk of mouth and also only required a 10 hour commitment going in. With one bad commitment already on the books, Get Friday, paying a second company to come in who might be just as bad and slapping down cash for 20 hours to do it was not going to work, but I was willing to slap down another ten. So the marriage between myself and BPOVIA was born.

And I am so happy. Everything about BPOVIA has been good. They were back with me immediately, on their Sunday, with a manager talking to me and my new VA talking to me (Skype, yay!, learn it love it live it) on their day off, and my new VA went and hit my sites that day to get a feel for them before going on the clock the next day. He’s smart, he’s fast, he picks things up quickly, and I am here posting this at 1 am because I am actually off at 1 am because of him, instead of 5 AM. And that doesn’t happen in my world. I don’t stop work till work is done and before now, work wasn’t done before 5 AM. And now in three short days’ time, and that includes training time, it does. My entire world just changed.

I highly recommend BPOVIA. If you contact them, tell them Max Adams says Cris Yeong rocks give him a raise – just don’t take him off Max Adams’ account. [I am not kidding, you get Cris pulled off my account, I will resort to violence. Also, no jury will convict, I am that cute and you are that much in trouble.]

The site relies on honest reviews from real customers so if anyone has some first-hand experience with any of the companies listed, please feel free to post a quick review.

Thanks!

Nick