GET PAID MORE, let's get started. The pay issue with writers always hits a cavity. Shelter, food, and bills must be met. Yet you have probably had bad experiences with buyers of your content. I am looking at a solution for part of that. You can help by doing three things (1) read a short blog with facts and figures and leave your opinion. LINK, in sig line at right hand side.. (2) without talking about forum names, describe a bad experience, and/or (3) tell what you think the solution is.------Thank You-------
The solution is simple but every writer on DP has to participate, don't work for less and then people looking to outsource have no choice but to pay higher.
Same advice I give a lot of other copywriters... Stop competing on low price and start competing on delivering high-quality work and customer service instead.
Competing on low price is a bad idea anyway: there will always be someone who wants to do it for less and you will get all the lousy jobs. Aim high and you will land high projects.
Free market & capitalism at work. Isn't that how it's supposed to be? If your chosen occupation is giving you lower returns then what you wish, and you can't compete in the market place, change occupation. Or specialize. When the trade I had in the building industry became so competitive that I was working for a loss many days, it was time to look elsewhere. Which I did.
Almost. As I stated numerous times before, European Union as well as the United States have regulation in place to ensure fair trade, they do that for a reason. That "free" market is not as free as you may think, why would that be different online?
To achieve your true desired rate, you have to go head to toe with Fate Grab the bugger by the neck, and squeeze until he gives you back All that you desire.
Seriously man, all writers need to unite on this issue. But there are chances that those "0" itrade guys will jump in to drop the rates to half of what it should be. In such cases our unity should work in pressurizing them from staying away from such cheap behaviors. Yes, its fair in the world market to quote your rate, but future consequences of your step should also be kept in mind as dropping rates will only end up causing massive job issue for thousands of people on internet.
Mirisaamali YOU ARE SAYING HIGHEST QUALITY? Signature lines like yours are a shame, unless they can be backed up. Highest quality command $60 to $250 per article, not $5.00
Well lets hope your article standards are of a higher quality than your posts on these forums Dyadvisor, because if they're not, then you are in a whole world of trouble. You might be able to get a sh1tty blog to pick up your article and carry you to the top of google for a day but I bet you can't get through 500 words without littering it with terrible sentences.
j3rr3my8 ---------WHO ARE YOU, obviously not too wise. Your talk is cheap. This is my post you are rudely interrupting. Plus I do not fish for carp, in my state they are consider garbage fish, and the one you caught is puny. (i have 2 stocked ponds on my 55 acres, with absolutely no trash carp) The koi in my indoor pond are 26" long - that thing you are holding looks smaller From your site: '"one of the best ways to find out is to walk the place you are fishing and ask other angle , " SURE LOOKS LIKE YOU MESSED UP THERE I have made enough years of high level income in marketing and writing and no longer need to write. I am now disabled.-- So instead I give back to the area that has brought me wealth. I devote time to help writers double their income with free training. Plus I refer business to them. What have you done to help anyone? -------Save yourself on betting, you need the money. I have hundreds of number one positions on Google, firmly locked in for years. Top ten positions are the normal, with typically five or more per article.
"Well lets" is incorrect; "article standards" is incorrect; "are" is incorrect; "carry YOU to" is incorrect; Nobody is perfect, and that also includes me.
You talk big but did you ever wonder why DY's posts are the way they are? Could it be there is a good reason for it? Could it be that the man has become disabled? And if that is the case, does that mean that the knowledge he possesses is no longer valid? This is the third time you and I are head to head on a subject, and it's once again your big mouth rushing into things. As you stated then and as is the case now. You have no idea who is who on this forum. You made that mistake with me, and you are falling in a trap created by your own hand once again. Before talking about how others can't write, why don't you first learn how to read, then to comprehend, after that to think and maybe then, just maybe, you will be able to post a reply in a thread that actually has something useful to contribute. Thank you for playing, but you are the weakest link.
My take on what the OP is trying to say here is that if your tired of getting paid peanuts only you can change that. So, Mirisaamali will you just look at your signature. You are offering to write for 1 cent per word. That is not the way to do business then try to come here to post that you offer high quality. NOT ONE writer on DP who charges $5 per article is writing at the highest quality. Why? Its not economically feasible. If your writing at the highest quality possible then you would be spending at a minimum of 2 hours per article. This means your willing to accept $2.50 per hour for your time. Sorry, I feel that I am worth a bit more than that.
Well I think you'd agree Kraven that there is no way for me to ascertain through reading a thread that Dyadvisor is disabled. Anyway his profile says he is physically disabled. I can't find out anymore than that but I am guessing that it is some sort of physical impairment that sometimes allows him to write grammatically correctly and sometimes not? Dyadvisor, is it a carp, I don't know. That's not my site, it is a friend of mine called Darryl de Witte - I put it in there because he wanted it there, he felt that it would help him, and I was only too happy to help a friend. I don't need to advertise my own site on here because I have more work than I can do already. Kraven, you post your opinion and think that it is fact. If Dyadvisor wants to challenge people to a writing contest with bad grammar and non sensical sentences in his text then he is obviously open to criticism and I am sure he wouldn't like to be treated any differently because of a disability.
I personally feel that Dyadvisor has not let his disability stand in his way of making a living. I do however feel that if you are going to make a reply to any post on this forum or any other other forum, at least try to add value to the thread. Just telling others that there are way to many mistakes made in the post before yours does not add value. At the same time, go ahead and proofread my posts because it does not bother me a bit. I just feel that you need to leave others like Dyadvisor alone. I have broad shoulders and can take a lot of criticism without folding. At the same time Dyadvisor will respond soon with a reply, that I am sure of. Now just if you could, I need someone who can let me know where I said that my writing is perfect and free of errors. I do try my best to get the writing perfect. Sometimes that just seems impossible. Especially when you are getting a bit rattled by the post that you are responding to. So, I say we just get this thread back on track and start adding value to it.