Thanks for checking out my ad. Just to get it out of the way. I'm paying $0.30 for a 160+ word article. This is a bulk rate because I will be buying a HUGE amount of articles. Several hundreds at minimum and thousands eventually once I find the right guy/girl for my long term needs. The rates are FIXED and NON-NEGOTIABLE. Don't PM me to make me a counter-offer with another rate. I'm not interested. I'll just delete your PM. So don't waste my time. What I am interested is giving regular, long-term bulk work for writers who can work at my rates. Rates can be increased in the future after we establish a working relationship but RIGHT NOW it is fixed at $0.30. This is NOT OPEN TO NEGOTIATION. So DO NOT PM ME OR LEAVE A COMMENT QUOTING ME A DIFFERENT RATE. You either do it at this rate or just leave this ad alone and go find another job. No exceptions. Here's what I require: - I give you a keyword and you write a short article that has a minimum of 160 words. The keyword must be included once in the article. - No real research is required although you should write something that is related to the keyword. For example if I give you 'handheld vacuums' as a keyword you can write about vacuums in general or about your carpet cleaning experience, cleaning up your house, buying a vacuum as a gift, selling a vacuum you own etc.. that's 5 x 160+ word articles already. - Final word count MUST be a minimum of 160 words. 161 words is fine, 300 words is fine as well (if you feel like it). As long as its a minimum of 160 words. - Each article MUST be 100% unique. I don't want spun content. And you cannot copy it from some other website. It MUST be hand-written by you. - No spelling mistakes. No grammatical mistakes. You don't need to be a native english speaker (although I would prefer it) but you need to have a reasonably good level of english proficiency. - Each article MUST pass a Copyscape Premium test. Preference will be given to applicants who own a Copyscape Premium membership and can test the articles on their own before it is sent to me. - You will have to undergo a test. I'll give you a keyword and you'll write a 160+ article on it. This should probably be a paragraph of text and will take less than 5 minutes. If I like your work and pass the test, I'll start placing orders. - Payment via Paypal ONLY. And payment AFTER delivery for the FIRST TEST ORDER (will be 20 articles). After the first order, I will be happy to make payment beforehand. And I always pay fast. - If you're interested, PM me and use the code word '160 Wizard' in your PM subject line. I will be deleting all PMs without this keyword ('160 Wizard') in the subject line because some people like to spam PMs with pre-prepared pitch templates without even reading the job requirements. This way I know you've read all the way to the end and really understand what I need. Thanks!
I could write those articles for you at $1/article. I'm pretty sure you won't find many people at a rate of $0.30/article, especially not if you want to see decent quality!
Hey there, I can get this done for a cent per word. If that works, do let me know. Thanks Content King
Dear Moloko I have sent you a private message regarding your requirements. Regards Native British Writer
agreed. content/king Bulk pricing makes no sense for original content writing because for individual articles more research is required for each, there is no margin for "bulk" pricing.
OK, there is one thing that annoys me and I saw it in your thread so I will point it out here. A bulk rate is a rate at the writer's discretion, not the client's. Just because you are order a "huge" amount of articles doesn't mean you can cut the rate down to the lowest grade possible and still expect quality work. You want to know why that is? Because the articles will still be a "huge" amount of work for the content provider. Let me put it into context for both you and for the poor sucker who is actually so unaware that they are worth more that they would take this job. Let's say you want 500 articles, OK? That is $150, which might seem like a lot to someone who is new. But they could get that for 15 articles easily, provided they are native English, or write like they are native English. So, all you buyers who write ridiculous things like it is your bulk rate offer: you don't get to pick! The writer has a bulk rate, and you accept it or you don't. Want to keep giving disgustingly low prices like this and rip people off who are trying to make a living? I will give you 3 guesses what kind of work you get.
Except these articles don't require research at all. No googling required. They can be written off the top of your head on a blank TEXT document. No references need. No research needed. I don't need a super high quality wow-me article. As long as its unique and grammatically sound, its fine for me. I tried doing one myself and took only 2 minutes per article. There are high quality articles created to pull in readers and maximize conversions and then there is spider food for search engines, this one is the latter. Don't apply the same standards to everything. I understand what you're saying and I agree to a certain extent but you are way out of line when you claim that I'm ripping people off. Are you here on DP to find writing jobs or are you here to crash ad threads and make personal attacks on people who annoy you? Did somebody kick your cat? Your vitriol amazes me. I'm not here to argue about semantics and the pricing structure for content creation. No time for that. Just some thoughts: Shop around in Odesk, Vworker, Elance and other freelance websites. The buyer gets to pick the rate. But the writer decides whether to do it or not. I've posted ads on these sites and everyday I see employers putting up similar ads with a bulk rate as well for high volume orders. I've never had a writer message me to complain about the rates or haggle about the pricing. That's where DP astounds me. You're not even applying for the job but you saw it fit to publicly diss me for putting up an ad with rates that don't meet your expectations. Wanna talk about the rate/pricing issues and get your frustration out? Start a thread elsewhere and stop shitting on this one. Start acting like a professional and stop attacking ad posters just so you can get exposure and leads. It's immature. Would you like it if I came into every thread you made and start criticizing you for your rates? Ridiculous. You NEVER see this childish behavior on the other professional freelance sites, only in online marketing forums like DP. This is a buy/sell thread and if you ain't selling, you're irrelevant to the thread and irrelevant to me. Your pontifications on content pricing rates are not needed. You do have a choice, stop acting as if the buyer is a dictator. If you don't want to do it, just move on and try out for another job. It's a free market. Bitching on another person's job ad thread is a waste of time. You could be making solid money writing articles at the rate that you think is worthy of your talents, right? Your rants on the pricing structures of certain buyers is not going to revolutionize the way people buy and sell content. If anyone think this rate is beneath you, please feel free to move on. It's not a big deal. Save your time and energy. There are lots of other buyers/jobs on DP. I know what I'm getting with this rate, i.e non-native speakers and/or new writers. And I'm perfectly fine with that. And these writers are perfectly fine with the rate as well. So as long as there's fit between buyer and seller expectations, a contract can be entered into. This is a fundamental aspect of every business transaction. Or did you forget that in your passionate advocacy for better writer rates? Unions will really love volunteers like you. Everything you've mentioned is only your subjective perspective and one that is dependent on your expectations. Obviously, your rate is far above this rate. I get it. No need to flaunt that. Save your holier-than-thou I'm-a-native-english-speaker-who-wants-to-get-paid-well rant because that's irrelevant to the issue. You're not my target market. Go find a job that suits your pay grade and be at peace with that. BTW, 500 articles is far from what what I want. 5000 articles is more realistic and on a bi-weekly basis. $1500 every 2 weeks for the long-term is nothing to scoff at. Especially for newbie writers or people who need the money. And oh yeah, I've already gotten many PMs from people who are willing to work at this rate. Non-native english speakers and newbies are welcome as long as you can meet deadlines and my specific article requirements. So anyone who is reading this, apply if you feel like doing long-term, high volume article writing work that requires little to no research. Thanks.
Sites like oDesk, Freelancer.com, ect are not forums. So, writers who know that that pricing is ridiculous move on and just say nothing, then take higher paying jobs. Then, people who are either lower quality, desperate or new take really low-ball offers. I picked your thread to comment on because $0.30 per 160+ words is so unbelievably low that the time to write them, even if they are so easy your head would explode thinking about it, that the writer would not make enough to even begin compensating for it. I am sorry, normally I wouldn't have accused someone of something so direct as ripping someone off. But in your case, I made an exception. That is way, way too low for even most low writers. Which is why you will have trouble finding a good writer who will stick with you; you might find someone who is really needing the work for the moment, or just doesn't know better. But they will jump off your projects the moment they find someone else, unless you are looking at a group doing bulk work. Even then your price might be too low. By the way, the sites you cited: there is a reason that most of us avoid them.
Moloko you've proven 0087's point. if you can do the work there is no reason to pay someone else unless it isn't even worth your time to do it. And I have seen what "Grammar" means to some people, they don't even know English well enough to parse a sentence. Grammar is proper concordance to verbs and sentence structure, not anything off the top of the client's head. YES bulk discounts are at the writer's discretion. They are a reward for consistency in business or a good working relationship with a client. Whenever I see someone asking for them to BEGIN a business relationship, that post goes in the bin.