what are some good freelance sites for writers. I have a site that covers a lot of different types of subjects from business, politics all the way to music. If anyone is interested in writing or know of any good websites where I can find writers please let me know. Check out my website in my signature. I will be changing the layout, hopefully soon, so that it doesn't look so much as a regular blog. Please adivse.
As others have said here, the problem lies in what you're paying your writers. You pay peanuts, you get monkeys working for you. I am a professional online copywriter and I make minimum 15 cents a word. MINIMUM. When I write a 500 word article, I get paid $75. And I make hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars per job. Why do I command those rates? Because my writing converts readers into customers. These days, anyone with a keyboard can claim to be a writer. So what? I can pick up a wrench and claim to be a mechanic, and if you pay me $50 I'll do some work on your car. Are you going to complain about paying $50 when your car breaks down on the highway? Maybe you should be thinking what role you played in the event, and why being cheap is so important in your strategy to make money online.
I pay more than a couple cents per word. Actually when I post here, I let the writer decide the rate. The niche is Windows 8 and Blackberry Playbook. Please PM me and check out this thread before you PM - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2154690 I'll try the sites you guys have recommended. Thanks, clearly DP is not a place for hiring writers is the concensus here
@crazlunatic I think that the consensus was not that you cannot find high quality writers here; the consensus was that you will have to carefully pick and then hold on to good writers you find. I regularly get high end writing at £15, or more, for a 700-1000 word article, This is easily attainable if you have the skills. Unfortunately I do not have sufficient knowledge of your topics otherwise i'd be more than happy to show you where to find a good writer on DP
I found some writers for my niche on fiverr. PM'd 6, got 2 replies... I mean, why even post a gig on fiverr if you're disinterested in performing it?
Quality writers demand quality pay. That's not $5 an article, or even $10 an article. If you want real quality, start thinking $35 as a baseline for a standard 500 word article. There are plenty of quality writers available. John.
I agreee with John's sentiment. If people were prepared to pay for $35 baseline for articles that would be great - but they generally won't. If a client asks for conversion inducing articles then they should offer us decent pay. I think a minimum of $25/hour would be a good start.
You can easily get $35 an article. That's my baseline and I have all the work I can cope with. It didn't happen overnight, but it only took me a week or so to work up to that. Last week I wrote one article that paid me $144, two that paid me $80 each, and a few dozen more that paid $35 each. I don't say this to brag - just to show it can be done. Go where the money is. Think SEO companies, web design companies and the like. They have clients with deep pockets who need well-written content and who are prepared to pay high rates. Content mills and webmasters will never pay good rates. There are some exceptions, but by and large, you have to go where the money is if you want decent rates for article writing. I decided one Monday morning that $5, $10 - even $15 an article, was not nearly good enough. By the end of the week I was getting $25 an article and about half the work I needed to live comfortably. By the end of the second week I had more work than I could handle. I only contacted around 500 companies to achieve that. It took some hard work, but it certainly paid off. Anyone who is a good writer could do the same. And I don't mean perfect good either. Just good enough to create proper English grammar and correct spelling in articles that read well. John.
You can get some some good content writers and article writers for you at whatever price you want at odesk.com Just post your job there and you will get 100's of bidders for that.
In my opinion, the issue with the Buy / Sell / Trade section here is that it's flooded with people that are actively seeking low cost writers. I've seen posts where the buyer actually comes out and says "I want someone who is cheap and OK. Not good, just capable of producing OK content at $7 / 1000 words". As someone who lives in the UK and does a mixture of writing and coding for a living, I can't afford to take the time to wade through stuff like that, so I prefer to look elsewhere for the majority of my work. I do drop by the Buy / Sell / Trade forums every now and then, but it's depressing to try to compete with the "I am good writer!" types. There are a lot of great writers in this section of the forum, and I think that contacting people from this section directly is better than posting an advertisement. If the person you contact isn't available for work at this moment in time, then they can probably put you in touch with someone who is available, and who produces decent copy.
Hello, If you are looking for quality writers, you can always ask them about an expert account on ezine. I am a writer myself, having an expert author account at ezine. If you are interested PM me.
i think it all lies down to what you are asking for. Personally i have really good copy writters for greek and found in dp very good copywritters in various languages. Ofcourse there are always people that are trying to trick you with duplicates but..dont expect the best articles with 5$ budget...you may find it but it will be more difficult.