Yeah; I tried to convince him that $0.002 was the same as 0.002 cents, my wife I transferred the call to............. it was a joke mate I had a very stupid and childish 5 minutes, but I am awl wite NOW LOL. paul
This is GREAT!! Great stuff! I guess not to many people have very much common cents or wait what is it again....should it be sense, cents, dollars!?!? Could someone help me please?!?!
You know, if people would just pay a reasonable amount for people to do things for them there wouldn't be this problem. $9.50 for a 1000 word essay is very very cheap. That might be worth it if you could bang it out in an hour. But, even BS 1000 word essays take at least a few hours to put together.
Sorry mate I fail to see what you are trying to say? The amount that people pay is due to a thing called healthy competition, as long as there is someone selling something for one price there will always be someone else, somewhere else selling it cheaper! That is business, this writer just happens to be extremely competitive and extremely good at what he does it’s bound to put some peoples noses out of joint, again business… It also comes down to costing and “Jobs Worth†if I personally could not get it at this competitive rate the amount I would get done or could offer would depreciate radically therefore less work available for writers anyway. And secondly; what problem? There is no problem here! Are you a writer yourself? Granted, it is very, very cheap I also have about 7 other writers just as competitive, some are also better than others at different subjects, I pay all my writers $0.01 per word and provide them with a continues stream of work, it is all part of the job I have one writer who is a housewife and used to be a secretary b4 her pregnancy she loves the arrangement, Most of the texts written here are not Bachelor of Science degree level (i.e. BS 1000) I assume that is what you meant? They are more like an individual writers perception or take of that already written, (not plagiarized) just re-written, i.e. in all saying that I have a teacher who also does stuff for me and has an academic understanding of English History! regards paul
What I meant was that if the pay wasn't so little then there wouldn't be confusion over fractional pennies. When dealing with small amounts it's generally better to then do a multiple to get it into the dollars range. Instead of $0.01 per word I think it'd sound better to say $5.00 per 500 words. Or $1.00 per 100 words.
Sorry I didn’t realize you were confused? It’s pretty stright forward to me! Sorry; I did not understand that? What if I only wanted 50 words? (Suppose it would be ok if you only have one article to write) although; $1.00 per 100 words is fair enough comment. BUT; say I gave the writer 20 articles to do (which is often the case) and there were 204 Words in each article (which can be the case)! I.e. a grand total of 4080 does he just lose the 80 cents? Anyway; in this case it would be $0.95 per 100 words. Regards Paul
To KalvinB: Well you try to sell articles for $.01 per word or higher on DP, and tell many how articles your going to sell?
The guy does have a point: .0095 cents = 1 word 0.095 cents = 10 words 00.95 cents = 100 words .95 cents is just under one cent. the confusion arises from the fact that when people write money, they generally put the cents after the decimal point, and the dollars before. So it doesn't matter whether you say dollars or cents. No one would be confused by someone writing ".0095 cents per word" unless they were just trying to make a fuss. They know what the guy means. Everybody does.
That's exactly why I'm not in the business of writing articles for other people. Too much work for too little return because there's too many people willing to fight over scraps. Would you be willing to pay $0.02 per word if nobody offered to work for less or would you just go out of business?
Here's a thought: if you can type, say, 120 words per minute: 1 minute = 120 words thus, 10 minute = 1200 words (to account for breaks and whatnot add another 10 minutes) so lets say 20 minutes = 1200 words = $12 (average) 60 minutes = 4800 words = $48 that's $48 an hour! Of course, that also doesn't account for the time it takes to think up tha quality articles, but, hey! It's fun to dream!
My sentiments exactly! Well that’s a stupid statement if I ever heard one! Just because you cannot do it doesn’t mean anyone else can’t! A good secretary can write 80 words per minute! I admit it would not be my vocation in life to do this type of work and I would be really crap at it, but those that do it have to be good at it to get anywhere, one of my writers turned around 10 articles in one day of over 17’000 words In my mind he is a wizard and good at what he does and that cost me $170 USD that’s not a bad days work for the writer, I don’t know how he did it but if he can type more than 80 words a minute and it is his particular niche then it’s not out of the way, Not unlike the teacher I spoke about earlier, he recons at full steam he can get out 25 articles a day, it is his subject mind you so I really do not know at this point if it is at all possible, but if he is right I will need to get a mortgage! I am the buyer. From the writers point of view he would definitely see a radical decrease in work! Especially on DP. From my point of view as the buyer I would probably just turn around and employ someone as staff, then offer any of their surplus services on here for “wait for it†$0.01 cents per word, but that is only because I have enough work in this area to do that! When you start going above the $0.01 mark then it becomes more and more viable to get someone in house, well in my case anyway, i.e. Very rough equation for every hour: 45 minuets research 15 minuets typing @ 80 words per minuet x 15 = 1200 1200 x $0.02 = $24 USD per hour! You get the idea! Paul Yeah; some trades are like that. Crikey; 120 words a minuet now you are definitely in business! That is a good writer.
So the amount of words a writer can type per minute determines the quality of their writing? You're kidding... right?
No i did not say that! did I? Where…. We are actually talking quantities here? As for quality that is another kettle of fish! And is usually down to the individual writer, please read the thread. The quality of the writer that wrote my 10 articles also did so to a good quality level in fact so does Sacredhoops, however; if I were to employ someone on a permanent basis I would look for the same level of competency or better, obviously. Paul
As I had stated before As for 120 wpm being fast -- I know people who can type 200+ words per minute.
Well I cannot comment on that amount of words, I don’t know anyone who can do that, I am just going on averages and facts I am sure of, but whatever, and even better still! And sorry mikemotorcade I thought DeniseJ was talking to me and doing that female thing! LOL DeniseJ, you should have “being a writer†dropped a quote in there! Love Paul
Forgive me. Apparently I took that sentence out of context. Being able to type 120 words/minute does not make someone a good writer - it makes them a good typist.
You didn't answer the question. I said *everyone* stayed at or above 2 cents per word. Meaning there is no one you could hire for less than 2 cents per word. Would you go out of business or pay the 2 cents per word everyone is demanding? $170 in one day is a good amount if a) you can maintain it consistantly for 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year b) it takes you 10 hours or less to write them all In the real world there's such thing as a minimum wage. Only on the internet do people fight and claw their way to make less. You'd think people would realize that if *everyone* demanded fair compensation that everyone would get it. As it is, everyone is more interested in making something without paying attention to the amount of effort they're putting into it. That probably explains all those stupid "get paid to read e-mail" scams. People are so thrilled about the measly 30 bucks they "got for nothing" that they don't realize how many hours they wasted reading the stupid things.
You are forgiven but your also not wrong my typo or whatever! Yeah I meant typist then, I always refer as writers (Force of habit I suppose) but I was talking about quantity not quality that’s a whole new ballgame.