I'm looking to hire people to write Photoshop or Flash Tutorials (in puretext/HTML format, no pure graphic tutorial writers). PM me for more details, starting at $5/tutorial (simple ones, paying higher for more complex ones).
hmm, I've had many quality tutorials written for that price, i'm not sure where your coming from but $5 is more than fair.
Sure....fair... I think your idea about quality is laughable. Maybe you should read this article with Dan, the owner of Pixel2life: http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photoshop-blog/06/02/pixel2life-dan-richard.html One quote: "It cracks me up when I see someone post "Hey, I FINALLY finished this tutorial after 3 hours!" I often take more time to just take my screenshots, never mind write the entire tutorial. " Or read this thread: http://www.photoshoptechniques.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19719&highlight=tutorials A good tutorial takes several hours to write. Just having a nice picture at the end doesn't make a tutorial good, it makes it only good if the people can easily achieve the same results. What makes a tutorial good is how it's written, how easy it is for beginners to understand all the steps and whether it contains unique content and not just another signature or some random filter effect. Like Dan said, some tutorials take over 100 hours. And you would pay $5 for that? Also it's very easy for every dodo who knows a little about Photoshop to write a tutorial that is accepted by 30 or more tutorial sites. Add some Google ads and the author makes tons more than the $5 you're offering. Already a descent tutorial at Good-Tutorials already gets 10,000 visitors in one month. Mmm... there are people out there who are happy to get 10,000 for a complete site. And this is just Good-Tutorials... I didn't even mention all the other 50-100 sites out there where you can submit the tutorials to. What you are offering is a pure insult, unless like I said that is because you have not a single clue what a good tutorial is. Let me quote some people from that forum: "And honestly, $15 is TERRIBLY low. Consider tripling that." "Tutorials demand a huge amount of effort from the creator and also a lot of time depending on the quality of the tutorial. Even editing a tutorial (already existing) for a different version of Photoshop is a pain in the butt, I know from experience. Ideas + Labour + Idea of Worth = Cost. Really really think about tripling $15." "Please... I ran a tutorial site not too long ago (before I sold it for a few thousand dollars) and even a BAD tutorial made more than $15. " "For instance tutorials that are written in clear, easy to understand english and that cover an uncommon topic such as advanced photo manipulation would be worth more (a LOT more) than a signature tutorial written in 1337 speak." "Also I can back up the fact that most tutorials go for $15-$35. However most of these come from a younger age group who are learning photoshop, and most tend to be filterplay or signature tutorials (quite possibly only worth $15)."
All I know is i've written many tutorials in about 30 minutes to an hour. take: http://www.psdesignzone.com/photoshop-tutorials/design-a-trendy-photoshop-web-header.html for example I've recieved many glowing comments and responses saying how helpful and easy to follow it is. I know from experience what it takes to write a good tutorial. And I know the quality of tutorials I am looking for on my site. I agree that a longer tutorial describing how to design an entire website layout might take longer, which is why I pay higher for them. If you can write a more complex tutorial like: http://www.psdesignzone.com/photoshop-tutorials/whiteshading-website-version-2---page-1.html I'd probably pay higher. I wrote both of those tutorials in about 1 hour Anyway, Thanks for your interest
How convenient for you to ignore those links/quotes with several comments of experienced tutorial writers that backup my statements. Notice that those people people don't even consider $15 a descent pay, let alone your 500 cents. That tutorial was viewed by over 8,000 visitors... a good tutorial however easily gets 100,000 views or more on the site where it's located, like here http://www.heathrowe.com/tutorials.asp?pageCat=35&PageNo=14 Dude... you have no idea what quality is. Good luck!
How convenient for you to ignore those links/quotes with several comments of experienced tutorial writers that backup my statements... Notice that those people people don't even consider $15 a descent pay, let alone your 500 cents. Oh well good luck, because I don't think you will ever understand what a really good tutorial is.
Holy fuzz dude, Do you have any decent tutorials that you yourself have written, I have about 10 people right now writing tutorials for $5/tutorial so first off you have no idea what you are talking about and second off, that tutorial website you mentioned has probably been around alot longer than I have been so obviously the tutorials would've been viewed alot more. Also the amount of times a tutorial has been viewed does not mean it is a higher quality tutorial it just means the webmaster is able to market his website better so your "criteria" for quality just doesn't work. I made this post looking for people to do some honest work and obviously you can't provide that so lay off man go torment someone else with your strange criteria for what you say is quality by the amount of times it has been "viewed". I determine quality by how well it teaches and how cool the effect is. Oh and the people writing tutorials for $5/tutorial have written some sweet tutorials, indexed in good-tutorials, pixel2life, life2pixel, photoshoplab.com, etc.. so using the same sites you say determine quality tuts have determined mine to be just fine. So all in all $5 is a fair price, and that's what i'm sticking with, I don't really need "good luck" because I have already hired many writers at that price .
Jordash makes good valid points. $5 is very low. Now with your tuts, there okay, but for the simple fact if you want some written in total HTML/text, could be considerable, like a desirable text effect, but others no.
Thank you, good text effects and logos like this: http://www.psdesignzone.com/photoshop-tutorials/smooth-and-sleek-surreal-photoshop-logo.html Tutorial written by http://www.lemuriahost.com/ are probably around the $5 range, which is why I said $5 for simple tutorials and higher pay for more complex ones. As for the HTML i'm really just looking for p and img tags which should be fairly simple even for a beginner.
But dont get me wrong, John made some nice key points too. $5 would be to low for complex tuts, as you stated, but for the most part, html basis, should be okay for $5.
My income statistics don't reach further back than october 2005. I made for the tutorials that were on the site as of that date on average $121 for a single tutorial, with the cheapest one $37, the top one $670. Maybe people should try to go to Good-Tutorials and check out which tutorials are most popular. Then they should write one like that, add a cool thumbnail and then submit it the first week of the month so that it’s getting a lot of extra traffic from the “Best of the month†top list. You get close to 10,000 (check it out as of today, the top tutorials are already at 5-6000 views), which translates in $15. More people than those 10,000 visit the tutorial, because; a) you already have 5,000 regular visitors a day b) you get extra viewers from the 30 other tutorial sites you submitted that tutorial to c) you get extra traffic (that will stay) from Google for that tutorial because of the increased number of backlinks for that tutorial and the proper SEO that you applied d) you get extra traffic from those who copied the link of the tutorial onto their blog or web site or sent it to sites like stumbleupon, digg, ect e) you get extra traffic from announcing the tutorials if you have a successful RSS feed f) you continue to have people visit the tutorial over the following month and often it increases when your site traffic increases too g) if you write really good stuff you get digged by tons of sites with the likes of digg.com, sometimes even a whole year later. Oh well, what am I talking about right, I guess $5 is a fair price...