I am searching for a professional writer to write me two articles on Travel. I need one article on Venice restaurants and another Venice weather both targeting tourists. I am willing to pay up $25 to the right person. The articles will be 500 words minimum. You must be from Europe or USA. Please PM, I need someone urgently.
This thread is misleading. Although he offers upto $50 he PMs you asking how much you charge per 500 words...therefore most likely you will NOT get $50...
Well, he does say "up to" $50, which means anything between $0 and $50 in theory. I suppose he's just hedging his bets. The trouble with this forum is that there's too many non-natives thinking that they can fool natives into paying them heaps of money for crap that nobody can understand, and there's too many natives taking advantage of people who can't write very well and giving them work (encouraging them in something that they're hopeless at). A mixture of those kind of people makes good jobs on this forum pretty scarce. Perhaps the OP asks what price you normally charge in order to know how good a writer you are. If you charge upwards of about $3, it usually shows that you're a good writer that writes well enough to be able to charge that much. If, on the other hand, you charge $1 per 500 words or other such ridiculous rate, it screams out that somebody is simply desperate to get money and has to radically reduce the price of their articles in order to get work. Anyone feel free to disagree with me, but in my opinion, that's the honest truth.
Thanks Pianogirl for your post. You've just saved me from writing a long reply. You've also just destroyed my way of assessing "writer" responses like these; ...and when I read and replied to his PM with: ...this is what I got; How am I supposed to know how capable you're? Responses like these waste a lot of time. I am a content writer myself and single sentence replies like the above to a content writer ad shows off some of the writer attributes. I don't think they're that many good writers here actually. I mean anyone could write an article. I am not looking for someone to write a corny article and expect $25. I have $25 to give away though but only to the right person. Most of the replies that I received do not fit that. That's why I asked what do you charge so that I can pay you what you truly deserve
You're welcome. It's nice to see someone who is willing to pay what a writer's worth. $5 per 100 words is a decent pay for a good native English writer who can write engaging articles with correct English grammar. If you can do two articles per hour at that rate, there's $50 an hour, which is about right. What do you mean by destroying your way of "assessing "writer" responses like these"? Didn't quite get that bit, sorry...
Never mind that... I thought if I asked them how much they were charging I might get a good idea of how good they're, if they don't send any samples. Now they might ask for more. I think I have found two capable of writing the English that I am after. Best detailed replies too
Check your PMs buddy. I definitely sent you a reply PM with 2 sample excerpts, so please do not try to say I never replied to your PMs.. The tracking indicates that you read the message too, hence why I sent you another PM for not replying... Take a look: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/85/55712597.jpg And just an FYI, I'm not some foreigner; I'm a sophomore in college so I have a good understanding of the English language.
Please stop sending PMs now, I may have found someone to write the articles and has already started, I only managed to reply to a few with detailed information about them in their PM responses. But if you have solid knowledge in software and web technologies please PM me as I will be needing someone to work with.