Hello everyone, Where can I get best rates for my writing services? Which are the other good sites where I can earn maximum? How much should I expect for my articles? Please help me. Thank You
Are you a ghostwriter? If you're a writer and you really feel confident with yourself, why not you build your own website. Offer your service at the great price... You'll look more professional!
Read the FAQ, posting twice or more times the same question across different forums is not allowed. If my memory serves me good you already asked this and many of us have replied you there. Otherwise, correct me if I'm wrong.
Yup! If you just promote yourself in any website, people will say, 'who is him?'. So, when you make your own website, people will trust you. They will think that you must be a professional writer and they should try your service. They will trust you.
Probably not a webmasters' forum. From your post, I'm guessing you're a non-native English speaker (of course I could be wrong). If you want to earn the maximum, you don't need to be a native English speaker, but you'd better be able to write like one if you're targeting English markets and really want to earn more (which it sounds like you do). There aren't any "sites" that specifically have high paying gigs... you need to learn to look, and more importantly to network if you want to find them (talking $.10 / word to $1.50 / word or so). Start with www.writersmarket.com and search sites like www.mediabistro.com and www.journalismjobs.com (both have full-time jobs, but if you look there are sometimes nice freelance opps). Well, how good are your articles? How long are they? What topic are you writing on, and why should someone pay you to write about it (are you an expert in the field, or just a general writer who plans to use only research)?
Would be nicer if you share that information with all of us MaryMary because many people may find it useful if you take a look back to previous posts. You can read at the top of forum "This is an ad revenue sharing forum" next to advertising, but it is also a help sharing forum in which people share publicly advice and resources if you don't mind
I don't mind I just didn't want to give the impression that I was spamming my link. constant-content.com Feel free to check it out! I recently sold a 600 word article about golden retrievers for $35. There are many people requesting articles of all kinds. You can write about anything you want and set your own prices. The forum is very helpful too.
Yes, I do completely agree with Krizil . Your own personal website would be your own "stage" where you could be free to promote your content in a very professional way. The links to resources like www.writersmarket.com and the others, provided by jhmattern are also exclusively nothworthy, so take a close look at them. Good luck!
try submitting a couple of great articles to article directories as examples and in the resource box offer your service as a writer. Visit article-gems and submit an article or two and see what you get back?
You could start off small at freelance sites where buyers are generally looking for relatively cheaper writers. Then as your portfolio grows, you can charge higher prices and even look for other clients from forums such as this. Generally articles on freelance sites sell from $2-$5 depending on the volume and the topic. Some people go to as high as $15 per 500 words. However, I don't think people are going to pay you that kind of money unless they were sure you'd do a good job, and that means a solid background and portfolio first!
Even $15 is ridiculously low for anyone trying to earn the "best rates" for their writing services, as the OP is. It's kind of sad, and maybe a little bit funny, to see someone refer to webmaster forums as a step up in writing pay scales, as they're often the lowest, and completely on par with those types of freelance sites (with the exception of a few buyers who generally don't advertise there publicly). If you want the best rates for your writing, the simple fact is that the webmaster market (no matter where you find those clients) is not usually the best option, unless you know how to get an "in" with the big guys who don't advertise and don't hang out on forums and freelance marketplace sites.
You don't necessarily have to start out "small" if you're a talented writer and know how to market your abilities in the right places. You DEFINITELY don't have to start out writing for $5/article. Those articles are not going to impress anyone if you plan to make a career out of writing. What you'll end up with is a bunch of worthless clips that aren't going to further your career in the slightest.
You nailed it Denise. He should stand his grounds and fight for his own piece of the cake. Otherwise he won't achieve a big deal.
Denise is right. You'd be hard-pressed to find professional, highly-paid writers who would tell you they started out at $5 per article. The reality is that the vast majority of those writers will never move up far from that level, b/c it's all their clips will support. You either know how to market yourself effectively or you don't, and if you don't, you'd better learn if you want to make it as any kind of independent professional. In my case, the lowest I've worked for I believe is $20 / article for a few for one particular client when I first started (other than content networks which I've worked with for the industry contacts they lead to... which made it possible to bypass that whole $5 market completely, so I highly recommend looking into one if you're on the low end right now). I learned right away that $20 was ridiculous, and then moved right into charging my current rates based on my past experience in educational / scientific writing (up to $1 / word). I haven't looked back. One of the biggest problems with taking low-paying gigs early on is that writers tend to have their professional self-worth very caught up in their client work. After taking on enough lousy projects, they start to think that's all they're good for. They have to take on a lot of projects if they want to even make enough to make ends meet, which in turn leaves them with no time to pursue other levels of markets, b/c they won't have time to research and query. It's a cycle... they want to move up, but they've dug themselves into a hole by getting into a time trap and building portfolio pieces that are worthless to higher-paying publishers.
Portfolio, Portfolio, Portfolio is the way to go with article writing I personally believe. If you have written plenty of high quality content before then you will gain clients.
Be focussed on your goal. Get a nice portfoilio and maintain good quality. You are bound to be noticed!