As the saying goes: Pay peanuts, get monkeys. It's a topic already discussed to death time and time again. We have all read the threads in the content creation section from great buyers expecting award winning quality content for a whopping $ 0.60/100 words or something similar. Being a writer we get the "pleasure" to deal with so many of those, that if we could rally them up together we probably could start up the Digital Point Cheapskate army. Sad fact remains that besides the obvious word monkeys there are still decent writers falling for it. This keeps the sharks in business. As for us writers who are not falling for it they provide us with a constant stream of frustration, especially when they don't come out for the dirt cheap rates they are willing to pay upfront. Instead, we get a "buying" thread jam packed with demands and requirements, and when we finally get in a conversation with them through PM, Skype or other means, we find we have been wasting our time on a cheapskate not interested in quality at all, unable to distinguish a quality article from a spun piece of crap and who is looking only at how much he or she has to pay for x amount of articles. There goes another hour wasted that could have been spent creating quality content. An hour we will never get back. But, on the other hand there are the decent buyers, who expect quality but are willing to pay decent rates for them. They are the minority, but still they exist and on occasion we encounter them, even here in the content creation section. The problem is that their threads usually do not differ from the ones we are so familiar in reading from the above mentioned cheapskates and this leads to misconceptions and basically ads to the frustration on both ends, because things are just as bad on the buying site as they are on our side and the same frustration levels apply. Buyers get to deal with word monkeys, you know the type who barely is able to work a keyboard, let alone be able to construct a sentence that might pass for proper English and make sense at the same time. Yet those word monkeys profile themselves as being the best thing since sliced bread, and go to great lengths to look the part. Fake profiles, fake samples, spun content, you name it, they do it just to rake in an assignment they are not qualified to handle in the first place. This being said, it should be obvious that the frustrations are the same on both ends of the stick. I think that is something us writers should also realize a bit more often. A lot of the frustration would however be eliminated if a buyer prepared to pay decent rates would state this in the thread. It will help skilled writers to decide whether or not it is worth spending time on replying and negotiating, while it might weed out some of the word monkeys in the process. Now I started to think about it, probably not, because most of the word monkeys will simply respond with their copy/paste replies and still hope to rake in the job. But it would still save time and frustration on both ends I think.
Do you ever get enquiries from being found on Google for searches related to writers for hire Kraven2? I take it the above is from experiences on foums (like DP for example) mostly yes?
My clients come from everywhere: Here, my site(Which I still haven't had time to finish up lol ), email, Facebook. I am everywhere so I attract business everywhere. What I am referring to in this thread is of course mostly market places, like the content creation section, Warrior forum, but also places like Elan, iWriter(Textbroker being a welcome exception lately), so I guess you could see it as a "general" observation with a slight emphasis on forum market places.