I am interested to find out how the average DP content buyer thinks. What is the lowest price for an article you will pay, before it becomes too bad quality wise and what is your absolute maximum? I am not talking about your real time budget, or if you could afford an article at maximum price. I would like to hear what you think is the most a writer can ask for a regular article, and what's the cheapest while still usable. Thanks in advance.
Probably the most I'd pay is $2 for 100 words, but only if it had perfect spelling and grammar and good content. The least I'd pay would be about $0.2 for 100, unless it was a writer who was just starting out and trying to make a name for themselves by offering discounted services.
Excellent, thank you. What is interesting from your reply is that your "lowest" rate is still 5 cents above the lowest I have seen in BST. Good info, any more who are willing to share their thoughts? One response is great, and highly appreciated but nowhere near a good impression of the average content buyer on DP
Eleven days and just a single reply? This shows, the height of the mountain that we have to climb, for the sake of other writers.
It appears that I touched a sensitive subject. Would it help if I promise not to use any figures disclosed against you? Will that help any buyers to come forth?
LOl, i will keep a close eye on this thread. I am new to DP, but i came across another thread that you guys were discussing some time aback. It was in regards to the "return of slavery" issue. I had also dropped in my two scents on the matter. But i need to know how to get the clients to pay a reasonable rate to good writers and not simply assume that $2.00 per 500 words is the norm. Your responses would be highly appreciated.
I think that's another topic and better discussed at: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1883556
As a buyer, I am happy to pay generous rates but thus far I have yet to find a writer that delivers quality which justifies what they're getting paid. Too many just do not take quality seriously, or they do for the first couple jobs, then start slacking off big time and trying to pull off whatever they can on you (copied content, tons of typos, horrible grammar, poorly researched information, etc).
Is this for real? Who is writing anything for $2.00? If there are writers reading this, please go sign up for guru or elance. The money is bad on those sites too, but not quite this bad. Good copywriters make a lot of money.
I think it's a sign that most buyers of content are unaware or unappreciative of the value of the content they're buying. That could be one of the reasons that they always want to pay so little and why they won't (or can't) state here what they see as being market value for the type of content they want.
The biggest problem is that most of these so called buyers are using articles purely for SEO and probably short term goals, which is why they don't care a damn about the quality. I've seen requests for writers with almost 20 points included in the terms and conditions, and all they offer is $1 per 500 words. How they have audacity to even do that is amazing.
I've paid up to $25 for a fairly long article that required quite a bit of research. Depending on the quality/placement, I would pay more. I think there should be two buckets: the first consists of SEO article that are generally spun, re-spun and is a numbers game whereas the second can also be a SEO article, but consists of actual new/interesting/educational content that has the potential for new/viral pick-up. The latter is harder to get, obviously, but something I'm very willing to pay for.
on average i used to pay anywhere between 5-10 USD. it was a steal because i had a really great writer. unfortunately he no longer is in the business. been having a hard time finding quality work since then.
I'm a brand new writer, and I have only written 4 articles. 3 of them I got 1 cent a word for, and I got $10 for a 580 word one. I don't think I'm ever going to go under 1 cent per word as i seem to be able to sell everything i can write for at least that amount. I see all these offers of $1 or 70c per 500 words on this site and I just shrug at them; as a previous poster said, I don't think the buyers have any idea of the difference between decent content and verbal diaorrhea.
The difference between writing for an e-zine, or the online community in some capacity; and writing for actual print media (or indeed a website established out of a magazine or newspaper) differs massively - mostly the $£$ amounts that are paid to writers. But, I have to say, and am occasionally guilty of this personally, many writers seem to make grammatical mistakes that they wouldn't generally make when writing online. It's probably due to the nature of what we are doing and why. Articles usually have some underlying marketing goal in mind, so, online writing is generally about quantity over quality - which is a shame I think.
Before I started writing I paid $45 for ten 500 word articles and it was a complete waste of money, had to rewrite the whole lot. I think most newbies are unwilling to pay good money for an article because they don't have the experience or knowledge to make the article profitable for them. They then get into the habit of buying cheap, poor quality articles and end up in a vicious circle of having crap articles and crap follow on for any traffic they do generate.
I pay $20 per a 450-500 words article. I even do not consider those writers who are ready to work for $2 per article. I read all articles myself, and I don't approve (it means - writer doesn't get paid) article if I dislike it. So quality is a must thing.