I'll not name names, but why would you advertise a service that offers, amongst other promises, grammatically correct documents, when this is clearly not the case? I am seeing this more and more in the trade threads! Surely you would read and then re-read a sample of your work before going out to your potential customers... or is this just me? I am sorry, but there are many ways to make an advert sound great, cheap and the best value ever, but when it comes to writing, this is your chance to show you know what you are doing. If you cannot, then you will never succeed in winning larger clients. You might get the odd blog post or page from someone who can't read English particularly well, but this will be your on-going client base. I won't lie and say that this isn't frustrating - your can't advertise a service you are unable to deliver! It is these sorts of services dragging the prices down here and I just hope that potential customers take the time to look at samples closely before committing to a contract of work! Andy
I hope they keep doing what they are doing. Hopefully buyers will get smarter and not buy from these folks. I'm already seeing some signs of that happening. The ones that really irk me are the folks who put up a fairly respectable pitch and then deliver junk. At least with the folks you are talking about, the buyer has the ability to identify that they are knowingly buying junk.
Hehe OK you can advertise something you can't deliver - it just makes no sense to me! And you are also quote right that hopefully more buyers will become aware of those that are not able to deliver the goods that they promise.
CONSIDER YOURSELF KICKED, but you will just get up more determined. Excellent points. InetSEO and a few others are already seeing the parting of the red sea, with all the locusts venturing out along the inner edges. Others like P-hamburger are as useless as speed bumps as they passively use the water to clean their stained shoes. Emerging is a transformation. Article writers are learning they need to become article marketers. That PROVEN articles open the doors to working with professionals. As a professional writer a good portion of their time is developing sales marketing strategy with the professional. Besides articles that involve press releases, newsletters, home page rewrites, consumer article directories, and on and on. They are the thinkers. Writing articles is not a career, but a means of showing your capabilities. Do you want to write for part time home business start ups or for multi-office corporations. That requires the time of making a strong portfolio It also requires a change of thinking, many people here have an ego problem. Your customer wants to see a complete package of how you can solve their problem, proving with facts and figures how you will deliver traffic to them. There are too many here living day to day. From the starving to the hamburger writer rude commentators. Give me a person desiring to properly learn, and in 6 weeks, regardless of their current level, I will have them at least in the top 10%. Writers need to think like a mechanic. Before you take the job, you owe it to the customer to be honest if you have the tools to provide the solution. ----there are millions that do not know there is a solution, many that do not care.----That is why it is survival of the fittest, and a great future ahead for those that map their way--------------------------
Hehe the lesson to be learnt here is not to post on these boards when you have got back from someone's leaving party at the pub
Just thought I would repeat this statement. Yesterday I had an new inquiry from a prospective client who first contacted me needing a writer who knew computer networking and servers. While I did work on that stuff in a past life, my knowledge is obsolete and my skills quite rusty. Meeting his needs would have been a hard slog, it not impossible. We agreed to perhaps wait for a better match. We parted on good terms and here it is 4 months later and he's back with a new project that sounds like something I can knock out of the park. Sure, 4 months is a long time but I've already built a bit of trust without having written one word on the clock. He's in a position that could lead to quite a bit of work long-term. Lesson here...be honest...if the work is outside of your expertise...say so. You might lose the project today but tomorrow could bring a better one.