I already have tools which have the functions you describe. And the tools I have are each specialised and so each will, individually, do more than your tool. I have a good email program, calender, scheduler and organiser; I have an LSI tool, a variety of 'spinners', article submitters and, of course, text editing tools. I have tried out tools similar to yours before, for example, Article Architect - but always return to my specialist and, established tools. Personally, I think the 'article writing tools' market is rather saturated; and often those who buy them are really people who lack confidence in their writing or ability in some way and believe the tool will, somehow, help their writing. In my view they don't and in many cases they actually 'get in the way': when I am writing I just want a good text editor and no distractions. Word does this job fine. My personal organisation is such that I am happy to file my articles in folders without feeling the need to be organised by a software application. In my opinion, you may find an audience for this product but, I agree with an earlier poster - I don't think your audience will be professional article writers; they will need a hell of alot more persuading since if they are professional then they will already have a system that works. Best of luck, Phil
Organization is key among professional article writers. MaryMary is one of the most professional writers I know on DP, including Jhmattern, Pearly Whites, and Denise. I'm not sure what their take on it is, but MaryMary's support shows there is indeed a professional need for this program. As for the keyword percentage inclusion, consider it the next upgrade
oh! That is an EXCELLENT idea! And I don't know if others will get upset for me saying this, but I would actually pay more than $1 for this kind of tool if it could offer that much. It would so be worth the time I would save on administration.
yeah, I think 3 sounds reasonable depending whats on there. if I used a product like that every day, and I would, that would totally be worth the expense.
I won't need the rewriting feature because all the material we produce is ORIGINAL. However, I like the archival feature if it was modified to allow for easy client archiving. Search by date, client name, and client email. Also, a nice summary report of article titles for each client with important information like: date delivered, date revised (if any), client notes, special instructions for the whole batch of articles, etc. Another nifty feature would be a flagging system to indicate the level of rights the writer or writing company retains in the material.
The features aside from the rewriting tool would prove to be very useful for those without their own systems, particularly if the consumer market would be firms with years and years of improper management experience in the copywriting industry. The rewriting tool would not be useful for those who strive to produce real original content for general/mainstream subjects, and the rewriting function would also be useless for those firms that focus on the technical niche. Why not set up a website which would allow freelance copywriters to work on content requested by clients, and have the website integrate automated checking systems such as plagiarism checkers, spelling and grammar tools (similar to that of MS Word), a word count tool (again, similar to that of MS Word), a keyword count tool, etc. - and this system would prevent the freelance copywriters to pass the content they have created to manual checking systems of the website if all automated requirements are not met - this would virtually make a faster approach to the checking systems involved in quality assurance as opposed to the hard-lined manual checking systems integrated by most middleman websites in the market. I do this, but I haven't integrated it on a website just yet since I reckon managing your writers in a manual manner would be the best way to go just yet 'cause obviously, content should be checked using manual means, but not only manual means - well-versed proper manual means.
Well, everyone requested that I update, so here I go: I have laid down most of the programming foundation, which is most of the work. I have added a few time saving features, and a color coding option as seen below: Deadlines that have expired or are near expiring are listed in dark red. Lighter colors indicate deadlines that are not as near. And of course, the alert bar is up top on each page warning of the next immediate deadline. Deadlines are automatically calculated from the time that the job is put in, to the amount of time that is specified by the user. It is all figured automatically, so no hassle. Users can add customers, information for them, and lots of other things that I won't go into. I'll let you know how I'm doing with it!