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The $1000-a-day Web writer: how to get good prices for article packages

March 29th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

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Want to make a great income as a Web writer? There’s a secret if you want to stay out of the $10-per-article trenches. It’s education - both your own, and your customer’s.

Writing for the Web means understanding the Web, because the more you know, the better the results your customers will get from your writing.

I’ve always said that you don’t need to be “techy” to build a Web site. You don’t. You can put up a Web site (blog) at Blogger in about 60 seconds. No technical expertise required at all. However, if you want to make a good income as a Web writer, you’ll put in a little time discovering the search engines and search engine optimization (SEO) and why “content is king.”

Bluntly stated: if you know more than most of your customers do about what works on the Web, you can charge appropriately.

You won’t learn the ins and outs of content, and how content can boost a Web site’s rankings in the organic search results overnight, and you certainly don’t need to. However, if you’re getting $10 per article, and another Web writer charges $100 per article and is turning away customers because he’s overbooked, there’s a reason - the $100 articles are worth it to the buyer.

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Web writers’ pay - $2 per article? You can do much, much better

March 22nd, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

A reader, who comes to the Web writing world from print, writes:

I find content writers offering their skills for $3, $2 or maybe $5 for a 500-word article! That’s horrendous! A very few advertise their skills for $20 for an article, but they are rare and I have no idea if anyone takes them up on their offer, considering clients of these low-priced writers praise their work to high heaven, so why would anyone want to pay the “ungodly” sum of $20 when they can get high quality for $5?

Is that what this has come to, Angela; 2 cents a word!?

Or could someone truly ask for $20, $30 or even $50 for a well-written, well researched article (and even $50 is low) and get any takers?

What the hell is the writing world coming to!??

Here’s my answer:

Re: “Is that what this has come to, Angela; 2 cents a word!?”

(Teehee…)

NO!

You’re you. You’re an EXPERIENCED writer, not a total newbie. Set up a Web site offering content, and set your own price.

See the Web content rates on my angelabooth.com site.

I charge $750 per pack of ten articles; this is very reasonable.
Others writers are charging $89 and more per article in a five or ten pack.
YES, this is LOWER than print, but it’s about 1/10 of the work.

I can turn out these ten articles in around 4 to 5 hours.

Writers do get upset about “$2 an article” crowd, but it’s a free world. I’ve
read some of these $2 articles, and I promise you, I wouldn’t pay 2
cents for them.

As for “considering clients of these low-priced writers praise their work to high heaven” - please don’t believe everything you read online. The $2-an-article crowd just need “content” to separate the AdSense ad blocks.

So, can you charge a “reasonable” rate for your articles - $50 and more?

Of course you can.

Here’s how:

* “Brand” yourself online - build your name and credibility; and

* Build your client base of clients who know and love your work and buy from you regularly.

It all comes down to UNDERSTANDING Web writing, and the old “4Ps” of marketing: Product, Price, Promotion and Place.

Good writing ALWAYS gets a good price, but you have to position yourself and your work appropriately.

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