{"id":3127,"date":"2011-11-27T20:16:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T09:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2012-05-10T11:56:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T01:56:52","slug":"cheap-writing-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/11\/cheap-writing-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap writing services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pen-writing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4063\" title=\"pen writing\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pen-writing-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pen writing on a blank page\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>I was just reviewing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovesanta.com.au\/blog\" target=\"blank\">Love Santa blog<\/a> for my client, including cleaning up the spam folder. In amongst the other spam was one offering a writing service based on one cent per word ($5 for a 500 word article!) from (apparently) US residents.<\/p>\n<p>It annoyed me on a number of levels:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>who would think they will get quality results from a $5 article? Those prices are just cheap and nasty<\/li>\n<li>implying that because someone lives in the USA they have good English and <a title=\"Writing professionally\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/01\/writing-professionally\/\" target=\"_blank\">can write professionally<\/a> is just ridiculous &#8211; what about immigrants for starters? And even those who speak and understand good English may not be any good at writing it<\/li>\n<li>nobody should be paid such low wages and my conscience wouldn&#8217;t let me buy such work. A 500 word article on a topic I know well would take me at least 20 minutes &#8211; and I write fast. A topic that requires more thought and some research would obviously take longer. So at best, they are offering $15 an hour and not many would make that much is my belief.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>As a business person, I also don&#8217;t think much of their marketing. If promoting your services to a blogger, why not offer <a title=\"outsourcing your blog writing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dotcomwomen.com.au\/content.php\/250-Outsourcing-your-blog\" target=\"_blank\">blog writing<\/a> instead of article writing? Promoting your service will generally do better if you give some benefit or value to your offering, not just listing a very cheap price.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>How about you &#8211; would you grab such a cheap offer if it was presented to you as an unrelated comment in your blog?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reviewing the Love Santa blog for my client, including cleaning up the spam folder. 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