A new day, a new month, a clean slate. Here’s to a positive, productive month.
Leads…
- Freelance Copywriter
- SEO Copywriting
- Seeking Self Motivated Freelance Writers
- Freelance Copywriter – Dallas
- Freelance PLR Writer
- Looking for Freelance Writer
- Paid Citizen Journalist Positions
- Freelance Writer for Conservative Mothering Site
- Restaurant Critic – Austin
- UT Austin Freelance Student Writer
- Copywriter - New England Region
- Freelancers Needed for 21+ Weekly - .15/word
- Grant Writer Needed – Chicago
- Articles Needed
- Freelance Writers Wanted
- Pop Music Researchers – Brooklyn
- Blogger for Health Care Website
- Need Someone to Write Autobiography and Health Book
- Ghost Writer for Medical Book
I have to run, folks. Check back here for weekend updates since this list is so paltry today.
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Happy May – and thanks for the early leads, Deb!
Bummer that one of these is that Freelance Switch that requires a paid membership. I would have applied otherwise.
It really discourages me to see ads like the one for Freelance PLR writer in which they are hiring someone to re-write other writers’ work so that it will pass Copyscape. I don’t think a site that supports working writers should be posting jobs like this.
Honestly, I’d like to start off this month with a clean slate, but one of the jobs I landed off this site a few weeks ago – he promised to pay all writers yesterday and nothing arrived. Then thanks to the Chrysler bankruptcy, which affects more than Chrysler workers, my husband is back to 4 day work weeks and a pay cut to boot. I’d planned to pay bills this weekend, but without this big paycheck I’m expecting, I’m in one of those panics over what to do.
Isn’t that what at least 50% of the current writing on the web is? I mean, aside from politics, new equipment and news, just about everything we’re writing is a re-write of something else. At least they’re telling you up front what you’re doing. And to be honest, that’s prolly easy work.
I think there’s a difference between legitimate web content, which you research from a variety of sources or write from experience and something like that PLR ad which is clearly just recycled content from one article. All content comes from somewhere, but if you’re basically rewriting the same article to “pass Copyscape” it is really borderline and possibly plagiarism depending on the topic. I would think that post was accidental because it also only pays $200 for 30 articles. Not to start a big debate as to whether that’s a viable wage for someone on the other side of the universe, but it is below the $10 minimum (around 6.67).
Can someone tell me what PLR is? I’m tired of feeling dumb about this phrase…
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I’ve actually done PLR writing. It isn’t hard work, and the companies I worked for bought their articles from a company that allowed re-spinning. There is demand for PLR article writing.
I’m agreeing with Matt. Most of what people write involves taking information from a book or Internet and re-writing it. Even books and movies – how many books or movies take the basic premise set forth in classics and re-write it with new characters and a setting? Think Romeo and Juliet (West Side Story, High School Musical, etc.) How many books take the basic premise of The King and I – guy hires a nanny/governess for his children and falls in love with her. How many times can the story Cinderella be retold?
I figure if someone finds your work worth rewriting in a new perspective, you’ve done something right.
@anne: I know a German gent who worked at Chrysler as an engineer. Once the company started having major problems, he received a very generous offer from a company in Germany. He’s there while his American wife is getting stuff sold so they can return to Germany.
I recently added a client for whom I write white papers, and I have another long-time client I picked up from here; that assignment has been an absolute godsend as far as using the money to pay bills.
When it comes to job leads for low-paying jobs, my approach is this: if it’s dirt cheap but can be done in five to 15 minutes, it might be worth it (unless they’re asking for $5 for 1,000 words). If their “payment” is a byline or some other non-monetary means, I skip it.
New to this site. I hate to pay for a lead, but Flexjobs looks like it has many. Has anyone used it? Are they legit?
We (people) have been doing it for thousands of years. Re-telling stories.
I find article re-writing to be no different than what used to be done prior to the advent of the Internet. Before the world wide web people would go the library, find 3-4 books (or more) on their subject matter, and re-write what they found in the source books.
These days the source books come from Google, from Wiki, and otherwise. But it’s no different than it was 15 years ago, or 50 years ago, or 1500 years ago. As Anne said, at some point or another everything is getting re-written.
I’d say a good 50% of what I do is re-writes. I don’t view it any differently than I would reading an article from a physical encyclopedia or source book and re-writing it in my own words, because that’s all I’m doing.
Alison – re Flexjobs, it’s owned by the same person who owns LovetoKnow. I wrote a lot of the inaugural content for FlexJobs and they’re a major advertiser. The people behind FlexJobs are on the up and up. They’re definitely legit, they have leads from all over the web but it’s a subscription based service.
I’m curious about why when I check Chicago Craigs List, the ad that you link to above for a grant writer doesn’t show up? Just wondering.
@ Richard: You have the right idea, mate. I don’t look at jobs based upon their per-word rate or per-article rate, I look at how long it will take me. Generally I put out about 1500 words per hour on re-write work, so if I’m getting paid .05 cents a word–which to some people here is “low paying”–I end up making 75 dollars an hour.
I currently have gigs that pay 25 dollars an hour, one that pays 5 bucks for 1000 words (that I use for publicity more than for the pay), and another client who pays me roughly 90 dollars an hour. I also use Demand Studios to good use, usually ending up in the 50-75 dollar per hour ballpark.
I never look at it based solely upon what its per word/per hour rate is. I absolutely look at the whole picture and base my opinion on whether or not it’s a complex article, or a simple re-write, and go from there. That’s why I get the giggles when I see the high and mighty term jobs as low-paying, because I’m more than happy to pick those very same jobs up and turn them into high paying gigs
If you haven’t yet, check out my “The World is your Oyster” posts over at my blog (references by clicking on my name). I’ve been discussing this very topic for the past couple of months. Most recently I’ve been discussing the fact that most freelance writers seem to not want it badly enough. I see a lot of people complaining about how they can’t find any work because their expectations are X dollars per hour/article/word, and in the same breath complaining how they can’t pay the bills/feed their family, yet there are jobs galore that exist if they truly wanted to put food on the table. Meanwhile there are people out there who understand that work is work, and feeding the family is more important than squabbling about what rates are/aren’t fair. You either feed your family or you don’t. Your choice.
Nice to see someone else who gets it