Where Can I Find A Great Writer?

Word of caution - especially since I am from India and stay in India.

If you plan to pay $10 for writing a real sales copy (assuming that is what you meant by copywriting) then I do not really believe it is going to work out, at least in India. India has become expensive, in particular the big cities (like Bangalore or Calcutta or Delhi so to say) $10 does not mean much.

But if you plan to write regular EZA-type articles then $10 is still a handsome price to pay in India. You may still want to look at a couple of writers though, until you are lucky. So do not order too many copies at your first shot, till you are confident that you have got the right writer.

Guess that's why you said it's difficult to find a good writer here in the Philippines.

Don't know where you heard this mate, but surely: a university-educated Manila-bred (or other major cities in provinces) Pinoy (native slang for "Filipino") writer of English content with proficient comprehension and research skills will most likely pay you $60/month instead just so you won't try hiring them anymore... lol!

Entry level English broadsheet journalists here in Manila are paid Php25000/month (8 hours/day 5 days/week 4 weeks/month), which is around $550/month at $1 = Php45.

Entry level phone customer support agents, on the other hand, are paid Php19000/month (8 hours/day 5 days/week 4 weeks/month)... that's about $420/month.

That's after social security insurance, personal income taxes, company health insurance and other employee benefits.

Major cities in provinces like Cebu, Davao, Laoag, Baguio and others have lower monthly wages, though it's like a $20/month difference.

Writers are paid higher than phone customer support agents because writing is a more valuable skill since only a few here are proficient in this trade while lots of Pinoys are great English speakers. Believe research and writing require higher levels of comprehension, creativity, logical data analysis and comparative data analysis.

Nurses, teachers (yes, yes: this topic is debatable), construction workers, etc. are paid much lower than writers and phone agents because more Pinoys are able to properly do tasks required by such jobs than skill sets needed for English research, writing and speaking (more so tasks necessary for Internet marketing).

Only a few here have entrepreneurial mindsets, and that's why the few lead the many (much like in other countries too).

I noticed an advantage Pinoys have over others: they can't quite strike a balance between work perfection and speed at first, and they unlearn this in just a few weeks with the right training and management/supervision plus motivation, so when they balance out things just right: they produce 70%-above perfect work at 90-100% speed.

On another note: reckon you mean content writing when you mentioned copywriting 'cause those are 2 different tasks as some have said earlier.

Copywriting requires more research and analysis because it requires a perfect balance between softsell and hardsell marketing in literary form... the attention of target readers needs to be grabbed, their interest provoked to read on, their minds immersed in the content broken down into short and simple single-statement messages covering benefits/priviledges/advantages/unique selling propositions, their curiosity provoked to experience product or service for themselves and they suddenly get nudged to act or think or feel whatever it is that could make them buy buy buy without them even knowing it, or with them knowing that it's the right and only thing to do.

Now that's copywriting, and a good copy is surely worth tenfolds more than $10.

In copywriting, I think if you can't do a "Just Do It", then "just don't".

That is priceless . And here I was thinking of going to get a massage. Maybe I should check their ad first before I commit to the pain lol

LOL that's great!

Perhaps they're just going after a slightly different clientele...