Article Writing Service - How much to charge per article

Ten bucks is a minimum.

Make sure you have compelling copy and good samples. Reviews/testimonials are helpful, and you should ask for them - a good chunk of people will happily give them, fewer will think to do it without being asked.

Anecdotally, the number of people asking me to work for them has risen everytime I raised my price.

But I am pretty awesome.

I have to say Tina is pretty spot on with her comments.

It is very much about how much money you are looking to make on a daily, weekly, monthly, etc. basis in order to make this worthwhile to you.

I remember when I first started out providing a writing service I offered a price that I considered the "norm". However, after a few weeks, and careful reflection, it appeared that in order to make a decent and worthwhile income for myself, I would need to write over 100 articles a week. Now, this is perfectly possible, although I found that the quality of my work was being severely compromised. My articles were probably still of a higher quality than many other sevice providers, but I did not feel comfortable offering content that I knew was not up to my usual standards.

I then actually bought a number of articles from service providers with differing price structures. Some were offering articles at $0.01 per word, whereas others were offering 500 word articles for $35, $50, etc. You get the picture. I then chose "my place" in amongst these various article writers and made a decision as to what I should charge, based on my research. I also ensured that this was an adequate "hourly rate" for me to work for, which should include proper research and writing the actual article.

The next stage was to test - I must admit I was extremely nervous about charging the price per article I had settled for, as it was considered well above "the norm", and I was unsure whether I could live up to my price tag. As it turns out people were interested in what I had to offer, and people were happy to pay my fees. I guess it's human nature to be overly critical of oneself! If I would have been inundated with complaints, or ridiculed for my prices, this may have simply meant that I was not cut out for offering a writing service, or perhaps that I needed to improve the overall quality of my article writing!

I have to say that I don't 100% agree with one point in Sheryl's first post (and Sheryl this is probably the one and only time!). Should you choose to offer a service at a lower rate initially, and then raise the price at a later date, you may find that a lot of your existing customers choose not to continue using your service. This is obviously not a definite outcome, although as others have mentioned there is a lot of competition amongst freelance writers. IMHO many (not all) people have a specific idea of how much money they wish to pay for content creation, and if you are out of their league they simply won't use you. You may find that if you wish to raise your rates at a later date that you need to find a completely different "type" of customer.

Cheers
Partha