Would you still do freelance writing?

Some charge $100 for that number of words, and some even charge $500 for that number of words.

Yes, really!

Well there is a simple answer to your question-yes of course. This service will always be around and if you pay that little for an article then you will get what you pay for. Pay for quality, not for quantity.

Yes, you can. It's only when you decide to do the "impossible" that you finally break through. Afterwards, you look back and wonder what all the fuss was about.

Besides, you don't "ask" for that type of money. You state it boldly and confidently as your rate. Those who won't pay get left behind, for there are plenty of others who will pay.

John.

I have several friends here who make their full-time livings writing articles which sell for high prices to regularly re-ordering customers.

There'll always be a need for high-quality writing from successful marketers who use them as a way of attracting traffic by having them published as widely as possible in front of their highly targeted audiences. And a huge turnover of unsuccessful marketers, whose businesses typically don't survive, wanting typically shorter, cheap, badly-written chunks of keyword-optimized text to which a backlink can be attached (but in that market there are almost as many suppliers as customers and it's close to impossible to make a living, unless you live somewhere where $10 is a full day's pay).

Yes, you can - if you have the appropriate writing and marketing skills. "Paradoxically" (though not really), in proportion to the supply, there's more stable and realistic demand for higher-priced writing than there is for $5/$10 articles. The reason you don't see those writers advertising all the time is that they're more fully booked with regularly returning clients. Unlike the writers of "cheap junk mostly for attempted SEO purposes", they don't have to keep replacing disappearing clients all the time, and permanently advertising for new ones.

Here are some posts/threads which may help you ...(one of these posts also has a long list of additional resources linked to, inside it, some of which are about "writing and selling articles at higher prices").

Are There Many Clients Who Pay $50/Article?

How do I make money writing articles???

The appropriate rate for written content is ?

You must be a superstar professional writer BUT I can only pay you $2 per article - say WHAT?

Any point in trying to find clients on Warrior Forum..?

I don't tag a price to my work based on quality. That's a subjective angle. Your samples, previous relevant work and testimonies from current buyers can show that, anyway. If they think your work's what they want, then they look at your price. If it's good for them, you get a buyer. If it's out of their budget, then they move on.

I base my price on the results my work can offer, which is in direct relation to the value it brings the buyer. It's all about the value of your offer for the buyer.

Content buyers need more traffic, wider exposure in target markets and more sales. Tell them you can deliver the results they need, provide verifiable facts that can substantiate your claims, and tag a price to your work in direct relation to the value that your work will give them.

As a freelancer, other objective things to use as base points for pricing include knowledge and expertise in relevant subject areas, problems and overheads in sourcing and hiring and training and providing balanced work-life environments to people with the same level of expertise in those relevant subject areas, current market rates for the time and expertise of those people and the overall viability of the buyer market's business and investment ventures. These things can be quite time consuming yet possible to gather in a presentation material, which you can use to base your prices on, but hey: It's your livelihood, so why cut corners? And:

At this point, I'm sure you noticed that your unique selling proposition, for your services, on top of the objective factors mentioned above, is comprised of:

=>> The results your offer can provide buyers in direct relation to the value they want. For instance:

=>> First Step <<=

I can offer the results that my target market wants in exchange for the prices I charge for my services. I can then show interested buyers verifiable facts that can substantiate my specialized knowledge and expertise in the tech niche. I can then show them measurable results I have given my other clients and the value those results have given them. If they walk away because of anything I mentioned, then they walk away. If they're interested, then they contact me, so on to the second step...

=>> Second Step <<=

Since they contacted me at this point, I show them samples and previous relevant work. Upon their request, I also give them a list of government offices and private institutions and credible people in relevant industries to call and verify these facts and the results that I have provided these organizations and people with my services. Also upon their request, I can give them a list of previous and current clients to call and verify that these businesses and people indeed received the results they wanted from my services. At this point, you show them your subcontract details and tell them to review the things in that subcontract, then get back to you for any changes or recommendations or suggestions or counter proposals, until you close the subcontract. However, how do you start this 2-step process?

The main thing here is a unique angle to your unique selling proposition (measurable results indirect relation to the value that your target markets want), especially if you're just starting out. That's your irresistible offer within an already enticing offer. An example of this is:

=>> Offering your services at an exclusive discounted price to companies without an affiliate program, in exchange for XX% commissions for each sale or lead generated by the content materials you'll develop for their sites and offsite publication networks, because you'll use your own resources to drive traffic to those content materials, so you can give them more leads and sales, equivalent to more commissions for you. You'll also benefit from the online and offline marketing campaigns that'll most likely be implemented by those companies, especially if they have newly launched products that can become wildly popular in their target markets...

For me, no more than a 5-word article to make it worthwhile.

It doesn't have to be a local business. Contact businesses all over the world by email to offer writing services. This works, and works a LOT better than scrambling for crumbs at the bidding sites, competing with everyone else.

It's only when you start marketing yourself that you get well paid in writing. Crawling through the content mills and bidding sites in the hope of finding a job with decent pay is not proper marketing, and usually it's barely survival at best.

John

You need to decide on your price and stick to it. Then search around to find the clients that will pay it. This is your business and your price-point.

Even on Elance there are authors that charge a higher price that get customers. It may seem like everyone is writing for a cheap price but there are some writers that earn a lot more. You can also find clients offline that pay a higher price.

Cathy

it seems that people recently kept searching for freelancer writing service since it's cheap. The key to success, however, is your writing ability. If you can not produce high quality and unique content, you'll be out of the game

$15 for what? Do you mean $15 per hour (or per article? what length?) for 40 hours per week?

Writers are normally paid by their output, not by the hour.

Is this online, freelance work or a full-time, salaried, employment position? Or do you just mean that it's what you've been earning, collectively, from your various different clients? Sorry, but I don't understand what you're asking ...

Yes, I think so - well done, and good luck with it.

Sorry, I don't know. (I never used any freelancing sites). You're starting off at about the same rate I did, though, I think: I got $25 for an article, when I first started, but they probably took me an average of 1.5 hours each). Others will answer, about Elance, I'm sure: I've seen plenty of people discussing it here.

This sounds just about right, especially for writers who don't have sufficient relevant credentials to substantiate their claims of being a "top quality writer" in a related niche. That's why I suggested above a results oriented offer such writers can pitch, i.e. XX% commissions for each sale and/or lead generated by their work for XX days/weeks/months, with their work paid at an exclusive discounted $XX per word rate.

No, I agree. But such verification isn't terribly difficult to offer: all you really need is a couple of decent testimonials on your site from people who are willing to be contacted by email or phone, by your prospective clients. And that's something clients will sometimes (albeit not always) do for you, if they've genuinely been happy with what you've written for them.

If you can't write well enough to convince someone to give you $100 per article, you are not capable of writing a $100 article.

I honestly did three articles for free to get the proof. I chose my target very well. You also need to remember I had been writing my own content for a few years before I ever attempted to write for anyone else.

I started noticing my overall conversions were getting better and better and decided to start honing the technique. I already had a lot of content going to my own stuff so I decided to see if I could do it in other niches without having to invest a lot of time in the niches until I saw results.

The three different owners in those niches were already at the top of their game. I contacted and offered to write for them for free if they would let me either track my own link code or access their own results and use those results in my own sales page.