I have 5000+ pre-written articles (undergrad/grad level). Start a site selling pre-written content?
I know someone with 5000+ Pre-written "essays" (essays actually means research papers, mid term papers, dissertations, thesis papers ect) that has been compiled over a 12-15 year period. These articles are already 75% catalogued with data such as title, # of pages, words, description, keywords, and # of sources. All the work is original, non plagiarized, and perfectly cited depending on the specified citation format. He owns all of the content, although it was written for a paying customer at some point over the years. The content is of undergraduate and graduate level courses, and written well, averaging a B+ in total.
The content ranges in essays between 4-15+ pages, much of it written "to date" (ie avoiding the use of terms such as 'last week' in the sentence "last week George W. Bush was elected president". Either way the content can be rewritten by purchaser if desired.
My idea is to partner with said person and build a website that offers this content for sale. The website would harbor all the content and users would search for things that they need. This would be simple, easy to use and effective. The purchase would be made and the content would then be available for download immediately, in MS Word format.
I've researched the market quite a bit. While it seems that selling Writers for Hire (clients submit a needed paper and website assigns a freelancer basically) is the more common market, there are multiple other sites offering content that is pre-written at prices that very from 4-8 a page. At even the lower end of these prices, I feel that my writer could be sitting on a gold mine, but I have only dabbled in the online marketing world. Much of the content offered on these pre-written content sites is very poor quality. The writing is extremely bland and often includes no sources. Along with that, most of the sites had extremely bad. The sites have poor layout with way too much information on the landing page. I felt confused just trying to do market research on this topic so I can only imagine how a potential client could feel (the target market is fairly obvious here).
All that being said, and with as much of an unbiased opinion, I feel like this could be a great opportunity. Of course
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