$300 to $700 per 1K word writers? Oops! Why that's the case?!!!

By your tone, I'm assuming that you think the fees quoted are on the high side. But for a well-researched and authoritative piece by a professional writer, those prices are in the sort of ball park I'd expect.

You could certainly find cheaper writers - there are several places such as Freelancer and Upwork you could try, but only you know what kind of quality you're willing to pay for and the sort of audience you want to serve. But I'd have thought that parenting and child care are topics requiring experience and a degree of competence above the run-of-the-mill article writer bunch.

Way too high in my view.

I would also try Fiverr.com.

Lower rates and possibly higher quality writers there.

I find this a bit amusing... Reading the OP, the "English" seems VERY GOOD, if not native. So one has to wonder... in the exchange of Money for Time, and you obviously find that the exchange is not in your favor, why not write the articles yourself?

I am going to agree with Frank ( as I most often do ) that you get what you pay for. And if you do go the lessor route I want you to keep track of the time it takes to make editting corrections etc for each article, and then look back at the time vs money exchange, and think if it may have been in your advantage with both Time and Money to write the articles yourself.

The solutions depend on your goal.

'Writing' is a vague word.

If I sit at my computer and type a bunch of sentences, I am writing. Even if I am making all kinds of mistakes.

If I pay attention/fix the mistakes, either as I go or at the end, I am proofreading / editing.

If I pick a topic, think about a point I want to make, organize my thoughts, then write, I'm still "just" writing.

If I reaserch the topic (or spent years studying), then do the above, most people call that writing.

Point is, people charge based on the time involved and the skill(s) required and what they have gotten before for similar work.

You require more / higher skills, you pay for them.

A few years ago, I paid 18 and 25 and 10 for 300-word articles. Each suited my needs, so it was money well spent.

But the 10 dollar one was not an article, even though it had a title and paragraphs. The 25 dollar one was about as good as my 9th grade essays on topics I did not study was, where I was done in 150 words but the teacher put a 300-word minimum requirement.

PS Sometimes, I do not hire myself to write the articles I need: I'd be losing money.

Thank you very much for all replies...

After submitting this thread, a guy with zero posts PMed me and suggested to do the job for me for $200! LOL.

I can tell you taht you are right somehow. well I know that they charge me for their experience either, But the point is that I am not a rich guy to be able to pay such rates for my website, and we all know that a website requires 10s and 100s posts and articles to experience success.

We are not at say 2014-2015 when you could come up with thin 5-6 page websites and rank well.

The main point here is that I am not able to come up with such investments.
I am a poor IMer who experienced failure for several times (I'll start a thread soon and speak of what happened to me after big investments which made me poorer not richer!)


No mate, my experience does not necessarily confirm that.


Thank you buddy for the encouragement.
Honestly I think my English is really broken and odd.
I have learnt it through online reading of English texts and papers in different fields (Mainly science and engineering related papers).
I myself don't believe that my English is powerful like you say. But one point is that not me, but just a native English speaker can judge my English language.

Not familiar with your site..

and don't know how many readers you have. But, I would suggest you not overlook the benefits of having some of your loyal readers offer content for your site.

There may be some good ideas among the readers. It would increase loyalty and also may save you a couple of bucks?

Just a thought...

It's too much to pay if you are looking for a run-of-the-mill piece that will satisfy a curious reader doing a search for your topic. Buy run-of-the-mill I'm referring to a general piece that covers a particular subject, but not necessarily in great depth.

Do you have a particular topic in mind? How deep to you want to go with it? In any case, you can find some decent freelancers at IWriter. You post your topic with instructions and the stable of freelancers will decide if it's something they would want to take up. Rates are very reasonable.

Rates you were quoted were not just for actual writing, but for the entire package. Let me explain -- a client hires you to write an email. You tell him it's $300. He says it's OK. Sends you the money. We both agree it's a test project to see if we can work together. So I crank out an amazing email. Client says you're too aggressive, tells you to "tone it down a bit". You tell the client, this is direct response copy and it should be aggressive. The client says his list is "family oriented". You know that the client knows jack shit about generating sales. In the end, you part ways. And $300 made it worth while for you.
Another example -- client hires you to write a long form copy. You do a ton of research, find a hook, crank it out. Client takes a look at your draft and goes line by line making you take out every word the client thinks is too aggressive. The result is the copy that is so shitty, it's not going to generate a single sale even though a client has a ton of traffic, most of which is generated by throwing millions of cache they get from second round of funding. If that wasn't bad enough, the client launches your sales letter as a blog article - in a wall of text. You part ways and promise yourself to never ever write for clients again. Ever. You move on to launching your own offers and the rest is history.
The point of all of this is -- good direct response writing has a ton of value. But requires a lot of research to come up with a big idea. It can take a lot of preparation. You have to get to know your prospect, the market, what they want etc.$300 - $700 for 1000 words is actually pretty normal when you take into account how much agonizing work it takes to rewrite the copy 7 times.

I am not sure why their rates are so high, nor do I know why
people here are bashing Fiverr freelancers.

Their rates might be high because most everyone's farming
this type of work out to others, so you need to be aware.

I have used Fiverr 200+ times for various projects including
content creation and I have been satisfied 97% of the time.

Whenever I have had a problem, I have been refunded by
Fiverr staff, so I have never been burned.

The only thing I would warn you about is that lots of people
fake their locations and state that they are in the U.S./U.K.
when they are actually in some other exotic location like
Timbuktu.

That's been my biggest problem when hiring writers since
I require my content to be written in American English, not
some other weird version. So you should be thorough when
choosing your writers.

I usually buy my content in packages of ten articles or blog
posts of 250 words each.

You can post your job for bids or contact the writers directly.
It saves time to post your job at first, that way you can see
people's profiles and prices and make your decision on
who you prefer the best.

Either way, you can ask them questions before you commit.

You can also have a look at Content Wish. The price is the same as Fivver and the quality is good.

The powah of words is inversely proportional to what 99% of people are prepared to pay for 'em.

Deal is: less'n you can write 'em out all by your lonesum, does your business deserve el cheapo or mebbe what it actschwlly needs?

Sadly, too many demanders of magic unequipped with the necessary wand appear equally clueless.

This is why it is necessary to set clear an' viable RATES.

1k words has massivo pullin' powah, actschwlly.

An' you cannot expect to yank if'n you ain't dishin' out the spank.

Wizard12, this is the key point. You've mentioned that you want more articles and blog posts in order to rank higher, but you haven't said how you're monetizing the content. Are you promoting affiliate products? Are you going after advertisers or sponsors?

What actions (if any) do you want your site visitors to take?

I think that's sensible if you're not confident in your ability to discern the quality of the writing. The other option is to write the articles yourself - you know best what you want to say - then hire a professional to edit and proofread them.

But again, it all comes down to your intentions for the site. If your plan is to build long-term authority, you could do worse that take Max5ty's suggestion and enlist your visitors to contribute content and get some discussions going that way.

Just adding more and more bog-standard articles - each probably saying the same things in different words - isn't going to help you stand out from the bunch, or enhance the user experience of the site.

Tried Freelancer.com?

Health is a sensitive niche => prices are higher.

However, for 300 it should be Mark Twain, for 700 - a google insider.

If your business benefits in the long haul, it could be a sound investment.

I pen all of the literature for myself and have saved $$$ to the tune of thousands and thousands.

Professional writers charge more now people use more software for copy writing or content writing that's why a pro writer charge more

If you target 2nd world or 3rd world countries you will get a lot of people who charge far less then that, you can try to find some experienced and cheap resource.

Hi wizard12

what precisely do you want these articles to achieve?

I mean specific outcomes?

What does success mean to you in terms of ROI?

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It is really crazy, You can search for content writing agency they usually charge 1.5 to 2.5 Rupees per word for quality content with pluralism report.