Are There Many Clients Who Pay $50/Article?

This days you can easily find good writers for less than 10 bucks.
So I think if would be very hard to get someone paying you $50/article.

Depends on the site that you are selling them on as well. I know associates content used to pay really high for good quality content and some other websites paid around that $50 mark per quality article written so it is possible.

I have paid $80 for an artilce back in 2008. I was laughed at and ridiculed by my friend. But little did he realise that years later and in the height of article marketing spamming, that same article bought in much business, thousands of subscribers, and many sales. If you want to know a little secret I would have paid $300 - $400 for that same article, even at that price it still would have been a bargain.

Things are changing and shifting now in the article landscape.

You hit it right on the mark.
And they have long waiting lists.

That's right. It takes a lot of work and not really the $50/article client, right? But this guy makes it seem like it is VERY easy. I know when people just want people to buy their info-products. This is the kind of trait that they exibit. My question is, why not show people the screen shots?

What do you mean exactly and can you explain? I am not so clear about your comment on the bolded part. I agree with you on the manipulation of screenshots.

He might be referring to the first article on the website in your signature box.

Maybe...

Are you saying that for a married man, or for a woman, it's easier, then? Or more difficult?

That would definitely hold true if you were getting the same $5 quality and paying $50 for it.

Suppose, however - and of course this is just pure fantasy - that $50 could buy you an article that would give you a financial return of say, $500 over time.

Would that be worth more than 10 $5 articles that would give you a financial return of maybe $50 at best?

But hey... as everyone keeps saying, why would anyone in their right mind pay $50 for an article when they can get one for $5!

John.

Ok, if you say so. But in that case ...

Let's have a think about all the regularly returning clients of all the article-writers here who are writing for $100+ per article. (There are many!). Now, what is it, with those clients, do you think? :confused:

Are they all people who just don't know that you can buy an article for $5?

Are they all losing money, hand over fist, again and again, and still buying more of those articles that cost at least 20 times the price they could buy them for?

Or is it just possible that they may know something you don't?

Puzzling, isn't it? ...

Too high?

Personally, I know ghostwriters that charge $95, $200 per article.

Yes, you can get articles for $5, but it's crap.

yes, prove to me that you can write an article that will bring in $1000 and I will pay you as much as you want. But then again, there are not many article writers out there that can do this, but it is possible.

Go and read some of the recent threads on article marketing. Lots of meat, potatoes and gravy info there. The article marketing game is changing. Do not get left behind, and whenever you see someone that says "I spin articles" slap the *bleep* out of them for me!! they spoiled it for us.

I find it insane that people are offering spinning services in here in the WF and around the web still, and people are still buying these services. Waist of money and time. Google wants and craves high quality content so give that to him. Or pay someone that can do that for you without some idiotic spinning software. Those days are over.

I would recommend using the Advanced Search function and using the forum name of the person whose posts you wish to read.

Alternatively, you could try using something like "article syndication" as a keyword. If you use "article marketing" as a keyword, you are likely to find a lot of drivel about article directory marketing, which is not at all the same thing.

I hope this helps.

John.

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... and a very, very thin ebook too. :rolleyes:

Wake up! Wake Up! You are sleeping right? Usually when you're dreaming, you are in a deep sleep. :p

$50 may get you a table of contents and the first full page maybe, from a talented writer that has experience. I can't even image a writer writing an e-book for that amount unless they're brand new to the writing arena and just plain don't know any better.

Terra

Here's the thing...

A lot of Internet marketers have a different definition of what an "article" is as compared to what people in business or publishing consider an article to be.

Internet marketers tend to view "articles" as nothing more than search engine fodder. Get tons of cheap content, throw it up on a site and hope the traffic comes. These people want cheap articles. These people can't see spending more than a couple bucks on an article.

If that's their thing, if that works for them, fine. But, that's also the sort of thing that readers and, consequently, search engines hope to weed out. There's nothing worse than searching for something online and finding a lot of crummy "articles" with less than useful information out there.

And so people ask for recommendations from friends to find better content. This is something the search engines keep trying to figure out. People can spot garbage. They can spot an article written in five minutes from some clown churning out dozens of articles at a buck a pop. Search engines use algorithms and they're not always as good at spotting garbage.

So, search engines are trying to figure out ways of working in social recommendations for content. But they will probably always be behind what a human reader can spot and recommend.

But, those kinds of "articles" work for some people because they buy so many that if they have enough content out there, regardless of quality, they might get some traffic and sales and it works for them.

If that's the case, fine. But those people are probably never going to spend $50 on an "article" because they see more value in quantity than quality. And if that's what they think works for them, fine. But, if those are the people you are trying to sell to, you're never going to get paid $50 for an article.

On the other hand, people in other industries are looking for quality content and they are looking for content that people will find interesting. They want content people will read. They want content that people can trust. They want content that will establish them as an authority. They want content to build their reputation. They want content that will project their professional image.

And, for them, $50 for an article is the low end. You can find ones paying $100, $250, even $500 or more for an article.

Those buyers are out there. You're just not highly likely to find them in Internet marketing circles.

I think this comes down a lot to whether if you are good at marketing yourself or not. If you can brand yourself in the right way, then you probably won't have to be a writer god in order to get paid a lot.

Would you recognize the inherent value of a $200 article if you saw one? No offense, but I honestly doubt it.

Articles that command high prices often don't look all that much different from one's costing $10. Sometimes it isn't so much the article that has changed, but the person selling the article. They have decided to ask for the price they want, and they have found buyers at that price point.

That's not to say that an article that sells for $200 is not worth that amount. Far from it. It's just that there is more going on than simply the difference between cheap articles and expensive articles. There are people involved, and the people who position themselves as well-paid article writers get well-paid work.

Are their articles really worth the high prices they get for them? Ask the buyers - the buyers who keep coming back for more, and who happily pay the high asking prices. If they felt the articles were not worth the money being asked, they'd stop buying them and all the well-paid writers would go out of business.

This isn't happening, though. :-)

John.

Article writing and copy writing are two completely different types of endeavors.

Article writing builds interest in a topic and credibility with the author, in the mind of the reader. And, if interest is high and credibility is strong, the article can generate a lot of clicks to the author's website and offers.

Copy writing is putting together a sales page that will close the deal.

Copy writing tends to be the far more expensive of the two specializations. While most folks think that article writers in the $50 to $500 range are expensive, that kind of money is not even enough money to open the Word document for an experienced and talented copy writer.

It is like John Coutts said. If you want more money as a writer, you simply need to have the confidence to ask people to pay you what you want to be paid.



HINT: Someone who is used to paying $5 an article will seldom if ever pay a writer more than $5 an article.

If you want more money as a writer, you have to sell your writing services to a different kind of audience -- the people who are most likely to pay you the kind of money that you wish to be paid for the job that you are doing for them.

I did freelance writing for a decade, and I was able to find customers at nearly every price point from $25 an article to $495 an article.

If my customers were able to generate more money from the article I wrote for them, than they spent to get the article written, they would always come back to purchase more articles from me.

It is Economics 101. No matter the price you pay for a product, if you can generate more money from the product than you spent to acquire the product, then you will have made a profit. If you are profiting from the purchase of a product, then you can keep going back to that well as long as you continue to profit from the products you are purchasing.

I frequently offered my writing services at three different price points on three different websites, and I found more customers than I could shake a stick at, at every price point.

On one website, I was selling the writing for $45 an article, and paying writers and editors to complete the work. With this website, I had 13 freelance writers and 2 editors on my payroll.

On another website, I was selling "my articles" for $95 a pop and getting more work than I wanted.

On the third website, I was selling articles at $395 per article, and I hired in 5 full-time writers from my local community to be sure that I could deliver the work purchased.

The bottom line is that you should pick the price you want to charge for your writing, then find the customers who are comfortable paying your asking price to have quality content written for them.

I'm not sure how you figure that out. I'm from Scotland and I regularly write for companies and individuals from all over the world.

One of my main clients is a company in Phoenix, Arizona. I've been writing for them for about 18 months, and they pay me up to $100 for 500 words, so don't ever believe that Americans don't trust non-Americans to write for them.

I have other clients in Canada, England, Australia and South Africa in the English-speaking countries, and from Sweden, Belarus, Slovenia and India, to name just a few, from the non-English speaking countries.

I live in Spain these days (Scotland is too cold), so my location most definitely does not hurt me in the slightest.

John.

I'll put this nicely: that's a load of tosh.

Communicate your worth effectively, and people won't care where you're from.

I only relatively recently began freelance writing, but I've made $30 per article, and I'm from a country whose name you wouldn't even recognise.

The only importance of having a native English speaking writer is their proficiency and ability with the language.

If you can write well, then it won't matter whether you're a native English speaker or not.

Great case in point for both of these issues is Bamidele of Writers in Charge (formerly Young Pre Pro)

There are plenty of orders at every price point to "go around". I write a bunch of articles every single month at the $100 price point. I also write at higher price points and lower ones too. I have all the work I need with plenty to go around for anyone else who wants it.

John.

Precisely! It's all about effectively marketing yourself. Checking out the jobs pages, the content mills, and maybe the occasional Craigslist ad, is NOT marketing.