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 Another Writer Wrangler Review By Zoe Day

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Another Writer Wrangler Writer’s Review
By Zoe Day

Being a writer for online or offline content is the passion of many people who have the skills, experience, and desire to write. Finding the best opportunities possible should be foremost on a writer’s mind. An independent journalist and freelance writer achieving recognition and fame through the creation of hundreds and thousands of credible, high quality, reputable articles, eBooks, and other content is a dream come true for most.

But getting that experience may just time some time, ingenuity, and creativity. WriterWrangler offers lots of opportunities for freelance writers and authors to create unique, high quality content. There are other sources of writing opportunities that can help you expand your reach and improve your writing skills in the process.

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By Lil’ Herbert Fuchida

If you know me, you know I’m on a one man mission to blow up all of those nasty freelance writing scams.  Every once in awhile, I spend a little time here detailing the latest and/or not-so-greatest techniques being used to rip off writers.  In the spirit of “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”, I thought we could talk a little bit about fine-tuning your freelance writing scam sensors.

Those baddies are always cooking up new ways to use and abuse writers.  If you want to advance through the online freelance writing world without getting ripped off, you simply must develop the ability to see a scam coming.

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By Lil’ Herbert Fuchida

Every once in awhile I contribute a post here exposing the latest and not-so-greatest scams perpetrated upon my brethren in the contet writing community.  

Whether it be the slimy Craigslist people who are making a living off of free samples or the wannabes with empty pockets promising “higher rates in the future”, I detest all of those creepy scam monkeys and love ratting them out.

However, the job of a scam hunter is complicated when his own compadres litter the search engines with specious claims of being scammed.

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Kill the Custom Sample Scam Zombie

By Writer Wrangler Writer
 Li’l Herbert Fuchida

Never, ever give a client a custom “sample”. Period.

Scams are like zombies. No matter how much you beat them up, no matter how many limbs you sever, no matter how many times you empty a revolver into their chest cavity… They just keep on going! If you want to transform the undead back into the regular dead, you gotta take off their heads.

And that’s what I’m going to try to do today. I want to take a long-running scam that chews up writers like a zombie chews up brains and rip its head off. In that spirit, let me repeat the first line of this post:

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By Writer Wrangler Writer

Li’l Herbert Fuchida

So, you thought that setting up shop on one of the freelance job boards was going to protect you from lowlife scammers?  Think again, my writing friends.

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Another Writer Wrangler Investigative Report By Li’l Herbert Fuchida

Those wonderful people from the Internet marketing world hire web-based freelance writers to do a lot of work. Many of us couldn’t make ends meet if it wasn’t for the “IM” crowd.

Yeah, we complain. They try to low-ball us. They expect too much and they want it too fast. Etc. We gripe, but we need them just like they need us. And we can’t really get too hacked off about the rates we’re offered, right? After all, it’s just business. They can’t pay top dollar unless the material is producing a profit for them.

That’s the story we tell ourselves about those rates, anyway. We’d like to believe that all of the people we meet out in IM land are “good guys” and that they’d pay us more if they could afford it. Maybe, we hope, they’ll hit it big and the money will follow on the next job.

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by Li’l Herbert Fuchida

Once upon a time I read about this little rip-off strategy somewhere, but I can’t for the life of me remember where.  I didn’t think about it again until I recently spotted an ad looking for writers.  The ad itself sounded okay but the underlying dishonesty renders it completely indecent.

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Not my top pick of bidding sites that’s for sure.  Low prices, tons of emails, and lots a junk to wade through.  However with over 500,000 service providers, they must be doing something right!

While they are flooded with projects and there is never a lack of work to sort though, it can take all day and if you are very lucky you might find a project that pays half way decent wages. According to their statistics, there are about 300 projects posted everyday, so you are bound to find something that suits you!

If you sign up for their email notifications your inbox will certainly be flooded several times a day, which is sometimes annoying even to those desperately seeking work.  It’s even more annoying when you have to sort though 5 emails with 20 or more projects in each one and the pay is $1.00 -$2.00 per article.  We aren’t talking 100 words here people.

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Often as writers we end up with a batch of articles that we’ve had printed, the buyer only wanted specific rights, and we’re left with them taking up space on the hard-drive.  There are magazines that take reprints if you want to explore that option, but check out Constant Content first.   This site has been around a few years, and unlike many others, it has actually decreased the amount of commission it takes from the writers.  There’s no fee involved to the writers for using the site, but if you sell anything CC takes 35% of your sales price.  This seems a lot, but you have to weigh that up against the fact the articles are already wrote and are currently not earning anything!   The negative side of the side isn’t the commission you have to pay, but the time it can take to get the articles loaded up.  At one time there was only the owner who received the articles, approved them, and it took about a day before you could see your stuff live at the site.  The site’s grown however, and now they have a team of editors who ensure that work meets a certain standard before it is approved for the site.  Overall this is a good thing because it means the site gets a reputation for providing quality work, which sets it apart from the sites that allow anything to be published, but it can frustrating for the authors who must wait to see if their article will be accepted or not.  Another downside is that they have a $50 threshold so you don’t get your payment until you have that much in your account (although they will sometimes release on request if you ask). 

The positive aspects of are the site are many and include:  Read the rest of this entry →