Writer Wrangler

By Lil’ Herbert Fuchida

I’m sure someone out there in Writerland is doing a wonderful job of finding good jobs on Craigslist. If you’re that person, you’re the exception to the rule.

Overall, Craigslist has become one of the worst possible places to go gig hunting. Somewhere along the way, the soulless scammers and thieves and the self-righteous elitists of the online content world all decided to make a stand on the free classified site.

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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.

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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.  

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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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Li’l Herbert Fuchida

 

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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.

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