Writer Wrangler

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The Content Writer Who Cried Wolf

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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February 16th, 2009 in Investigative reports |

Kill the Custom Sample Scam Zombie

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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January 9th, 2009 in Investigative reports |

“If this one is good, I’ll pay you more for the next one.” Yeah, right.

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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October 27th, 2008 in Investigative reports |