Every now and again, people come to my site and complain about
the high price of ghostwriting. Then they run off to Elance
to hire a writer for $5, $10 or $15 an article.
Sometimes they try to stand me down and push my prices down
to that of another ghost writer. I don't play along. My ghostwriting
prices are as low as they are going to go.
I understand that a business person must try to keep their
costs down, but there is another side to this.
Writers are skilled professionals. Other skilled professionals
such as plumbers, electricians, etc. are paid a minimum of
$55 an hour for their time. They charge $55 just to knock
on your front door, then they charge $55 an hour after the
first hour.
You pay it because you have to get the work done... Either
that or you have to do it yourself.
A well-written article can take anywhere from one hour to
two hours to write. Depending on the topic and the necessity
for research on the topic, a well-written article on some
topics will require 3-4 hours to research and write.
Good writers know their worth. I know of a professional copywriter
who writes only sales materials. He knows his worth and he
charges accordingly. Through him, a five-page sales letter
will cost a cool 10 grand. And, he is worth every penny he
charges for his services. His sales copy produces lots of
sales. http://www.instantwebprofitsmentoring.com
With the constant pressure to push our prices down, some
writers have decided to take the work that has been offered
to them. After all, they have bills to pay and families to
feed.
Now, they write articles for $5, $10 and $15 an article. But,
when they compromised their prices, they also made a compromise
with their integrity. They still believe that they should
be paid $100 or $150 for an article, so what they have done
is to take the jobs at a lower rate to get some income, then
they turn around and sell that same article to ten or twenty
people.
Their justification is simple. "The person who bought
this from me screwed me, so I will screw him back."
Once the first person has pushed the writer to compromise
his or her integrity, there is no going back. It is all about
the money now. The writer is going to make his or her money
one way or another. And the market has forced them to do it
in a way that they may not like to do.
It is a mindset. If you pay a writer what he or she thinks
they are worth, then they will not feel inclined to screw
you over.
If you treat them right, they will treat you right.
All of us are skilled at something. Do you bring your best
skill to the table and then accept being paid peanuts for
your skill?
Yeah. And you expect others to behave differently?
Instead of telling your writer what you are willing to pay,
ask your writer how much they need from you in order to guarantee
that they will not sell your material to anyone else. Then
pay your writer what he or she asks from you.
To do otherwise is inviting trouble.
EzineArticles and Isnare are not the only article directories
putting the brakes on duplicate content, offered by several "writers".
Directory managers everywhere are putting the brakes on this
practice.
What it is coming to is if you do not pay the fee required
to Guarantee exclusive content, then you are flushing your
dollar bills down the toilet. People are going to know that
you are using non-exclusive articles and they will penalize
you for doing so.
Here you are, you are trying to pass off content as materials
that you wrote youself, and everyone knows that you did not.
If you wrote it yourself, how come others are saying they
wrote the same content themselves? You couldn't both have
written it!
thePhantomWriters guarantees that they will not sell your
articles to anyone else. Allwomencentral.com does the same.
We still have our integrity, and we do not discount our prices
to match other ghost writers. We know our worth, and you should
too.
Bill Platt is the owner of http://thePhantomWriters.com
Bill specializes in the distribution of reprint articles for
the promotion of his client's business websites. Articles
distributed by Bill reach tens of thousands of publishers
and webmasters. While most of his clients write their own
articles, some of them engage Bill and his ghost writers to create Exclusive Content
for their own promotional use. All ghost-written articles
purchased from thePhantomWriters.com are guaranteed to be
sold only to the client who has purchased it. In business
since 2001
