Wanted: Quality Writers

How many times have you seen a desperate plea for "Quality Writers" on Freelancing Sites? I tend to ignore those ads because posting about your need for quality writers while having terrible grammar yourself is a true sign that the service buyer (or the person willing to pay for articles) is a subcontractor. Yes, there are subcontractors who subcontract their work.

It has a really simple business model.

1. Find someone who needs articles on their website
2. Find someone who writes articles
3. Pretend you wrote the articles.
4. Skim off the top to get profits while abusing a Filipino, Indian or Pakistani writer.

Thousands have been made using this terribly stupid and redundant business model. Oftentimes, these subcontractors have little to no writing skills in the first place. They're just lazy bums willing to make a quick buck out of some poor hapless freelance writer.

To top that, they even demand so much and purport to check your grammar and writing style and ultimately pay less than what they asked for.

So, if you are a business owner (a real business), and you want to promote your site via articles on the net, you might as well hire someone who you know to be capable. Always ask contractors or writers whether they will write the articles themselves.

Get to know them personally. Good signs of a credible and reliable writer are:

1. They have their own blog.
2. They converse pretty well in your correspondence with them
3. They demand more money
4. And of course, they can deliver.


The Writer's Part

If you're an aspiring freelance writer, here are the ways by which you can determine whether the person that you are working for is another subcontractor:

1. They pay so little. (Little=Less than $3 per 500 words. If you're getting less than this, you are being screwed.)
2. They have terrible grammar.
3. They fail to make a connection and they act like wheelers and dealers.

Making it in the world of freelance is three times as tough as having a regular job. You have to look for work everyday, you have to meet crazy deadlines and most of all, you have to deal with dipshit and untalented third parties who are just there to make a quick buck out of both writers and service buyers.