Up Your Price People, Stop Giving Away Your Articles

It seems that every time we turn around more people are finding ways to steal from us as writers. Have you noticed the low paying jobs being advertised? One dollar for 400 word articles, two dollars to rewrite 800 word articles, this is ridiculous. Are we going to keep this type of pay scale and just accept it? No, we need to make a living at what we do, or we will never be able to survive.

Eventually, the people who offer these ridiculous prices are going to get what they paid for, junk content with no relevant information. Writers, if you want to write for the Internet, you have to start marketing yourself as a professional. Professionals do no write for such asinine pay rates. If everyone refuses to write for those low pay rates, everyone will benefit. People wanting content both online and offline will have to pay for good content. Eventually, the Internet will be filed with false information, because if you pay such low prices, people are not going to do the correct research. High paying clients require offline research as well. This is done at a library or another research facility.

If people continue to write for a dollar an article or for cheap prices just to get the job, then when do you have time to live your life? You will be writing 24/7 just to make a living and that is not what working for yourself is all about. I will on occasion write for $1 a hundred words, but find these types of jobs as fill in work when I am slow. I will not ever undermine myself or my writings by working as a cheap writer.