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May 12, 2005 No Comments »
Many a time I come across clients who don’t want to pay for my services but share the profits afterwards when the website begins to do business. From a content writer’s perspective, it doesn’t make sense to me because I’m not here to invest (time invested is money invested) in various business ventures. I already have a business — providing content writing services to clients who really understand what a world of a difference good content can make. I like working for clients who deem content as a fundamentally important component of their overall online business strategy, and hence, are ready to pay for it as a legitimate business expense.
There are two sorts of people who ask for a work-now-get-paid-later arrangement: entrepreneurs who have a genuine idea but lack funds to implement it, and people who are not serious about their work and only doing it because they can do it without spending money and time on it. I appreciate the efforts of the genuine entrepreneurs and sooner or later they’re going to succeed — no bias, my priorities simply lie somewhere else. In order to keep working, in order to sustain myself, I need to earn a daily, weekly and monthly basis. I don’t want to wait for a vacuous payment that might originate 4 months down the pipeline.
If I do work for someone, I cannot start it unless I get an advance. Some people like it, some don’t. Good thing is, 90 out of 100 like to pay an up front amount. Fair enough :-).
Just found out
May 09, 2005 No Comments »
If you go to Six Apart Partners - Current Hosting Partners and from there you go to Movable Type Blog Hosting and from there to Photo Blog Hosting you’ll arrive at a page that I’ve written content for. Ok, ok, I could have straightaway mentioned the last link but I wanted you to know that they are associated with Six Apart, the makers of MovableType. Actually they had asked me to write for them, and I had sent them the content as the first draft. After that I never heard from them. I thought they never used my copy :-).
…and there it is!
May 05, 2005 No Comments »
As I had mentioned in my previous post, I’m trying to get one of my pages into Google, as an exercise. Although my website — http:www.amrithallan.com ranks well for many relevant key phrases, there are many keywords and key phrases that are not performing. Today when I checked in Google, my website appears on the first page for Online Copywriter :-). It may disappear by the time you read this, but at this moment, it is there. Sadly, the same result is not reciprocating at Yahoo! and MSN. I’ll keep a watch.
Now I’m going to concentrate on some more keywords and key phrases.
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