Are copywriters on Fiverr and Elance worth paying for?
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That's usually how MOST business/services/products work. The motto is "You get what you pay for." If you go with cheap labor, you get cheap work. If you go with higher paying labor you get higher quality work - online and offline.
Well, a ton of people sell decent services on fiverr. The thing is, that there is geo arbitrage at play. A logo designer from indonesia might be able to live on a couple of 5$ gigs - someone living in NY or London can't. Most copywriters who are native speakers don't reside in places with low cost of living, so finding someone good on fiverr might be hard. Elance is a different story because it is a) more custom and b) The price can be a million dollars per copy (theoretically).
I would not recommend saving on content meant to convert. Even Searchengine Traffic isn't free.
I would not recommend saving on content meant to convert. Even Searchengine Traffic isn't free.
It gets kind of dicey when the customer doesn't know the difference between high and low quality. Then you get shitty service providers selling shitty services to people who run shitty businesses and wonder why they're not making any money. If you're confident you can tell the difference between good and bad, give it a whirl...
True, and the same with nearly everything.
In particular, message board advice... I often tell people that they are on their way when they figure out how to tell the difference between people know what they are doing, and people who don't.
SEO, for instance - there's no shortage of people out there giving 2010 advice, and selling 2010 products. There's probably no shortage of people following that advice to nowhere. I can deal with 50 posts of that for 1 post of solid 2014 advice.
When customers can't tell the difference in quality, they'll base their decisions on price, often to their own peril. It's dangerous to use price as a quality indicator for some of the same reasons, but people do it anyway.
"If you only pay peanuts, you'll end up hiring monkey." -Hannibal Smith, the A-Team
I've often made the mistake of loading up my sites with mediocre content. Now that i'm giving up on google, this becomes more and more appearant. I'm looking at my sites thinking "hmm...none of these articles will attract links, get shared or even go viral even if i throw tons of traffic at it!"
I have learned that there is VERY HIGH QUALITY SPIDER FOOD - and then there is content that just works. Funny enough that's often the stuff i write myself, which takes me many, many hours to create. Content creation seems very costly to scale.
I have learned that there is VERY HIGH QUALITY SPIDER FOOD - and then there is content that just works. Funny enough that's often the stuff i write myself, which takes me many, many hours to create. Content creation seems very costly to scale.
You got me questioning my own content on my site now. Although it's hard for me to fathom - you are completely right.
Good! To motivate you even further, here are my stats for one of my sites. 120K Words total, 1 year old with a couple of backlinks (comments, guestpost type links, a couple of directories, a couple of Web 2.0s nothing real shady)
Site has gained ONE natural backlink so far. USer metrics were always horrible:
Bounce Rate 85%
Stay on site: 55 seconds
Return Visitors 8%
After creating a relevant directory and filling it with not so great/mediocre content to get things started, metrics started getting even worse. Site on time fell to 42 seconds.
= nobody likes to read that site.
You don't want to know how much i wasted on that site and how little i've made. All i know is, that this probably could have been prevented with a foundation of EXCELLENT content. I started posting more interesting stuff, less mediocre reviews for instance...but too late.
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You are going to have to spend some time test people out. Find one that has a good reputation and not a lot of negative comments, make a single purchase, and gauge it. You also have to keep an eye on it, I have found good quality providers in the past only to have quality become crap after a few months.
Most the people on fiverr doing volume have writers in india or some other country doing the actual work, and when they change over staff (which happens a lot) the quality can become crap.
But there are some gems to be found in Fiverr, you just have to spend some time looking and testing.
Most the people on fiverr doing volume have writers in india or some other country doing the actual work, and when they change over staff (which happens a lot) the quality can become crap.
But there are some gems to be found in Fiverr, you just have to spend some time looking and testing.