by Amanda on August 20, 2008
As many of you know I took a break from my writing over the past year to raise my youngest child. He has now turned 2 and I am happy to say that I can now begin writing again.
This week I began my search for work and I am happy to say that Elance even though they have made some huge changes are still coming out on top. I placed a bid for two jobs and have already been approved one and at the rates I choose.
I also looked through some of the postings on Get A Freelancer but I have to say I hate this website. The bids are just ridulous and so are the offers. There are projects posted where the clients are looking for people to write 500 word articles for $1 each. What is it coming to when you are asked to work for nothing. I have decided to avoid this website in future although I still receive emails daily about new projects. The amount of projects that are being posted on this website is amazing and there is so much work, it’s just a pity that the bids are so low. If writers refused to accept anything less than $2 per 100 words it would make things so much easier and the quality of jobs would be so much better too.
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by Amanda on August 19, 2008
Well it’s Tuesday morning and first off I have discovered another freelance writing scam. Below is an excerpt from the sales page which I think you should probably read first before I explain why I think this is a scam.
“As soon as you log-in to our exclusive, members-only area, you will get to choose from 1,000′s of article / writing job offers, neatly organized by the type of writing each company desires…
That’s 1000′s of companies ready and willing…right now…to pay you amazing well for the specific content writing tasks that they urgently need done for them.
And with dozens of new writing jobs being added each day, you will never run out of great, high-paying content jobs to sign up for, which means there’s…
No looking for jobs. Never a shortage of jobs.
It’s a never-ending supply of high-paying, simple and easy writing jobs to YOU…
As you can see, this website seems to be offering a jobs database so you don’t have to spend a large amount of time each day searching for freelance writing jobs. This is what caught my attention and there was no mention of bidding for jobs either which is an additional bonus.
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