...are online writers have the same turnover rate
By jeanneyvonne
@jeanneyvonne (5500)
Philippines
December 4, 2012 12:46am CST
as call center agents. I think it is quite bitter and sad that me and my cousin are not gonna handle jobs for the next few days or probably until the next year. He's a call center agent and he just fished with his 6month probation. we get into a little chat and we kinda realize a few similarities in our situations. I kinda realizes that in some cases, writers are simply not rehired or let go after a single projects. Some clients do keep their writers but it's still a stiff competition. ironically,my cousin wants to explore online earnings and sees me a good example of that.
It's hard working for client after client since you need to establish trust and communication together.
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@chrystalia (1208)
• Tucson, Arizona
4 Dec 12
I have a low turnover rate with my private writing clients, because I always give them more than they expect. If you write on the good sites online, like iwriter, constant content, textbroker, and keep your ratings up, you can do fairly well without having more than a few regular clients. It's all about marketing in getting and keeping private clients, and all about high ratings on the websites like those listed that have open assignment options. I'm never short of work, for sure. If you have an excellent command of the English language, good research skills, and can work steadily, there's always something to do.
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@LetranKnight25 (33117)
• Philippines
4 Dec 12
It's not easy even though some of us have great command of english language. but creativity can still be the key to it. I have been in mylot for a while but never had the chance to go to the next level because my articles are kept rejected for some reason.
the reason is that am not that good enough in making good article
the reason is that am not that good enough in making good article@jeanneyvonne (5500)
• Philippines
5 Dec 12
Chyrstalia, i tihnk we are in the same boat. I also try to meet my client's expectations. And sometime,sI give more to make them happy. But I fell that i sometimes give too much and there's no gurantee that they will rehire me for future projects. Thanks for your advice I am trying to venture to teh word of pay per view and I'm gonna need an adjustment period.
Knight,I didn't know that you also tried to publish articles. I think that soemtiems it isn't fair being rejected when you g feel that you made your article better than other's .It's a subjective judgement but it's your work. which sites did you intended to publish for?
@jeanneyvonne (5500)
• Philippines
7 Dec 12
Do you have experience iwth pay per view sites? How do tehy ruin my reputation if I write for them?
@farid_lmu (70)
• Bangladesh
5 Dec 12
writing is like a passion and success depends on patience and creativity. Really hard to attract or reliable to any client at first, need lots of patience. After publishing or delivering some creative blogs or articles if you attract the clients then you don't need to think about further tasks. Continuous flow of tasks will come automatically after that and you can earn a lot if you like to do that
@shynepapin101 (1879)
• United Arab Emirates
7 Dec 12
In our lives, we must have times when it goes really bad, when things start to go from bad to worse and when acceptance turns opposite. So it never a perfect world concerning what happen to us or around us. In one time or the other we must have been rejected, so pick yourself up and stop being scared of rejections. It's your determination that will come through for you at the end, like it did those times in our past.
@jeanneyvonne (5500)
• Philippines
5 Dec 12
Yes.But it's always the first step which is the hardest to take. And sometimes,it's the beginning of rejection as well. .
@cutepenguin (6430)
• Canada
4 Dec 12
It can be hard to work freelance, but sometimes you can get repeat work from clients and word of mouth business from clients' acquaintances. I found after awhile that billing got to be a nuisance, so I went back to my off-line work.
@jeanneyvonne (5500)
• Philippines
5 Dec 12
Work is great for the client. Some of mine have great demands when ti comes to output but becomes too busy when I'm sending an invoice. Anyway, I hope I could be lucky in finding offline work. It's not always good being in front of the computer for hours.
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
4 Dec 12
Hi Jeanneyvonne, if you are working for others in real life, the worst possible thing for you is to work for others online.
In this case, you will have to please two bosses, and that means pleasing others more than ten hours in your day.
I prefer to write for article sites and not ghostwrite for people.
I have been blogging for years, and still like to publish in my blog.
At least there is no boss to tell me to change this or that.
@shynepapin101 (1879)
• United Arab Emirates
7 Dec 12
One thing I know for sure about the boss angle is you are always expected to achieve the best positive results, which is infinite. You will never know what kind of result your boss will be pleased with. Even these bosses never seem to have a perfect definition of what positive result they want.
@jeanneyvonne (5500)
• Philippines
5 Dec 12
I am feeling the side effects of working online, although i still have a fondness for it.
I am new to wring for article sites and I really need some adjustments, do you have any tips or advice?
I have to agree with on the boss angle. God knows they are so hard to understand and work for.
@LetranKnight25 (33117)
• Philippines
4 Dec 12
Hello jeanneyvonne, there is no permanent when it comes to online opportunities. unless the person is a good writer for ever topic he gets assigned to. the only problem with call center is that pressure is there and it gives different kind of feeling having getting calls from customers. make sure that he understand the pros and cons of being an online earner
@jeanneyvonne (5500)
• Philippines
5 Dec 12
I think that the loss of our recent source of income is kinda made us bond together. we swap stories and notes. Now, he's feeling that he wanted to venture to another world. I'm hardly an expert but I am sure I could give some pointers Online opportunities are great, especially with no scammers in the midst.
@belindayhughes (1096)
• United States
4 Dec 12
I don't have that problem with online content writing. There's usually plenty of work and easy weekly pay via Paypal. I just wish it felt as fun as creative writing and paid as well as features. Best wishes! :-)
@jeanneyvonne (5500)
• Philippines
5 Dec 12
Well,I'm a newbie at this one so I am trying figure some things out. I haven't looked on to sites properly and I have to do the articles also.
