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Topic: How much to charge for blogs on website?
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| design823 | Posted – 11/15/2007 1:50:48 PM | show profile Hi Everyone, I have been asked to write 3-4 blogs per week for a company's website.I would be the only blogger and would be in charge of maintaining the blog as well. I have alot of experience in specific business that I will be writing aboutand some of the blogs may include interviewing designers which adds onto the cost of writing the blog... Any suggestions would be welcome!! |
| prdiva | Posted – 11/15/2007 1:56:53 PM | show profile I would probably charge a monthly retainer.... nt |
| design823 | Posted – 11/15/2007 2:24:54 PM | show profile How much of a monthly retainer? Based on my hourly rate and time needed? |
| paintplayer | Posted – 12/13/2007 3:22:00 AM | show profile blogs I charge $250 for 17 very short blogs a month. But that could be cheap. I wrote for another website which paid me $150 for one 800 word blog. The thing is, I'm super fast, so I can do my 17 blogs in about two hours, three tops. So I feel it's worth it. |
| Seafarer | Posted – 12/13/2007 3:23:58 PM | show profile | email poster You mean individual blog posts, right? The blog is the entire site/URL, the posts are the individual, dated entries. ------ My Web site Family Travel blog NHRA drag racing on Fast Machines |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 12/13/2007 3:46:23 PM | show profile For a corporate blog, I would never charge so little. The only reason to do stuff like this is for the money, so if the company does not see the blog as an important marketing endeavor that is worth paying for, I wouldn't consider it worth the time to do. The speed at which you work is, to me, an irrelevant issue. Why should you make less per hour because you are able to do in one hour what someone else takes three hours to do. Too often, writers don't value the expertise they've developed that allow them to work quickly. The fact that you can do good work quickly often means, to me, that you should charge more, not less, because it demonstrates subject expertise. It's hard to make a specific quote without knowing more details and the actual amount that is necessary, In my experience, a good starting point is to think hard about what a fair price is and then ask for two or three times that amount. If you are not slightly nervous that you are asking way too much in corporate writing, there's a good chance that you are dramatically underpricing yourself. For instance, I recently did a press release for a client that most people here would say I should have charged $400 or $500 for because it only took me a couple of hours. I asked for $2000 and they said yes without a moment's hesitation. Ask for more than you are. Some clients will turn you down -- and that's a good thing. If you are not losing some work because your prices are too high, you are working for too little. --blogs I charge $250 for 17 very short blogs a month. But that could be cheap. I wrote for another website which paid me $150 for one 800 word blog. The thing is, I'm super fast, so I can do my 17 blogs in about two hours, three tops. So I feel it's worth it.-- |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 12/13/2007 3:50:38 PM | show profile One last thing: I know writers often here about some writers making $100K, $200K or $300K and are amazed they make so much and wonder how they do it. The fact is many of those writers are no better or more talented than other writers who are making peanuts; they just ask for more and don't waste their time at the low end of the market, squabbling over an extra nickle or two per word. Most writers could easily make $100K a year, but they never will because they don't believe they can and they don't believe anyone thinks they are worth so much. |
| astrahook | Posted – 12/13/2007 4:03:13 PM | show profile anyone familiar with this site? http://www.associatedcontent.com |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 12/13/2007 6:35:20 PM | show profile --anyone familiar with this site? http://www.associatedcontent.com-- It's an organization that accepts articles, which can be viewed on its site and then offered for sale to publications. Typically, the contributors of articles at most only make 3 or 4 dollars for an article. |
| Canadiana | Posted – 12/13/2007 8:05:28 PM | show profile You're my hero, Dribbledrive1. |
| questoo1 | Posted – 12/13/2007 9:29:07 PM | show profile appears as though you get paid per page view...looks like it provides the editorial engine for google's adsense. If you are on a site that has huge traffic in theory you could make some cash **according to their site. |
