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Topic: FEES & RATES: what to charge for...
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| bridget4 | Posted – 2/23/2008 5:51:05 PM | show profile | email poster What do most of you charge and please don?t be discreet. I am in need of hard black and white numbers: what do you charge if you are asked to submit an idea/article to a company?s blog? They liked some of the ideas I pitched to them and now want me to be a contributing writer for their blog. Do you still share $1.00 a word, or .50 a word, or charge per piece blogged? $300.00 a piece per project/blog entry, or if they use three of my submissions a month, instead of charging them 300.00 each 3 totaling :900.00 do I cut them a break and charge $ 800.00 a month? I am new to this, please help. |
| haylimorrison | Posted – 3/10/2008 9:01:05 AM | show profile | email poster Blogging ain't great If you're doing blog posts, don't count on that kind of pay. Companies won't pay it because they don't have to; they can and will find somebody else to do it for a lot less. It's just the industry standard that's been set. For some reason, if your article appears in print it's worth more, but on a blog it's worth a fraction of the value. Crazy, I know, but it partially explains why so many companies are heading toward blogland. And it also explains why I'm about to quit one of my blogging gigs.:) |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 3/10/2008 1:26:53 PM | show profile It really depends on a lot of factors. Does the blog entry take 15 minutes to write or 3 hours? Are you providing specialized information that other writers can't (in which case the fact that you can do in 15 minutes what takes others three hours is irrelevant)? How long are the blog entries? What kind of company -- Microsoft might pay more than a small local firm (but then they might not). I don't have one set fee for anything. I use a rough starting point of $1 to $2 a word and they adjust depending on all the factors. |
