This article was inspired by a rant at the Warrior Forum about article writers and how they’re working for slave wages. Yeah, I know what he means. So I want to thank Nathan Segal for lighting a fire under my behind and getting me to write this article. This is addressed to all you people who are undervaluing your work. You are doing yourself and this whole industry a disservice and it has to stop. Keep reading if you have the stomach for what’s going to come next.

It’s no secret that article writing is very big thanks to many Internet marketers who have turned article marketing into a big business. As a result, for those marketers who don’t want to write themselves, they turn to freelancers to write for them. Problem is, the rates that many article writers are charging for their articles are slave labor rates. I mean for crying out loud…$3 for a 500 word article? I can make more than that working at a Burger King saying “Would you like fries with your Whopper?”

Enough is enough people.

It’s time to start charging what you’re worth. And quite honestly, if you don’t do that, you’re not a writer and don’t belong writing for a living. I’m dead serious. You people who are writing $3 articles are killing this business and it has to stop. And you know what I’ve discovered? The people who DO charge $3 for a 500 word article usually have the writing skills of a parrot. So yes, they have NO business writing for others. It’s stinking up, not only the writing profession, but the article marketing business itself. No wonder article directories have to trash most of the crap submitted to them.

So, here’s my question to you. Are you going to be part of the problem or part of the solution? Because quite honestly, if you’re going to be part of the problem, I don’t want to know you. Blunt enough?

Okay, for those of you who WANT to be part of the solution and want to charge more for your articles but don’t know how, it’s very simple. First, make a portfolio of your work. Let people see the quality of your writing. Then, set a fee for a standard 500 word article and stand by it. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, should be writing for less than 10 cents a word. That’s $50 for a 500 word article. The person who wants the article doesn’t want to pay it, let them go somewhere else.

You WILL get people who will pay for quality.

It’s time for this madness to stop.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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