03 Tuesday Jan 2012
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
Tags
advice for freelancers, content mills, freelance writing, freelance writing sites, Linkedin, Writers Resources, writing advice, writing jobs
Have the content mills and freelance writing job sites forced class distinction on the writer making some writers into the new snob social class? Continue reading »
26 Monday Dec 2011
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
Tags
advice for freelancers, freelance article, freelance writing, textbroker.co.uk, textbroker.com, Writers Resources
Textbroker.co.uk – Yippee Us Brits Can Become Article Writers
Notice: – There is no inference being made here that textbroker.co.uk is trying to scam you.
The big problem with textbroker.com is you cannot join them unless you are resident in the good old US of A? Wrong, good news, it is now available in the United Kingdom @ textbroker.co.uk.
20 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
Statement: Nothing in this article is meant to infer that the website http://www.scam.co is in itself a scam.
During my small attempt to undermine those writing websites offering us eternal wealth through their must have software or package of teaching materials I came across a website http://www.scam.com where as a member you can discuss, warn or rant about scams you may have discovered or been caught by.
12 Monday Dec 2011
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
Tags
advice for freelancers, Business Services, freelance writing scam, real writing jobs, realwritingjobs.com, scam, Writers Resources, writing jobs
WARNING: This article contains sarcasm, quite a bit actually.
An interesting conversation took place on the ’Writing & Writer Jobs, Freelance & Technical Writer Jobs’ group’s discussion board at LinkedIn the other day.
The link to the discussion is: -
30 Wednesday Nov 2011
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
The writers mantra
If I had a penny for every bid on a freelancingwebsite that used the words “writing
WrapclothWritings
is my passion” or “writing is my life” or “writing is my destiny” I would be a very rich man. I don’t doubt
the statement is true for many people but it must be starting to wear thin with some employers who read it day-in and day-out; sorry, I forgot I was talking about bidfer sites most of them probably only look at the lowest bid with completion in the quickest time.
28 Monday Nov 2011
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
Tags
bid for sites, Elance, freelance writing, freelance writing scam, Freelancer, oDesk, scam, vWorker
What are bid-for-work sites
I’m sure most of you know what type of websites I am talking about but for the uninitiated or those who have always found work without having to resort to them I’ll precis what they are.
26 Saturday Nov 2011
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
Tags
bid for work, freelance writer, freelance writing, Freelancer, nigelld, scam, wrapcloth writings, Writers Resources
Thank you
Not being able to boast this is my first blog any more I will move rapidly on, just pausing long enough to thank those who read my first blog and especially those who left comments or voted.
Continuing on a theme – Scammers
25 Friday Nov 2011
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
Tags
Directfreelance.com, freelance writers, freelance writing, scam, verbumsoft, writing jobs, writing scams
Well this is my first ever blog so I might as well start by chucking myself in the deep end and get off to controversial start. Let’s talk about scammers. My comments are made from my own experiences over the last few days, I have drawn my own conclusions, you make up your own mind.
