11 Monday Jun 2012
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
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@WrapclothWrites, advice for freelancers, Linkedin, Nigel Lewis-Davidson, nigelld, spam, wrapcloth writings
Nederlands: Linked In icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
As a follow-up to my last blog on stolen photo’s placed on LinkedIn user profiles*, I would just like to add this from the LinkedIn perspective. Continue reading »
24 Tuesday Jan 2012
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advice for freelancers, freelance writer, freelance writing, freelance writing scam, Freelancer, Linkedin, Louis Logic, marc babineau, Nigel Lewis-Davidson, nigelld, Paperwritings.com, wrapcloth writings, writerbay.com, Writers Resources
WriterBay.com and Paperwritings.com – Living Under the Same Roof – Is It A Question of Ethic’s
Whilst looking at WriterBay.com to see whether it was a legitimate operation or another scam I turned up an interesting fact which may pose many writers a quandary with their ethics.
WriterBay.com and Paperwritings.com – The Discovery Continue reading »
03 Tuesday Jan 2012
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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
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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.
12 Monday Dec 2011
Posted in Writing Scams & Experience
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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.
