It is important to know the pros and cons of any hiring process. 3 Content Writers wants you to know why you may prefer to hire a content writer outside of a bidding site.

If you are in the market for a content provider for your website or blog, you have probably found that there are several websites known as bidding sites where you can post your job and select from a group of bidders. While this may seem to be ideal because you get to find a provider who will do the work for the price you are looking to pay, there are a few reasons you may prefer to hire a content writer outside of a bidding site.

• When you hire on a bidding site, you only have a short profile available on the providers who bid on your job, and we all know that there is more to hiring than the pricing. You want to be able to exchange emails or even phone calls with the person or group of people who are handling the job of writing your content. Online business, while convenient, removes the personal factor of working with others this is even more noticeable when dealing with bidding sites. Hiring a content provider directly allows you and the provider to discuss the project, pricing and details in depth.
• Payment options are usually cut and dried on bidding sites. Generally when you hire someone on a bidding site you have to place half of the project price into an escrow account and then deposit the balance upon completion of the job. Then the provider generally has to wait until they have accumulated a certain amount in their payments before the money is made available to them. This is unfair to the content providers, and is one way in which direct contact could make things easier to decide the payment method, milestones in the project and if it is long term you can arrange a regular payment schedule.
• Costs incurred on bidding sites include membership fees; costs for posting a job, fees for paying through the bidding site and the providers are also charged varying fees and rates as well as being limited in how many bids they can place in a specific time frame. Because of this you may miss out on the best content provider because they are out of bids or prefer not to deal with sites that essentially make them pay to find work.
• The frustration that content providers feel when they know that they provide quality content to their clients but are constantly outbid by less experienced and less dedicated providers will often drive those actually seek a real long term involved project away from the bidding sites. 

The old saying is true; you get what you pay for! So if you accept the bid of a provider that seems too good to be true, it probably is. You may end up with spun content, plagiarized content and missed deadlines. Another possibility is the content writer who may be technically writing in English but the fact that English is a second language leads to grammar and word usage gaffes that make your content stilted, and in need of severe editing before you can actually use it. Bidding sites are known for this problem and you will see that many job posters specify that they want native English speakers only.
 
3ContentWriters is aware of all these issues with bidding sites and strive to provide our clients with the solution to these annoying little problems. Your experience as a client of 3ContentWriters will provide you with a lot of communication, flexible payment policies and reasonable but not ridiculously low prices. The value of good web content is something that you don’t want to scrimp on when it comes to building your online business.  That little saying can also be a positive thought;
you get what you pay for when you choose 3 Content Writers.

                Contact us today for a free consultation to find out how we can fulfill your content needs.

 

                         What Does SEO Have to do with Your Business Website? 
                                                 Honestly, Everything!

Before you can have a successful website for your business it is important to learn a few things about how websites and web content work together to lead to your success. You may have heard of SEO or web optimization, these words sound more complicated than they actually are.

Essentially when your site or blog is web optimized or uses good SEO it means that the keywords that are related to your business are used throughout the website so that search engines can find the site and show it to Internet users that are searching for those keywords. The proper usage of keywords means having content on your website or blog which has keywords used in the appropriate places so that they don’t disrupt the flow of the content.

While search engines are looking for keywords, the people who visit your website are looking for information, a product or the answer to a question. Your content has to be more than repetitive keywords; it has to contain words that are also related to the keywords (LSI), coherent content and more than a bit of factual knowledge and information.

Good SEO will help your site climb to the top of the search engines. This means that when people search for the keywords related to your business, they will find your website as one of the first ones listed. This provides you with what are potential customers. These people end up on your website looking for something specific, whether it is more information on a subject or a product to help them deal with something specific. 

Once they arrive at your website the SEO that you used to get them there also comes into play as they search through your website content. If they like what they see, or if you provide what they are looking for, it makes them more likely to convert from visitor to customer.

A higher percentage of conversions are the goal of a successful business website. Your website is your online presence. It contains your knowledge, your products, and your reputation as a business.  When you hire 3ContentWriters you will find out that you have time to handle your business details while we take care of providing you with engaging, interesting, informative and well researched web optimized content that is filled with SEO strategies to help your website climb to the top. Contact us to find out more with a free consultation!

        A few well written articles can perform better than a lot of poorly written articles.

One of the things that a business owner needs to understand about having a website or blog is that the content of the site or blog is mainly what will lead visitors to the site from search engines. Professional content will improve the performance of your blog or website tremendously. The amount of money you spend on content depends mainly on the choices you make.

The first rule of paying a content provider is that you will get what you pay for. If you visit a bidding site you may post a project such as: 50 SEO articles, 500 words each for a restaurant website. The project will be posted for the content providers to view and bid on. The bids you’ll receive will range from the ridiculously low to the outrageously expensive. Then you are stuck with trying to decide from a meager profile page which bidder you want to hire. 

There are content groups and individuals who will accept any job for the lowest price, because they know that the website and blog owners who are hiring them due to their low prices aren’t aware of the need for quality content. This enables them to use software to spin the articles, or submit shoddy and below par articles. One of the worst things you can get is articles that have been farmed out to writers who have no clue what the details of the job include.

A real professional content provider should place a bid but also clarify that they would like to discuss the details of the project with you to make sure that you are on the same page about what sort of work is expected for the price you will pay. At that time a professional content writer who will provide you with truly original, researched and well written articles will usually provide you with a per article rate or a per word rate.  

An average per word price is between $.05 and $.10 depending upon the time involved for research and whether you want the articles formatted and posted or simply emailed to you. There are many variables that come into play that you may not be able to clarify and discuss with a provider on a bidding site.

This is not to say that low priced work isn’t going to be quality or original but often when you purchase a 500 word article for $1, you aren’t getting the best work that the writer can do. You get what you pay for, keyword stuffed, stilted articles that defeat the purpose of providing informative content on your blog or website.  Your advertising and promotion budget isn’t going to have the best results if you choose the cheapest route. So take a few minutes and decide whether you’d rather have fewer well written pieces for the same price as bulk badly written or spun articles.

Only you know what you expect from your website or blog and what your budget is for content. When you convey that information to an experienced professional content writer you will be able to ask questions and find out whether your hopes are realistic, and what that content writer can do to help you reach your goals.

3ContentWriters are professional content providers who can answer your questions, provide you with options and variables to come up with a plan for increasing your online traffic through quality, creative and informative website and blog content. We offer a free phone consultation to discuss your content needs, contact us today!

As a business person, you know that when you present information to an existing or potential customer, you want to leave them with one over riding belief:  
                       
                               That you are the best resource for solving their problem.

This simple fact, as you have probably learned, is not quite as easy as it sounds. This is because each of your listeners receives information in a different way. The solution is to target the concern of each potential customer with an online content article specific to them.

Each customer and potential customer may have a different priority in their demands from your company, no matter what service or product you offer.

Company A may need a supplier who can deliver ‘just in time’, while Company B may need a company who doesn’t care about deadlines as much as quality. Company C is more concerned with price and will offer business to the lowest bidder and Company D is looking for the best company who has proven that they are strong in all of those areas.

How do you attract the attention of all of them and add them to your list of clients without breaking the advertising and marketing budget?

Publish professionally crafted online content marketing articles highlighting their needs.

Think about how many times you’ve entered a keyword into a search bar and have been presented with information from industry websites who have had the foresight to prove themselves experts in their field by sharing online content.

An online marketing article, stuffed with the keywords to attract potential customers, will bring your company to the attention of potential customers you may have never even heard of. A professionally written online content piece published on your website will mark you as an authority in your field.

3ContentWriters will help you establish yourself as an authority in your industry with professionally targeted online content articles that can be used on your website, blog or newsletter. We will provide the content so that each reader will feel that the marketing article was written exactly to their need. Contact us today for a free consultation to discuss your content needs.