Writing for Hire Writers DOT com
As anyone who regularly follows my blog will know I have been looking at means of generating extra income by writing articles for two reasons
1. Due to an unexpected change in our circumstances I need to start contributing more to the household income.
2. I want to build a useful guide of places where freelance writers can turn to for extra cash.
I am going to try and be as impartial as I can in my review of each site that I try/work for and will write as detailed a review as possible. A couple of you have made some suggestions which I will definitely be following however I decided first to run with a site that I came across on google. www.hirewriters.com
I found the site attractive and appealing to look at (which was possibly my first mistake) It is also user friendly in the sense that registration was relatively easy (even for a technophobe like me…) Payment to you is made via Paypal so if you haven’t already got a Paypal account then you will need to set one up in order to complete your registration.
Everyone effectively has to earn their stripes: Everyone starts at beginner level and you have to complete a certain number of jobs before you move up the rankings and gain access to the better and by “better” I mean “better paid” jobs. As soon as you are registered you can start looking for and accepting work. Timescales for completion of tasks varies from 12 hours to around 10 days and if you are late in submitting then there are financial penalties which is LAUGHABLE given the rates that they pay!!! To say I was definitely under-awed by the peanuts that they are paying is an understatement (I will be interested to see just how common this low pay is among similar sites) Jobs on there start at around $1.18 dollars – which equates to just £0.77 So not even a bag of peanuts then!!
Given that one of the main reasons I am looking at doing this is so that I can generate a realistic income you might wonder why I would even consider doing this for this price, well, I figured that if nothing else it would help me limbo up the old creative juices. Article writing is after all different from novel writing and I wanted to get used to researching a totally different subject and writing about it…There is a BIG BUT coming…
I accepted two jobs with a mobile phone repair shop. The first was to write a user guide for Ebay and the second was to write a user guide for Amazon. I had 10 days to complete the job, ideal seeing as I wanted to fully research the product etc first. Within 24 hours of accepting the job I had received emails from the site saying that the owner was requesting a mutual cancellation of the assignments. No reason or explanation was given and frankly I was/am furious at what I perceive to be a complete waste of my time. Fortunately I hadn’t gone beyond a brief google search so I certainly hadn’t invested too much time or energy in it, however they weren’t to know that. I don’t see how the company can allow vendors to do this…If someone posts a job then they should honour it. I hadn’t even written a single word however I was left questioning why they didn’t want me on the job…Did they take a look at my profile and think I didn’t fit…Or did they simply decide that they no longer needed the service? I was going to name and shame the company as up until last night the job was still being openly advertised on the site, however I have since checked and it has been taken down, so for now I will give them the benefit of the doubt.
Does anyone else out there have any experience with http://www.hirewriters.com ???? If so I would LOVE to hear from you. I would also like to know the sites that you recommend. Thank you to those of you who have already sent me your thoughts!
Given the ridiculously low/insulting rates that they pay. Given the fact that they will happily pull the plug on an assignment after a writer has begun working/researching it, then I would advise people to give them a wide berth. I have certainly wasted all of the time I am going to waste on this site and will be swiftly moving onto the next!!!
