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One of the things you need as a novelist and freelance writer is a solid printer. A solid printer is one that holds at least 100 pages of paper and preferably 250 pages or more. Most deskjet or officehet printers only hold 50 or so pages before they need to be reloaded, and the ink costs can quickly skyrocket if you need to print more than a few pages a day.
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Do you need content for your website, blog or social media page, like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn but don’t have a huge content budget? When you find yourself in this situation, you may be tempted to order cheap content from the lowest-priced freelancer you can find either via a content mill or on places like Fivrr. The truth is that when you order extremely cheap content, you get what you pay for, and you could spend more time editing it than it would have taken you to research and write the article yourself. You could also end up hiring a second freelancer who offers content revision services that are designed to rewrite cheap content mill content.
What You Can Expect When You Order Cheap Content
For full disclosure purposes, I will tell you that this content was purchased specifically for this article with directions that told the freelancer to not fix any mistakes. That’s not to say I haven’t received content this bad. I have, and in fact, I have one sitting in my documents folder that I need to completely rewrite before I can use it, and I paid much more than $7 for it. I would have used that article for this article, but the topic wasn’t preferable.
The total article cost of the below article was $7. Of that $7, the author received about $3 for their efforts. This could mean that this freelancer received less than minimum wage for their efforts, which is currently $7.25 in the United States, according to the US Department of Labor. (The site I used gives the option to tip the author, which I used, so let’s not think that I paid this freelancer $3. It was more than that.)
In order for this freelancer to make minimum wage, which we all know isn’t a livable wage, they would have to do three of these articles an hour. That gives them 20 minutes to research and write it. If this freelancer needs $15 an hour in order to pay their bills, it would mean that they need to research and write five articles an hour. That gives them 12 minutes to research, write, format and edit this article. It virtually guarantees that whoever receives the content will get content they cannot post without performing extensive revisions. By the way, if you expect this $3 freelancer to revise this, you’re out of luck. They don’t have the time to write your article twice. It’s just going to get thrown back into the queue for someone else.
An Example of Cheap Content
Waterproofing your home is beneficial for winter
Weatherproofing your home for the winter is a very beneficial idea I can help save so much money and have other benefits that can help you in life. I’m going to share with you a few reasons why weatherproof in your home is very cost-efficient and good for health.
Water damage can be very costly for repairs for basements and flooding so that’s why weatherproofing is it beneficial for the future to prevent anything that will give you extra expenses.
One of the main reasons that weatherproofing is very important is because of health purposes. It is very important to have a healthy environment and prevent mold and dampness from surfacing in your home so with weatherproofing there won’t be any health issues like asthma or hay fever.
The cooling and heating cost will be lowered because humidity causes leaks in your home. Saving money is one of the main reasons why weatherproofing you’re home can I help you in the future.
Eventually you may want to sell your home so thinking of weatherproofing is a great idea because the value of your home will increase. Waterproofing during the winter is a very good idea and saving money will give you opportunities to use the money you save to take a trip or invest in a business.
Waterproofing helps your home with longevity. Your house will last a long time and become a very useful investment if you choose to do so. Protecting your roof from heat , light, wind, rain and snow will save you money and time.
In conclusion, waterproofing your house is the best solution of you would like to preserve for years. There are many reasons why this will be a positive service to complete and the best thing is waterproofing jobs is very simple to do less time consuming because repairing the roof would take more time and money.
Understanding What’s Wrong with the Above Content
There’s very little of the above article that’s salvageable. The entire thing is pretty much crap from the title down, but let’s take a deeper look at this and really dive into why this content can’t and shouldn’t be used as it is.
Additional Things Wrong with This Content
It’s important to note that all the red highlighting simply indicates the technical problems with the article. This includes spelling, grammar, punctuation, missing words and spacing problems. There’s much more wrong with this article than the technical aspects.
There are no headers. This article is not skimmable.
The word beneficial was used so many times that you’d thing I’d ordered it as an SEO keyword.
There are a lot of unclear sentences and redundant phrases.
It really doesn’t tell you anything. This article is mostly fluff.
Some of it is completely inaccurate. Humidity does not cause leaks.
None of the information is verified, and the reader doesn’t know why the points in the article are true.
This article doesn’t sound like it comes from an authoritative source.
Why would anyone post this on their website or social media account?
To be blunt, because they don’t give a rat’s ass what’s on their website or how valuable it is to readers. All they care about is getting new content as fast as possible and as cheaply as possible in order to keep their website and social media feeds flowing. The truth is that content like this won’t help you. If anything, your visitors and potential customers will avoid you like the plague because you’re obviously not knowledgeable in your own industry, and even if you convince them that you are, this quality of content could be indicative of the quality of services your customers receive.
What High-Quality Content from an Experienced, Professional Freelancer Looks Like
Whenever possible, you want to hire experienced, professional freelancers for all your website and social media content needs. These freelancers have more experience, and they’d probably written several articles in your industry. If your freelancer hasn’t written anything on your industry or on the topic, they’re going to be more willing to research your article in order to make it as accurate as possible. This means that you will perform less editing once you receive your content, and you may actually be able to use it as is.
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If you’ve just contacted a freelancer about writing your article and you include links that aren’t your business website or documents that the writer needs to download, your writer may reject the opportunity. The best case scenario involves the writer asking you to put all the information as text in the body of the email or message. Why? Because your article probably doesn’t pay for a new computer.
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