A little quick math and hmmm…that’s $70-$100 an hour. I found I could write them in an hour to 90 minutes. Then I thought what the heck, and gave them a try. Prior to this time period, about the very lowest article rate I took was $300. (Hey, it’s above my $50 an assignment limit, people!)Īt first I was appalled. When I was scrambling around for a few new clients in late ’08/early ’09, I got an offer from an old editor friend to write some quick articles for $100 apiece, just based on my knowledge of business topics, supplemented with a little online research.
If you’re unusually fast, you can bid on a par with other writers, but end up with a better hourly rate, and earn more over the course of the year.īefore the downturn, I thought high per-article fees were the answer to maximizing earnings. Obviously, this setup rewards efficiency. You can only do that by getting some experience with how long it takes you to do things. The trick is creating a flat fee for that project that will give you the hourly rate you want. Your client is happy because they know exactly what they’re going to pay, and you can budget for the amount you will earn. Now, if you’re working for an ongoing copywriting client, I personally believe bidding by the project is best. Because if you don’t know your hourly rate, how can you work on raising it? How can you compare clients and know which to keep and which to drop? No matter how you price the job, track your hours and figure out your hourly rate. Which leads me to my one important rule of pricing jobs: You only have so many work hours in the year, so you need to make as much per hour as you can. They all have their uses, especially since some publications and businesses are kind of in the habit of using one or the other of these methods for deciding what they’ll pay.īut which is the best way to price jobs? To my mind, it’s by the hour. What’s the best way to bid a project - by the word? By the hour? By the project? Note: Each app below links to its iTunes App Store page via an iTunes affiliate link.There’s a lot of discussion online about writers’ rates.
#Byword vs. write free#
Learn more about the free TextExpander touch SDK.
#Byword vs. write update#
You will need to tap that occasionally to update the snippet set in your supporting app.
You will also see a button for fetching the snippets from TextExpander.
#Byword vs. write Bluetooth#
Expand formatted text snippets in apps that support it.Since support for snippet expansion is built into these apps, they can offer a few more features over using just the TextExpander keyboard. For an even better TextExpander experience, try using one of the TextExpander-enhanced apps listed below.
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