general price range for writers?
 

I'm asking this on behalf of a client...

In general, how much do you pay writers to do captions/blurbs (roughly a paragraph or so) for video content? One of my mainstream clients (I do IT stuff) is trying to work out a budget for his new porn venture, and wants to make sure he has an adequate amount of money set aside before advertising for writers.

0,01 - 0,05 USD per word ...

Sort of like asking 'general price range for a blue car?'

Writing work varies widely. A site tour or magazine articles are not the same thing as scene descriptions, Ebooks, mailer content, newsletters, business documents, or any of the other dozens of things I am paid to write.

Price per word is a silly concept, since 303 words doesn't take more time than 285 or less than 325. My prices are always set per project with several factors included. What interface is being used, how tight is the deadline, what is the project visibility level, how large is the total order for work, and so on.

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Tossing up for answers :)

Charge .02 per word here

Very generic reply there bot

$1 to $10 per post of that type. Factors will be:
Number of posts ordered.
Whether the writer does formatting.
How original the text is.
Whether you want flare and personality in the posts.
How experienced the writer is.
Whether you give byline.
Whether the writer's byline is worth extra.
What country the writer lives in.

mind your business faggot :321GFY

How do you provide quality work at that price?

Say it is a 20 minute scene and you fast forward to get an idea of what the scene is about. You still have at least 7 minutes invested if you want to write something halfway related to the video and actually worth reading. Then you have to write it. Say 3 minutes to write and edit 100 words. That is ten minutes and you've made 75 cents.

At that rate, if do not take breaks and do not slow down for any reason, you are making $4.50 per hour. That is well below minimum wage.

Whatever you do, don't hire this guy. He ripped me off for $87 in mid Dec ? I paid half upfront for some simple descriptions, and then he turned into a ghost.

Seriously, who steals $87? I figured he needed it so bad, I just wrote it off. If you read this David :321GFY

Thanks, folks. I'll pass that information on to him.

Yes. That's why I specified one paragraph descriptions for videos. I probably should have added that most of the videos are clips in the 5 minute range.

Ouch! :Oh crap

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Then I'll consider others, in case he can't squeeze me in soon enough. Just hit him up and say I sent you, you won't find anyone anywhere near the price/quality combo. I know, he once bought me a KFC meal! :1orglaugh

Kidding aside, been using his services for over 10 years. So unless you want shit done yesterday, get in touch with him FIRST.

I usually pay $1 per blog post (100 words).

With me it really depends on what I am doing. For example, if someone just wants me to look at a FHG or a few screenshots and write a basic blog posts I can do that pretty cheaply because it is fairly easy. However, if they need me to do something more involved like do research for a post or format, upload and do other manipulation to the post I would charge more.

What I tend to do is get as much info as I can about the job, determine how long I think it is going to take me to do it the job then base my price on that.

That isn't enough information. Some interfaces are simple, others are very convoluted. Do you want 10,000 or 10 of these? 5 minute clips take a lot longer than working from photo sets of the same scene if they are available. What kind of depth do you want, meaning are links to other materials needed and do you want information included from beyond the video itself?

Anyone worth hiring will want to see the work to be done, have a few minutes to discuss it with you and will make sure they understand exactly what you want in detail before providing a price. Much the same way if you called up a reputable kitchen contractor and said "how much per square foot would you charge me for a new kitchen?" - that just isn't enough information for any kind of craftsman to give you a price, but one of the guys who gets drunk outside Home Depot while looking for day work will give you a price right away. All depends how important the work is to you... :2 cents:

It really depends on the writer's ability to deliver. Straight up.

Does he/she meet the end needs of the business with the work they claim to provide? Do you both respect each other enough to come up with a fair price point? I understand some writing companies have a flat rate, but I like to negotiate every time because I find clients needs are different, even though the tasks can be similar to the ones I've done in the past.

I always try to show some of my previous sample work and I ask the client to give me a writing task to complete early on. This shows them I'm likely a good fit for the job (unless, once in a blue moon I'm just not the style they're looking for).

With that being said, yeah, rates vary from 0.01-0.10 c per word in my experience. Does the work need research? +$ Does your task take the majority of my work day? +$ Is it long term work? -$ Do you have a large quality order? -$ There is no standard price in my opinion.

Good luck. There's a few good writers posting in this thread already.

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I can already imagine the quality of that content...

One last thing...

Keep in mind that good quality work provided with little or zero supervision is almost always cheaper (at any price) in the long run than poor quality work you need to replace or asshats you need to chase after to get a job done right. You'll find that is the major dividing line between .00000001 per word and professionals who actually provide real value when you hire them.

can get pretty decent writers now for about 0.01 a word, just check the buy and sell.

Is it recommended to pay per hour rate?

I talked to one writer and he is asking $20/hr rate.
He can do one content rich article in 2 hours.

We are about to start the project in mid Feb.

I base most of what I do on an hourly rate, but will break it down into a per piece price for them.

For example, if they want me to write blog posts and I think I can write 4 of them per hour and want $20 per hour for that job I would charge them $5 per post.

It all comes down to how much they can do in what amount of time. A lot of people don't like to hear an hourly price though because they think you will be sitting around doing nothing and billing them. That I why I try to then break it down into a per article/piece price and I will happily explain to them how I came up with that price if they are curious.

For some projects where you can't give an accurate per-job estimation, yeah, it is.

But as the other guy said, this is the worst way to do business if you're serious about writing, because you will always have the other person feeling as if you're charging them for sitting around. I heavily dislike it, which is why when I quote prices, I do it based on how much I want to earn per hour, but in terms they can understand (such as 3 reviews, 20 blog posts, etc.)

A two-hour article would have to be pretty damn good though. I'm not convinced that if you're putting that much focus on the quality of the writing that someone who'll do it for $20/hr will give you the results you want.

Could be wrong, but like most things in life, money makes all the difference. :2 cents:

He lives in Ethiopia. With a couple of articles at $0.0075 per word he can feed a small village for a week.

Thanks for all the answers. I talked to the client again and passed along what y'all said.

I didn't know this when I posted the question, but evidently he already pays local literature/creative writing college students $0.01 per word to do single paragraph blurbs on some non-porn video-based websites he owns. Since he doesn't know if any of them will do it for a porn site, he wanted to know if he should set aside more budget money in case he needs to hire people who specialize in porn writing. I'm not sure what he'll decide, but I told him he should probably set aside more for that than he does for his mainstream sites, just to be safe.