Freelance Writers Giving Away Free Samples

Have you been asked to write a 300 to 500-word sample of the potential clients choosing? Have you written the sample only to be told that they do not need you? If you think along the lines that others do, you could easily figure out that if this client has fifty people applying for the job, and they ask for a sample of their choosing from these fifty people, they will have enough articles to do whatever it is they have planned. It does not cost them anything because they told all of you that they did not like your writing.

One could easily ask for fifty articles, keep them and sell them in bunches of ten for PLR articles. Who is going to know the difference? No one will because even if you post the article online or try to sell it to another client, the PLR packages will have to be re-written anyway. The so called client that used the freelance writers could just need content for their blogs or websites. If you do not have Google Alerts on your articles, how will you know? You can wait a month or so and do a copyscape check to see if it is used anywhere else. Then that is an entirely new ballgame.

Instead of writing a new sample, use a sample that you already have or direct the potential client to a link where your work is displayed. It is not wise to supply a free sample to get any freelance writing job. Your work is valuable and so is your time. Give links to your work or a sample you already have in your portfolio.

Freelance Writer Needed Scams

Freelance writer needed is a term used by many people looking for writers. However, it can also be used by those who are trying to get your email address. After they have it, they can refer you to a site where you pay to sign up and then they will let you see what jobs are available. This is the newest way to defraud people out of their email addresses lately. I for one have had enough of this one particular site doing this.

I use my time wisely to look for work and find it appalling to send out a cover letter with my interest in their writing position, only to have an email sent to me telling me to click this link and see what they have to offer. I click the link and the site wants me to pay money before I see the jobs. No thank you.

Then there are those advertising for freelance writers needed and they want you to sign up at a dating site to familiarize yourself with it. If I wanted to work that bad, I might think it was legit, but if you want to write and make money, signing up at a dating site is not the answer.

I hope that some day these places wake up and move on to the next work at home job such as transcriptionist or something other than the writing profession. What is your take on this experience? I know it has happened to all of us, because we all look for work.