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.