Paid Advertisement Request on My Website?!
I've just received this Email from this guy called Martin! First time seeing this kind of Email and I'm really excited!
Basically, they found my website on Google and they want to write sponsored post for my website.
Does anyone has any experience on how much money should I charge?
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My two cents, if they had really visited your site, they should have addressed something about your site, in this email, nothing.To my inexperienced eyes, it just looks like some generic email.
Personally, I will not even answer.
Why not go into O'Desk and a few of the others to see how much they charge to write content and take it from there.Congratulations
I'd be VERY cautious on this. Two red flags for me:
1) The writer doesn't bother to address you by name.
2) He gives no indication that he's visited your site. There's nothing in it referencing your site's niche.
This generic email could be sent to anyone who has a website with no changes at all.
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Was this email sent from a generic email address such as gmail, yahoo or hotmail? If it didn't come from an address associated with a legitimate site in your niche, that would be yet another red flag for me.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'll be careful on this definitely. But this message is sent from the contact form on my website so this guy has seen my website for sure.
A great question, Jerry. The answers posted here also helped me. I haven't encountered this yet, but I'm sure the day is coming.
I agree with Bob and Jason on this one, Jerry. Careful...what seems too good to be true...normally is too good to be true.
Sounds like a scam to me.
And, as suggested already, don't let them EVER has direct access to publishing from your website. You stay in control and check everything, including any HTML text they want to insert!
Jim
I'd proceed cautiously and would not grant them access as an author. Interested to learn how you make out. Good luck! :-)
Hey Bob, thanks for your reminder. I'll be careful to check for their legitimacy and content.
Very cool, but I would be careful with the legitimacy of this, Jerry. Require some kind of payment up front & a sample of their writing so you assure it matches your "tone" of content you've written as well.
For pricing, I'd determine what you would charge hourly for doing something like this, mark it up 20% or so, and that's likely a fair rate. Plus, you are getting added content by doing minimal work ;)
Good luck & post updates!
- Jason
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Jason! I'll definitely be careful and ask them for a sample first. Thanks for reminding :)
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It's exciting when you receive something like this for the first time, but I agree with roamy - you have very little control over what they are putting on your site. I'd not respond. If you're growing well, focus on monetizing your stuff; you don't need this.
Got it!