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• 1. thu  |  November 5th, 2005 at 8:42 am

  will you send the contact information about the writer you mentioned along with the links to his writing samples. My company will be interested in checking his interest in our work.. better yet ask him to send us an email

  address is thu_household at yahoo com

• 2. glenn  |  November 5th, 2005 at 9:10 am

  Sorry but I cannot do that…

• 3. spinkosnarg  |  November 10th, 2005 at 6:24 am

  Glenn-

  I know what you mean. I have a Ph.D. in Finance and am a finance professor. I write investment tip articles to actually help people and draw them to my newsletter website WalletDoctor.com people who engage in sparticling muck things up for everyone.

  What about those of us who really are experts in our field and really do write our own original content? Do you folks on the other side recognize us or do we get drowned out in sparticle field?

  -Scott
  (iSnare expert author Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D.)

• 4. glenn  |  November 10th, 2005 at 7:12 am

  Scott,

  Of course authors like you are more than recognized in iSnare.com or I should say in any article directory out there. I even tell my editors to prioritize articles from authors who really write and not use private label articles.

  Glenn

• 5. spinkosnarg  |  November 10th, 2005 at 8:08 pm

  Great Glen-

  That eases my mind. It takes and extraodinary amount of work to become an expert. Especially in finance and even harder to obtain a Ph.D. in the field from a quality research institution like the University of South Carolina where I graduated. I am seeing these guys out there build themselves up as “experts” using ghost writers which is what I think you call private lable. I warn people not to buy an investment course unless they have thouroughly researched a person’s credentials even going so far as contact the insitution they claimed they got it from AND the quality of the insitution. I would even run a criminal background check as some ‘experts’ are experienced Ponzi scheme con artists ready to prey on the public.

  I am going to write an article on this matter soon and submit it to you because I find all of this private lable stuff to be a HUGE disservice to the expert information industry.

  Thanks a ton,

  -Scott

• 6. glenn  |  November 10th, 2005 at 8:18 pm

  Scott,

  I see nothing wrong with using ghostwriters as long as the writer you article paying to ghostwrite for you can be trusted and that you are sure the articles are 100% original…

  The private label articles that I am refering are the ready-made articles which are compiled in hundreds or even thousands that are sold to more than one client/buyer, you can replace the author name with your name but not the article content. Or maybe you can but these authors just do not care to edit at least 50% of those articles.

  Glenn

• 7. spinkosnarg  |  November 10th, 2005 at 8:53 pm

  The article I will be submitting deals with credentials and the importance of checking them. Thanks for clarifying the Ghost Writer and Private Lable issue for me.

  -Scott

• 8. web-content-king  |  December 2nd, 2005 at 1:12 pm

  I have to strongly disagree with the $3/article thing. I’m not just saying that because I’m an author who charges $500/article. I’m saying that because the $3-articles are a big part of the problem.

  If you are a college-educated adult in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, or New Zealand, you cannot possibly turn out reprint-quality articles (i.e., to get into isnare.com) for less than $50-article even for a mediocre article (excluding large batches).

  So what do you get for under $50/article:

  1. Stolen content that was scraped off another site, or out of a book or magazine.
  2. Content the author wrote but is “licensing” over and over, exactly as you’re complaining about here.
  3. Content written by someone whose English simply will not build credibility in anything, if it even can get someone to read it, which is not likely, either. There is a huge gap between speaking English fluently and writing it well. Just because you can speak it, doesn’t mean you can write it. All the little things that get overlooked in speech will glare out at you on the page.
  4. 500 words written in 5 minutes, words merely filling a page with hardly any rhyme or reason, which will get rejected from (and get you red-flagged by) numerous article directories.

  In short, even for someone living in the Phillipinnes or India, if you’re a decent writer, you will demand to be paid appropriately.

  I know what I’m talking about: I have gotten a number of articles by a number of authors on the “low-paid” writing bulletin boards, just to test the waters and also at one point hoping to get something I could start from and work with when I had writer’s block. It was so unbelievably horrible I nearly cried, and felt cheated despite the price. I wish I had a sample to show you now; I’m thinking I’ll find it in my archived emails and publish some of it just as a buyer-beware.

• 9. glenn  |  December 2nd, 2005 at 1:32 pm

  I agree and I even told that to the someone I know. She is doing well with a very low low price, almost giving the articles for free. Perhaps it was because she started her business in ghostwriting at RentACoder.com and all we know the place is a place where bids are too low which results the coder or service provider to give their service for almost free…

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