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Interested to know who is paying you $1k for a blog post...

I'm not telling you specifically who, obviously, but we have 3 clients that order a post from us about once a month for at least $1,000. The posts typically are:

- 2000 to 2500 words - FAST (48 hour) turnaround - ready to be published without more than a simple read through - voice consistent with other posts that we may not have written for them - well cited or referenced

The clients are - b2b environment selling into the enterprise - companies that generate b/w 10M and 100M in business - tech companies that have a disproportionally small digital marketing team thus the need to outsource.

Example, in early March we wrote a series of 3 blogs posts about security challenges for transforming your organization to WFH. $2500 for a total of ~6000 words, ordered Monday morning and delivered Wednesday night.

As someone who has been thinking about doing some ghost writing for b2b/enterprises/startups as a nice side-income but never got to actuallly do it.

This is a great footprint for me to try and crack something to submit (monday) ideally.

I already applied to a great SaaS which I see an open call to write blogposts for in their newsletter. The CEO asked which topics I would like to write about and I submited 2-3 rough ideas, and he thought they were OK and asked for a draft.

I never followed through.

I don't have any blog although I think I could do it.

Would you mind emailing you for some more specific advice or editorial peer review in the moonshot case I finally get to write some shit?

Thanks again for your great (free) advice

Go ahead. And if you have a tech bent I can probably put you to work as well.

2-2.5K for a blog post sounds excessive in length, specially for b2b companies that sounds like they post often.

I have quite a few blog posts and 1200-1600 is the sweet spot that I get pretty much 100% readership. Anything longer than that gets bookmarked but never read.

I'm glad that works for you. Long form posts (2k+) are most often deep product breakdown/review or how-to guides. My experience has been that such pieces perform very well across a variety of important metrics when the quality is high.

I can't believe it. Literally.

Ok. I dont really have anything to gain by lying.

your website looks like a joke and your "company" sounds awful

You are just herding goats amirite?

jk ;)

$1000 is definitely higher than many, but there are a lot of people who publicly offer to pay $500. I maintain a list of places that do on github [0]

[0] https://github.com/sixhobbits/technical-writing/blob/master/...

Nice. This HN thread is a goldmine of info for me. Appreciate all these sharing of resources.

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