What
should you look for in a ghost writer? A passion for good writing, an
ability to communicate, and a profound commitment to get YOUR project
off the ground - these would be a start.
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What is ghost
writing?
It means YOU have the idea, I do
the writing, YOU get the credit (and the money).
You'd be surprised how many well-known books - including novels and
autobiographies of famous people - are actually written by ghost writers! Nobody sees
their names. If your book becomes famous, it's YOUR name
that will be linked with it, not mine!
Perhaps you have an idea for an e-book
on a subject you know a lot about - golf, antique
china dolls, growing tulips, or whatever. The problem is, you
know a lot about the subject, but you don't like writing. So you
hire a ghostwriter (me).
You give me the information and I turn it into an e-book.
Once it's done, it's your e-book
with your name on it, to sell or give away as you choose. (Giving
away an e-book can actually earn you quite a lot of money if it has
links to your site and affiliate programs in it.) You just pay me
the writing fee. Then any future profit from the book is
yours.
Click here for more about ghost writing!
Nowadays more and more people are recognizing the importance of articles, either as content for your site, or for
submitting to ezines and article directories to link back to your
site. If you don't like writing, this can be a terrible
pain. I specialize in providing an article-writing service.
Click here for more about
this service.
Contact me now
to let me have details of what you would like doing or for more
information, including examples of my work.
ARTICLES AND ETHICS
Is it ethical to use an article
someone else has written, and put your own name on it?
I have been browsing through forums on articles recently,
and that is a subject that seems to be cropping up a lot.
The subject of articles is a hot one right now.
Everyone wants to use articles for site promotion, but not everyone can
write them. Or if they can, they don't want to because of
the time it takes.
If you can't, or won't, write your own, you have just a
few options:
- use
free articles from article sites (which is fine but they will contain
someone ELSE'S link not yours);
- use PLR
articles (but these still have to be altered to suit your style)
- pay a ghost
writer to write them for you.
Lots of people
choose the third option. You may be one of them.
Article writing is
not only difficult, it is horrendously time consuming. If you are
running a business, and perhaps a home as well, you may find you
haven't time to write articles. Researching and writing a single
article can take most of a day, especially if you're not used to it.
Using free articles is fine when you are starting
out, and it certainly helps you get content on your site.
However, when you are seriously getting into the business of promoting
your site, you definitely need ORIGINAL articles.
So what are you actually doing when you pay a ghost writer
to write your articles? The same as you are doing when you pay a
builder to build a patio at the front of your house. The builders
provide their labor for an agreed price. When the job is done,
whose patio is it? It's YOURS because YOU have paid for
it! If you don't fancy spending your time digging
foundations and putting bricks and mortar together, you pay somebody
who can do it! When the builders have collected their cash and
moved on to the next job, they aren't about to come back and say "Hey
that's my patio!".
If you want to pay a ghost writer to write
your articles for you, that's your right. You aren't
cheating! You are substituting cash for the hard grind of
churning out an article .... something you may not fancy doing, but the
writer is happy to do.
The ghostwriter benefits in two ways - doing something
he/she likes doing, AND collecting the cash. YOU
benefit because you have a piece of original content. It's
YOURS because you have paid for it. Nobody else can use it
without your permission. So everyone is happy.
As a ghostwriter myself, I have no problem with you
publishing an article of mine under your name, if you have paid me to
write it for you. If you plagiarize my work or infringe my copyright,
that's a different matter.
But then, you wouldn't do that, would you? |
