It's not really surprising to me. They sell the feeds package to you so they don't need the text descriptions that you are looking for. Good luck with the writing!Quote:
Originally Posted by nomad0023
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It's not really surprising to me. They sell the feeds package to you so they don't need the text descriptions that you are looking for. Good luck with the writing!Quote:
Originally Posted by nomad0023
I never lift anything, but I do look at other folks' writing sometimes to get ideas for when I'm writing things. For instance, if I'm writing a story about a certain singer-songwriter, I'll take a look at other articles written about them or read through the press release a time or two just to get my own creative juices flowing. Nothing wrong with taking examples, just don't lift anything. An adjective here or there isn't a crime. Just try to use as many of your own words as possible, and don't just re-hash what they say.Quote:
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Thanks for all of the suggestions, allot of them are really going to help. Today one of my feed companies offered to pay me for the descriptions I come up with for their site, if they like them. It really seems I am not the only one that has problems with writing this crap. :penny:
do you use spell check when you write for your site?
btw, you're writing your descriptions like you're trying to sell your members something. they've already bought a membership so you don't really need to use sales text on them... and if it sounds like you're trying to sell them, less may click. why not just tell them what's on each feed?
I will use spell check, and read them many times. 1 the text is for people that have not joined my service. 2 if I just say what’s in each site they will all in the end sounding the same. 3 for the feed company all I have to do is add something like “ your members will love this feed and it will keep them coming back time and time again” Or some BS like that
PS you can never get anyplace if your only solution is just to pay someone to do your work for you. In the end it would not even be your site, just allot of stuff you paid people to much to do. But hell maybe thats just me :honest:
it's just you. the most successful people i know pay people who are good at things so they are done right and get done quickly.
after all, you are the one telling the designers and writers what you want and the way you want it.
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Well one I don’t have the cash to just throw it at my problems. And I think that is a problem with allot of people that own web sites, I cant even call them webmasters. They pay some to make the site and do all the work, but can they change the look of the site 3 times a year? Or do anything that 5000 other people have not done. The whole thing turns in to a cookie cutter web design process, that become stagnant after 4-6 months, and the solution most have is just pay more people to do it all over again with another site. In the end even if I do not have the best site in the world at least it will be my site.
If the designers were so good they would not work for other people to start with. They would have their own supper sites, not just trying to make a bunch of money hungry investors rich. But like I have said before maybe this is just my opinion. :uhoh:
that's not how it works. many designers do not want to own sites or go through the problems involved with videos, customer service and so on. really good designers make much more than most of the paysite owners i know, btw.
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Well that’s kinda my point to, if they make more than I could form their work Why would I want to pay them? My sites above all have to be profitable, its ok I know you work of other people as a designer I am not hating on you, and I know your just defending what you do like all of us would. :D
wrong! i'm not a designer and do not do designs for other people. in fact, i pay designers to do my paysites although i make my own avs sites sometimes.
i think you missed the point. a designer who makes that much money often gets paid that much because they know what they are doing and they know what sells. they know how to make all those little extras that neither you nor i are capable of making.
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I am doing ok with My site as it is, in fact I sell 3 to 1 over all other affiliates I have been using. But I am as you can tell I am working hard to improve it all the time. I really did not get into this just to make money that would be nice to get rich off of creating my vision, but its the journey not the destination that’s most important to me.
BTW I really don’t like how hard it is to go back and fix your text on this thing. Maybe I sound just slow down but its hard to use this and juggle all the other things I am doing. :juggle: