Freelance Writer Tip : # 5 — Skill Wages
In the description area, of the bid you are looking at, the prospective client has written — “This should be very easy for someone who knows what they are doing.”– which of course means that this prospective client doesn’t know what he is doing, and doesn’t want to pay anyone the skill wage who does know what they are doing.
Don’t give away your Skill-Wage because someone isn’t willing to cope with the fact that it is — in fact — a Skill Wage.
There are skill levels to web content and freelance writing. Skills which take time and effort to learn, understand and master. Just because you are able to do something “simply” doesn’t mean that you don’t get paid for the ability to do so.
These skills which you will spend many hours, weeks and years learning, honing, and enhancing, are skills which translate into profit for your client. Your client may not know what it takes to do something, but I assure you — he is asking for it because it is valuable to him.
If the client is calling for HTML formating, or to be able to post articles into WordPress, or some other CMS, or to have the articles formated into PDF copies as well, then make sure your bid takes into account the effort, time and kill which is required to perform these tasks. Granted, these are not difficult to do, if you know how — so what? If you know how, then you are more valuable than someone who doesn’t know how.
The list above, really isn’t a major jump in skill level, but it is time — time you are spending on your clients work, which you can not spend writing up another article.
Time, like money, can not be spent twice.