[jeffmould]

1) Highly prefer someone who has at least a basic knowledge/understanding of the topic.

2) Years experience

3) Sample works

4) References

5) Pricing. Learned a while ago that a good copywriter doesn't come cheap. You definitely get what you pay for, and paying a little extra will provide a return on investment in most cases.

[DoreenMichele]

Pricing. Learned a while ago that a good copywriter doesn't come cheap. You definitely get what you pay for, and paying a little extra will provide a return on investment in most cases.

What do you pay for a good copywriter? What's an example of too cheap?

Throw out some numbers, please.

[jeffmould]

In my limited experience, depends on the topic for pricing. The more detailed or technical, the higher the price per word. The more writing experience the individual has the higher the price. Also, the amount of research and any reference sources will add to the rate in my experience.

The last writer I hired for several 2000+ word legal related articles I paid approximately $.22 per word. For this I also received a 1 paragraph summary and 4-5 sources.

On the flip side, I paid a writer approximately $0.10 per word for similar article. The overall quality of the work was poor and when I ran it through Copyscape several parts came up as practically copied word for word from other articles.

I have heard people paying anywhere from $0.20-0.35 per word for good quality. I do think a lot depends on how detailed/technical the article needs to be though.

[DoreenMichele]

Thank you.