Oh yeah, this one was a $3 special, if they indeed paid even that much. Wow. Just- wow.
So many favorite phrases here, so little time to bitch about them. I do love, “For instance, green can render illumination to a darker shade of walling.” I’m thinking of having that one printed up on a t-shirt.
But, I might be persuaded to have an affair with, “It is an operation possibly more angst-ridden than your first time to do such task.”
Sign me up for some shelving! Or, if I need some, how about if I just go with someone who presents a professional image with sentences that make some damn sense? Nah, that would be too easy.
Wow, I hadn’t realized that I’d been away so long. It’s been awhile, but I’m going to try to update more frequently. Lately I’ve been involved in two large projects that did not involve researching through traditional Internet sites. Instead, I’ve been dragged through the depths of the wiki sites, most of which are written by drunk four year olds, apparently.
I did run across this, however. The owner of the site outsources through RentaCoder. He hires mainly from India but occasionally indulges the cheapest Americans he can find. It shows. His only criteria in hiring a “writer” is that they speak English and charge very little. That’s it. That’s what he’s basing his business on. I wish I could pick the brain of such a brilliant business mind. I imagine it would be something like South Park’s underpants gnomes. 1) Steal underpants. 3) Profit.
He has a great domain name, a good concept, a timely topic- and then pffft. It’s pretty hard to take a site seriously when it’s written so cheaply. It looks like something a jr. high school student worked pretty hard on, even asking her dad how to spell some of the words, but it’s simply not professional. Please, people. Hire a professional. You’re wasting your time and ours by pulling the $3 article crap.
I’m not buying from a site that spouts platitudes like, “Tell everyone you know, the huge benefit of this is that because people know about it, it will prevent you from failing, as no one can stand admitting failure of something they have control over.” How about telling everyone you know that hiring a competent writer is a huge benefit?