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]]> By: Lillie Ammann http://athomemomblog.com/should-freelance-writers-write-custom-sample-articles/comment-page-1/#comment-37342 Lillie Ammann Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:18:05 +0000 http://athomemomblog.com/?p=485#comment-37342 Genesis, I agree that writers shouldn't write free sample articles. There are too many cases where people get a lot of sample articles and use them without paying anyone. The client should be able to tell the quality of your work from samples you have already written. If they need a cusom sample, they should pay for the sample. It makes sense for a business to pay for one article before hiring a writer for many articles, The writer is paid, and the client isn't locked into an agreement they may not be happy with. But a client expecting custom work without compensation isn't reasonable. Of course, it does happen in other businesses as well. When I was in the interior landscape business, it was common for clients to require a proposal indicating the plants to be used in specific locations. We always risked that they would take our design, which was a lot of work, and buy the plants themselves at a discount store. But when there were only three large interior landscape companies in town, and the competition gave a design for free, we had to do it or not get the jobs. Genesis,
I agree that writers shouldn’t write free sample articles. There are too many cases where people get a lot of sample articles and use them without paying anyone. The client should be able to tell the quality of your work from samples you have already written. If they need a cusom sample, they should pay for the sample. It makes sense for a business to pay for one article before hiring a writer for many articles, The writer is paid, and the client isn’t locked into an agreement they may not be happy with. But a client expecting custom work without compensation isn’t reasonable.

Of course, it does happen in other businesses as well. When I was in the interior landscape business, it was common for clients to require a proposal indicating the plants to be used in specific locations. We always risked that they would take our design, which was a lot of work, and buy the plants themselves at a discount store. But when there were only three large interior landscape companies in town, and the competition gave a design for free, we had to do it or not get the jobs.

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