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Originally Posted by redcat444
10 minutes, including research? Or just writing it after the research is done?
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After a while, if you consciously work in specific niches, you really don't need to do any research.
Being a specialist allows you to do far more articles because your research time is almost non existent.
Also, specialising allows you to comfortably increase your rates to weed out your bottom buyers as your pipeline fills and your marketing pushes new, better buyers into your funnell.
You could call it a double whammy, but its really more like a quadruple whammy considering the exponential lift in earnings.
For example, I play quite a bit of mid/high stakes no limit holdem online poker. I know this niche backwards. The writing is technically difficult for a writer to research and be taken seriously by good players. Its often situational and opponent dependent. A real and deep knowledge of the game is required. I charge $30 per article and do one in about 10 minutes.
I also write about macro economic theory and trends and charge $25 an article....less than 10 minutes.
But ask me to write an article about forex trading and I'd struggle to do it, so I fill my diary with work that I know well instead, since I can't charge enough for a forex article to offset the extra time taken to do it.
If you don't know your subject, you're stuck and $10 an article
and 20 minutes of research time with 6 or 8 minutes of writing time. Thats @$20 an hour compared to $180 per hour (I never earn this amount since its nearly impossible for me to work at 100% efficiency) but $150 is doable with poker articles and over $100 with business/economics articles.
If you're thinking...."I don't know any area that well", you can get to know it by writing about it. You might start off at $20 per hour, but soon, you'll increase this as your rates increase and you research time falls with experience and accumulated knowledge.
Hope that helps.
All the best
Barry