As you can see from the title of this post, the rate I want an article writer to be paid is between $50-$100 for 1000 words. I believe this rate is higher than what most article writers would normally encounter, and as such I hope many high quality writers will be interested in this job.
Explanation of the hiring process:
1) I will provide the bitcoin specific topic which I will want the writers to write about.
2)If a writer feels they are interested in writing this article, they will need to compete against the other writers to win the writing job.
3) To enter the competition, each writer will need to pay an entry fee of $5. There will between 10-20 openings per article competition. I will read each article, and whichever article I feel did the best job of articulating the topic will win. I will not make any money from this. Every dollar which is collected from writers, gets paid back to the winning writer.
4)The winning article will be published at
www.BitcoinBulldog.com which is a new website which will launch within the next 60 days. BitcoinBulldog will be focused on bringing a mix of breaking news within the bitcoin ecosystem, as well as some op-ed pieces. The writer will receive full credit for their writing if published at BitcoinBulldog.
To alleviate any concerns from people who might think that this is some elaborate scam designed to get people's bitcoin and run, I would like to point out that I am the owner of Bitcoin-Brokers.org and you can see my review thread here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/buy-bitcoin-with-cash-deposits-at-most-banks-in-the-usa-with-bitcoin-brokers-237164I have been running Bitcoin-Brokers for 2.5 years. Over the course of 2.5 years, I have acted as the escrow agent for over 7 million dollars worth of bitcoin transactions. My review thread has over 80,000 views, hundreds of comments, and I am proud to say that if you take the time to read through the comments section you will not find one single complaint from anybody.
This is the first time that I have attempted to hire an article writer at Bitcointalk, and to the best of my knowledge this is the first time that an offer like this has been presented. As such, I have no idea if this offer will be appealing or not to article writers. I do know that by structuring the offer in this manner it will weed out the weaker writers immediately.
Hopefully the idea is a success, and is well received by interested writers. If it is a success, then this will be an ongoing competition, but we can cross that bridge if and when it comes.
Rather than asking people to send any money right now to declare their desire to enter, I feel it would be just as easy for interested parties to declare their intention with a simple post below indicating their desire to enter.
As such, if you are a writer who would like to enter this first competition, please make a post indicating as such. If we get to the point where there are enough interested parties then I can ask the interested parties to submit their payment at that time.
I think for the first competition, I would allow the writers 7 days to come up with their 1000 words. This should allow each writer enough time to put something together. If anybody has any questions, feel free to post your questions below.
Obviously each writer will need to come up with original content. Any writer who submits content which is stolen from another website will forfeit their entrance fee to the winning writer. To verify that each writer's content is original material I will be using
www.copyscape.com to verify the integrity and originality of each submission.
If the event that there are multiple high quality articles, the winner will receive all the money collected, and I would probably offer a nominal fee to the other high quality writers to at least compensate them for their entrance fee (there would be no obligation to sell me the writings, but the writers will have the offer made in case they have no other use for the submitted writing).
Thanks for your consideration.