Copywriting Services and Fees Section Headings
Welcome to my Fees and Services page. This page will give you a good
idea of what I do and how much I charge for it. Please contact me for more
information, or if you have any questions. As I mention in the Fee Notes
section, all fees listed are minimums and assume the most basic and
minimal level of work.
Services and Fees
Fee Notes and Contractual Fine Print
Useful Related Skills
Education and Training
Professional Services
Web and print articles:
I write and edit articles on a variety of subjects for use in websites, for article marketing purposes and for traditional publication. For examples of web articles, see
my personal article library on EzineArticles, many of which have been picked up for reprint in online newsletters and websites.
Fee: Web Articles $.25 per word and up; Print Articles start at $.50 per word.
Blogging and newsletters:
I am available to write and maintain blogs, including original posts, marketing and sales copy.
I also provide a variety of newsletter support services, from creating one-time content to providing ongoing writing and editing services, including translating .doc and .txt files to html.
Fee: $.50 per word to $1.00 per word
Ebooks and print books:
I provide editing, critique and ghostwriting services in both print and e-media.
Fee: Writing starts at $250 per page. For prices on Editing and Critiquing, see below.
Web and print marketing copy
I create and maintain copy for websites, including marketing materials and squeeze/sales pages.
Fee: Web copy starts at $250 per page; Print copy, $250-$500 per page. Sales letter, $350 to
$500 per page
Collateral and marketing materials:
I can create a variety of collateral and marketing materials, including binder inserts, newsletters, forms, survey copy,
Power Point presentation, etc.
Ads, binder inserts, email messages etc. start at $.50 per word.
Power Point starts at $25/slide. This assumes I will be given a
pre-existing template or that the content is going into a basic
presentation.
Creating a template can be negotiated for an additional fee.
Training and workshop materials:
I create customized training materials, worksheets, and support materials for workshops, classes and training programs from client's source materials.
Fee: Training materials start at $250 to $500 per page.
Editing and critique:
I provide both editing and critique services, as well as rewriting to update, improve or rework existing documents.
Fee: Basic Copyediting (general proofreading and editing for grammar, word usage, style, etc) start
at $50 per hour, 2-8 pages per hour depending on level of editing required; Editing (copyediting plus rewriting or reorganizing text for content, style, voice, clarity, readability etc),
$70 per hour, 1-5 pages per hour; Critique (reviewing text and offering comments for improvement, with notation), $35 per page.
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The Fine Print - please read!
Fee Notes
For pricing purposes a “page” is one Word document page, 12pt type.
Fees listed are minimums, not caps, and are given as rough estimates, since it is impossible to allow for all variables of a particular job beforehand.
Variables may include research required, complexity of material, abundance or lack of source material, citing,
bibliographies and so on. (For example, a highly technical web page requiring several interviews and a large amount of research, written for an academic audience and containing a full bibliography and citations, would cost considerably more than a simple “overview” page translated from complete, pre-existing source material and written for a
general audience.)
Final fees include rewrites, unless other arrangements are made at time of contract.
Some fees are negotiable, or may be offset by bulk rates, royalties from sales resulting from the copy, per use royalties, and other considerations, where appropriate. It never hurts to ask!
Kill Fee
If the client decides to cancel the contract or, after several rewrites done in good faith, the client and I cannot come to a happy agreement on the end product,
the client will pay me for services completed to that point or one
third of the originally estimated fee, whichever is greater, and I will surrender the current text and materials to the client. The client is then free to
do as they wish with the work, as long as my name is not on the resultant end product.
Copyright Notice
In the case of work-for-hire, the copyright transfers to the purchaser of the
work upon full payment. (Quick
primer in work for hire requirements. Note that work for hire rights
assignments must be made in writing.) In all other cases (freelance articles sold to magazines, for example), the copyright remains
mine. When in doubt regarding status of the services and products you are purchasing, please ask.
Portfolio Usage
Regardless of copyright assignment, I reserve the right to use any and all work for portfolio and marketing purposes (as samples, clips and so on) and to publish and make use of said materials in any format that such activities require - including but not limited to electronic, print, audio, video and other such methods as shall be developed. All due consideration for and disguise of proprietary and other private information will be taken upon request. Arrangements that preclude or alter this agreement must be made in advance.
In plain English, that means that as a writer I must rely on examples of
my past work to acquire future assignments. As a result, I need to be able to show copies of
my work to other customers in order to stay in business, and I do this either by making physical copies,
uploading them to my onine portfolio and so on.
I will, of course, remove or otherwise redact any proprietary information and other information you don’t want shared around - all you have to do is let me know.
When you hire me, the default agreement is that I can use the finished piece or any drafts in this
manner. If you have any conditions or exemptions you want made, you need to negotiate that when we
finalize the contract for the assignment. If you don’t say anything, your permission is understood as being given in full.
Please know that I will never use one client’s work as a template for other client’s work (each assignment is guaranteed to be a unique, handcrafted piece of original writing), nor will I use copy that I’ve created for a client for my own personal sales/marketing copy, other than as a sample or clip.
By this I mean that while I may show someone else the killer sales page I wrote for you, so that they know I can do a similar job for them, I won’t just change the products and names sell
your sales copy to someone else as their own, nor will I use your killer sales page copy as a sales page for my own or anyone else’s products or
services. This applies to any work I do.
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Useful Related Skills
- Familiar with basic Office Suite applications - Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Front Page, Outlook.
- Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and the mechanics of website creation and design. (I do not do website design, but I do have an understanding of how it is done, and how my work should be constructed to support that process.)
- Basic knowledge of the concepts and technology behind online networking, blogging, RSS, etc.
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Degrees and Training
- I have completed an A.A. in English.
- I have worked in academic student support services at the college level as a tutor and peer reviewer (critique, with or without editing) in Composition and English curricula.
- Completed 6-week training program in curriculum design with Curriculum Development specialist Jill
Greenbaum.
- Completed 1 year certificate training in Graphic Arts through Poplar Bluff Technical Career Center, (writing, printing and design) during which time I won several awards in skills-based competitions.
- Served as intern in the advertising department of an internationally renowned recreational games manufacturer, responsible for day-to-day core tasks such as paste-up and layout, darkroom work, pen and ink illustration for catalog and marketing/event design concept and creation. Also created original illustrations for the corporate newsletter.
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