Average number of sites you work for as a freelance writer

On average, for how many companies do you work for as a freelance writer? I assume it's not quite possible to work only for one company because it doesn't usually have enough projects?

At least 3 or 4, to make a decent living.

I see, that's what I thought. The bad thing you need to check all these sites daily, it's impossible to have it all in one browser window.

Currently writing for 12 sites + I am the owner of writing site.

Name them.


That's funny-I seem to recall you repeatedly claiming that you do not own any sites.

Brunch, anyone?

working for 5 sites. essaybrunch is fake

Fracturegang is obviously joking. But I don't understand how you can work for more than three sites. I primarily write for two, but also have accounts with three others, which have turned out to be big disappointments. One of them is called allwriting.net. I am really curious, is there anybody writing for these guys? Their prices during the high season can go as high as $5/page, and so you can imagine what they offer during the low season. Anyway, I think a good writer can do a max of two sites, but i could be wrong.

No, he's not. He's just a lying idiot.

That should be almost impossible, especially when the orders are steady.

Why would a writer want to get an account with a company and never complete a single order for them? (or only complete a few a year?).

Isn't it waste of time/money by both the company and the writer?

Lately, about 70% of my work is from private clients, but I still do a lot of work other legitimate essay sites.

freelancewriter,

you have any advice on how to find private clients? :)

Do you deserve the right to request me?


You are a disgusting, pet and paid liar of ET.

None that I plan on sharing with potential competitors.

Why was my previous post edited (and made grammatically incorrect) by the administrators? All I did was list some of the sites that use me. WB asked another poster to name the sites he works for and I was just doing exactly that.

yeah, i noticed that edit. it was a little draconian.

5-10 companies minimum...

O my God! I got it today! I always wondered why all of my offensive comments appeared to be grammatically incorrect. It is the Admin that is responsible for it.

I work for three reputed service providers, and it keeps me occupied seven months out of twelve.

When I first started out as an academic writer, I signed up for all the companies I could Google since, at the time, Google was still academic outsourcing friendly.

There was also a good chance that the companies were not under an umbrella organization so it was easier for me to sign up.

I treated the jobs like I would try on hats. Those that fit my personal requirements, I stayed on with. Those that were unreasonable or never paid on time, I had no problem letting go of. I guess that is why I did not have a true average of writing sites.

At one point in time, I was working for 10 companies simultaneously. I eventually worked that down to 3 companies.

Over time, as my relationship with these companies evolved, I began letting go of the others until I was eventually left with one company where I climbed the ranks so fast that even the summer down time was not a real down time for me.

By the time I left the business, I was only connected with one company so I guess that would be my average number of sites worked for in the long term.

The writers in my employ often have several companies lined up where they actively work as contracted freelancers on a per job basis. One of my writers admitted to me during one meeting that he was working for over 10 companies at the time. His explanation was that since most of the companies he worked for had a fining and penalty policy in place, he had to make up the difference in his income elsewhere. Hence his need for several employers at one time. I told him that he wasn't doing anything except spreading himself too thin and he would eventually begin dropping companies to focus on just one or two. Just as @Smiley73 said, he eventually ended up working for just one, the one that treated him well and paid him the best, my company. From that experience, I can say that a freelance writer who has an excellent working relationship with his employer needs only one company, the one that acknowledges his needs as a person and as a writer.

That's strange. I've been a freelancer since 2012, and have since worked for (for any period of time) about 8 or 9 different companies in addition to an ever increasing workload from private clients. Some of these companies fell off the grid since then, but I still maintain relations with at least 4, sometimes 5 of them. The point is that experienced writers will never take more than they can chew, and moreover, freelancers are freelancers because they don't want to work for any single person or a company. I will never limit myself to a single company for all of my work, simply because I want to be as free as possible. Some people may yearn for the security of long-term employment, but I tried it, and it wasn't my cup of tea. I'll take less money (if necessary) but more freedom every day of the week. To illustrate, I've turned down at least three offers to sell my freelancing business to larger companies in the last two years. All of them wanted me to come and work for them as a manager.

For most of the decade that I was primarily an essay-company writer, I worked for only one company. Technically, I wrote for dozens of "companies," because they run dozens of essay companies under totally different names (and own hundreds). However, in any practical sense, that's immaterial to writers, simply because we had a single assignment board and customer-service team that represented and managed all of the orders from those many different companies, and we received only a single paycheck from the parent company.

I know, but you and I started from substantially different points. My first experience with academic writing was not as methodical, should I say, as yours was. I kinda just stumbled into this field by proxy and grew into it as I learned the ropes while working for a small company - it was basically just one lady that sub-hired me. I was maybe 6 or 7 months in that I started looking at the best way to go solo and actually went through with it soon after. You on the other hand, worked for a company for years, and that company was probably good for you or you wouldn't have stayed as long. Only after years of experience did you venture on your own. Most of these differences are due to location, as I did not have access to many of the resources and opportunities available to you and other US writers, so I had to make due with what I had. As we all know, ESL writers are not really the cream of the crop, so proving myself and fighting my way up wasn't easy. However, I stand by what I said, now that I have 6 years under my belt, I would never limit myself to a single company, even if it kept me busy constantly (and some of them do, or try to).

Understood. I was just sharing my experience, not disagreeing with anything you said.

It's only possible to have five to ten accounts perhaps when you're only starting out in freelance writing. When you haven't established a relationship with an employer yet, then of course you would not necessarily have the rate that you want and would perhaps not be given as many projects as you wish to do so. But I do agree that maintaining this number of accounts is nearly impossible, especially if there's consistent work flowing into from at least two of them.

Because of this, I opted to work for now for just three contractors. This gives me more freedom to choose what type of work I want to do while, at the same time, ensuring that I still have sufficient sources of income to sustain myself. It's all about balancing, really. It would also depend on what particular work or service you are providing to other people.

I must be in a unique situation here. While I do run my own academic outsourcing business on the side, I also work for 2 other writing companies at the same time. Basically, I work on "writer request" basis at those companies so that I am not really working for them full time. In total, I work for 3 companies. I work for myself directly (while also employing other writers at the same time), and I work for 2 other companies. When I find that I have spread myself a bit too thin, I outsource the excess orders to my own writers, who never know that they are getting only a percentage of the actual cost of the paper. I get the lion's share, having found the work, they get the spoils, for having done the work. So far, the 3 company set up has worked fine for me, and the writers attached to my side business.