Finding Students to Write For: Are There Any Viable Alternatives to Essay Chat?

Does anyone know where (or how) else one can offer essay writing services to students? Essaychat.com has been very helpful, but there is seemingly a lull there these days. Any ideas on how to communicate directly with many students seeking academic writers?

How long have you been doing this?

My idea is that you dedicate yourself to being an advocate for year-round schooling.

Another pointer - check the calendar (Jun-Aug are summer/slow months for writers and academic research services).

Thankfully, on EssayChat students can now check the real country of origin of writers who advertise there. I assume you're from Kenya so you're now trying to find 'viable alternatives' to hide your true location. There are good reasons not to have a Kenyan flag by an ad indeed.

Your assumptions are wrong - and uncharitable. First, I am from Nigeria, NOT Kenya. Second, I have never tried to "hide" my true location for any reason. Therefore, it is unfair to allege so blatantly that I am seeking alternatives in order to hide my "true location". I am proud of my nationality, and I do not deem it necessary to resort to subterfuge to get by. There will always be bigots and close-minded persons who (mis)judge others based on backgrounds and stereotyped perceptions, while (thankfully) there will also be fair-minded and objective persons who are capable of discernment and are willing to give others the benefit of the doubt!

I cannot pretend to be oblivious of the incidence of scams linked to Africans (and, specifically in the context of academic writing, as I only found out when I 'discovered' Essay Scam/Essay Chat, Kenyans). However, I insist that it is never fair to make sweeping generalisations. As far as I know, I am the only Nigeria-based academic writer that is active on Essay Chat, and since I know for sure that I have NEVER and will NEVER engage in fraudulent practices, I vehemently reject any insinuation that 'all' African writers are putative swindlers.

Since I started using Essay Chat, I have written several papers for a couple of customers whose feedback suggest that they are very pleased with the quality of my work (and work ethic) - and many of them have been pleased enough to assign subsequent writing tasks to me. All I seek is the chance to win over a sufficient number of customers to ensure a consistent inflow of orders and I will be contented. Don't make life difficult for me by throwing prejudice-driven allegations in my face.

Antarch, come contribute to my thread. Here's your chance to find something that loosely resembles legitimacy.

Your comments are often cynical and condescending. It's difficult to have a meaningful discussion with someone filled with so much negativity.

Well, you'll have a hard time surviving around here. I'm sorry if you see my sense of humor as negativity.

Now a days most of the students hire a professional writers to write an essay for them. There are many online companies available online who are providing the service for essay writing, there you will get many online professionals to write essay on any difficult topic.

If you want to offer essay writing services to students then you can check free lancing sites. It is a good source where you can offer your services. If you want particularly students then you can talk in some schools also.

If you are an independent writer with money to burn, then advertise aggressively on Google and Facebook. Use targeted ads in social media whenever possible in order to make yourself visible to potential clients. In the event that you are cash strapped, do it the hard way. Pound the pavement and try to get into the colleges and universities or at least, the places where these students spend their free time and do your best to network with them. Making sure that you give your calling card (does anyone still use those these days?) or Vcard, or whatever contains your contact information in relation to your services, to anyone who shows an interest in your services. It is definitely harder for an independent writer to find clients. That's why others opt to affiliate with established companies instead. EssayChat should be bringing in more new visitors this days because of the increased activity here at ES. You may just need to keep your visibility level high at this forum in order to gain new student clients.

Why money to burn? :) Google and Facebook are the biggest advertising platforms (but you're right that the competition may just click on your ads, even though it may either be calculated in price or refundable). Still, Google, technically, doesn't allow advertising of 'academic paper services' - ref: https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/google-ban-term-paper-ads-225/ (not sure if this policy is still valid though since there are some foreign services still advertising on Google). Bing and other search engines may allow it without restrictions.

Simply put, its all about SEO and rank positioning :-) When I was still working as a freelancer, I had an FB profile for my company that I set up. It was set up to update automatically across all my social media platforms. The problem that I had was that because I preferred a free profile (as I was just starting up), I was not paying for advertising even though FB was constantly telling me that my updates were not getting enough attention (they were suppressing the updates for my profile). Their advice was for me to purchase targeted ad campaigns for specific user pages so that my profile would be "highlighted". The choices were to pay weekly, monthly, and yearly. Hence the term "money to burn".

As for Google, the companies have gotten wise to the advertising situation and found a way to get around it. They now pay to have their "blogs" and "articles" highlighted. Somewhere within all those blogs and articles, you will find a link to the actual writing website. It's an expensive way to get around the ban but it works to a certain extent.

Bing and the other sites still allow for targeted advertising of academic writing sites. It will cost you a pretty penny but paying to use their SEO and top ranking feature does work for most. Based upon information from my friends and self-made network affiliates in the business, the students have come to realize this and have shifted their services search to those websites. My friends and associates now pay premium prices to make sure they get seen as often and at the highest ranking, that their ad payments can buy.

I have more than once had my own friends as clients because they needed someone who has SEO skills and knows how to best highlight keywords that get their paid ads noticed. Since I don't write essays anymore these days, I just help them edit their work before they submit it for use.

Alternatives include using the bidding system on UpWork and other available freelance writing sites. Something that I do not recommend. Why bid for the lowest prices on any job? Social media and personal pitches can only go so far in getting a writer gigs with students. One of the best ways to promote your services would have to be creating an affiliate system for your regular clients. That way the clients help promote the business and get a piece of the pie in the process. Yes, I am talking about giving the affiliates a discount code for every successful referral they make. Creating a steady flow of clients in this line of work is all about creating an effective network of low cost promotional tools. The regular clients, in this instance, are always a little tapped resource for new clients.

Building up a sufficiently large client base to earn a living doing this takes years. In the meantime, the only realistic option is to get hired by an essay company (or several) so that you have a steady income while you're struggling to build a private clientele. As your clientele grows, you can reduce the amount of work you do for the essay companies. At best, it's a very gradual process, even for someone with the ability to do this job well, and the vast majority of people who try to make a living this way discover that they just don't have the skills to do it well enough to earn a steady living from it over the long term.

A quick note on this would be that, when using bidding sites, bidding the lowest does not particularly help all the time because higher-paying clients are sometimes turned-off by the idea of low-paying labor.

There are exceptions, but generally, writers who are willing to go through a bidding process against other writers aren't as experienced or as good as writers who have managed to build their own clientele and who don't need to participate in any bidding systems for work.

I agree. Live bidding for projects and competing with other writers doesn't seem to attract high paying customers, either. I've dabbled with freelance platforms earlier in my career and found that the prices offered by writers from some countries cannot be beat - they have hundreds of workers and bid on virtually everything well below market rates simply because they can. Quality of the final product matches the quoted price, of course.

I've found this to be certainly true. When a writer is well-paid, he would often be a lot more motivated to work. It is also quite an indicator of the location of where the writer works in. If the writer comes from an English-speaking country, the likelihood is that they're often more used to writing at ease in comparison to ESL writers. This makes the writing process a lot smoother and easier. When the quoted price is able to match his standards, then there's a generalized assumption that the quality of output would be tantamount to the writer's overall work progress.

It is difficult for an independent writer to rely solely on forums and chat rooms, even social media, for a regular flux of clients. The market tends to get easily saturated in those areas so, unless a writer knows how to use local employment networks, it will be hard to get regular gigs. I have found that using some local chat rooms, such as the business chat room of my co-op and the group chat room of my kids school have helped me participate in alternative methods of service promotion and publicity. Private chats work well when offering my services to parents who need help with their children's homework and because we know each other or I am recommended by people they know, I often get the contract and in the process, get repeat clients for the rest of the academic year. Of course this is an open secret and nobody squeals since everyone is in on the benefits of the service.