10 Things That Motivate Freelance Writers to Stay with Credible Essay Services

So, you're relatively new to the academic writing industry, and you've landed a good situation with a reputable company. You are reasonably sure that as long as you do a good job, they will keep working with you, to the point that you are also reasonably sure that you can earn most, if not all, of your income from this place. The support staff are nice and friendly, they don't seem to be slave-drivers, and so far, you have received your pay in a reasonable time frame. But you have doubts.

What could be the trouble, one might ask? Well, if you are anything like most of us professional writers, your doubts run from the understandable (how can I count on this company not to go under next year and then I've put all of my efforts into this one place?) to the slightly paranoid (what if they decide they don't like me anymore and smear my reputation all over the place so I never get work again?). Here are the top ten reasons to put those fears and doubts to rest.

10. Consistent Contact with the Outside World: The world of freelancing can be rather lonely. Facebook aside, there is little chance to talk about "the job" when you're earning your living as a professional freelancer. Most friends don't understand what you do anyway. So, it can be extremely helpful to have a support staff who is there to help you - who understands the ups and downs of freelance writing - who can vent with you about a difficult client - and who can even exchange a few emails with you about the vacation you took the week before. Don't underestimate the power of such regular contact.

9. No Need to Hunt Down Work: When you're all on your own as a freelancer, you also have to find all your own jobs. Sure, you can post on all the sites that exist to help independent freelancers, but you're still on your own to chase down every lead, make every sale, bolster your own reputation, and so forth. That's far more work than most people realize. If you work through an existing (and reputable) company, you don't have to do any of that work unless you want to. They do it for you, and you reap the benefits by being able to choose from among a steady stream of jobs.

8. Treatment as an Independent Contractor: Most academic writing companies will work with freelancers as contractors, not as employees. That means that you have the freedom to come and go as you please. Sure, they have the freedom to stop working with you as well after your last gig is successfully completed, but if you're a good writer and meet your deadlines, any company would be foolish to do so. This way, you also have the right to continue to pursue your own independent work and contracts, as you are not beholden to refrain from such activities as you might be were you an actual employee.

7. Quickness of Pay: Solid, reputable academic writing companies pay their writers on time. You complete a project, you submit an invoice for it, and you get paid within a day or two at most. This is extremely helpful when the rent is due and you had a few unexpected (yet fun) expenditures over the weekend. Getting paid fast is an amazingly helpful way to live.

6. Steady Research Work in the Slow Season: In the freelance academic writing world, it's feast or famine, even with all of the returning students and online students attending summer classes. Summer is always slow, period. However, for good academic writing companies, the word slow is relative. There are still theses and dissertations coming in, and in general, there is work to be found if you are willing to extend yourself accordingly. However, when you're in business on your own, you will almost definitely see the word "slow" turn to "dead" come June - and having no work at all for two or three months can be extremely hard.

5. Having Someone Else Handle Payment Disputes: So, the client doesn't like what you did, and is threatening to take his money back. You know for a fact that you did what the instructions required, and you also can prove this. If you're on your own, good luck, however. PayPal and other payment companies tend to favor the consumer over the vendor, so you will almost certainly not see that money again, even though you did nothing wrong. If you're in the hands of a good company, however, they will fight the fight on your behalf, and if you can prove it was not your fault, then you will not lose your money.

4. Communication with Client: Good companies differ, but most put clients and writers into direct contact with each other. This can be awfully helpful, particularly when you are working on a large project like a thesis where lots of questions might arise; it can be cumbersome sending everything through someone else. If you work with a company that does not provide such direct communication (because it is the case that some writers prefer never to have direct contact with clients), then if it's a good company, it will have reliable, fast support staff to help you maintain good communication.

3. Flexible Hours: When you're an independent contractor working with a company, as long as you pull your fair share, no one will be seriously annoyed if you take time off here and there, or if you aren't around in the day but ar at night. Or vice versa. Having that kind of flexibility with time is a gift more precious than words can say.

2. Privacy: When working with companies that put you in direct contact with clients, you will have a company-issued email address. That means that you don't have to use your own contact information, nor do client payments get sent directly to you. And THAT means that your privacy is ensured. You can even use a pseudonym if you want. No one will know who you are, and that can be an excellent thing in this invasive internet-driven world.

1. Regular Income: Hands down, this is, to me, the most important reason to stick with a good research paper company. You will be able to pay your rent. You will be able to buy groceries. On time. All because you won't have to rely on your own devices any longer to scrounge up money for bills. Getting paid steadily - a decent wage - is something few freelance essay writers get to enjoy. Don't throw it away if you have it. Of course, it's not possible to predict how much you can earn in a given period of time, but there are ways of supplementing income.

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Are there any more reasons to work with an essay service provider (or maybe it's better to focus on finding your own clients)? :-)

It is all sweet and peachy, but a company usually takes between 50% and 70% from each order, so you will have to work twice if not 3 times as much compared to finding your own clients. Working for a company means you will miss the opportunity to build your own reputation and get steady flow of clients. While the company could be good idea in a short term, ultimately it enslaves you, makes you work more and get paid less. Think about it, if you are a good writer instead of building your own reputation, you are building the reputation for a company that gets returning and satisfied customers.

What you write makes sense. Still,


by building your own reputation, you in fact create your own "company," don't you ;).

yes, but it is a company with one employee and it does not suck blood from other writers by paying them only 30-50% for orders.

What if you have more projects than you can complete; how much would you pay your colleague to help you out?

Then I will rise my prices (and routinely do so). I prefer to work alone.

Sounds reasonable, too.

The legitimate, American companies take 35%-50%.


All companies in all industries have employees and/or freelancers. The writing industry is not unique in that regard.

401k plan and dental

LOL, I like your sense of humor. 4/10.

I freelance for several essay companies, and they do give me 401ks with matching. They also give me health insurance. That's nice, but I miss the old days when they provided traditional pension plans.

Hello everyone,

My name is Julien, I am a student at Cardiff University's school of journalism and a freelance journalist.
I am currently investigating the essay-writing business and I would need your help for two things.

The first one is a question I am asking to people who bought any kind of assessment from any company based in the UK. What were the motivations behind ordering (poor English, time constraints etc...)? Do you order regularly? Did you find it successful? Did you find it expensive? How did you find the money to order?

The second one is a question I am addressing to writers who work for UK companies. What motivated you to become a freelance writer? How regularly do you write assignments and how much time you devote to them (approximately in hours per words)? How much money do you make (money per hours or words, or even a monthly average)?

Any comment you make might be cited in the articles I am writing. You will be cited by your pseudonym only.

Thank you very much for answering!

Best regards,

Julien

Hey Julien, you really need to take a remedial English course before you advance any further in your journalism studies. I'm sure your advisers have told you the same thing. Let me know when that happens, and I'd be happy to answer some questions for you.

This is the dreamworld that I try to create for my writers. The harsh reality is that we cannot always get the dreamworld. The stress of the job takes its place in everyday activities and, save for a few of the mentions in this list, most of the time my staff have to interact with the writers are limited to contacting the clients. Maybe a few jokes here and there towards the end of the paper submission, but other than that, there is no personal relationship or friendship among my staff. There just isn't any time for that when the server is exploding with students needing our help.

The problem I see now is that most of the credible writing services are being affected by the emergence of writing bots. Students are just shying away from hiring writers from essay services so the writers have no choice but the seek better work opportunities elsewhere. They need to earn and the companies these days simply do not have enough clients to go around their existing writers pool. The writers are also affected by what is happening in the writing world. AI has made the writing industry a worrisome place for writers. They never know what the bot will have taken their job.

If you can't write better than a bot, you should be especially worried.

There's really no such thing as "putting all of your efforts into one company." Writers simply complete whatever projects they take on from however many companies for which they write and from as many private clients as they can find. Writing for a company doesn't impose any kind of limitation on any other sources of work. Typically, freelance writers work for several different companies simultaneously and also try to cultivate their own clientele of private clients.


No company is ever going to just decide, arbitrarily, to fire a writer whose work is good. Even if a writer does get fired for some legitimate reason, no company has any incentive to go out of their way to "smear" any writer's reputation, afterwards. About the only exceptions to that would be where the fired writer initiates such an exchange to retaliate for having been fired by making accusations against the company on a public forum.


Before I managed to become entirely independent, I wrote for the largest group of affiliated legitimate essay companies (then) in existence, from 2003 through 2013. They considered me one of their top writers (out of hundreds), along with fellow forum members ProfessorVerb, ResearchPro, and Pheelyks, frequently offering me substantial bonuses to take on difficult projects and projects for friends and family members of the company owners. We had a very good working relationship, I'm still listed on their roster despite not having taken a company project since 2013, and I still refer projects to them, sometimes. However, in all of that time, we have never had any kind of personal conversations or ever discussed anything about our respective lives not directly related to projects.


Not exactly. First, there's a lot of intense competition among essay-company writers. At some companies, writers have to bid competitively for projects against the bids of other writers. At other companies, desirable projects always get grabbed off the assignment boards within minutes of being posted. When I relied substantially on work from essay companies, I had to have a different laptop set up next to every chair and sofa in my apartment, including the bathroom, precisely because the only way to get the best projects was to refresh the assignment-board screen (literally) about every 30 seconds. That was the main reason that I turned the largest room of my apartment into a fully equipped gym, so that I wouldn't miss out on projects being out of the house for 3 or 4 hours at a time most days of the week.

Second, while it does take some time and effort (and the expense of advertising and website maintenance, etc.) to cultivate a sufficiently large private clientele to rely on exclusively, once you eventually manage to do that, you don't really have to "hunt down" more clients beyond advertising and maintaining an online presence on forums such as this one. New clients are always coming in at approximately the same rate as existing clients complete their studies; so you really need relatively few new clients to maintain your clientele.


This is equally true whether you write for essay companies or only independently, or some combination of both. I know of no essay company that hires writers as employees, or that maintains any kind of on-site office for writers; all of them rely exclusively on freelance writers simply working from home, taking projects from an online assignment board, and uploading completed projects to the system, completely remotely. As a freelance writer, you have no more obligation to take on essay-company projects than to take on projects from direct clients. If anything, I've always felt more of a moral obligation to take work from private clients when it wasn't convenient for me and/or when I hadn't planned on working that day (or that week, etc.) than to take on essay-company projects. If a regular client needs a rush project whose deadline isn't flexible and I have to cancel my non-work plans to accommodate, I'll take the project to avoid leaving the client in the lurch, and I'll also explain that if I have to skip a workout or hockey or any other non-work plans to get it done, I'm going to charge more for that inconvenience, but I'll usually take the project if it's worth it to the client. When those types of situations arise at essay companies, I'd usually just message the client before accepting their request for me, to ask whether the deadline could be extended. If the answer was no, I'd just cancel the request and open the project up for placement on the regular assignment board, which is exactly what would happen automatically, anyway, if requested writers didn't take a project within whatever amount of time the company reserved requested projects for requested writers.

Finally, even that process of "requests" for specific writers at essay companies came with its own headaches that I don't encounter as an independent writer. Before I convinced the company to make requested projects unavailable to other writers, only the honor system prevented other writers from grabbing projects that clearly said "This project is a request for FreelanceWriter." In fact, that's why ProfessorVerb, ResearchPro, Pheelyks, and I got into the habit of taking projects requesting one another off the board and then emailing Admin and the requested writer that we were holding the project for safety until it could be moved to the requested writer's account. We continued to do this even after the company extended the exclusivity period from 3 to 6 hours, because 6 hours still wasn't enough to protect those projects if they happened to come in while we were sleeping or out of the house for the day.


Many of the points made in the OP's post strongly suggest to me that he had very little experience, if any, actually working for any essay companies, but none more so than this particular point. I know of no essay company that pays writers "within a day or two at most" for delivered projects (except for projects that just happen to be submitted a day or two before the regularly scheduled pay day). Almost all essay companies pay writers at the end of the month for all projects delivered that month and a few companies may pay writers every two weeks; none of them pays after each delivered project. Most importantly, with respect to comparing writing for companies and writing independently, independent writers who already actually do this for a living always require full payment in advance, just as all essay companies do. Nobody other than brand new entrants into this kind of work who are very desperate to get their first clients would ever even consider scheduling - much less actually working on or delivering - any project prior to payment in full. That doesn't mean we require clients to order and prepay for large projects in advance, because they can simply order and pay for a smaller section first; but whatever they want to order always needs to be paid up in full at the time the order is placed.


It's true that the summer months are much less busy, but around 2010, I first noticed that work continues to be available, whereas summers used to be almost dead. At that time, almost all of my work still came through essay companies, but that pattern has been the same for me since I became completely independent in 2013, because more and more students seem to be taking summer courses.


If you provide good work and you know what you're doing in terms of clearly communicating expectations and addressing any foreseeable issues with any project in advance, payment processors won't reverse a payment just because a "client doesn't like" your work. For the writer, it's really just a matter of having to prove that the work fulfilled all of the original specs and/or requests to the essay company versus having to prove it to the payment processor, directly.

Typically, (in about 90% of such cases), the writer is in the exact same position whether or not the work comes through an essay company. However, the one situation where there's an advantage to essay-company projects is that once in a while, the company agrees with the writer but offers extra payment to make the changes being demanded by the client, because that's just less of a headache for the company than having to respond to a formal payment dispute and also taking the risk of losing the entire payment.


Actually, essay companies use their messaging systems to prevent their writers and customers from contacting one another directly, for obvious reasons. Those systems work automatically, but wherever essay-company support staff need to get involved, they only slow down the communications process and (often) complicate things by misunderstanding what the writer and customer are saying about any project. They don't know anything about the project until there's an issue with it, at which time, they only know what the original order and specs say and what the writer and customer have communicated to one another.

Most issues between company writers and customers should never require the involvement of support staff in the first place, because anytime the client's complaint and/or request for a revision is justified, good writers will immediately acknowledge and apologize for any mistake and turn around the revision ASAP. Likewise, when customers' complaints are unjustified, an experienced company writer should be able to explain exactly why that's the case in ways that help customers understand why the requested revisions will have to be ordered and paid for as a supplement to the original order. I've always preferred to deal with direct clients and I never made any effort to hide my identity from them, because I know the quality of my work and I'm very careful to avoid any areas of potential misunderstanding about order specs.


You're equally flexible in that regard whether you write for essay companies or independently. As an independent contractor, (which is what all essay-company writers are), you can never be told when to work, when to take time off, or what projects to accept. As a practical matter, I always approached both situations the same, such as anytime a client needed a project when I wasn't necessarily planning on working. Even though I have no obligation to do so, I have always helped out my clients by writing projects even while I was on vacation, rather than leaving them hanging. Part of that is because I never want to lose any regular client, but the other part is that I understand the client's situation. I've had no choice but to refuse overnight rush projects that came in just as I was about to go to sleep or on my way out the door to a hockey game, but I can remember writing a series of essay-company Criminal Justice and Communications projects while vacationing in Florida, a couple of essay-company Cybersecurity projects about honeypots from my father's hospital room shortly before he died in 2007, and sections of a private client's Nursing thesis while on vacation in Europe, including on the flight.


I disclose my full name and address to prospective clients who want to check me out before trusting me with payment for their first projects, and I have no reason not to disclose my name, address, and landline phone number to any of my actual clients. In my opinion, nobody should ever trust any independent writer who uses only an anonymous email and who refuses to disclose his full name and contact information to anybody who has already trusted him with payment for a project. Similarly, I have always, very deliberately, used the exact same ID at every essay company and on every essay-writing forum, and as the username of my direct email address.


For about 10 years, I was substantially dependent on essay companies for assignments, because it takes time and patience to cultivate a sufficiently large private clientele to rely on, exclusively. By the end of 2013, I no longer needed any work from essay companies. When you don't have any direct clients, working for an essay company is really the only way to do this for a living. When you work independently, you have to do everything yourself and there are expenses that you don't have to worry about as a company writer, but that's far outweighed by the upside of not having to share up to 50% of the payment for projects with any company.