Content Farm Has Trouble Filling Its Positions


Color us just “shocked,” really…freelance writer Oliver Pelling describes an experience he had with a company that offered him freelance writing work that turned out to be not exactly the glamorous life he’d envisioned.

It started when he received an email from a magazine he’d interned for the previous year, asking whether he’d be interested in writing freelance product reviews for £6.25 an hour.

That doesn’t sound like a lot, but Pelling says he was currently earning minimum wage, a little less than what the magazine was offering, so to him, it sounded like a great deal.

But then….

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