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I have been invited to contribute some material to a particular website, based on my expertise.
It would be about 5 pages worth of content.
The publisher wants to know what I expect by way of compensation, but the site is American, and I have no idea.
Genuine question that I need answered ASAP: Any idea of how much a writer should ask for?
Thanks for that.
It depends!
1. Are they playing off your name? Clearly if you are world famous and your name brings them value you deserve more.
2. Will your name even be on the content? If you are not world famous for this would you like to be? If your name is on the content that might help, will bring you more work in the future, could help your core business. If it brings you benefits you don't need to charge as much. Do you have a website you want traffic to come back to? A "cross link" would help you.
3. How long will it take you to write the content? How much money do you make per day/hour
4. Who will own the copyright? If you want to write something very similar for me are you free to?
5. Are there lots of other people they can ask - if they can then you can't be too expensive. If you are unique you could charge more.
6. How big is the site? How much traffic do they get? How often do they pay to add new content like this.
Depends on the niche.
Is it standard slash fic or properly kinky?
Those are questions I have never had put to me before, poly. I have written pieces for magazines and websites and either not been paid at all, or been given only an honorarium.
The thing is, I know that I bring in readers, and I am ready to start asking for proper compensation.
Consequently, you raise some important issues for me to deal with.
@GrahamS: 😆
Excellent link by perditus, you have your answer there surely. 😀