Flashlight website looking for a writer

I am looking for a professional writer that knows flashlights.

There is lots of writing to be done on topics ranging from flashlight games for kids, the differences between different LEDs, to the proper way to charge rechargeable batteries. I am looking for articles to be between 1000 - 1500 words in length.

Experience with Flashlights, LEDs, Outdoors, Gadgets and Wordpress is preferred. Let me know if you have experience with either of those.

This job will be for just one blog post but ultimately looking for a long term monthly contract writer that is a good fit.

This jobs 1 blog post:
article title “How To Take Care Of Your Flashlight”
1500 word minimum
no fluff

Long term blog posts will include

- About parts of flashlights

- Things to do with flashlights

- Flashlight repair

- Custom flashlights

- Flashlight reviews

  • Best flashlight guides

If you think you would be a good fit, please respond with your

- pricing

- you industry knowledge and experience

- writing examples

- your location

  • website, social media regarding your services

Thank You

  • Michael

PM me if you are interested, there has to be somebody here interested in getting paid to write about flashlights.

you might mention why, or what you expect to pay; nothin personal but seems spammy. :-/

I have a flashlight website that is starting to do well. I want to reinvest some of the income to produce more articles and build up the website. Currently I am limited to my own time but I have a full-time job and a new baby on the way so I can not write articles as fast as I would like to. The answer to this problem is to hire somebody to help me.

I have posted this job on:
Elance
Odesk
CandlePowerForums

I would prefer somebody that actually knows flashlights as opposed to hiring some technical writer from Elance or Odesk . I do not feel that it is appropriate to talk about how much money or the site until somebody that is interested and can show me examples of their writing ability. Currently I have a list of around 60 articles that I want to write or have written and that is not including any flashlight news or reviews.

I am looking to get somebody started asap and as it works in Elance and Odesk if you show me an example of your work and I like it we will initially make a deal for 1 article and you will will be paid for that article once it is delivered. It is in the best interest of the writer to work with me and make changes to the article before final delivery and payment to build a working relationship and set a standard for working on future projects.

This is not spam…

Would you mention the website in question?

I might write you an article.

I probably can’t write a whole article, but if you need someone to do a little bit of google legwork, I could probably help out.

PM pending

+1

Check out the post on cpf, pretty sure I found the site, but op didn’t respond yet. I can’t figure out why he wouldn’t link it…

Couldn’t find anything on CPF… Except a pleasant Greta lol

But a quick google search found me this

Seems to be it…

BLF, BLT, BTF, I just can’t keep them all straight …

Though the words policeman, firefighter and military occur in the very first sentence, it appears to be actually a consumer-based website, and not a leech-based website.

Well, it may not be spam, but it is kinda strange. What is the point to the whole website? It doesn't link to any lights that this guy would be making. so it is just one of the adword linking sites, where he gets money for link hits to Amazon? I mean, he has adword links all over the place on that site. Close enough to spam.

What I don’t understand is why you would come posting on the two largest domestic (flashlight) forums in such a way, while ultimately trying to grow your business. I mean, most/a lot of people who are actually looking get serious about choosing and learning about lights come to one of these to places. The last thing I’d want to do then, if it were my business, is leave a bad taste in the mouth of either community.

Let’s be honest. Regardless of what others might say, anything that we feel would grow our hobby would be warmly welcomed. It is shady — or rather non-transparent I should say — business tactics like these that scare people away.

Try writing what you want to have on your website for yourself
post your ideas here (use the commercial sellers forum)
People here will help you think through what you’re trying to say, and how to say it well.

That would make good use of the expertise and thoughtfulness given away free every day here.
People will help you out whether you’re just another person, or a small business, or someone trying to build a business.

Give more. That gets you rewarded.
So far you’re just reading:
Last seen: 2 days 16 hours ago
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Joined: 06/08/2014
Posts: 4

If what you want is to get the ideas given away free here, edit them down, and repost them on a business website — not so much to be encouraged.

Wow, I come on here and post a job. I want to pay somebody for work. I want to pay somebody to write about their hobby, and I get torn to pieces… Ofcourse this is a small business, how else do you think I could pay somebody?

I also want to apologize to anybody that pm’d me as I was not on here since I was doing family stuff over the holiday weekend.

To anybody that is interested in being a writer the position has not been filled as of yet and I hope that you can get past the fact that in order for a business to pay people to do things it needs to find a way to make money. Also, I am hiring a writer because it will help me have more time with my family and grow the site at the same time. If it leaves a bad taste in your mouth I am sorry but businesses do it all day long.

On your toes. But this forum really looms after the general population of this forum , many members here that do reviews of products go to get any financial compensation, and won’t favor one vendors products or services over another for financial gain, which is why I and many other trust members who do a review on this forum. Other BLFERS please pice your opinion here

Websites make money from advertisers, how is this guys website any different from BLF in that regard, SB doesn’t run this website for nothing. He offered to pay someone to write for him, how is this any different from someone getting a free light for doing a review. No links were posted to his site. He is looking for a flashlight writer and this is the perfect place to look.

First impressions are tough these days. I’m not trying to be an a$$, but rather I’m simply stating how your offer was perceived by the community. I fully understand family first, but with that being said, I wouldn’t post a somewhat open ended, strange-to-the-forum offer right before the holidays knowing I couldn’t respond real-time. Most people who register and start making partially-disclosed offers within their first few posts are spammers. Without anything backing you up, not even a link to your site, you put yourself into a bad spot. You know what they say— If it looks like a duck…

I would kindly suggest you share a little more about yourself, and also get to know the culture/people here. Being a businessman, you should already know that you should cater the way you communicate/advertise to fit the audience. This offer in a newspaper classifieds? No problem. This offer in a relaxed niche/hobbyist forum? Not so good.

Edit:

Oh, and I’ll go onto mention this:

I think your site is pretty good [conceptually], assuming the one I linked is your’s of course… I’m not sure of your exact goals and plans for it, but I think a lot of people would pitch in here. Building a beginners encyclopedia, buyers guide, blog type site would be a cool thing if it was done properly. Another business idea might be to not just hire one person, but make this a team project. Offer up a topic once/twice a week here along with a reward (money, lights, gear, etc.)… you could get a lot more in-depth and specialized write-ups if you did it this way. Lets be honest, any one person here doesn’t know everything. (except me of coarse :stuck_out_tongue: )

Too bad he used other people’s (forum members’) reviews as if they were his own. He wonders why people like me jumped on him. I’ll give a list, others can chime in if they wish:

1. The repeated mention of a flashlight used as a weapon. Come on, anything is a weapon, let’s not give ourselves a bad reputation.

2. Other peoples’ hard work deserves credit. Period.

3. You need to be transparent when you offer up a job. Can you imagine someone telling you to “just trust me” when your name and track record are on the line? Don’t you think they might like to know who they are writing for, what that person thinks and believes, and most importantly what they might strongly disagree with that has already been written?

4. You are very new to both of the sites I’ve seen your post on. It is very out of character as mentioned in the post I quoted to immediately ask for what you did. Forgive our collective caution, but you don’t have the credentials, so perhaps you could be a little more forthcoming when posting.