Oops, I did step on some toes. May be it wasn’t well communicated but let me put it in better words. Hey, no biggy fights, I have too much work to worry about. I will certainly put my thoughts to clarify it. Was pending for quite sometime. Many have raised this, many objected and I stand with the responsibility to explain it.
Some ground work before I answer the many concern, “Why did I say that content writers have no future?”
Some traits that are always useful:
Writing is a trait that is always useful, with or without the tag “CONTENT WRITER”. Before jumping into conclusion lets visit some of the points.
Let’s define “content” using content categorization:
What does industry say about content writers (in general) and how they work?
A topic (generally connected type content and sometimes easy learning topics) is given to them to write about it. They will search across the web and will gather enough knowledge to pen down an article. Deadline 1 to 2 days (max 3 days), amount paid $1 to $10 (max). As Kamanshish said, “they are suppose to write something about the topic, thats it“. As he said, “it is not possible to produce quality work in that short time or with that budget“, just check out some of the freelance websites and their work. THEY ARE PURELY MAKING SEARCH ENGINES more spammy and thus OUR LIFE DIFFICULT. THEY ARE SPAMMING THE WEB with unwanted/useless content.
Then there are technical writers (background education required), financial writers (CFAs and other financial degrees), Person development writers/trainers and topic-expert writers. They do a wonderful job with their field. A technical writer is not a good financial writer and vice-versa.
Simple Acid Test to check content writer quality for that topic
One and only one acid test to determine your present standing as a content writer on any topic.
Do you have an opinion about what you write?
How to become a content writer designer?
There are many technical, financial and topic experts with immense knowledge about the subject but they don’t know how to put their experiences using words. A good content designer can help these topic experts design their content, this is a pure blend of engineering and art. Example: I have a great logo designer, he makes amazing logos but when I asked him to pen down an article on logo designing tips, he wasn’t able to frame it properly. Moreover people like us are grammatically incorrect most of the time. A good content writer is the one who:
This wasn’t an easy post for me, it took me more time than I thought.
I think not every content writer has a future but the one who delivers quality and have good experience can definitely survive in the market.
>> I think not every content writer has a future but the one who delivers quality and have good experience can definitely survive in the market.
I will put it this way I think not every content writer has a future but the one who have good experience and can develop an opinion about a topic will deliver quality and can definitely survive in the market.
Welcome to the blog Jeremy.
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(discussions, our way of looking at it can be different, its purely ok)
I have written content (on many topics), I have seen content of content writers, I have worked with a dozen of them. In most of the companies you are paid for essay type content. I am not again content writers, I am just explaining that when their content can become really helpful. In reality the difference between programmer and content writers is just 25% and rest 75% is the same, analysis and design.
We have pure programmers who just code, they don’t really understand the requirement, if we allow them to code without guidance, they will SPAM the word with unwanted applications, check hotscripts you will find many. We don’t value them much, we value the programmers who can understand the requirement well. 75% of software design depends on understanding of problem. We can experts programmers in various fields as well but in programming it is one or two application and client is the one who provides the real opinion about the application.
When I said opinion, I mean understanding of the subject not understanding just the topic. Ideally a person who understands the subject (connected part of it) can only have a good opinion about it. Imagine ourselves, do you think any content writer can write a better SEO article that what I can write? Can a content writer can write a better content than financial expert?
Look around the content writers at about.com
1) http://economics.about.com/mbiopage.htm – Mike is an economist and lecturer at The Richard Ivey School of Business located at the University of Western Ontario. He teaches courses on the “Global Environment of Business” that deal with economic performance
2) http://management.about.com/mbiopage.htm – John Reh is a senior business executive whose broad management experience encompasses managing projects up to $125 million and business units including up to 200-plus people.
3) http://sales.about.com/mbiopage.htm – Emjae Johnson, a woman in sales for over twenty-five years, has creatively developed unique techniques for increasing sales that aid both the independent sales person and the business owner.
Show me some content writers who are not domain experts.
In simpler words, people want to read experiences/findings/researches for connected topics as I explained in my blog post. Again its not a fight but an opinion