Easy, blog writing ain’t.
There sure are a lot of people getting into the writing game these days. It looks like easy money and all they need is a computer and free time. So every day you see new threads about “I will write for your blog” and “I write CHEAP PM me!”.
Every day you also see “I got scammed! This guy never finished my order - this guy doesn’t answer his PM’s - what happened?”
Now in the interest of full disclosure before I go ONE STEP FURTHER I should mention that I work with Chimera’s adult blog writing service. And I should ALSO say that no one (including me!) is perfect. We have dropped the ball a couple times but we have always picked it back up and tried our best to satisfy the customer. Anyone who says they have 100% satisfied customers is delusional or lying.
Anyway, the thing that I have learned from doing office work on this for a scant three months is that writing posts for your own blog is easy. Writing posts, in quantity, for other people’s blogs is HARD. Oh it sounds easy - “I could just work a couple extra posts in between my own work. I know how to write!” But it’s amazing how quickly you have more work to complete than you thought, and how different the requirements are for every order. And when you’re trying to write “in bulk” on a deadline, and you’re on your 100th shemale post of the day, sometimes it’s like your mind goes blank. You’ve seen the same gallery four times, all for different customers, and you have no idea what to write any more.
Not only that but (and I hope I don’t make anyone angry here) webmasters are a notoriously cheap bunch 
If you don’t know going in that they are going to want as much as they can get, for the least amount of money, then you aren’t being realistic. That’s just business! It isn’t personal. And as your workload grows, and you have less time to write for yourself, you will begin to see that although writing blog posts for others can get you pretty decent beer money, doing it all by yourself will never allow you to make a living.
And isn’t that what it’s all about in any business? Sooner or later, you have to hire people. To manage a staff, and still find a way to control quality. That is the point we’re at now, and it is tripping us up a bit, but we are learning and growing. We have a few writers now, we are always looking for more, and our workload just keeps growing. We have turned customers away - more than a few! - simply because I can’t figure out a way to squeeze 32 hours into 24. And we have had to stand firm on our prices when some potential customers wanted to negotiate lower rates. It’s economics 101 - when you have more customers than you can service, you raise rates to reduce demand. And I don’t want to become a Markov shop where we run a script, generate some crappy text all from a machine that doesn’t even make sense, and then sell it. We like writing about the content we’re provided and creating something unique.
One thing I am proud of is that our customers tell us that these blog posts convert. They do bring in sales, they do bring in visits. We do a lot more than just slap words on a page - we look at keyword density, at titles, at text that makes you want to click so badly your fingers itch. Much of this our customers don’t even know, they just know “our stuff sells”.
Why so rambly today? Well I’m getting ready for the next phase - to bring in more writers, to try and expand so that we can do this full time. Every webmaster at some point breaks out of the affiliate mold - they open a paysite, or they start a service or script design shop. For Chimera, Lucky and I it’s a writing service. I think it’s going to grow, and it already is becoming so much more than we thought back in June when we started. And I’m kind of looking at where we’ve been, reviewing our mistakes (we have made them) and our successes. Getting ready to dive in for the next chapter wherever that leads us. This blog gives me a great place to do that.
This is an exciting time for me 
I can’t wait to see what happens next.
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Congrats on the expanding business. Certainly I’m 110% satisfied with the service. I’ve made around 10 sales so far from your work on one of my blogs, another couple more and it will have covered the original cost…. and we are only a quarter way through the contract
Keep up the good work, and if prices have to go up, so be it!