Reviews Of Freelancers

This LAST copywriter I hired - Dale Davis I had problems with.

He charged me $700 each for a rewrite of 2 sites (that’s $1,400).

Then he charged me another $1,400 to edit 6 auto responder series I had written myself, and then he would write another 7 auto responders from scratch for the other site.

My copy is so long on both sites, so I never bothered to see what he changed. I just got my website coder to make the changes.

It was he who told me the changes were easy because there were hardly any of them which is when I started freaking out.

I still haven’t 100% calculated how much of the copy he did change even after paying people to compare the changes, but I think he changed maybe 2-7% of the entire copy.

So maybe he thought the copy was sooo great and if it was, then why are my conversions soooo low?

When I finally got around to inputting all the ARs into 1SC, it looked like the auto responders I had written myself had barely been changed.

Then the ones he created from scratch were very very short. I didn’t expect very long, but not 3-4 paragraphs per e-mail.

They are supposed to be free lessons of some kind that the potential customer would feel is worth something.

On top of that, his last 1-2 auto responders he had created from scratch had no content at all to them. They were just a “remember I sent you that info a few days ago, well buy now” sales pitch.

It was embarrassing.

So I told him how I felt (yup, as a client I have EVERY right to say how I feel), and what does he do, he starts giving me shit.

He says, “I’m a small business, I don’t know what I’m doing, I’ve been brainwashed by all these internet marketing gurus, etc.”

Then at the end of his response back he tells me (get a load of this), that he just wasted his time answering my questions (I had other questions in the e-mail I sent him, not just my complaint).

He also complained that it has taken me too long to get the new site and auto responders set up and that normally he charges $XXXX and he gave me a discount blah blah.

Once again, his decision, I never put a gun to his head. I had told him right off the bat when he quoted me that I wasn’t going to pay his rates. That is when he proposed a discount.

I wrote back and told him I won’t be talked to this way, and I haven’t heard from him since!

I never paid him the last amount thank god because for what I got, what I did pay him $1,400 it wasn’t even worth it.

Later on I went through everything with a fine tooth comb.

It took me HOURS AND HOURS wasting my time after I paid this guy.

I even made a list of all the mistakes he made because he made factual mistakes, he made promises I could never keep, or just weren’t true, he made tons of grammatical mistakes and spelling mistakes.

I also paid 2 editors to go through his work plus all the countless hours I spent editing things myself.

In the end the auto responders haven’t made me a dime.

Not the ones I wrote up and he supposedly edited, nor the ones he created from scratch.