[Raven]

For me, it's lasted longer...because I simply won't back down.

I've expanded my business into consulting and financial planning and I've given up writing stories.....except on occasion....

I'm what people now call a financial planner, marketing dynamo, professional nag..and writing comes with the retainer....

I look around and I see writers...damned good writers....sell their souls for peanuts...and I can't stand it.

There is a program who offered me a whole dollar for advertising text links and told me I was insane for my asking price.....and I was giving him a deal because he wanted bulk.

When will people wake up and realise that ad text ....is comprised of very few words designed to attract....to entice.

Advertising people make quite a bit of money...to come up with that catchy phrase....

But, this industry? They think anyone can write an ad?
Or a story?
Or a bio that surfers will actually read?

Or keyword rich descriptions?

This is something that cannot and should not be outsourced and it's a shame that everyone goes to the message boards and asks for textual help.....and everyone says how important text is..and it is...because y'all are reading text now...that's all we have on the Internet.

No matter how fancy the graphics..no matter how beautiful the model...even the flash....you have to have text.

Marry the graphics and the words and you've got success. Otherwise it's just another cookie cutter site.

I've had this debate before with so many.....it's truly a shame....but, mainstream..thank goodness they haven't figured out how to be so cheap...they're still paying dollars per word.