{"id":7813,"date":"2020-11-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediashower.com\/blog\/?p=7813"},"modified":"2021-02-19T18:51:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:51:46","slug":"top-10-content-writing-services-textbroker-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/top-10-content-writing-services-textbroker-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Content Writing Services: Textbroker Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have read our ranking of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mediashower.com\/blog\/top-10-content-writing-services-rated-and-reviewed\/\">top 10 content marketing companies<\/a> in operation today. We evaluated each company&#8217;s stats, but now we&#8217;re taking an in-depth look at each entry on the list so you&#8217;ll know exactly what to expect if you hire one of them to create content.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re analyzing the number-seven company: Textbroker.<\/p>\n<p>Textbroker was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.textbroker.com\/about-textbroker\">founded by Jan Becker-Fochler<\/a>, an SEO expert who recognized the demand for custom content. He envisioned a platform where writers could climb a ratings system in competition for clients&#8217; work, and Textbroker was born in 2005. It&#8217;s considered a content marketplace, which means that clients and writers team up through the system based on each client&#8217;s specific needs. Customers can choose the writers with whom they want to work and provide feedback in the form of a star-based rating.<\/p>\n<h2>How Does Textbroker Work?<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_7816\" style=\"width: 488px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/textbroker-1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7816\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7816\" title=\"textbroker 1\" src=\"http:\/\/mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/textbroker-1.jpg\" alt=\"Textbroker screenshot.\" width=\"478\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/textbroker-1.jpg 1245w, https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/textbroker-1-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/textbroker-1-1024x750.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s free to create a new account at Textbroker.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you want to hire a writer (or a team of writers) through Textbroker, you can sign up for a free account. You&#8217;ll have to provide your name, email address, and chosen password, and the form will ask how you heard about the company.<\/p>\n<p>You can order three different types of content:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open Order<\/strong>: This order gets broadcast to all the writers who have the star rating you select or higher. It&#8217;s a first come, first served system, which means that the first writer to select your project will be the one to write it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Direct Order<\/strong>: If you don&#8217;t trust the Open Order system, you can create direct orders for specific preferred writer(s). In other words, only authors you identify will be able to see and fulfill the assignment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team Order<\/strong>: If you need lots of work completed, you can create a Team Order. This means that you assemble a team of writers you like to complete your orders.<\/p>\n<p>Each of these options is included in the &#8220;Self-Service&#8221; option from Textbroker. The company also offers &#8220;Managed Services,&#8221; which means that the Textbroker team will take over the administration of your project. They will handle tasks like selecting writers, creating briefs, and seeding content.<\/p>\n<h2>How Much Does Textbroker Cost?<\/h2>\n<p><iframe title=\"Textbroker - Here&#039;s how it works\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p9g_SRg8px4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whether you go with self-service or managed services, you can select the price you want to pay based on the writer&#8217;s star level. Generally speaking, you&#8217;ll pay between $0.013 and $0.072 per word if you decide to place open orders, while commissioned content will start at around $0.024 per word.<\/p>\n<p>If these prices sound low, you&#8217;re not mistaken. These are extremely cheap prices for content in today&#8217;s marketplace, which might give you pause about the quality of the writing you&#8217;ll receive. Even Textbroker admits that content from two-star writers might &#8220;contain spelling, grammatical and punctuation mistakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As you select writers with higher star ratings, you might pay as much as $0.06 per word based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.textbroker.com\/clients-prices-conditions\">Textbroker&#8217;s pricing scale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What Do Past Customers Say?<\/h2>\n<p>Many of the client comments support the potential for poor-quality writing from Textbroker. For instance, Jean B. reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitejabber.com\/reviews\/www.textbroker.com\">SiteJabber.com<\/a> that &#8220;I have hired these writers a few times for web content but the last time was just ridiculous. I selected one of the higher levels of quality and what I got was complete garbage. Seriously &#8230; it was obviously written by someone who was just trying to stuff the article with words to max out the budget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greyson F. seems to agree, saying, &#8220;Company pays their writers peanuts, so you really get what you pay for. If you want cheap, blah material, go with them. If you want something quality, use a company that pays the writers for what they actually do.&#8221; Meanwhile, Richard F. laments: &#8220;Absolute rubbish. Do not use this company. They assign a writer to you, the work takes ages to complete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>What Services Do You Receive Other Than Writing?<\/h2>\n<p>If you choose Textbroker&#8217;s self-service plan, you get written content &#8212; nothing else. The managed services plan comes with a few extras, such as content seeding and tracking as well as writer selection and management. However, the company doesn&#8217;t promote your content or employ editors to quality-check the content for accuracy, grammatical soundness, and other essential factors. You have the option to order a proofreading service separately.<\/p>\n<h2>How Do You Get in Touch?<\/h2>\n<p>You can communicate with writers somewhat through the Textbroker dashboard when you place an order. Otherwise, you can email or call customer support to speak to a representative. The website also offers live chat if there are associates available.<\/p>\n<h2>Should You Hire Textbroker?<\/h2>\n<p>The concerns over content quality are important to note if you&#8217;re thinking about hiring writers through Textbroker. This might be a good solution if you&#8217;re looking for the bare bones of an article or another piece of content, but you plan to quality-control it in-house before you publish it.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;re familiar with Textbroker, you can look forward to our next review. 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