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6:34 pm
March 2, 2012
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Last year, I started my journey out of the bidding-site slums thanks to advice of so many here and other freelancers I've gotten to know. After much trial and error, I launched my own website last month. My 11 years of experience are in business writing and online content for businesses, so that's my specialization. I still have several low-paying clients paying the bills while I gain new, higher-paying clients by trying out Jenn's query-free marketing. And it seems to be working. I've received over 10 queries from new prospects in the past three weeks.
However, every single one of them has the eye "bug out" moment when I give them a quote for the content they want. All have wanted me to half if not third my rates. Today, I had a phone conference with a blogging prospect who wanted to pay me $20 per post. My base rate is $100 per post. I've had nearly identical conversations with several potential blogging clients (as well as web content clients). We have a good consultation, I give them a quote, and they shut down.
I need advice. Am I doing something wrong? Am I charging too much (don't think I am)? Is my client-targeting not so targeted? Do I look like an amateur, so that's what they're expecting? Is it even too early to tell? I know ten prospects isn't a lot to go on but it seems odd to me that every single one contacted me knowing my rates without wanting to pay them.
Any help would be much appreciated since I feel like the floor just dropped out from under me in an area I thought I had covered fairly well. If you need visuals, here's my website: http://writeresultsonline.com/.
10:33 pm
February 11, 2010
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Normally I'd tell people to put their rates on their site, but I can see you already did that. Where are the prospects finding you? Are you advertising somewhere where your rates aren't available? I find if they're not included in a profile somewhere for example, people are sometimes to lazy to look for the info on your site -- no matter how easy you try to make it for them.
I'm on vaca now so I won't be checking the forum much, but if you can give us some background on what query-free tactics you're using, where you're most active platform-wise, and how clients are finding you, it might be easier to pinpoint where the miscommunication is between what you're advertising on your site and what clients are coming to you expecting. I'll be back on January 2nd. So at that time I'll do my best to give some detailed suggestions when I have a bit more background. In the meantime, happy holidays! It sounds like you're well on your way to kicking off the new year right. 
Jenn
8:35 pm
March 2, 2012
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Whoops! The holidays got away from me and I forgot all about posting here. 
Okay. I'm only just starting the query-free approach, so I haven't expanded past a handful of tactics just yet. They include:
- Maintaining a SEO-friendly website & connected blog (where I post weekly)
- Social media networking
- Job boards (such as the one you've provided here)
- Engaging in conversations on "answer" sites such as LinkedIn Answers and Yahoo Answers to provide authority/links back to me
- Guest posting on subjects within my niche
- Word of mouth from current and past clients as well as a few friends and family who are connected within their own businesses
I'm most active on my blog, Twitter, and LinkedIn (where I have both a profile and a company page). The prospects are coming primarily from job boards and referrals with a few stragglers from LinkedIn. If a job board provides a rate estimate area, I'll put in an average. Other than that, my website is really the only place with full details on my rates (which I'm careful to provide a link to anywhere and everywhere I can). Maybe that's the problem.
Though the last prospect I talked to told me up front he hadn't bothered to look at my website and wanted my quote directly. After reviewing his project, I gave him an estimate and he said he never paid writers that much. However, he loved the high quality I provided so could I do it for less for him? I said no and he got offended.
What I'm worried about is that I somehow give off a minimum-rate air, so that's what clients expect. I did a lot of research on my competition before deciding on my current rates, with input from your handy-dandy rate calculator, so I don't think the problem is the rates. But that's exactly what I feel like after ending a conversation with these kinds of prospects. Am I not specialized enough? Are my query-free tactics too obscure? I just don't know. That's why I need some advice. 
11:47 am
February 11, 2010
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Hi Jessica. No worries. I was off for the holidays myself, and only came back this morning, so we both weren't posting for a while.
Okay, down to business now.
I spent some more time on your website, and some definite problems jumped out at me. But first let me start with the positive.
The list of query-free tactics you're using sounds great. If anything it's an aggressive start, and that's a very good thing. Just stick with it -- especially the blogging and social networking as both can take time to bring in leads. Keep working those network contacts to land early gigs, and before too long your others efforts should start picking up the slack.
And now let me try to address two potentially big problems that might be costing you gigs -- or at least gigs from the kind of clients you really want.
1. When I looked at your website in more depth, I noticed that you had borrowed an awful lot from my own professional site (ProBusinessWriter.com). It's the same basic design, navigation, and even the copy isn't drastically different. It comes across as a rewritten version of an existing site with some images swapped out. That's a problem for a few reasons.
-- First, while I'm sure you didn't borrow so much of my site intentionally, and I'm delighted that you thought my site was worth pulling inspiration from, a derivative site is a copyright issue. Obviously that's of concern to me in this case because it affects my own site. But that can also trickle into your client work even if unintentional.
Reworking existing material without permission is never okay. And if prospects see that, they might worry they'll get the same in any Web content you write for them. Even though it's not legal, it's a commonly requested service called either rewriting or spinning content. And clients looking for that kind of work pay bottom of the barrel prices because they know they can get away with it. They're not paying for truly unique material. If they're lumping you in with writers who openly offer that service, that could be one reason you're getting lowball offers or people balking at your rates.
On the other hand, higher paying clients might avoid you if they notice the similarities (which they likely would if they simply searched for a business writer to compare your rates to because my site is near the top of the results).
-- Second, while the content is not exactly the same, much of it's rewritten. Not only can a human tell that by looking at the two sites, but so can search engines. And Google in particular has cracked down on that kind of content. What that means is that Google sees two sites and can usually tell which existed first based on their crawling history.
When you create something too similar and their algorithm catches it, you'll never be able to rank high in search results with the new content. Basically, they penalize the derivative site. Even if you rank well temporarily, it's usually fixed in a later update and you'll drop again.
By not ranking well for your target keywords, your website can't really do its job of attracting qualified prospects for you. And it's the group of prospects who find you because they're directly searching for you who seem to be more likely to review your site before contacting you. So they're more likely to see your rates and they won't have that "sticker shock" when you give them a quote on their project. Those are your ideal prospects.
-- Last, but certainly not least, having a derivative site doesn't help you put your best foot forward. It's important to make your site uniquely your own. That's especially true if you offer business writing services like copywriting. Your own site is your most important portfolio piece. You want it to shine, and you want it to reflect your own individual brand. You lose that branding element (and can negatively impact the branding of others) when you rework something already out there.
That's not to say you can't use similar navigation items and such. Some copy will be similar across many sites (like having an About page and an online portfolio). You just want to make sure the copy itself is completely your own. Rather than reworking the FAQs on another site, think of things prospects have asked you, and try to phrase them in a way that would likely appeal to those same folks. Design-wise you could make some tweaks that really make it your own too -- instead of using the home page header I came up with for my site you might use a full-width image slider or even bring in dynamic content like an excerpt from the latest blog post (which gives you the benefit of having fresh content there, which search engines love).
Okay, enough on that. Basically I'd just suggest you tweak the design and copy in a way that the site is your own and can't be confused with any similar sites. Remember, you want to stand out and show prospects what you offer to clients, not blend in.
The other possible issue that I noticed was your portfolio. You have to be very careful about what work you highlight there. For example, the first one I happened to click was for an article on payday loans.
While there's nothing wrong with writing about the subject matter if you're comfortable with it, that niche is a very popular one in the low priced content writing market. That's because it's a popular Adsense niche for MFA (made-for-Adsense) sites. These are often run by the webmasters you'll find on forums or freelance bidding sites who want content for $5 or so (sometimes even less!).
The best way to avoid attracting those clients is to avoid showing them samples that appeal to them. I know that sounds a bit silly. Maybe you've heard the phrase "don't feed the trolls" when it comes to people who like to leave nasty blog comments. In that case it means you don't respond to them, because they feed off of responses and keep on going. In this case tell yourself "don't feed the crappy clients." Don't highlight content in niches that attract those buyers, or they'll assume you're just like the other low-priced writers they've found who are willing to churn out quick content for them. It's another case of making sure your site helps you rise above the competition and stand out rather than blending in -- especially if it means blending into a group you don't want to be associated with.
Now I'm not saying your whole portfolio does that. That's just the example I happened to click on because it was the one that caught my attention visually. With that in mind, what you might do is pick your best 3-4 samples in niches that you think would attract higher paying clients. Get rid of the rest. And instead of having a quantity-based portfolio page, you'll have just a few samples. But you could showcase them in case study formats. You'll give more detail about the projects. Plus, case studies are well-paying business writing gigs, so they can become portfolio pieces all their own! It's something I've thought about doing on my site for years, but never got around to it. And now that I'm cutting back on client work to focus on other things, I don't expect to make that change. So that's an excellent example of something you can do to differentiate your site. Not many writers whose sites I've looked at do that. And I think more should.
The only other rate-related thing I noticed was a small thing. You mentioned $.60 per word as a content writing rate. I used to list per-word rates for that, and it didn't go over as well. I don't know if buyers didn't feel like calculating post rates from that or what. But when I switched back to offering posts and articles at post rates (different length categories at different rates), inquiries from people with serious budgets increased again. So that might be something to consider.
Other than that, I'd say to just stick with what you're doing. If you could increase your blogging a bit more, that could also help, especially as your building initial blog content. And definitely push the guest posting. What you might consider there is a virtual blog tour where you line up a good number of guest posts over the course of one or two weeks. What that does is put your name and face in front of your target audience repeatedly in a short period of time. It's a good way to build some name recognition, and you immediately look like an authority source if people see you publishing on more than one site they read.
I hope some of that helps!
Jenn
6:37 pm
March 2, 2012
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Jennifer Mattern said
Hi Jessica. No worries. I was off for the holidays myself, and only came back this morning, so we both weren't posting for a while.Okay, down to business now.
I spent some more time on your website, and some definite problems jumped out at me. But first let me start with the positive.
The list of query-free tactics you're using sounds great. If anything it's an aggressive start, and that's a very good thing.
Just stick with it -- especially the blogging and social networking as both can take time to bring in leads. Keep working those network contacts to land early gigs, and before too long your others efforts should start picking up the slack.
And now let me try to address two potentially big problems that might be costing you gigs -- or at least gigs from the kind of clients you really want.
1. When I looked at your website in more depth, I noticed that you had borrowed an awful lot from my own professional site (ProBusinessWriter.com). It's the same basic design, navigation, and even the copy isn't drastically different. It comes across as a rewritten version of an existing site with some images swapped out. That's a problem for a few reasons.
-- First, while I'm sure you didn't borrow so much of my site intentionally, and I'm delighted that you thought my site was worth pulling inspiration from, a derivative site is a copyright issue. Obviously that's of concern to me in this case because it affects my own site. But that can also trickle into your client work even if unintentional.
Reworking existing material without permission is never okay. And if prospects see that, they might worry they'll get the same in any Web content you write for them. Even though it's not legal, it's a commonly requested service called either rewriting or spinning content. And clients looking for that kind of work pay bottom of the barrel prices because they know they can get away with it. They're not paying for truly unique material. If they're lumping you in with writers who openly offer that service, that could be one reason you're getting lowball offers or people balking at your rates.
On the other hand, higher paying clients might avoid you if they notice the similarities (which they likely would if they simply searched for a business writer to compare your rates to because my site is near the top of the results).
-- Second, while the content is not exactly the same, much of it's rewritten. Not only can a human tell that by looking at the two sites, but so can search engines. And Google in particular has cracked down on that kind of content. What that means is that Google sees two sites and can usually tell which existed first based on their crawling history.
When you create something too similar and their algorithm catches it, you'll never be able to rank high in search results with the new content. Basically, they penalize the derivative site. Even if you rank well temporarily, it's usually fixed in a later update and you'll drop again.
By not ranking well for your target keywords, your website can't really do its job of attracting qualified prospects for you. And it's the group of prospects who find you because they're directly searching for you who seem to be more likely to review your site before contacting you. So they're more likely to see your rates and they won't have that "sticker shock" when you give them a quote on their project. Those are your ideal prospects.
-- Last, but certainly not least, having a derivative site doesn't help you put your best foot forward. It's important to make your site uniquely your own. That's especially true if you offer business writing services like copywriting. Your own site is your most important portfolio piece. You want it to shine, and you want it to reflect your own individual brand. You lose that branding element (and can negatively impact the branding of others) when you rework something already out there.
That's not to say you can't use similar navigation items and such. Some copy will be similar across many sites (like having an About page and an online portfolio). You just want to make sure the copy itself is completely your own. Rather than reworking the FAQs on another site, think of things prospects have asked you, and try to phrase them in a way that would likely appeal to those same folks. Design-wise you could make some tweaks that really make it your own too -- instead of using the home page header I came up with for my site you might use a full-width image slider or even bring in dynamic content like an excerpt from the latest blog post (which gives you the benefit of having fresh content there, which search engines love).
Okay, enough on that. Basically I'd just suggest you tweak the design and copy in a way that the site is your own and can't be confused with any similar sites. Remember, you want to stand out and show prospects what you offer to clients, not blend in.
The other possible issue that I noticed was your portfolio. You have to be very careful about what work you highlight there. For example, the first one I happened to click was for an article on payday loans.
While there's nothing wrong with writing about the subject matter if you're comfortable with it, that niche is a very popular one in the low priced content writing market. That's because it's a popular Adsense niche for MFA (made-for-Adsense) sites. These are often run by the webmasters you'll find on forums or freelance bidding sites who want content for $5 or so (sometimes even less!).
The best way to avoid attracting those clients is to avoid showing them samples that appeal to them. I know that sounds a bit silly.
Now I'm not saying your whole portfolio does that. That's just the example I happened to click on because it was the one that caught my attention visually. With that in mind, what you might do is pick your best 3-4 samples in niches that you think would attract higher paying clients. Get rid of the rest. And instead of having a quantity-based portfolio page, you'll have just a few samples. But you could showcase them in case study formats. You'll give more detail about the projects. Plus, case studies are well-paying business writing gigs, so they can become portfolio pieces all their own! It's something I've thought about doing on my site for years, but never got around to it. And now that I'm cutting back on client work to focus on other things, I don't expect to make that change. So that's an excellent example of something you can do to differentiate your site. Not many writers whose sites I've looked at do that. And I think more should.
The only other rate-related thing I noticed was a small thing. You mentioned $.60 per word as a content writing rate. I used to list per-word rates for that, and it didn't go over as well. I don't know if buyers didn't feel like calculating post rates from that or what. But when I switched back to offering posts and articles at post rates (different length categories at different rates), inquiries from people with serious budgets increased again. So that might be something to consider.
Other than that, I'd say to just stick with what you're doing. If you could increase your blogging a bit more, that could also help, especially as your building initial blog content. And definitely push the guest posting. What you might consider there is a virtual blog tour where you line up a good number of guest posts over the course of one or two weeks. What that does is put your name and face in front of your target audience repeatedly in a short period of time. It's a good way to build some name recognition, and you immediately look like an authority source if people see you publishing on more than one site they read.
I hope some of that helps!
Jenn
Thanks so much for taking the time to review my site, Jenn. It's so very helpful, especially considering the other demands on your time. I was thinking my tactics were minor at best so I'm very pleased that you consider it an aggressive start. Now I just have to exercise some patience.
I did see your home page and loved it, so I will admit that I designed something similar. I had already designed my logo and color scheme before I even found your site and, while a little disappointed that it wasn't as original as I thought it was, I considered them different enough to stick with it. Other than those, I honestly am mortified that they're so similar. I took another look at your website and I do see the similarities. It wasn't my intention to steal or borrow any of your work. I think I visited once weeks before beginning my own. I didn't have a clue what I was doing when I began to create my site, so I visited many different freelancer websites to get a feel for what clients might expect to see. If anything, I based most of my content inspiration off of a friend's graphic design website that she was in the process of taking down (she has a brand new graphics-based one now). I must have subconsciously absorbed more from your site, but I honestly didn't mean to borrow so heavily. I do apologize. I have a full workload this week but, as I can, I'll take down all content that bears similarity to your site.
I completely understand and agree with what you said on writing original content. I saw a lot of that when I first began working for bidding sites and even had a few clients insist that it was what I needed to do for them. I refused and have always been careful to use my own words. I even tell new clients up front that I don't do rewrites. I've always prided myself on staying away from rewrites and now my site makes it look exactly the opposite. Like I said, I'll be fixing it as soon and as quickly as I can.
Your comments on my portfolio pieces made me stop and say, "Wow." None of it occurred to me before. It makes perfect sense as soon as you state it but I just didn't think about it. I do get a lot of prospects coming to me with similar projects that just need “churning out.” Might be why. The case study idea sounds great! I'd love to implement that. But this one I'll need clarification on: what does a case study look like? I don't know that I've ever seen one (at least, one that has been labeled as such), though from your description, I think I have a fair idea of what it is.
Most of the other freelancers I researched listed articles at the per cent rate even when everything else was per post or job. I thought it was the “thing” to do. Definitely makes it easier on me to calculate it by length since I've calculated almost everything else that way.
Ah, yes, the blogging. Always easier said than done for me, since I have another blog with a regular audience that covers my fiction and the fiction itself to write on top of that. Starting this week, I plan to add a new post to my business blog once a week to keep my sanity in all three areas. Is that often enough?
Again, Jenn, thank you for the time you put into this and especially for being so gracious about the website. I feel like I can't apologize enough. Your comments have already given me new ideas and have cleared up quite a bit of the confusion I've felt.
9:08 am
February 11, 2010
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My apologies for taking to long to respond. I've been a bit sidetracked over the last week.
I'm glad to hear you plan to make some changes to your sites. Much appreciated.
As for your portfolio, sometimes it just takes a fresh set of eyes. One thing you can do moving forward is think about the non-ideal prospects who contact you. If they come in with a lowball offer, step back and ask yourself "what might have attracted this person to me and my work?" When you figure out where they're coming from by stepping into their shoes, it can be easier to tweak your portfolio, rates, or whatever else attracted the wrong kind of client in the first place.
I see a lot of freelancers using per-word rates too. There's certainly nothing wrong with it. I just know from my own experience offering similar services that clients reacted very strongly in favor of article, page, and project rates. Anything that cut down on their math seemed to help.
I completely understand the challenges of regular blogging. I run a few dozen myself. 
Once a week should be fine for keeping some renewed attention on your site. I'll admit I tend to neglect my business site's blog, especially when I'm not looking to take on new clients. That's on my goal list for changes this month. Keeping the blog as fresh as possible will help keep you in prospects' minds more often. And anything that does that is a good thing. So if once a week is what you can manage, then go for it. If you can do more, do more. It's more important to try to stay consistent than worry about a specific post count.
Hope that helps.
Jenn
12:36 am
March 2, 2012
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Thanks again, Jen, for all your advice. It's very helpful. I'll let you know how it goes!
11:58 am
June 6, 2011
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Coming late to this discussion. A good one!
I'm just going to come out and say it and hope that in the spirit of camaraderie we can discuss this openly….. Jessica, your site is nearly identical to Jenn's site. While your intention may not have been to do any harm, the outcome is exactly that. Harmful.
Here's what I see:
1) the design is identical
2) the wording, which appears to be reworked off of the original, is too much like Jenn's site
3) the layout is identical
4) there's nothing there that distinguishes your site from Jenn's site
5) the site is not different enough from Jenn's to even consider being original
The problems are multiple, I'm afraid. While it's great to emulate someone you admire and base your ideas on someone else's ideas, it's definitely not okay to take the entire design, color scheme, wording, and arrangement, rework it, and call it yours. Yes, you rewrote. However, what many freelancers do not understand is that rewriting is not creating an original document. It's bastardizing someone else's work and watering it down. That does harm to the original author, and it kicks the hell out of your own credibility. Your work HAS to be your own. If it isn't, there's no point. And it's a huge liability to you as that opens you up to copyright and trademark infringement. While your information on your site -- about, services, clients, contact -- will be similar to what other writers are presenting, in no way should it be a carbon copy of someone else's information.
I would highly suggest you dump what you have and start new with your own ideas and your own design. Either opt for a template design from a web host or pay a designer to give you something uniquely yours. Otherwise, you'll never stand out from someone else, and that means you open yourself up to litigation, and you can't differentiate. Not only that, your site sounds like Jenn, not you. I get no sense of who YOU are. That has to be in your site or clients won't really know why they should hire you. And lord forbid they go from Jenn's site to yours! That would kill your credibility, and I daresay Jenn's might take a huge hit as it looks like you've both used a template, which I know in Jenn's case is not so.
I hope this helps.
12:31 pm
February 11, 2010
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First, to be fair, I do use templates as the base for most of my sites. I pay for premium templates, and then I invest quite a bit of time (or money hiring developers and designers) to customize them to fit my needs. You can see a live preview of the one my business site uses here:
http://dreamthemedesign.com/themes/u-design/
As you can see, and as I've mentioned, I highly customize templates I use on important sites, turning them into unique branding pieces for my business. My business site looks very little like the base template I built it upon. And that's why I'm so upset to see that this still hasn't been resolved.
Jessica, I sincerely hope that you're in the process of getting this ripped design and content taken care of. This is the longest I've allowed any instance of content theft to go on without filing official take-down notices, or worse. And I'm hoping you don't put me in a position where I have to take further steps to protect my work.
Things like this do put my own hard work at risk. And as Lori points out, if you want to write for clients, you must be able to write for yourself as well. Parroting someone else does nothing to show clients why they should hire you.
I can understand being new and trying to figure things out. But this is getting beyond the point of naivete. I can see that even after we talked about the issue here, you put up a blog post on the same site where you basically took an old post of mine from 2011, re-worked the points a bit, and spun it into your post. While basic topic ideas aren't protected by copyright, how they're presented is. And that pushes a line.
That also tells me the previous discussion hasn't sunk in if you're still turning to the same site for ideas because you don't have your own. That time would have been better spent overhauling your site to make it something truly your own, as I thought you said you were doing. You'll get to the point where you don't feel like you have to turn to the same sources for inspiration anymore. Focus on building a list of ideas of topics you'd like to blog about for example, and you'll be ready to go when the urge to write a new post comes along.
I don't want to keep pressing this issue, so this is the last I'm going to speak about it here. But I do need to see all rewritten work (which is copyright infringement) removed by the end of this week. There is very little on that site that doesn't look like a clear re-write -- the home page, the about page, the FAQs, and even things like policies for the business. Otherwise you really aren't leaving me with any choice but to send take-down notices to have your site de-indexed from search engines and to have it removed from your host's servers if you don't do it willingly on your own. I'd hate to have to do that or take things even further in a worst case scenario, and I'd much prefer to see you keep an active site (uniquely your own). But I do very actively protect my trademarks and copyrighted works, and I've let this sit unchanged much longer than I should have already.
I really didn't want to be a hardass about this, because I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt and the chance to fix things. But that really needs to be taken care of asap so the site stops infringing on mine and stops hurting both of our professional brand images.
Best of luck in getting sorted. I hope the changes go smoothly.
Jenn
3:56 pm
March 2, 2012
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First of all, I've been in the hospital for the past three weeks. I was hospitalized for multiple serious health problems right after our discussion here. I have not had the chance or the ability to communicate with my clients, much less work on a website. Everything's been running on automatic for weeks. I have been back at home for four days. For all intents and purposes, I am still on leave of absence to my clients. I specifically did this not only for my recovery but also so that I would have the time and energy to devote to that website.
Secondly, the first thing I did after getting resettled at home was take down that content and replace it with "coming soon" notices. I saw that it was still up yesterday and contacted my domain host. Some sort of technical issue arose with their servers, apparently, and no one's hosted site is rebooting with new content. They claim to be able to fix the problem by 6 PM EST today. I can't even access the website at the moment.
Thirdly, I don't steal, in any form. As I said before, it was genuinely coincidental on my part. I visited Jenn's site once or twice before starting on my own, along with about ten other professional freelance websites, to get a firm idea of the basics that clients expect to see when visiting such sites (i.e. types and numbers of pages, amount of detail, etc.). Yes, I saw Jenn's homepage header and loved it. That, I admit, I took too much inspiration from and I do apologize for that. It was the only thing I took directly from her site as direct inspiration for my own. As for the design and color scheme, they are my own entirely. I designed and copyrighted them long before I found Jenn's – or anyone else's – site. Everything was blue and black before my husband suggested red as being a stronger color. The design of the website is a standard Wordpress design. Thousands of people are bound to have a similar setup. When my business is bigger, I hope to get a professional designer – until then, I work with the freebie design as I can.
Last, I have written all my blog posts completely from scratch. I read hundreds of blogs monthly to educate myself and spark ideas. The concept for all of my blog posts might have come from something I read along the way, but the content is mine. I've long had the habit of writing all my blog posts longhand before transcribing them into an actual post.
You all don't know me personally, so you can't know the things that have happened in my life that make me abhor any type of theft or misrepresentation. So let me take this opportunity to tell you: I do not and have never stolen even a post-it note from someone else. Honesty is one of the most important things in my life. When accidents occur, I always rectify them. I would have done so at once with this had not my health gotten in the way.
The content is down. It should show sometime today once my host has the problem fixed. The color scheme and logo are mine and are copyrighted in my name. The blog posts are mine. I will attempt to change the design as I can within what my own abilities and the basics allow. Though I did not purposely infringe on your site or content, I do apologize for anything this has done to your business. It was unintentional and my solutions as immediate as I can make them.
6:25 pm
February 11, 2010
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Thank you for responding. As long as all of the infringing material I mentioned above is removed within a few days as you say we should expect, then I have no further issue with this.
Feel better.
Jenn
2:07 pm
February 11, 2010
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Locking this thread to avoid any potential pile-ons. The copy in question appears to have been removed.
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