For quite a long period of time I have been scratching my head, and loosing quite some hair in the process, working out a way that might help the budding freelance content writers. Forget my hair at the moment, as it is, I am quite old and it’s high time my hair stopped belying my age.

In a separate thread I had written how I was cheated by a person from India for quite a handsome amount of money and since then I have been thinking how to safeguard my new articles. You see, it is very easy for someone to get a new Gmail id. The new client who has approached you for a copywriting assignment might well be the same crook who has cheated you of your dues. Gmail `cloaks’ the IP address of the sender and it is impossible to trace them. It is better to go for a client who has a Yahoo or Hotmail id.

These clients generally get their work from another client or by bidding at an auction site. Once you have supplied them the work as per their satisfaction, they pass it up the chain to the primary source and get their dues. While the honest one does pay you back, the cheaters just keep the entire money for themselves. They might make innumerable excuses to keep you in their fold, thereby getting more free work done by you. Insist on payment after you have completed an assignment and do not undertake further work till you have been paid. Here is a trick to safeguard you even more.

Start a new blog and post these articles over there. This way you can prevent the other person from uploading the work on other sites. The owners of these sites do check the contents for plagiarism and will reject the article straightaway. Once you have been paid, you can remove the articles from the blog since you are, technically, no more the owner of these articles.

I shall keep on posting more articles like this one and related to this particular field. In fact I had planned to write one more topic, but am prevented due to a pain in my stomach. The same was due to excessive laughter. You see, while on my way back from the market, I was handed a pamphlet. Here is a sample line from the same. “For all your computer Reapairs visit us. A house of computer Sails & services, Mobil Reapering & Loding and other computer & Mobil jobs done here”. I am laughing out loud after reading the same.

I am growing old & do want my hairline to reflect my age. But the housewife next door, looking at me as if I am insane, is too much! Is laughing out loud a crime? Your feedbacks will help me to write more articles like this one, to stay serious and at the same time convince my neighbor that I am not a crank.