Indian Internet Services Industry – Truth the Funnier Way
I was about to start a post on Link Building but just then I got an IM from this guy who has been bugging me for over 2 weeks; appears to be some middle-man who was asking for content writing projects. Let me tell you this guy has pathetic English and is trying to pitch me for being my content provider. Lame!
Tips to avoid bad experiences with Internet services vendor (SEOs and Content Writers)
Today, I just thought I’d play along and try to chat with him in the same pathetic language of his. God I enjoyed and laughed; not at this person’s inability to communicate in proper English but the fact that this guy is trying to run a business that is purely language based and has been following up like crazy as if I’m a stupid who’ll fall for his garbage. It seemed to be more fun when I started with gibberish sentences of my own 
. I’ll tell why I chose to write about this funny incident after you read the conversation, which went on exactly like this – word by word:
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freelancersrealm: Hello Abhishek
You there
me: hi
freelancersrealm: How’s u
me: me is fine // 
I got funnier right from the beginning
freelancersrealm: Actually we chatted before too but you was quite busy so cud not continue.
me: yes i was quiet busy so cannot able to talk at you
freelancersrealm: Hope you have some time Now!!
me: now i have the lot of time
freelancersrealm: Oh thanks
me: you go tell me what is your propsing?
freelancersrealm: Well I was looking for some work of content writing..if U can provide me ..
me: current time i have not a single project for outsource to you
freelancersrealm: Oh
me: you can send the few samples of of you work
freelancersrealm: no problem.
I send You before too but u did not notice i guess..
Well m sending again few sample of our latest work..
me: ok you can sending now
freelancersrealm: do give a look..at least
me: i will try look this time
freelancersrealm: Ok sure..
me: ok fine then ok
we chatted later one more time
bye ok?
freelancersrealm: Ok
just check your mail..m sending u few sample articles
me: ok
freelancersrealm: done!! do give a look ..
me: can you say to me about your experience in field of the content writer?
freelancersrealm: Well “wisden Writer” is writing contents from different clients from last 1 and half year..but Some of My Writers are doing it from last 2-3 years too..And you are added in my Wisden Writers ID as well..
This ID is for Writers…
our website is also just started..
www.wisdenwriters.com
me: ok
how much do you have experience of writing?
freelancersrealm: if You are talking about Me Only the Sir I dont write ..I have writers from different part of India
me: ok
you working with freelancer and get projects for them
Sent at 22:07 on Monday
freelancersrealm: yes..but most of the writers are our regular..
Sent at 22:08 on Monday
me: so you are work is to middle man in projects
Sent at 22:12 on Monday
freelancersrealm: Well Not just as Middle Man.I hv to arrange Everything and soon planning a based firm in delhi.
Sent at 22:13 on Monday
me: so what will your role is? in a content writing company
freelancersrealm: ”Founder”
me: ok those are fine
i will contacting you very sooner
bye ok?
freelancersrealm: Sure
Give us a chance at least to prove us
yes Bye
Tc
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Now that is not something surprising. I keep on getting such lame pitches and follow-ups. And I feel sad about what is becoming of the indian IT services and Internet industry. If such people go out and start pitching to international clients then God save us and those clients too.
Content writing is an essential part of any intelligently planned SEO campaign. If you screw your content you screw your chances of being on top of search engines, after all they’re not fools who say that, “Content is King“.
Tips to avoid sucker vendors – How to filter out the junk?
1. An SEO who cannot speak or write correct English – how would he/she understand the correct combination of the keywords or how would he/she go about optimising your website’s content? This is true for most of the SEO’s.
2. SEO’s generally give guidelines to writers. You as a buyer should review them too, just to make sure the content you will get will mean something to the readers. Don’t fall for gimmicks like keyword density and keyword repition. Approve of only what English grammer approves of.
3. There is no such thing as SEO content – there is either bad content or good content which is liked by readers. Knock off such SEO’s.
4. Content writing is about aligning the content to your business goal, i.e. your SEO and Keywords should align with your business goals not the other way round as suggested by most junk SEO’s.
5. Most of the good SEO companies will bundle Content Writing Services with SEO, because they understand that both of them are inter-related and crucial for the success of your organic growth plan. Must Read: SEO is not about Packages
If you are about to outsource content writing work to India then please do so but not to weirdos like this one. Be very careful with the vendors you choose to work with. Content writing and SEO are two sectors typically which have been plagued in India.
There are good and exceptionally very good Internet services companies in India (like eRACHNIDA – www.erachnida.com) who care about standards and quality but most of them are full of jerks who’ll take up your SEO project for $50 (INR 2500) a month and write content for $0.50 (INR 20) per 100 words. What do you get in return? An all expenses paid trip to “This-ain’t-what-I-wanted Island“; beware, be cautious, be smart enought to ask the right questions while talking to your vendor.
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I guess this went right over your head.
“me: ok
how much do you have experience of writing?
freelancersrealm: if You are talking about Me Only the Sir I dont write ..I have writers from different part of India
me: ok
you working with freelancer and get projects for them
Sent at 22:07 on Monday”
The guy you are making fun of isn’t claiming to be a writer – takes a bit away from your point.
Your own post has a grammatical error…” has been following up like crazy as if I’M A STUPID who’ll fall for his garbage” …..
1. People who live in glass houses…
2.. I agree with Paul. The guy is just one more entrepreneur in the great Indian outsourcing bazaar. Live and let live buddy.
I recognize the cringing-i see it in the reviews of Slumdog Millionaire–”why show only dharavi?” we indians deeply care about what the white man thinks about us.
Move on and post about the subject matter of your expertise-eg why are digital providers like you not convincing Indian marketers like us to put money into digital marketing.
3. Be careful of what you post on Linkedin…your prejudice is showing.
Okay, am I the only one seeing the irony here? The guy on the phone (go getter entrepeneur or not) has terrible English skills but yet is trying to sell outsourced English writing services. Maybe he’s got the best crew of copy writers and editors on the planet, but you wouldn’t know it from the way he communicates. More likely, and I’m going to go out on a limb on this one, he’s some rank amateur looking to get in on the tail end of the outsourcing boom. It kind of reminds me of the guy dressed in a stained t-shirt who stands at the end of an alley offering to sell me a “genuine” Armani suit. Is he a just a hustler? Or is he someone who is going to give me a great deal? I don’t know, but I’m not going to risk my money to find out.
Everybody in the world understands , and I guess the foreign companies especially better that what you get is what you pay for, so I dont think these nerds are by any way going to hurt the industry.
I agree with you totally, not only are people from India invading my phone line and my affiliate program applications. I have only came across maybe 1 out of 100 that was not a scam or had a decent website. My advice, there seems to be an increasingly large amount of people from India trying to capitalize on the American consumer, most with websites designed with the exact poor English that you speak of, ignore them.
most of them are shameless bunch of idiot who will talk anything to get your business and money.
and they talk nonsense pretty fast too.
but then again, most Americans, especially corporates, love them and let them run amok, taking, no, demanding jobs as if they were the only one in the planet capable of doing.
so, who is the dumber one?
It’s a shame to see that corporations would outsource anything to save a dime, ironically at the expense of not only getting poor service/content, but potentially doing harm to the corporation’s image and business. Jobs like content creation requires exceptional mastery of the English language, and many native English speakers don’t even possess that skill. It’s a complete waste of money to entrust such jobs to a foreign company unless the foreign firm exhibits exceptionally good understanding of English, and that’s rare.
one hell of a post by an Indian immigrant (probably? if not son of an immigrant) in the US?
Give me a break! I see the comments above n can’t stop laughing!
Most of the entrepreneurs in the US are immigrants and most of them are from Europe/Asia if not from India.
@Tracy, Half of your dirty American companies are camping out here in India and trying to do business. You guys don’t have any shame n even try to put adds in local language and you tell that Indians are trying to exploit American market? Well why not? Go read “World is flat” book. If you don’t know go search what that is.
@Jason Lie
Well Mr Moron, no one is idiot as long as they pick the right person.
@Yvonne, Again you have to pick the right person to do your job. I have seen many Americans n Canadians speaking crappy English n Who are you referring to as foreigners? Yvonne definitely sounds like French n if you are in US, you are also a foreigner. So don’t open your big mouth.
Mr Abhishek, go fix your author page first (http://www.conceptcurry.com/author/Abhishek%20Bhardwaj/), get a 404 error! This is also a form of bad communication.