Hi Everyone,

More posts coming soon, so I’m gonna make this one short.

If you’ve been watching the requests as customers submit them, you will see in some cases customers will submit a work for a specific writer. In most cases, these requests are pretty straightforward in their titles, things like, ‘Request for R.N.’ or ‘Request for Rob’ or ‘Requests for Writer R.N,’ etc. We call these ‘Exclusive Requests.’

Is this the best way for customers to submit an exclusive request? Maybe not, but asking the customer to learn exactly how we wish for them to submit a request is like asking them to clean their money before paying us. Training them is most wisely done after the fact.

The point of this post, however, is to ask (code for ‘insist’) that all writers honor exclusive requests by NOT submitting letters in response that compete with the requested writer. Golden Rule, kinda thing here. In some cases these writers have spent considerable time discussing the customer’s letter via chat or email and it isn’t fair to have that work wiped out by someone who didn’t make the same effort.

If you see an exclusive request that you feel is interesting enough for you to compose a letter in hopes that it will be purchased in the future, feel free to write one and submit it under the ‘Not from Request’ option. It won’t be tied to the request and I will gladly make it live.

Ok…as always, let me know if you have any questions.

Sincerely, Rob

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