Prices are going up across the corporate content market. So we are helping brands of all sizes compete in a price-inflated environment. Per Hubspot:

Prices are actually going up in the corporate content market. That’s partly because so many companies are piling into the space that the only way to stand out is to create exceptional material, and that costs more.

Rates for freelancers range between 10 cents a word to a dollar a word. And you generally get what you pay for! You’ll notice the difference in engagement between thoughtful, intelligent pieces, and shoddy quickly-written click bait. Consumers of brand content are far more sophisticated these days…that old-school clickbait doesn’t work as much as it used to. Quality content wins today. We don’t want to short-change your readers, and so we don’t short-change our brand journalists.

There are several content marketing software companies out there that charge at least one thousand USD a month — before writing expenses and the time you invest in finding, vetting, and managing freelancers.  Rather than on-boarding a new writer, you always have someone who knows your brand and your brand’s trajectory. We return time to your day so you can focus on the other pressing priorities that move your business forward.

We believe that we are priced right and that you’ll be happy with the quality, breadth, and speed of our work. If not, we offer guaranteed refund of any pro-rated month. 

Glad that you see the value in our service! We believe that we have priced our product correctly, and that we offer a great value for the money. One way we do this is through offering our brand journalists regular work. It’s hard to be a freelancer: Inconsistent work, chasing down payments, and finding new clients are all pressing issues. We alleviate many of those for freelancers at work with us. This means that we also spend less time finding, vetting, and managing our brand journalists. We pass these savings on to you!

We also spend little to no money unpaid marketing. Word-of- mouth brings us the lion’s share of our business, alongside our blog. We practice what we preach! Since we have fewer marketing costs related to finding and retaining new clients, as well as finding and retaining new freelancers, we can price competitively and still make a sustainable profit. 

We’re a boutique operation that provides high-touch service for our brand journalists and our clients. We are so confident in our work that we will offer a refund of any pro-rated time left on your blog management service. 

Never! Please just email us and we will cancel your ghost writing service within one business day. Please note that all work will stop when you cancel! So if you have pending articles, please consider how you’d like to proceed before cancelling and losing any work in progress. We will issue a refund of the remaining days in the current month to the card on file. This can take several business days or longer due to credit card company delays.

As we plan resources according to our client commitments, we can offer full refunds for any remaining quarters on your plan (so in 3 month increments). So please try us out for a few months and see how it goes first. Once you realize how amazing we are, then go ahead and enjoy the annual prepaid savings! 😃

We struggled with this. While we wanted to offer a trial, we really couldn’t come up with a way to do this and not risk putting in a bunch of work up front for free. 

The first couple of weeks is front-loaded with work on understanding your brand voice, content strategy,  and editorial calendar planning. So we can’t really offer a trial.

However, you can cancel anytime.  Please just email us and we will cancel your ghost writing service within one business day. Note that all work will stop when you cancel! So if you have pending articles, please consider how you’d like to proceed before cancelling and losing any work in progress.

We will issue a refund of the remaining days in the current month to the card on file. This can take several business days or longer due to credit card company delays.

For annual members, we plan resources according to our client commitments. So we can offer full refunds for any remaining quarters on your plan (so in 3 month increments). So please try us out for a few months and see how it goes first. Once you realize how amazing we are, then go ahead and enjoy the annual prepaid savings! 😃

Absolutely! In recognition of your commitment to Ghost Works, all annual plan members receive a complimentary month, or about 10% off. 

Annual members are also able to engage the Ghosts Works team on longer-term content projects outside of creating articles for owned media channels, such as branded blogs. When you buy a year, you’re buying a team member. We see ourselves as contributors, and want to work and collaborate towards our mutual success. 

We love working with annual partners, as we can align content across a longer stretch, and collaborate for success.

We love startups! Yes, for those companies that do less than $1 million a year in revenue, we offer 10% off the listed price. We ask you to requalify your revenue each year.

Content strategy is a critical piece of any brand journalism approach. We toyed with different ways of making content strategy part of our core offering, as we need to have a strategy to execute. We need to be sure that we have the correct strategy blueprint in place before we go ahead.

While strategizing is a part of the everyday interactions as we plan the content calendar, there is upfront work to either create a new content strategy or two on boarding understand an existing one. That’s why we use the first two weeks of any engagement to cover all consulting related to content strategy and creating the content calendar for the months ahead.

Any additional consulting is charged at $100 dollars an hour. We take additional consulting projects on a case-by-case basis, as we want to spend our time creating content that converts and not working on a proposal basis.

For annual plan members, any additional consulting is charged at $125 dollars an hour. We take additional consulting projects on a case-by-case basis, as we want to spend our time creating content that converts and not working on a proposal basis. The proposal process ends up costing both sides a lot of money and time investment!

Articles do not roll over from month-to-month. Our model is built around quality content delivered on a consistent basis. We also built our business model to be as affordable as possible. One-off articles go for $750, so the only way we can offer such competitive pricing on a monthly basis with a “cancel anytime” guarantee is to not run a deficit. 

If you think you’ll need more than one article a week, but fewer than two articles, please go for the Ghost Two plan. This ensures that we have enough credits in any given month to cover. It’s still a smart investment in your brand’s owned media strategy. 

Don’t worry about running out of ideas for your blog — that’s where we come in! We provide a “content pool” of ideas so you don’t have to come up with articles each week. No more searching for things to write about! We keep your blog relevant, and balanced across company-specific and industry-specific topics. 

Absolutely! Just as long as payment is received before the start of each 30-month period. We keep our costs low by keeping a lid on overhead — like having an accounts receivable team! We take payments in advance to reduce the cost of chasing payment. And we will stop working if payment has not been received at the start of any given 30-day period. We have to be strict about this, as it allows us to focus our energy on creating the best content possible for our clients.

All invoices are processed through Stripe, where you can add ACH as your preferred method of payment.

We are happy to do whatever we can to get Ghost Works approved through your company’s workflow. Email hi@ghost.works (or your brand journalist if you already have one) for more. For those who pay via credit card,We can send the invoice right away through Stripe.

We don’t have a separate plan, but our process aligns perfectly with a professional wanting to have their own thought-leadership style blog. We simply deploy our process in service of your personal brand, rather than a company’s.

Our plans are monthly, meaning that you get a set number of articles each month. With 52 weeks over 12 months, there will be 4 non-publishing weeks. Those weeks are oriented around U.S. holidays, where we are based: the week before Memorial Day, the week before Labor Day, the week of Thanksgiving, and the week of Christmas.

Put another way: You’re not paying for articles on those weeks already, as part of our monthly pricing. So there are no credits or refunds during those weeks.