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Assertion Supported
WriterAccess pays 70 percent of every transaction directly to freelance creators
“We pay 70% of every dollar transactional dollar that comes in is paid to our freelancers.”
Byron White Dec 17, 2020 ▶ 11:15 WriterAccess Makes $9m This Year, Pays Freelancers $6.4m Helping 5,000 Brands With Content
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Latka: WriterAccess Did Over $10M Platform Volume Before Expanding to Design
“Writer access right now started with a writing marketplace to hire writers. And he's just now three years in and over ten million through his platform last year, now scaling into design.”
Nathan Latka Mar 16, 2021 ▶ 9:01 Can He Convert Twitter Followers to Software Subscribers?
Assertion Supported
WriterAccess finished 2019 with $8.2 million in revenue
“About 8.2 million, and I can tell you this because it's public information. We made the Inc. 5000 list five years in a row, and that's public.”
Byron White Dec 17, 2020 ▶ 3:25 WriterAccess Makes $9m This Year, Pays Freelancers $6.4m Helping 5,000 Brands With Content
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Content Marketing Conference grew from 600 to 15,000 attendees after virtual pivot
“Typically that's a 600 person live event. That's what it was in 2019. We, because the event fell on April 20th, we had to make a pivot for a week notice and we moved it all online to a virtual event. We went from 600 attendees to 15,000 registered attendees fo…”
Byron White Dec 17, 2020 ▶ 15:25 WriterAccess Makes $9m This Year, Pays Freelancers $6.4m Helping 5,000 Brands With Content
Assertion Supported
White: WriterAccess pivoted from transactional marketplace to SaaS model
“For the first five or six years of our eight years of operations, we were a pure marketplace transactional business. In the last year, we made a pivot over to SaaS, where we're now charging a fee to use our technology and access various levels of talent in our…”
Byron White May 12, 2019 ▶ 4:03 1387 He's Paid $15m+ to Freelance Writers in Past 12 Months
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