TextAPage vs. hiring a writer
Thinking about hiring a content writer for your project pages? Read this first.
A good writer can turn your jobs into great pages. The catch is everything that has to happen before they can start. Here is an honest side by side.
1-833-219-2003 · We will tell you when a writer is the better call
Where the writer route usually breaks down
Hiring a writer sounds like it takes the work off your plate. In practice, the writer needs you before they can write a word:
- Someone has to gather the photos and email them over
- Someone has to explain what was done, where, and why it mattered
- Someone has to read the draft, fix the details, and send it back
- Someone has to log in and publish it on the website
That someone is usually you, at night. Writing a job page by hand costs an evening. So the jobs pile up and the pages never happen.
The bottleneck was never the writing. It was the evening it takes to get started.
What owners tell us
Side by side
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Hiring a writer
You collect photos and notes, brief the writer, wait for a draft, edit it, then publish it yourself or pay someone to. Pages come out when everyone’s schedule lines up. A strong writer can add storytelling a text cannot.
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TextAPage
You text a few photos and a sentence from the job site, get a draft back, and reply “publish.” Texted, reviewed and published in about a minute. The page files itself under the right town, with links, schema, and a spot on your map.
What replaces the writer’s brief
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Your photos are the brief
No email thread. You text the photos straight from the phone that took them, with one line about the job.
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The draft sticks to the facts
It says only what your photos and words support. No guessing at details a writer might fill in wrong.
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Your “publish” is the edit round
Read it, reply “publish,” done. Nothing goes live without approval.
When a writer is still the right call
We are a marketing agency. We have writers, and we believe in them. For a cornerstone service page, a family history page, or a long guide, a human writer who interviews you will beat any text message. That is what our content marketing team does.
TextAPage handles a different job: the steady stream of project pages that proves you work in Islip, Smithtown, and Port Jefferson every week. Those pages need to be accurate and frequent more than they need to be poetic.
Most full-service clients get both: writers on the big pages, TextAPage on the jobs. If you are weighing outside help in general, our guide on agency vs. freelancer vs. in-house covers it.
Writers for the stories. Texts for the jobs.
How we split it for clients
Writer questions
Will the pages sound robotic?
They are written from your own words and photos, and you read every one before it goes live. If something does not sound right, change it before you say publish.
Can I use TextAPage and a writer together?
Yes. Many businesses use a writer for main service pages and TextAPage for project pages.
Who owns the pages?
You do. They live on your website and stay live if you stop paying.
Get your evenings back.
See a project page go from a text to your website in front of you. Or compare it with posting on Facebook, and see the full TextAPage overview.
No app. No login. Your approval on every page.