Is The Barefoot Writer A Scam? [REVEALED]

Thinking about freelancing as a writer and that question "Is The Barefoot Writer A Scam?" is running around in your head!, then this article is for you!.

Well, Firstly, I welcome you to my independent Barefoot Writer Review and secondly, congratulations and being pretty smart and doing your research. 

This is how you avoid being scammed and find The best way of making money online!.

In the rest of this Barefoot Writer Review I will talk about the following Topics: 

• What Is The Barefoot Writer?
• How Does The Barefoot Writer Work?
• How Much Does The Barefoot Writer Cost?
• Can You Make Money With The Barefoot Writer?
  
• Is The Barefoot Writer A Scam?
• Is The Barefoot Writer Legit? 
• My Barefoot Writer Review - The Final Conclusion
• How I Make Money Online.

Curious to find out all about The Barefoot Writer? - Then keep reading this Barefoot Writer Review!. 

In all essence The Barefoot Writer is a digital subscription based magazine and training site aimed at teaching ordinary people like us to learn how to become highly skilled and highly valued writers. 

The site is owned and run by Paul Holligshead, of whom I could not find on Facebook, Crunch Base or linkedin. While I understand a requirement for privacy in this day and age, anyone serious about branding and online business and wishing to appear legitimate really ought to be easily found on at least 1 of those 3 sites. 

I find it very surprising that a site, in operation for since 2001 NOT being on business sites like crunchbase and linkedin to be "a bit questionable". The site, in reality is a front for the American Writers And Artists Association Incorporated, - AWAI for short. 

The Barefoot Writer provides you, as a fee paying subscriber access to their training to help you become a better writer and able to pull in those huge fee paying clients as a freelance writer. 

It takes a lot more that just paying your subscription fee to become a great writer and it is NOT going to happen overnight! It takes great training, dedication and a heck of a lot of practise. 

...And then you still have to find those high paying clients!. 

In all seriousness, it takes professional journalists years of study and hard work at university to become an expert in their field and earn the salaries claimed by The Barefoot writer. 

I am not claiming to be an expert or particularly brilliant copywriter but I found the copy on their site to be very basic at best. Of acceptable high school 16 year old level and at times I felt a 12 year old could do better!.

Certainly not by an expert!. 

On the Barefoot Writer Website you can be alluded into believing that it is free - it is not. The only freebie is their giveaway freebie to entice you into entering your email address. 

The actual cost of membership is $108 per year and then there are a lot of upsells. Some members have complained of paying more for a variety of ebooks, articles and magazines.  

I do seriously doubt the quality of what is taught in Barefoot writer - digging deeper their own advertising copy (it is copywriting where the real money is at). Take this screenshot as a prime example - it is like it is written by a 12 year old!. No copywriting skills at all on display here. 

None whatsoever!.

I'm not even sure it was written by a native speaker, an adept ESL writer maybe. 

The old saying "don't sell the features, sell the benefits" rule has been thrown out of the widow. As the great example goes "don't sell softness or comfort of the mattress, sell the good nights sleep, and reduced stress at work"

That copy in the screenshot above just puts me to sleep!. 

I'm going to stick my chin out here and say a straight up NO!. N-O, No!!

I don't think you will learn much about writing, creating good copy or becoming a better than a below-average writer either!. 

(in short, I think barefoot writer, going by their standard of writing will teach you at best how to be a poor writer! - poor both financially and quality wise!)

Just have a look at their own website for goodness sake! it's boring! It's dull! and above all I none of their articles to be engaging at all!. 

This is what leads me to think that you will learn nothing from the barefoot writer!. 

I'll put it bluntly - I'm a blogger, I hire writers and freelancers all the time for a variety of sites that I own. I would not accept the unengaging content of that I found on Barefoot Writers site, I estimate its value to be $15-$20 per 1,000 words.

And not a penny more.  

...and if you think that a penny a word writer will be able to teach you how to become an expert six figure writer you better think again!.

While I have absolutely no problem at all to call out a scam and a scammer when I see one, and for that I require legal evidence and proof. Otherwise I can face a libel lawsuit. 

What I will say is, that barefoot writer is for those that can hardly put two sentences together - simply because the teacher is very much of that level or only a bit better!.  It is really the blind leading the blind here. 

Before teaching others to become great writers and to earn six figures from writing the site and its owner has to demonstrate a better than child like copy and that is just not on show here. 

You get what you pay for. Buyer be ware!. 

Enough said!. 

The barefoot writer is a god awful site! And there is no way in high heaven or on gods earth that you will learn anything at all from that site in regards to either improving your writing or landing a high paying writing job in my opinion!.

Hell, I wouldn't even hire that writer let alone trust him to teach anyone how to write!. Very laborious to even force myself to read the stuff on that site! uggh!. 

This has been the most painful review I have written to date, due to the horrid writing on that site!. 

(Maybe, just maybe the site is called Barefoot writer because the owner can't afford socks and shoes!).