Dec 17 2008
Work From Home Update!
Hello everyone. I am going to do a quick rundown of how things are doing on my hunt for the ultimate work from home position. Previously I had mentioned about giving Associated Content a try. So far I have submitted two articles to them. I guess now I wait and see what happens. I find I rather enjoy writing longer articles as opposed to these short blog posts.
I have also briefly checked out Constant Content. As I was reading through to see what this was all about my husband called and I had to close out to focus on what he was saying. I will need to go back and take another look when I have more time.
I have also written and gotten paid for two articles I wrote for Ducktape3 LLC Internet Marketing. So that was a good thing, although the pay was not much $4.00 per article. I guess it was better than nothing. They stated they would notify me when they needed more articles. Has anyone else ever dealt with this group?
Oh yes! One more site I checked out the other day called rantblogger.com. They state they will pay $5.00 for your rant and you can rant on anything. Well I ranted to try them out and today I got a response back from them. In a nutshell they said they liked my rant but then asked me to rework it and make it more emotional or humorous. I was not sure what to make of that. I mean when you rant about something do you try to make it funny, or just rant what you feel. Well anyway I reworked my rant and sent it back to them. So now I wait and see what happens there—-could take 2-3 days to review my rant.
Well this is how I have been spending some of my time as of late. Between writing and searching for sites that pay for writing I have practically no time left to waste on things like housework, laundry, and reading for pleasure. Oh well, have a great day!
Associated Content is good for keeping money coming to your Paypal. They do however, try to be pretty picky about articles they will take in the news categories. They usually will only take those from only the content producers in the “inner circles.” Networking and making friends with the favorites and top rated front page content producers is key to getting better pay and getting your articles submitted. It’s all about quantity and not quality so much with them. They will pay you a good payment for your first article, and then afterward the payments will be quite low. I only average about $4 per articles as do many of the other newer writers, who are not in the inner circle. A good tip is to make yourself a Triond.com account as a writer there. Any articles that AC doesn’t take, take them to Triond and publish them for the better performance payments. They pay more than AC does on PPVs or page views per click. I have only written two articles for Helium so far and haven’t done any advertising for those articles. You can boost your earnings by making a profile page on all of the major networking sites like Myspace and Facebook, then putting links to all of your articles and adding tons of friends. Post bulletins for people to go read your articles, and post ads on craigslist even to read them on community boards. This will get your more cash. Also try looking up Elance.com. Make a profile page with short examples of your work like a paragraph or two, or links to some of your articles. Tell people what you are willing to write, and you may just get hired for a few hundred dollars to do some work. Let me know if you ever want to do any online selling or anything, I can add you to my Myspace with all of the moms who are online selling to get you some connections. I also sell online as well. Hope this helps some.
I like this blog. Keep trying and let us know how you make out!
Wow, good luck with all your writing!
Hi, There:
I’d be a bit wary about sites like Associated Content. Their wages are insulting, I think. And I also think they encourage a lot of the terrible writing we find on the Internet today. It’s one thing to write for low pay for a blogging site like Today, where you don’t have to do a lot of research. When I was first starting I wrote a lot for local papers. The pay wasn’t great, but it was not nearly as insulting as the rates offered by Associated Content. $20 for a story just isn’t a good rate. You might also try pitching story ideas to trade magazines. Again, you will get paid far better for your efforts. The stories are real work — interviewing people instead of just taking material off the Internet — but the pay is real, too. Finally, I’ve found that ghost-blogging for others — I do some for two real estate clients and one insurance client — pays far better than does writing for blogging networks.
Anyway, keep up the good work on this blog. I just discovered it today, but I do plan on coming back often.
Dan
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