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Writing for Revenue Sharing Web Sites
We profile sites like Associated Content and Examiner to determine what the payout is for writers -- in both cash and exposure
November 10, 2009 |
Cathy Jones left a job at a national magazine to return home to Minnesota only to find that, despite having 13 years of experience, there weren't many options available to her. "When you're looking and you're a freelancer, you're spending a couple of hours a day trying to find stuff. You hit the job boards every day," she recalls. Then Jones found Demand Studios, a flat-rate content site that pays $5-$25 an article. She wrote stories for the site, but switched to copy editing because the work was easier and more rewarding, she says. "When I first started freelancing [for them], I couldn't believe the low rate on these things, but if you can write 'How to troubleshoot your garbage disposal' in half an hour, that's $15. It's a different kind of writing; it's different tactics than your 'real' journalism." That "real" journalism used to take around six hours (researching, interviewing, writing) and paid $100, or $16.50 an hour -- and the assignments would trickle in. Now, Jones gets paid $3.50 to copy edit an article and edits 100 articles a week. "Their goal is that you can do them in 10 minutes; mine average about 12 minutes." She now makes $17.50 an hour and only works 20 hours a week for Demand Studios, filling in the rest of her time with work for other clients....   The How to Pitch series is worth its weight in gold. In just the first month I'd already benefited enough to consider the cost of joining well worth it. -- Gaen MurphreeAvantGuild benefits give you access to:
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