Another option for freelance writer!

I normally see forum members recommending Helium, Triond and Associate Content to people who are interested to write and get paid for their writing masterpieces. Today I come across another site that also pays you for your writing skill.

Have you heard of Demand Studios? They normally pay $15 for your writing articles but these jobs are real tough to complete. So they come up with $5 an article which is much easier to write. You can either choose the title of the informative articles that they offer or you can submit your own article title for approval.

If you want to know some sample articles that they accept, read the informative articles in E-how, About.com, grab.com, Expert Village or cracked.com . Yep, these articles in these sites might come from Demand Studios.

Before registering yourself as a writer in the site, I think it is better if you get the following files ready.
1. resume (Ahem, as in when you are applying for a job)
2. sample work ( sort of a test so that they can evaluate you)
3. link or website or related work ( show your credibility -> you could put down the link of the site that you have your article published)

I know that after applying as a writer in Demand Studios, you will be impatient to get yourself approved. However, it does take some time for your application to be approved. So login to the site often to check the status of your application.

My first online earning payment!

Checking on my PayPal account this morning revealed that I have been paid by Review Stream. I didn't expect them to pay me so fast as I have only requested payment from them yesterday.

Finally I had been reaped from reviews writing on Review Stream for the past one month. It is indeed not a SCAM site at all. You do get paid for your hard works even though it takes a while! Just think of it as being employed by someone and get paid by the end of the month.

Click here to see payment proof.

Share my journey on review writing and get some writing tips for Review Stream. Yesterday, Review Stream has switched back to 72 hours reviews approval/declination after changing it to instaneous acceptance/declination last week. To increase your chances in getting the regular rate, try to post a review in the range of about 250 words and above. To view a sample of a 40 cents and a 2 dollars reviews, go to Review Stream and type Porcupine in the find reviews bar.
The one on the modem was worth 2 dollars while 40 cents was awarded to the Isotonic drink review.

Thanks for clicking the payment proof image above. You have just earned me 0.00022 cent. Yup, you can hardly notice a one after a long strings of zero, but as in life, everything counts in the long run. Click here to join only if you are still interested or else you are only wasting your time!

My articles on Associated Content

I am feeling very ecstasy this morning as 5 of my articles already being published by Associated Content. This is in contrast of how I feel last week as my initial two submissions were deemed too promotional. Even though I did not receive any upfront payment, I view this as an residue income for life. Talk about positive thinking and I have it all here.

If you intend to write for Associate Content, do a keyword search in their site. If the topic that you intend to write have a lot of publications there, you can forget about that. Try to pick topic that will draw the readers attention and you will sure to get more page views. Pay particular attention to spellings and grammar mistakes in addition to inserting a space between sentences and between a comma and the following words for getting your articles published. They are very fuzzy on these tiny issues.

However you still have to promote your articles in various ways such as submitting it in Digg, Stumbleupon, answering people's questions in Yahoo!Answer or Yedda, or even emailing the article links to your friends . The more you do for your promotion, the more page views you will get which will be translated to a higher earnings.
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A sample of my published articles is available here. If you would like to read all my articles there, go to my content provider page. You can even subscribe to me there to receive my new articles publications. If you would like to do the same, leave a comment on this post and I will check your publications as well.

Writing for Associated Content

How did I found out about Associated Content? It is from my participation in discussion at Mylot.You can discover a lot of ways to earn a little extra of online money there.After going through all those discussion, I decided to register for Associated Content to start my first article writing.

They are very fuzzy as they have rejected two of my initial articles which they found to be too "promotional" . And they mentioned that not to resubmit it under nonexclusive terms. As I am not one of those who give up easily,I submitted my third article and was published recently.So here it is : Quick Ways to Slow Motion Sickness .

Associate Content will pay upfront payment for those residing in the States while international members will only be eligible for performance payment. Performance payment lets you earn money per 1,000 page views.Currently the rate is 1.50 for 1,000 views. I like the idea of doing work once and get unlimited payment throughout my lifetime. To me, it acts as a source of residue income for my total earning. If you share the same idea as me, start writing your first article for Associate Content.

Writing reviews for beginners

There are hundred and one ways of making money on the internet. Today I am going to talk about writing reviews for beginners. The idea of writing reviews scares away many people from getting started as they normally think that one must have a vast product knowledge and a great commands of English at their disposal to start writing reviews.

I, for one, also think the same way! What change my perception is when I found out about Review Stream and looked at the reviews being written there. "Hey! I can do that",I said to myself. And that is what started me writing reviews. This site is excellent for beginner reviewer to test the water; you can use it as a stepping stone in your journey of writing reviews.

The good thing about Review Stream is your review length isn't specified. However, if too short a review is being submitted,it will get rejected. In my opinion, it would take in anything from 120 words. And you can review on anything! Yes, that includes yourself too. What is important here is the site would like to hear your personal opinion,be it good or bad. Your opinion weighs in gold for them.

However,as with anything good,there are some bad points as well. The site does not look very professional and you won't get registered as a member. Whenever you want to write and submit your review,you have to key in the same information over and over again. Although some of this data can be posted automatically by your browser, you still have to go through filling in data such as title, category etc. I would recommend you use a yahoo or gmail account as your contact email as the site email came from yahoo and goggle email. There are times you won't get any feedback when you use some other emails. Please choose the email that you are going to liase with them carefully as this email also serve an id for your PayPal account payment. You cannot change the email half way through your reviews submission.

If you change to another email account, the balance of your account will start from zero again.This means that you are opening another account with them.However,all is not lost as PayPal do accept multiple id email.Just log in to the PayPal site and add in your new email address.

The current payment amount is 40 cents for bulk rate and 2 dollars for regular submission.What this means is simply if they find your review quality a bit on the low side,they will pay you the bulk rate while a review that fulfill their expectation will earn you 2 dollars. Coming to think of it, it is really not that difficult. Al you have to do is write a few sentences on yourself and you already start the money flowing in.

It takes about 72 working hours for your review to be accepted or declined.An email from Review Stream's yahoo account will be sent to you informing you of the status of your review and the associated payment amount. As you begin to submit additional reviews, the total amount balance will be shown in the email as well.There are no limits on the reviews that you can submit each day.It is entirely up to you. I would advise you to check on your corresponding email after you submit your review at the site in order to confirm that they really received your review.Some people argue that they are not paid for their reviews and say this site is a SCAM. However, most of the people who submit their reviews do get paid, as I believe there is some misunderstandings between the site owner and the reviewers.

For those who already started,I would like to give you this piece of advice. Write your review on notepad and then paste it to the review content column in the site or write your review there and paste it to notepad to keep a backup copy. So if they really didn't received your review,all you have to do is go to the website again and click the big green WRITE REVIEW button and paste your review content to the respective column. It will take out the frustration in keying your review again from memory.

You will have to request for payment once your balance touches 50 dollars by emailing to them. So,let get a taste of your first review writing by clicking here.