I have been writing for Demand Studios for 3 weeks now, and I can honestly say they are a great company. It’s a great place for newer writers to start, but it’s helpful if you have a writing resume and a couple of samples for them to review with your application. Once you become a writer, you will have a wide variety of topics to choose from. Demand creates content for other websites such as eHow, and there style guides reflect different types of articles (How To, List, About, etc.).
It is important that you learn the different style guides and write quality original content for Demand Studios to maximize your earnings. When you first begin, you are able to reserve 10 titles at a time. As each are accepted, you can select another. Sometimes the editors will ask for revisions, and you must fix the problems or your article could end up being rejected.
The review times for articles are currently a little on the slow side, so it may be 2 or 3 days before you articles are reviewed. Technically, the editors have 7 days to review each article, but I have heard before I joined many articles were reviewed within 24 hours of them being written. Slow review times down on the number of articles you can do each pay period, but there’s no way to fix it unless they hire more editors.
Pay is weekly at Demand Studios. The cut off time for articles each week is Wednesday about 5pm PST. You will be paid on Friday evenings for the work accepted for the previous week. Most of their articles are $15, with the exception to the Fact Sheets which are only $5 each. I am averaging about 15 accepted articles each week there right now, but I hope to get upwards of about 20-25 a week soon. Still, almost $250 isn’t a bad start!
