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Demand Studios Now Offers Writer Scorecards

July 29, 2009 Kecia Upfront Pay 2 comments

For a while, Demand Studios has been promising a way for writers to see their articles’ ratings. Well, today they included a Writer Scorecard in the account dashboard, which displays your ratings in 3 categories.

The first is the “My Ratings” section that offers a score from 1-5 on the grammar and research of your articles. The second is “My Statistics” which displays the number and percentages of your articles that have been approved with no rewrite, approved after rewrite, abandoned, flagged, and rejected. I have heard these percentages are part of what Demand uses to determine which writers to let go. The last section is “Productivity” which shows how many articles you have written for the company each week.

Many people have expressed various opinions regarding this new addition. Some love feedback on their work, and are excited to be able to see just how well they are doing. I personally fall into this category, as I like knowing how I stand with the people I work for. Others, however, don’t care all that much. At this point, your ratings aren’t pertinent to how much you earn with the company. Maybe in the future there could be incentives to keep your ratings high? It’s a nice wish anyway!

What do YOU think about Demand Studios’ new writer scorecards?

Rounding Out June

June 29, 2009 Kecia Writing No comments

Wow, where has this month gone? It’s been quite a while since I’ve stopped by here and blogged, but the month of June has practically flew by me! I celebrated my 25th birthday on the 11th, which was quite nice, thanks to my husband and family. The rest of this month has just been applying for writing gigs and working.

I’m now up to 16 articles on eHow, which is bringing in about $8/month. 5 of these articles have just been posted within the last month, so I’m sure they haven’t reached their full earning potential yet. I’ve been making use of the Groups at eHow, posting my articles in a few as soon as I write them. This has helped me get comments and friends on the site…which seems beneficial to my earnings.

Demand Studios is currently taking up most of my writing time. They have changed their queue guidelines so that there is not much of a limit any longer. Before, I had a limit of 10 articles that I could hold in my queue at one time. When I wrote an article, it stayed in my queue and took up one space until it was approved by an editor. After the changes took place, articles that are under review no longer count toward the queue limit. I’ve increased my writing there, and have also reduced the number of rewrites I have received. I decided to branch out from writing only “How To’s” and found that I like the “About” format much better.

I purchased a domain name for my portfolio a few months ago, and I am considering moving my blog over to it. The reason for this is that I like blogging with WordPress on an independent domain much better than using a free blog like this one here at Blogger.com. I just have to figure out how to switch it over, but expect a new location soon!

Not Too Productive…

April 10, 2009 Kecia Writing One comment

Well, this week has been a lot less productive than I had hoped it would be. I had 2 articles rejected from Demand Studios. I’ll attribute that to the fact that I wrote about things that I had no clue about…even though I felt I revised them well enough when I was given the opportunity to rewrite, I guess they were still too vague. This has been my worst week at Demand, as the review times are still quite slow.

I did manage to add 2 new articles at eHow. I feel really good about the residual income I could earn from that site, and hope to add tons more articles during the month of April. My earnings for March were $0.28, but I had joined at the end of the month, and only published 2 articles. I hope to get as good as WriterGig, who has been earning over $1,000 a month in passive income with eHow. I also plan to purchase her eHow guide to passive income very soon.

I have also decided to begin dabbling into affiliate marketing again. I purchased a “newbie workbook” from the Warrior Forum, and began reading through it last weekend. I started following the step-by-step manual on Monday, and by Tuesday, someone had already purchased the ebook I am promoting! I was very excited by that, even if it was $13! Just imagine if I sold 10 a week…

Over the weekend (probably after stuffing myself at my family Easter dinner on Sunday), I am going to post some goals that I hope to accomplish next week. A lot of writers whose blogs I read are doing this now, as a way of becoming more accountable for what they do. I will share these goals on Sunday night, then update next Friday with what I did throughout the week.

Demand Studios $5 – $15 per article

March 30, 2009 Kecia Upfront Pay No comments

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!