Comments on: Content Writing Experiment Conclusion

By: T.W. Anderson

T.W. Anderson — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:28:57 +0000

Cheers

By: TC

TC — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:43:49 +0000

@T.W. Anderson We'll certainly keep you posted (and maybe slip a submission your way for your very interesting new publication!) TC

By: T.W. Anderson

T.W. Anderson — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:04:16 +0000

The experiment was fun In reality it was just an extension of what I do normally between clients and projects in the first place…I just grew extremely tired with seeing nothing but negativity with content brokers and third party content clients when I have had nothing but great experiences on my own end.

Glad you enjoyed the read, and I wish you two nothing but the best. You’ll have to keep me posted

By: TC

TC — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:02:04 +0000

TW,
Found you in one of those heated debates over at About.com and happy I did. My wife and I have been planning a writing career together and your ideas and experiences are very encouraging. We haven’t followed the entire trek through your experiment, yet, but we both look forward to it.

Thanks!
TC

By: T.W. Anderson

T.W. Anderson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:08:17 +0000

That’s awesome! They’ve been talking about it for months, so it’s nice to see them making a step in this direction.

I pull in an easy 500-600 a month from them, and use them purely for spending money while my other clients pay the bills. Great way to make some fast, easy cash.

By: Dan Smith

Dan Smith — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:52:51 +0000

For anyone who has followed this experiment from the UK like myself and realized the potential of Demand Studios and similar content mills, I thought it might be worth mentioning that Demand Studios are now accepting UK (and Canadian) writers.

Time to have a look at what they’ve got to offer I think!

By: T.W. Anderson

T.W. Anderson — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:51:01 +0000

Hehe, I’ve had some rather heated debates with some content-mill haters who have never actually tried to write for Demand Studios (and similar) yet make wild claims about how they pay “below minimum wage” or “stone age wages”.

Neither is true. As you can clearly see from the lowest paid employee at Demand Studios (the first-time person who is only pushing 1 article an hour) they are making double the national minimum wage as it pertains to the US. I’m not entirely familiar with UK wages, so I can’t say for there.

Furthermore, if you are someone who can put out a decent amount of wordage per hour (I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking for my day work, which allows me to crank out 2500-3k words per hour regularly) you can make bank on the supposedly low-paying work offered by other sites.

It’s all a matter of education, really. Content site haters only look at the dollars per word, when in reality there is much much more to pricing your articles than the dollar per word amount. What is really ironic is that most of the content site haters who make 70-80k a year are breaking down to 40 dollars an hour, roughly, when you factor in time taken.

This content experiment made 53 dollars an hour. That’s more than an 80k a year writer makes on a per hour basis. Now granted, it’s not conclusive, but it does point to the fallacy of their arguments.

By: Dan Smith

Dan Smith — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:43:07 +0000

Reading more into Demand Studios (and similar companies), I find it hard to believe that there is so much negativity surrounding them.

Bearing in mind I don’t know a massive amount of information about them, but if they’re offering paid writing work, accepting it and writing for some money is better than not writing at all?

Of course, there’s the situations where you might be better off writing for your own blog, etc, but if you’re looking for easy money quickly, then these companies seem fine to me.

For me at least, if I find a bit of a break in my client writing and I’ve already created enough blog posts to be scheduled for the next few days, I’d rather be writing for money than sat around playing on Facebook or the like.

Thanks for Pure Content information. I’ll head over and check them out now.

By: T.W. Anderson

T.W. Anderson — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:37:34 +0000

On a side note, check out Pure Content out of the UK. I use them fairly regularly in between other clients, and while they don’t pay Demand Studios rates, they aren’t a bad place for in between clients if you need something in a pinch.

By: T.W. Anderson

T.W. Anderson — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:36:20 +0000

Hola, Dan.

Thank you for taking the time to educate yourself on the reality of the situation. The major problem with most of the negativity surrounding content sites like Demand Studios is just that…negativity. There is no basis for it, it just exists, because people are making wild and baseless accusations regarding third party content brokers.

The reality of it is that you can make a pretty good wage working for them. Ironically enough, if I had used Demand Studios only I would have averaged more like 750 dollars a week rather than only 500, for a mere 3-4 hours a day of time invested. 36k a year for 20 hour work weeks? Compared to the 40 hour work weeks of the average American citizen working for the same wage? No comparison!

If more people educate themselves to the reality of the situation you would see much less negativity. Thanks again for reading through, and I’m glad you enjoyed it I may do another one later on this year, this time solely for Demand Studios, but it depends on my other clients + my spec-fic zine and all my other irons in the fire.

Best of luck writing!