Constant Content

I've done only a few articles so far here. I just saw this new request:

http://www.constant-content.com/index.p ... st&id=3857

I wrote an article, took me only 11 minutes and I think it's decent (although it hasn't been reviewed yet). My first article was very quick, and was about 280 words. The downside is that I only get $3.20 for full rights. Is it worth my time to do any more of these?

Thanks

If you can write and submit 5 in an hour, and they are all accepted and purchased, you'll earn $16 for your hour. is that acceptable? Doesn't sound too bad to me. But I couldn't do it. Even submitting takes time. And then it depends if the customer wants all of them. But if you have lots of ideas, it might be worth it. You could write them anyway and set your own prices, or change the pricing of any that are not snapped up by this customer.

Hmm... well I doubt anyone else would want this kind of short article, but who knows. I could always just price them at $7.70, that way I'd get $5 per article. I'm worried that might make the guy who's requesting annoyed with me, though.

Hi,

It is ultimately up to you what your time and effort in writing is worth. Sometimes short articles can take just as long to proofread and revise as longer ones, as you have to make every word count. As Jak said, you still have to submit the article and that takes time too. I personally agree that $5 is too little, but the requester is asking for very small articles and that balances it out a bit. There are many requests I either ignore completely or choose to write but price reasonably because the requestor's price is too low. Some articles I have not yet sold, either to the requestor or to another customer. Others have been purchased by other customers at the higher rates. Some requesting customers do not end up purchasing from this site, as they can find writers prepared to accept the lower prices on other sites - usually with less quality writing than you would get on CC, with spelling or grammatical errors or even 'stolen' work, but customers get what they pay for. I believe there is definitely a market for the higher priced, quality, unique, and correct articles offered by CC writers.

I do think many authors sell themselves short, so some customers do think that $5 or less is an acceptable price. I've even seen requests for 1000 words for $10! I will not write articles for such low prices, and I seem to sell a reasonable amount of licences at higher prices. I believe that the customers looking for quality articles will sometimes ignore the cheaper articles and purchase articles that are priced to show that the author believes in the quality of work offered.

On the other hand, sometimes responding to public requests can lead to bigger things, such as a private request. Weigh up your options and decide if this is something you really want to do. There is a discussion in the common space section of the forum on the pricing of articles between $1 and $5 which may also give you some ideas on this issue.

Hayley

I think I won't keep writing these. I can write a 1200 word article in about $45 and make maybe 10 times the amount, plus I only have to come up with one article idea :).

Still, it might be good for some people who prefer to write shorter pieces. It does pay better than writing for those consumer review sites.

I think I'm writing to the same request at the moment. And you're right, $5 is a pittance for an article, especially for full rights and minus commission.

On the other hand if you feel happy just throwing out a couple of quick articles for this price then that's all to the good. Personally I'm just writing two very quick ones off the top of my head, not particularly because of the money, which is almost no incentive at all. I'm only doing it for the sale because I feel that when customers are browsing through author profiles they are more likely to commission someone with more full rights sales rather than someone with fewer.
Plus it's easy to use such short articles as the basis of more elaborate ones later on. Or at the very worst they serve as practice fodder.