Constant Content

A couple of questions please.

1, when you are looking at requested content, what is the 'purchase rating' column referring to?

and 2, is it normal for a customer to receive several articles on the same subject? and if he does, will he make up his mind after the deadline? In other words, when you've submitted do you have to wait until the deadline to be accepted, and you may be rejected only becasue another article was slightly better?.......... you could do a lot of work before getting anywhere.... yes?

Thank you for your time in answering.
Lydia

Hi Lydia, welcome to C-C!

A purchase rating is the number of articles a buyer has purchased. So a request from a buyer with 49 as the purchase rating means he or she has purchased 49 licenses on C-C.

Public requests are rarely a waste of time. Article that meet the site's writing guidelines are accepted, it isn't like Helium where articles are rated and ranked against one another. The requester sees articles as they come in. So say a request on underwater basket weaving comes on Wednesday. Writers interested in the subject and payment amount write their pieces. Articles approved on Thursday are seen by the customer on Thursday. Articles approved on Friday are seen on Friday.

The deadlines are basically system maintenance. In the old system, public requests would sit and sit even thought the customer received the articles he or she needed months ago. It was up to the buyer to delete the request, and most didn't come back to delete it. So now requests expire unless the buyer extends it.

As far as competition goes, if you write a good article (and to be approved here i would be) another buyer will come along. It may take awhile, but most public requests still sell later on. For example, I just received an offer on a piece about short sales in real estate that I wrote for a public request in January. The nice thing is it costs you nothing to have your article sit up for sale. Once an article is written and approved, chances are it will find a home. Read the posting about Selling More Articles for more information on that.

Good luck, and the secret to success here is just write, write, and write some more. You can't sell the ideas just swimming around in your head