Comments on: Freelance Writing Jobs for Tuesday, June 10, 2008

By: Ann G.

Ann G. — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:48:44 +0000

@Katherine – Sugarland is in Texas. Had to write an article about it a few months back. The similarly named country group hails from there.

By: maryam

maryam — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:05:16 +0000

Re : K
I dont know, i don’t have a specific formula. Don’t think that I am getting the high end jobs though, just the mid level ones. Just look at your strengths and make sure you have material which relates to what your talking about. In the meantime, i write for sites such as demand studios which might not be so demanding ( ha!) but pay well and every week ( unlike some who i am yet to see payment after two months…)
For every ten that you apply you will prob get one answering back. That’s my theory anyways.

By: Kellea Croft

Kellea Croft — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:32:52 +0000

Yeah…finally a listing for something with Australian content. Thanks for the great listings.

By: Carly

Carly — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:15:14 +0000

Katherine–ha, the irony. Sugar Land is a real place in Texas.

Re: translating jobs, my gosh, I wish I could get into them. I am almost fluent in Mandarin Chinese but I still feel like I’m leagues away from being able to translate anything other than a simple children’s book. You guys are lucky!

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:39:38 +0000

I wrote for Suite 101 and made no money – I had developed a course for the site and had to do a lot of revisions to make things the way they wanted it. It was not a good way to make money – perhaps things have changed.
One of the job postings, I believe for health related content was from Sugar Land – lol – is there actually such a place?

By: maryam

maryam — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:47:29 +0000

i dont know about giving up rights, but bright hubg will give you 80% revenue share whichc is pretty good. The other places i work for don’t do that…associated content allows you to publish your content and publish it elsewhere but don’t be surprised that you don’t get money right away. Um there is another site..www.helium.com
Sometimes they offer minimal content that you ” compete” for.
Ah, other than that websites generally tend to want original content because google will catch on duplicates over the web and they want their content to have ” traffic”.

By: k

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:38:39 +0000

Hello, Maryam — how are you managing to get such great results?

By: maryam

maryam — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:32:29 +0000

hey just wanted to say i landed two gigs this week because of this site thanks jodee and deb! I got an interview for two more this week, fingers crossed

By: k

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:44:06 +0000

Hi! Love this page! Thanks; can anyone suggest a listing that would provide me with any meager amount of income as long as it was reliable and I don’t have to give up all rights to the piece?

Also, just read over the “chef author” contract. You give up all rights and have to indemnify them, for, like, $100. Not at all cool.

By: Jodee

Jodee — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:11:28 +0000

@ Pamela: I used to work there. Nice people but it wasn’t very lucrative for me financially. Mind you, I didn’t know anything about SEO or promoting my page at that point either….

There are people over there who do well and others who don’t. It depends on what you are writing about. They have changed their pay structure, so I can’t really comment on how well you would do if you started now.