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My Early Experiences with Associated Content
If given time and peace, I could type on the computer for hours on end, barely getting up to go to the bathroom and to eat. So I thought it was appropriate for me to sign up for free at Associated Content.
I submitted my first article, How to Reduce Your Energy Bill This Winter, on Nov. 24 for review. I was nervous. It had been a very long time since anyone has had to look at my work. The last time was when I in college so many years ago. I don’t really get nervous when people read my blogs.
Like an insane person, I refreshed the content page to see if the status had changed. And each time, it merely said “submitted”. I was getting frustrated and impatient. I had to keep reminding myself that I was a newbie and that it was my first submitted article.
About 5 days later, the status changed. I received a short welcome message from the staff. They offered $2 for the article. LOL. Ok so it was something, and I now had proof that Associated Content was willing to pay for my writing. So I accepted the payment. From the time I submitted the first article to the time I actually received payment via Paypal, it took 7 days. People with actual jobs get paid weekly or twice a month.
So on Dec. 1, I set out to write 5 more articles. I figured writing 5 articles a day to submit to Associated Content wouldn’t be too hard. Boy was I wrong. Since I’m a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom, I had a ton of distractions, mainly my kids. I was constantly interrupted for one thing or another.
I ended up finishing 4 articles at about 1 am in the morning. I gave up writing the 5th article and decided to submit the four. I was suffering from writer’s block and going crazy over what I had typed up. Apparently, I was “out of shape” when it came to writing.
I expected to wait another week before my articles were reviewed. Shockingly enough, someone reviewed my work the following day. Unfortunately, the reviewer rejected 2 of the articles. But the good news was that one article was offered $2.24 and the other was offered $3.45. That made me happy.
I looked at the comments the reviewer left behind for the rejected articles. One was because the topic was too common and the other was rejected because I didn’t cite my sources. I decided not to resubmit the first one. But I did add my sources and resubmitted the 2nd article. Hopefully it will get accepted this time around.
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Becoming an Associated Content Author
Desperate times call for desperate measures. This year I’ve been overloaded with information on “how to make money”. Some are plausible if given the time and money. Unfortunately, at this time, I have way more time and no money to spare.
The other day, I visited Associated Content. I signed up to be a publisher a month or so ago since it was free to join and I wanted to start writing articles. However, I suffered a massive computer crash and couldn’t write articles at the time.
Associated Content has 2 ways to pay you. The first way is Performance Payments, which pays a baseline of $1.50 for every 1000 views that your article receives. The 2nd one is the Upfront Payments, which pays you from $1 – $20 per article. Associated Content pays the writer exclusively through Paypal, so income earned is almost instantaneous once the article is approved.
I think this is a very viable way to make supplemental income. There are a few out there that are living off the income generated from articles at Associated Content. I’m not going to set my goal that high. Right now, I have a doable goal of making $500 per month steadily. Why $500? Because that’s how I need to make to pay some of the monthly expenses. Once I reach that goal, I’ll move it up to $1000 a month. Years ago I made $1,000-$3000 as an affiliate as well as being a graphics designer. So I think I have a reasonable goal to accomplish. We’ll see how it goes.
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