Comments on: Revenue Share – Approach With Caution

By: annew

annew — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:06:30 +0000

TC, it could be a whole lot worse… good for you, and thanks for reporting.

By: Elizabeth West

Elizabeth West — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:51:25 +0000

I haven’t done any of those and I don’t want to. It sounds funny to me. I’m doing all right with my current content gig and they pay for each article as soon as it’s approved. It’s just a bit of extra money at this point.
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By: TC

TC — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:37:33 +0000

I wrote an article on the 25th anniversary of the Challenger Disaster for distribution on Yahoo! last month. Adding my up-front payment and my revenue/performance based payments, I made about $80 for a 500 word article.

By: annew

annew — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:02:10 +0000

base pay makes revenue share much better.

By: Misti

Misti — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:03:21 +0000

I used to write for Epinions. I’ve earned something like $25 for 30 item reviews in 4 years, and almost half of that income is from 1 review. They’ve removed the item that 5 my reviews apply to without alerting me (so I don’t know when that happened), and a few reviews have been reapplied to the wrong item. I can’t figure out how to contact them about it, either, except through the forums, where they aren’t answering me.

That said, I know it’s possible to get a decent residual income from that sorta thing. I just don’t want to write a few thousand reviews to get there. If I’m going to write that much for free, it’s going to be for my own blog, where I don’t have to share the revenue. Or I’ll write one of those niche e-book ideas I have.

I remember traffic going up for my song review blog after I tied my music album posts on Epinions, so I might do that, or if I need to somewhere to put a review I’ve written. (Like if I’m raving about something on a forum, I might as well compile all that and see if I can’t get a few cents for it.)

Overall, though, I don’t think I’ll take another revenue sharing job unless there’s a base pay with it, too.

By: Kelli

Kelli — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:29:06 +0000

Hi Anne.

I signed up with Suite101 a while back and wrote several articles for them before realizing that I’d be putting in a lot of work for the amount of pay I may or may not receive. I forgot the exact number, but they wanted at least 10 or so articles, basically on spec, which would then supposedly turn into big money makers with the revenue sharing program.

I have yet to see a dime from them, which is why I don’t write for them anymore.

Frankly, like many of you, I’m suspicious of how they report such revenues, and don’t recommend them.

Thanks for your blog, Anne! I’m working to get my toe in the door of freelance writing (I do SEO content stuff right now, less commitment because I have other income streams starting up too!). It’s intimidating, sometimes, to apply for jobs when there are so many more experienced people out there!

Kelli

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:39:04 +0000

Hi, Anne: I do have my own blog that I use to advertise for one of my freelance businesses, providing ghost blogs to real estate agents. (Again, specializing in writing about residential real estate seemed like a really good idea a few years ago!) As far as starting my own blog that I can monetize with Adsense and other avenues? I've thought about it. Up until now, I'd been nice and busy with print work. But this might be a good time to think about the option a bit harder. Thanks again, Anne, for visiting my site. Dan Dan’s last blog post..Examining Examiner.com

By: admin

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:25:23 +0000

Good to see you here Dan… I asked on your site, your post, why you don’t just start your own blog?

By: Ron Lewis

Ron Lewis — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:15:53 +0000

For the suspicious folks on this thread, I’d love to suggest a new topic — freelance job boards. Have I got a conspiracy theory to tell you.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:21:45 +0000

I wonder about these revenue-sharing sites, too. Unfortunately, with so many of my regular print-magazine clients going out of business or not accepting pitches these days -- I specialize in writing about residential real estate, which is suddenly not the topic to work in -- I've been dipping my toe in the revenue-sharing sites, places like Suite 101 and Examiner.com. So far I've made very little. But we'll see. If I can make a plug here, I've just started writing about my experiences with these sites -- I just started this blog yesterday -- at a blog I've so cleverly titled Content Writing Madness. I believe you can find a link to my latest post down below. Actually, Anne inspired a bit to write about my experiences. I enjoyed her posts a bit ago about her efforts to make money at the sites. Dan’s last blog post..Is life sweet at Suite 101?