Step up and show that you are one of those people who can help others become just as good as you are by sharing in the wealth of information of these places where people can find work that pays just as quickly. You seem awfully quick to squash any proof of Demand Studio’s credibility, but you have yet to put any proof of your own forward. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would love to see you put your money where your mouth is
.-= T.W. Anderson´s last blog ..Tools of the trade, part II =-.

In my experience, there are as many different payment cycles out there as there are clients. Just to say that Demand Studios are not the only buyer of web content / web articles who feature a rapid payment cycle.
.-= Benjamin Hunting´s last blog ..Letting Go Of An Old Friend =-.

Do you have a different experience?

Seriously, can you think of any other place in ANY market on a GLOBAL scale where you can walk in, find articles in your niche, write them, and get paid within 48 hours? I don’t.

Let’s take a look at typical print publications.

Query. Wait 3-5 weeks if you are lucky. If it’s a big-time publication you might be looking at more like 2-3 months. Then you write the article. It gets accepted. Many big-name print publications then require you to wait for payment 30-60 days after publication, so even once your article has been accepted you actually aren’t getting paid until it goes into print. That could literally be MONTHS down the road.

Let’s look at fiction work, in print and digital format. Submit a short story. Wait 4-6 months in most cases for the professional publications to get you a rejection or a go-ahead. Once you get a go-ahead you then go through 2-3 re-write phases until the editor is 100% satisfied with your story. Then you either get paid upon acceptance of the final article, which means you waited roughly 6 months for a payment, or you get paid on publication, which could be another 6 months down the road in most cases.

Demand Studios? Log in. Scan keywords in your niche. Pick a few articles. Write them. See a turn-around in 48 hours at the most, and a paycheck within the same time frame. Bing, bang, bucks.

Still requires research (if you are writing out of your niche), but it doesn’t require querying, there is no waiting period, and you don’t have to wait for it to get published to get paid for it. Once it’s approved you are good to go.

Honestly…if you want to sit around and be old-fashioned and do the query game, be my guest, and while you might make 500-600 USD (or more; some print writers get paid 1-2k for a decent 1k word piece), you have to factor in the time it takes to write a good article that is worth that kind of money. You are looking at day’s worth of time spent doing interviews, researching, writing, querying, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting….and bitching about how unfair it is that “the other guys” are doing work for “bastardized” rates, how they are “driving the market down”, how they are writing “quickie, hack” articles, and so on and so forth.

Meanwhile, there are writers over at Demand Studios (and similar places) pulling in high 5 figure incomes working simply part-time hours. They don’t have to query, they don’t have to wait, they don’t have to deal with interviews, they don’t have to wait, they get paid within 48ish hours of writing the article, and did I mention they don’t have to wait? The work is right there, all the time, just waiting to get writing. Sure, it’s not Pulitzer prize winning stuff, but like other people have stated, it’s disposable, profitable-as-hell content that is EASY to write and EASY to make money off of.
.-= T.W. Anderson´s last blog ..Research in the 21st century =-.

These days articles @ Demand Studios have a turn-around of AT MOST 48 hours. That means you turn it in and within 48 hours you are approved. Since they pay 2 days per week (Tuesdays and Thursdays) that means you are getting paid within a couple of days of your work as well.

When you start out you are limited to 10 articles at a time that you can pull from the pool. As you write more frequently, your limit goes up. For example, I had a stint earlier this year when I had a dry spell and I pushed out about 15 articles in a week. My limit went up to 15 articles that I could pull at a time from the pool. The limit is in place not to limit your income, but to make sure you aren’t hoarding jobs that other writers could be making. They only want you to pull what you can realistically cover.

There are some writers for Demand Studios who can pull over 30 articles at a time the last time I bothered to check. Given the fact that there is a 48 hour turn-over at MOST, even a limit of 10 is fairly progressive. I haven’t done any work in the past 2 months for them as I’ve been busy with other projects but I can say this: the last time I did any Demand Studios work I had a less-than 24 hour turnaround on the 5 articles I wrote. That means I wrote them, and by the time I logged in the next evening those 5 slots were cleared and I was GTG to pull more articles from the pool.

Given the fact that you can increase your allotment per day with proven results (if you are writing quality content they let you pull more), combined with the ease of method and the fast turnaround for pay and otherwise…it’s really a sweet system. I honestly do plan on using them more frequently in 2010, especially now that they are adding more and more categories where my niches show up.

In any case…you can easily increase your cap from 10 to 15 within a week, and AFAIK it goes up roughly the same each week as long as you are writing actively and not getting rejected. Browse their forums a bit…I know when I researched it early in 2009 there were quite a few people who are capable of claiming 20+ articles a day, you just have to prove yourself first.

But even if you are stuck with 10 every 48 hours, that’s 1800 USD per month just to start, and every time I’ve used the system I always get a 24 hour turnaround, which means you aren’t really inhibited in any way, shape, or form.

It really is a lucrative deal provided you have a niche. And EVERYONE has a niche these days, which is why so many people love Demand Studios. 15 bucks a pop for no-brainer articles and the capability to make hundreds of dollars a day without EVER having to query, cold-call, or come up with ideas. Just fill in the blanks, tag it with a reference or two, and move on to the next. Bing, bang, bucks.
.-= T.W. Anderson´s last blog ..Research in the 21st century =-.

I admit, that I do tend to get into some of the heated arguments over DS; mainly because of some of the comments I see from either side of the fence. If people are going to change their minds and move on from content mill type sites then they would need to be open-minded in order to see other options.

It’s hard to do that when they’re being called names and put down all the time. All we’re accomplishing is fuel for more fires. I will probably always be against DS, but I will try to hold some respect for those who choose to write for them. I do ask that you look for other options, but I won’t hold it against you if you choose not to.