Associated Content and Constant Content Experiment
I’ve decided to do a little experiment with Associated Content and Constant Content; namely, I am going to see how much money can be made using these two writers resources. Now, because of my busy schedule I cannot commit to this full-time, though I will work to publish a minimum of 5 articles per week until the end of 2007.
I’ve read in the Associated Content forums that there are freelance writers who submit content to Associated Content full time, though I’m not sure how that could lead to a full-time income. Personally, I’ve used Associated Content in the past under a pen name, though I only ended up submitting about 15 articles in total to the tune of $50 or so dollars in up-front payment and a few dollars thus far from their performance bonus.
I guess I’m not too worried about Associated Content declining my work for up-front payment; of the 15 that I submitted to AC, only one got held up due to not using a “discoverable” page title; I fixed that promptly and thus had a 100% acceptance rate for up-front payments. Other writers complain (in the forums) about not getting their articles accepted at the Associated Content website. . . but I don’t see where the problem is. Maybe I write better. . . maybe I choose better topics. . . maybe I got lucky - I don’t really know.
As far as Constant Content; I’ve never submitted an article to them until this morning. . . I’ve read in several different writers forums that the editors over there are a bit brash when rejecting articles. While I am a website content writer by profession, I only have a high-school education; we’ll see how that goes soon enough.
The Experiment
The experiment is simply to see how much money I can make over the next 5ish weeks using Associated Content and Constant Content, submitting a minimum of 5 articles per week to each website.
I will be creating an article and submitting it to Associated Content first, then I will submit it to Constant Content with Usage Rights. On this blog I will keep a “diary” of sorts where I will share the articles submitted, when or if they were approved and any money earned as a result of this experiment.
This experiment will officially start on Monday, November 26th, though I have 2 articles in to Associated Content and 1 submitted to Constant Content as of this writing. The end-date will be December 31, 2007. Not all articles submitted to Associated Content will be submitted to Constant Content, so there may be discrepancies between the numbers.
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Depends what you consider a “full-time income”- but here at Associated Content, Content Producers make hundreds or thousands per month.
-Luke
Founder and President, Associated Content
I’m quite impressed that my post garnered the attention from a major online company the same day it was posted. . . especially since my blog here has limited reach. Pretty impressive, Associated Content must mine the search engines, maybe reputation management?
In any case, thanks for the response. I guess that I should expand a bit on what I am doing & how I plan to asses whether freelance writers can make a full-time income using these two websites.
In reality, yes; I believe that even writing for Associated Content alone can give you a “livable” income, or at least a nice staple to supplement it… this experiment is just to show others that it can, indeed, be done.
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