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Demand Studios is a Keeper

May 31st, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

I few posts ago I mentioned that I stumbled across a potential money making opportunity for freelance writers and filmmakers. Demand Studios provides online content for reputable well established websites and require quality writers and filmmakers.

I submitted my application and was approved within 24 hours. I logged into my account, downloaded their style guide document, reviewed it and started my money making journey.

Freelance Writers

I can explain Demand Studios from a freelance writers point of view. I welcome any comments from filmmakers//videographers. I’d like to know if your experience is similar to mine.

They allow you to select no more than 10 titles at a time. Since this is for the eHow project, I was already familiar with their writing style guide. I wrote 3 of my 10 articles and submitted them for review. No sense in writing all 10 only to have them all come back to me for edit or re-write.

Waiting

I wrote and submitted the articles on the Thursday before the Memorial Day holiday weekend so I assumed I wouldn’t hear anything until the holiday was over. I checked my account from time to time to see if there was anything new.

I a few days after the holiday I received three e-mails from them advising me that my articles had been approved and are being processed for payment. The going rate for the eHow project is $15 per article.

Proof is in the Paypal

On Friday, I received notification from Paypal that $45.00 was deposited into my account from Demand Studios.

It really doesn’t get any easier than that. Demand Studios appear to be a viable money making opportunity to fill in the gap on those weeks, when Google changes its algorithm and your income plummets, or during those seasonal downtime fluctuations.

Finding the Groove

Since I’m so new with Demand Studios I haven’t quite gotten into the groove. When I say groove, I mean I’d like to get a better feel for when the editors review the articles. If they review them all on Tuesdays, for example, I’d like to make sure that I have several articles submitted by Monday.

It seems that once it is approved, payment happens shortly thereafter. Not bad for a few quick dollars.

UPDATE: Apparently there was a Demand Studio fau paux.

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Comment by Tiffany (1 comments.) on 8 June 2008:

Wow. I came here from a comment you left for Darren Rowse and I blogged about the same issue today. I even used the same phrase regarding giveth and taketh…too funny.

Good luck!
Comment by jen brister (1 comments.) on 13 July 2008:

I am a writer for Demand Studios and have had a lot of success with it. I have yet to figure out if there is a pattern as to when the post new articles, review articles or pay out. I think they have several editor that probably work on their own schedules.
Comment by Felicia on 13 July 2008:

I agree with you Jen. I have yet to figure out the pattern for reviewing articles.

Some weeks I write articles and they’re reviewed and approved rather quickly and other weeks it seems that they take a while to review and approve.
Comment by Brooke on 15 July 2008:

I too have been trying to figure out the pattern. I have been writing for Demand Studios for about two months now. I think it all depends entirely on the editor. For instance, the articles submitted under the car topics get approved rather quickly while the fashion and beauty articles tend to take a little longer. If yout think about the volume of submissions on the various topics it makes sense that certain ones take longer. Also, they seem to change the website and service fairly often which I believe creates more of a workload for the editors and therefore a variation in approval times. Question: is anyone approved to write for a site other than e-how?
Comment by Felicia on 15 July 2008:

So far, the only site I’ve been approved to write for is eHow.

As a matter of fact, I used to write for eHow through another group called Writers Research Group. Once I found Demand Studios I stopped writing for WRG.

With WRG, you only got paid $10 per article and you had to wait 60 days in order to get paid. Getting paid $15 for the exact same stuff and getting paid weekly sounded like a much better option.
Comment by Jennifer Walker (3 comments.) on 16 July 2008:

I started Demand Studios a couple of weeks ago. I understand that they’re behind because they’ve had a large influx of writers. It seems pretty random, but my articles are getting approved within a week or so. I wish they’d hurry up and review the ones I have out there so I get paid for them this week!
Comment by Felicia on 16 July 2008:

I’ve noticed that there have been a few changes going on. I wish they would send out a group e-mail or notice to let us know the latest news.
Comment by Karen on 21 July 2008:

I have been writing for Demand Studios for several weeks. The $15 per article is better than any other place I write. However, the subjects are awful. A lot of them are really off the wall or don’t even make sense, others would require you were an expert on the particular subject, like puttine a car engine togeter or how to make a musical instrument, how to become a private detictive in idaho, etc.

Also, when I signed up, the premo said they had 50 companies we would be writing for and they offer only ehow. I asked about that and the reply was that those companies go through Demand Media. When I googled Demand Media, there was no info on joining. There is very little info on the website and no forum where you can talk to other members.
Comment by Felicia on 22 July 2008:

I agree with you. I would prefer a little more communication. I have a few articles that have been waiting for Demand Studio’s approval since last week.

Sometimes they approve them quickly and other times it takes a while. I also noticed that some editors are pickier than others. I wrote several articles on the same topic. The only difference was it occurred in different states. All of the articles were approved except for one. The editor wanted me to add tips.

I realized that tips weren’t necessary, so I put in the simplest most obvious tip and it was approved.

Demand Studios is great for supplemental income, but it cannot be the only source of income.
Comment by Scott on 22 July 2008:

I’ve written for DS for about five months, now. When I first started, they were excellent about payment, but they’ve recently become a problem. I had one article sit, not reviewed, for over ten days.

But then, they’re probably just back-logged. It’s the summer.
Comment by Stevee on 24 July 2008:

I know that there was just recently a call for more Editors for DS, and it looks like soon they might be reviewing in a bit more timely fashion. I have been with them for about a month and a half, and adore it.
Comment by Felicia on 24 July 2008:

I’m glad to know that they’re hiring more editors. I’ve got a few awaiting approval.

Since they were taking so long, I stopped choosing titles. I’ll wait and see how long the turn around time is for the few I wrote. If it picks up, then I’ll choose more and write more. In the meanwhile I’m still looking at other opportunities.