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By: Grandma

Grandma — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:51:30 +0000

CC must be the one I looked at. I think their 35% commission is too much, and that is why I am thinking of trying my own wings. Traffic generation will be the biggest and most important issue.

I don’t know how anyone can combat stolen content. There is nothing at all to keep someone from copying and using another piece of copy. Even the things we write for TB and other companies can be stolen once they are published somewhere, or rewritten slightly. You see article rewrite requests all the time.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:37:24 +0000

Hi Felicia and Grandma!

I think Constant Content does an excellent job with their consignment approach. They are busy, the forums are well run and inspirational, and the writers and website owners are happy. Writers keep 65% of the price they set.

I think one issue that CC comes across is the content being stolen. You may have to look into how to make sure that doesn’t happen often.

Great idea Grandma! I say do your research and then go for it!
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By: prerna

prerna — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:39:31 +0000

Thanks Felicia for sharing this. As someone, who's been writing for barely 6 months, these figures are inspirational!!I'm tracking my progress with Suite and till now things look good. I do hope that I'll make it to a FW slot since that will help boost earnings considerably.. .-= prerna´s last blog ..Being a Woman: Reading and a Love for Books =-.

By: Felicia

Felicia — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:58:35 +0000

Grandma, I’m glad you’re motivated to start your own site.

Setting prices has always been a bit tough for me (one of the reasons I love residual income). I guess you should look around at potential competitors to see what they’re charging.
If your service is slightly better for a slightly lower price, it should attract buyers. Once things get up and running you can modify your rates.

Anyone have any advice to offer Grandma?

By: Grandma

Grandma — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:50:26 +0000

Now I am motivated to start up my own website to sell my articles online as another source of possible income. Maybe I would even sell other writers’ articles too. Spurred on by my lack of sufficient work on what was reliable TB, I decided that on this slow day I would begin work on the text content for my new website. I hope to sign up for the domain name and website within a few days.

The first bump in the road is pricing. How much per 100 words is not only reasonable but sellable? Many websites selling articles are charging up to 25 cents per word, which would be totally awesome. TB category 5 pays 5 cents per word to authors and that seems to be very nice when you can get it. On the other hand, most of the articles that are crying out to be written get placed there at less than a penny per word.

Anyone have any suggestions? 5 cents per word for a reprint (over and over use) stock article seems reasonable until I remember that magazines would pay a ton more for a one time use. I would like to have a couple dozen articles for sale that I can sell repeatedly, as reprint articles. I believe I can surpass the custom writing rate that way with less work.