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Earn Internet Income Freelance Writing for Suite101.com
Apply as a Freelance Writer To become a freelance writer for Suite 101.com, you have to become a member (membership is free) complete an application and submit a resume along with two writing samples. Suite101.com will review your work and notify you if you are accepted. Suite 101 has been around for over 10 years and has developed a readership of over seven million readers monthly. They offer a quality product; so if you are not serious about writing quality articles, don't bother to apply to Suite101.com. If you do decide to earn internet income by writing for Suite101.com and are accepted, be prepared for editor interaction. The editors review the work and offer quality feedback. Any writer knows that feedback is part of the growing process. The editors are there to help you improve your craft. Take the criticism as constructive criticism and learn from it. It's a good place to get honest critiques that server to improve your writing Payment Payment is made via Paypal and is based on the number of page views and ad revenue generated by your articles. None of the writers know the actual page view/revenue share formula, but we do know that payment is made monthly as long as your earnings exceed $10. Earnings from Suite101.com vary depending on the number of articles written, topic popularity, seasonal fluctuations and a host of other variables. Once you've written a few articles, you get a feel for which ones work and which ones don't. Additionally, Suite101.com provides a user interface whereby each writer can see just how well each article is doing and were the traffic is coming from. You can see which search terms were used to access your articles. It's a useful tool when it comes to honing SEO skills. Article Ownership You maintain the copyright for your work; however, you grant Suite101.com exclusive electronic rights for the first year that your article appears on their site. After that, you can post your article anywhere you wish.
Success? Success can be measured in several different ways. First of all, having a Suite101.com profile has helped me in getting other writing assignments. One link to Success can also be measured by level of income. I've had moderate success financially. Let me preface my success by saying that I maintain the 10 articles per three-month minimum requirement. Some writers write in excess of 100 articles in that period of time (other obligations prevent me from doing so). As of this writing (March 2008), I've written 76 articles that are currently posted on Suite101.com's website and have accumulated $780.81 in revenue - a quick calculation of a little more than $10 per article. That number is a little deceiving because some of the articles were written as recently as two days ago which haven't had time to be process through the search engines as yet. Some articles get great traffic while other ones are not popular at all. Either way, as long as I continue as a freelance writer for Suite101.com, the articles will remain on the website and I will continue to earn internet income. Even if I stop writing, as long as the articles remain on the site and generate revenue, I will continue to earn and get paid. Quick Update (5/13/08): Total earnings = $978.41 with 82 articles = average of $11.93 per article.
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Suite101.com calls itself an online magazine. It's a content rich site whose articles are contributed by freelance writers which allow the writers to earn internet income. The freelance writers are broken into two categories, Feature Writers and Contributing Writers.
