How to Become the Next Demand Studios
Hey kids!
Hope all is well.
You guys are kicking a** in the comments and I’m glad that everyone feels like this is a safe haven they can come to for venting about DS.
But I don’t want to neglect my other duties here.
Had another email asking about some more tips…
There are a couple topics I would like you to write/touch on that I have wondered about:
1. Will I get fired from DS for selling rewrites that I abandoned to associated content or a similar service? Is this a no-no?
2. Will I get fired for allowing to many abandoned rewrites? What is your percentage like for this?
Now, as I’ve said before, I can’t claim to be an expert when it comes to Demand – like this guy – but I have been able to pay my bills for the last few months. So all I can do is answer from my own experience.
From what I recall – and I’m sure any DS Forum Zombies will correct me on this – if you submit an article to Demand and they don’t accept it – it’s yours to do with as you will. As a matter of fact, that’s exactly what I did to get on with Suite101 and other online writing sites. Just clean up your old Demand articles and use those.
When a friend of mine was signing up for Demand last year, I gave him one of my old writing samples rejected by another website to use as his writing sample. Guess who got accepted as a DS writer with that? Yep. My pal – and backup plan.
Just because your article is rejected doesn’t mean it’s good. It just means that you had a particular copy editor one day who was abiding my whatever Demand “writing styles” were floating around that hour and they had to turn it down.
And to your second question – the last that I read is that Demand is well aware of the “no rewrite” trick. You’re absolutely right in that it’s all about percentages. I’m not quite sure what the percentage threshold is. I try not to abandon that many rewrites. It’s a good tactic, but one that needs to be used with caution.
The only thing I would be wary about is if you started having more abandoned rewrites than approved articles. That’s when you’ve got to worry and the Demand zombies start coming from you.
chicklette – I agree. Patrick’s insights are funny and in a strange way, helpful. We can’t take ourselves and the DS corporate culture too seriously.
(Just going by Virgie now.)
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LOL @Virgie…asshat haha. This site kicks so much ass. It’s nice to have someplace to read funny, insightful comments about stuff everyone at Demand is thinking and can’t say.
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LOL! The ass hat you link to above (“I can’t claim to be an expert when it comes to Demand – like this guy”) – who describes himself as “possibly the most knowledgeable creator” the site has ever had, shows off his photo byline as “WRITTER.” Sheesh. Maybe if you buy his book you’ll unlearn everything you know about being a good editor, too.
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