Demand Studios contractors are beginning to freak out about the lack of titles and information coming from Demand. On the flip side, Demand is being pretty dickish about not putting out any kind of information at all about the dearth of titles. “We, as the freelance community of Demand Studios, demand that we be given real, precise and frequent updates as to the status and reasons behind the disappearance of titles from our lists and queues.” [...]
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Archive for the ‘Freelance Writing Tips’ CategoryHow will Demand Media writers benefit from the crazed exuberance for shares of DMD after the IPO? Freelancers should actually not expect pay to go up if the scuttlebutt from Goldman is to be believed. [...] Suggestions regarding how to make money writing online, using Demand Media Studios as your entry path to a writing career. [...] How not to be Willie Nelson Thought this might come in handy, especially all of you who have been riding the DS crack dragon for a few years. Like a good drug dealer, DS doesn’t take out the tax man’s cut before they hand you over the goods. Come the end of the year, you might be into the Uncle for a few bucks. In the olden days, you had to apply for an extension and all that other rigamarole. But you know what, this time, old US has his act together. Go set yourself up an account with Uncle Sam’s online friend How to Chase the Dragon Hey DSSers, Hope all of you are keeping well out there. I don’t know what Giff and Ricard are up to. Probably concocting some sort of evil plan for world domination. Wanted to throw out another tip here for you guys. I’ve been hearing lots of emails and reading posts about the lack of titles in the DS queue. It’s not the lack of titles, it’s the lack of experts. So what you need to do is become an expert. Let’s say you’ve never done heroin before. You look in the queue and notice that there are an How to Be Giff Head Associated Content snatch is the best. But it can sometimes be hard or intimidating to meet AC babes. They can also be quite elusive, as they spend most of their time either writing content or spreading venereal disease. When you do happen to meet one, it’s sometimes difficult to know exactly what to do to get her to do some revenue sharing. But don’t worry, there are a few simple tricks you can try to get an Associated Content chick to put out. 1. Scope out places that Associated Content hos like to hang. This could be the [...] How to Recycle So we’ve been doing a little more thinking over here about repurposing content. Here is the official DS stance: Slightly rephrasing similar content often is not enough to avoid a repurposing citation. Our in-house editors conduct reviews of each writer’s accepted articles, and our copy editors often deliberately choose similar titles when these appear in their queues. If we find that you’ve claimed similar titles and submitted the same or similar content — or chunks of content — for any of these articles, you will incur automatic rejections, immediate suspension and could permanently lose your Demand Media Studios privileges. We advise writers [...] How to Repurpose Someone's Tossed Salad Been getting lots of emails about how the CEs and DS are starting to come down on “repurposing articles”. We’ve never been for plagarism here at DSS. Besides, that’s what the checker is for, right? It’s like DS wants it both ways, they want 10,000 variations on “How to Toss Someone’s Salad”, but don’t want the same person to write those articles. And now apparently the Zombies in the DS forum are bitching about us again, too. Look, writing for DS isn’t “real” writing or “journalism”. It’s writing to fit a system. All we’re going here at DSS is [...] How To Keep a 15 Year Old Trapped in Your Room Ahhhh, Textbroker. I’ve been with them about a year now. I’m not sure if I like them or not. I haven’t really put in the time with them, I guess. Seeing one of their articles reminded me of why I don’t write for them more often. Here’s the instructions for one of their articles: *** Please read ALL of these instructions before taking on this order *** 1.) You will write an article based west hollywood home and using west hollywood home as the main keyword for the article. Follow the punctuation [...] |
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