Helium Marketplace Articles
By Canellita
@Canellita (12029)
United States
March 6, 2009 1:25pm CST
I signed up at Helium earlier this week and posted my first article and started rating others. I am interested in upfront payment so I have been looking around the Marketplace section for topics in areas that refelct the things I write about.
I decided to try one that would require some research and I have been checking periodically to make sure the opportunity was still there and I just noticed today that there was a column for number of articles. I assume this means the number that have been submitted.
What I don't get is what this means for payment. If the publisher continues accepting submissions what are the chances of your article being chosen and why go through all this if you may not get paid for it?
2 responses
@rocketsky (1013)
• China
13 Apr 09
this is a good palce to write something for myself
i also write some articles there ,I think the site is quite wonderful
payment is a little bit slow ,but it is ok.
try to continue your work on it
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@Canellita (12029)
• United States
13 Apr 09
My mistake was spreading it around and not focusing only on helium when I got started. 3 articles down, 1 to go to get that first rating star.
@WC1989 (595)
• United States
6 Mar 09
The point is for the publisher to have choices in different articles so that they can pick the best one for their needs. It is possible for someone to write a great article, but it's not what they're looking for. It may have to do with style, word choice, seo, etc... To counter this they get to pick from many submissions. Many (not all though so read the description carefully), but many of them go back to Helium if they were rejected. In this case they may still get upfront payments.
Some publishers take 2-3 articles btw.
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@Canellita (12029)
• United States
13 Mar 09
Thanks I've visited the site a few more times as well as some other discussions on Helium and I am starting to understand how things work.
