Have You Ever Been P.I.E. (paid in exposure) When It Comes to Your Writing?
By jswindell10
@jswindell10 (417)
United States
January 1, 2010 2:58pm CST
I got an email from someone wanting long term writers for several content mills (I will gladly send anyone the link) that are not known to pay upfront or even in residuals (like AdSense). This person is paying .10 for these articles (no min.word count was listed but I'm assuming that 250-300 words is to be expected).
I went to the sites myself and some do not even have bylines though they claim that it will bring traffic or exposure to the writer.
Has anyone ever done this? Was there a benefit such as cross-promotion of another item or ?
Personally, I think these outrageous requests should be run out of business. I know that I don't have to apply or even inquire but people need money too bad to even be tempted by this ripoff.
4 responses
@peavey (16936)
• United States
1 Jan 10
ten cents?? I would never work for that and certainly not for "exposure." That's just another way of saying "free." There are plenty of sites out there that will pay you. If you're willing to work for pennies, why not just do myLot? You get exposure here, as long as you use your real name, and probably as much as you'd get from these sites.
@louierrific24 (1114)
• Philippines
1 Jan 10
Actually, I started writing for Bleacher Report in 2008. I haven't received anything from them except for some 60,000 plus readers, 6 article of the day citations, praises and other forms of flattery.
But I guess writing for them gave me a lot of exposure. It improved my writing skills and it served as my stepping stone to paying writing gigs.
After the sort OJT I got from that site. I started writing for various paying websites; Digital Journal, Review Streams and Bukisa to name a few. I had earned decent amount of money from my writing gigs this year and I owe it to Bleacher Report.
@jswindell10 (417)
• United States
1 Jan 10
Hey Louie,
I understand a person's gotta start somewhere and if you eventually found paying gigs, that's good.
@Sir_bobby88 (8231)
• Singapore
2 Jan 10
No i have not been to such terms , i guess those people won't rate me fairly through what i wrote .
@babostwick (2036)
• United States
1 Jan 10
That's not a lot for an article. I'd rather try to make as much as I can. My belief is just going for more than that. I know Bleacher Report doesn't pay and tried but just couldn't get involved. Sure, there is exposure but I'd want to earn something instead of just nothing at all.
