Demand Studios...They Love Me, Then Not...and Now , a Badge?
By jswindell10
@jswindell10 (417)
United States
May 12, 2010 11:23am CST
These people remind me of that person who you may be interested in but they're not really interested in you because you are "green". So over time, as you develop a little more, they get in touch and by the time you read over the rules of dealing with them, it's over.
Yeah, about a month or so ago, I got a "pre-approval" from DS after writing for eHow since 2007. I accepted it because I wanted to see what the big deal was.
Well, if you wrote for eHow and were wondering where the requested articles page that had such gems as 'How to Create Doilies Using Burlap' or 'How to Teach Your Dog (and his Friends) Basic Etiquette', these sometimes bizarre titles went to Demand Studios as upfront pay assignments.
What was it like? I was given a large orientation agenda to go over as well as completing a mandatory bio. I have no problems following directions but unless you are offering me a full time job or can guarantee than you will be around 2-3 yrs. from now, I don't inhale information like that.
I have nothing against content mills as I have been at it since 2006 and found my strength is more in ad writing. Pays more but competition is stiff. Anyway, I like being assigned things and realize that it will not pay rent. Everyone has (or is working on) their own method. Some say HubPages is wonderful, others stand by places like Break Studios, Bukisa or SEED. Some like to write 500-600 word articles and receive a whole U.S. dollar as pay. I've been on other forums where women (who were probably full time housewives) would go into these rants about people who sell their rights to these companies for the sake of adding to their clips or pay.
Anyway. back to the Demand Situation. I get an account reject after following the copyeditor's revision instructions (btw, my last two articles were accepted). No hard feelings but I go to eHow and they gave me a badge). It kind of reminded me of when I used to work as a temp and certain clients had extreme turnover of employees.
2 responses
@TrvlArrngr (4044)
• United States
15 May 10
I write for Ehow - or should say - used to write for Ehow. I have over 150 articles but Demand Studio's turned me down. So now I have to find other places to submit my writing. They also gave me a badge on Ehow after telling me I cannot submit anymore articles. Very odd.
@jswindell10 (417)
• United States
15 May 10
Hey Travel,
I have feeling that the folks at Bukisa and similar companies are real happy campers right about now.
At the same time, I do feel somewhat abused because they took a lot of 'how-to' articles from different members/users/writers (DS has different titles for its contributors), weeded them out for relevance, built a reputation and now kicked the rest who don't take the time to fill out an application, wait for final approval, read over pages of instructions, fill out a biography, attend an online orientation, pick a topic (once again, they've got some pretty "unique" ones), wait for feedback ... revise (my first was that all sentences begin with an actionable verb), once revised, wait for announcement that you will be paid and finally ... you've got fifteen whole dollars in your PayPal. WOW, I'm going to Disneyland!
@peavey (16936)
• United States
12 May 10
I was pre-approved for Demand Studios because of work on eHow, too. I accepted, but have never got past the bio part. The page after page of instructions didn't set well with me. I know how to write and have made my living at it at different points in my life. I guess it just irritated me.
Anyway, I haven't written anything for them and probably won't. It's just too much of a hassle.
@jswindell10 (417)
• United States
15 May 10
Yeah, it was a little frustrating to say the least. Like SEED.com, they supposedly have the Revenue option available for articles not accepted for upfront pay. This last article assignment came with a lot of instructions and even after following, it was still rejected along with my account. No one likes to hear that they are not accepted by anyone but to the tune of $15, I think I'll live,LOL.
This could also be the reason that they ALWAYS need staff. TextBroker pays OK and there was a moment last year when they were not accepting new writers.
At least SEED admitted that they were in the beta phase of things and that I could return once the bugs have been worked out.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
15 May 10
I write for Textbroker sometimes, too. I've had a couple of requests for revisions, both very simple things (typo once and a grammar mistake the second time). Textbroker doesn't pay as much per article, but they're not nearly as picky and it's not too hard to write several in a day if I settle down and work at it.
