If you are a freelance writer, you have more than likely heard of Writer’s Market. Not only can you purchase the annual Writer’s Market book, but they also have a website that offers just as much information.
For serious freelance writers, an online subscription to Writer’s Market is a must have. For $29.99 you receive many benefits that will help to better your career. Just a few of them include:
1. Listings that are regularly updated. This helps to ensure that you are always getting in touch with the right editor, etc.
2. The online version of Writer’s Market offers a feature known as “Submission Tracker.†This allows you to easily keep track of queries and contacts.
3. A searchable database allows you to quickly and efficiently find what and who you are looking for. Although the Writer’s Market book is useful, you will spend a lot of time flipping through page after page. With an online subscription this is never the case.
Of course, these are only the most basic benefits of Writer’s Market online.
Although I do not use Writer’s Market everyday, it is safe to say that I sign into my account at least three or four times a week. Anytime I am interested in hunting down a new market, or locating an editorial contact, this is where I start.
You can learn more about Writer’s Market books and online subscription at writersmarket.com.
Over the past couple of months I have put a lot of time into submitting content to Associated Content. And for all the hard work, I have been rewarded with a high acceptance rate, decent pay per article, and much more. Check out my post at https://www.chrisblogging.com/associated-content-recent-results/ for a good idea of my past results. Although this post covers the time from May 15 to June 15, it still shows just how much Associated Content has to offer.
I have slowed down my submissions over the past month due in large part to the amount of other work that I have had. And coincidentally enough, it seems that Associated Content has slowed their roll quite a bit as well. What do I mean by this? Simply put, they are not approving articles as fast as they were a month or so ago.
For instance, some of my articles in late June took 10 days to garner a response. This is compared to no more than five days in early June. While this may not be anything much, it makes me wonder what the problem is. Does Associated Content need to hire more editors? Or are they simply receiving more content now than they have in the past?
Personally, it does not bother me if they take a bit longer to respond. After all, I do not rely on Associated Content to pay my bills; I simply use it to add a few hundred bucks to my monthly total. But for those people who only write for Associated Content, this could be a huge problem.
Right now, I have quite a few articles waiting for a response that I submitted four to five days ago. It will be interesting to see if a response comes soon, or if 10 days or more go by this time.
Let me know if anybody else is having this problem, or if it is just me!
As I mentioned a couple days back, I applied to be part of the PayPerPost community. I figured that this was a great way to get started with a bit of monetization, not to mention the fact that I also wanted to see what the service is all about. Before you move on here, you may want to check that post out at https://www.chrisblogging.com/getting-started-with-payperpost/.
Well, despite being confident that my blog would be accepted, I received an email rejection this morning. I was a bit surprised that it took so long to hear back, but I guess with the holiday it was not so bad.
Fortunately, my blog did not get rejected because of the content or anything along those lines. Instead, it appears that they turned me down because I do not have an “archives†link. This just goes to show you that reading the rules is a very important step before doing anything online. Although I thought that I knew what I was doing, I somehow missed out on this detail.
Here is the email that I received from PayPerPost:
I was unable to find a link to your archives. Please make sure that it is in plain site and that your archives list chronologically, not categorically. Also, the archives cannot be just ‘previous pages.’ For example, it should be set up to where I could find a post on Sept. 30th very quickly. Please re-submit when this requirement has been met. In the meantime, feel free to use PPP Direct and Affiliate tools while you work on meeting the requirements of our Marketplace!
My guess is that they require an archives page so that they can easily find PayPerPost content among the rest of the posts; which makes sense to me.
As you can imagine, this is not going to set me back too much. I will add the archives widget to my sidebar, and then resubmit my blog today. Initially, I was not sure if simply adding the archives widget would be acceptable, but after seeing several other PayPerPost blogs, this seems to be just fine.
Hopefully I will be approved by sometime early next week. I will let you know when I hear something!Â
