We received a tip about TextBroker.com on our freelance writing jobs directory page. Halina, who had signed up for TextBroker after reading the comment, has offered to share her experiences since joining the program.
We received a tip about TextBroker.com on our freelance writing jobs directory page. Halina, who had signed up for TextBroker after reading the comment, has offered to share her experiences since joining the program. Here they are.
I’ve been writing freelance for two years now, starting with Helium, then moving on to Associated Content, Constant Content, and lately, Textbroker.com. I’ve also written articles for my company and even submitted a few pieces to local Madison newspapers. The pay has been decent but nothing for which I would quit my day job. At this moment, I’ve made over $1400 on Associated Content, about $400 on Constant Content, and exactly $10.87 since joining Textbroker two days ago.
I initially discovered Textbroker because of a comment about it on www.ivetriedthat.com. I decided to give the site a try and signed up. Textbroker requires that you submit a writing sample in order to be assigned an author star rating of 2-5, with 2 stars being considered average, 3 stars good, and 4 stars excellent writing ability. The 5 star rating is reserved for professional writers, and I’m not sure how one obtains that qualification.
Within the same day, I received my author rating of 4 stars. This allowed me to claim and submit articles asking for writing quality of 2-4 stars. The higher one’s star rating, the more one is paid per word, so it pays to submit your best writing sample. Currently, my pay is 1.5 cents per word.
My first submission was accepted within 12 hours of submission and paid me $4.90 for about 400 words. The next day, I submitted another article, which was also quickly accepted and paid $5.88. I then received two DirectOrders, which is when clients request that you write for them specifically. I have since submitted one DirectOrder, which was then returned to me for editing. I re-submitted the article today. Should I have the latest article accepted, I will make up to $6.00 (the article is 400 words).
Textbroker will also evaluate your accepted articles and assign them a rating. The better your articles, the higher your rating and payment per word.
That I like most about Textbroker is that you do not have to write long articles. Many client requests are for 150-250 word articles. Coupled with the higher than average payment per word, that means I can easily turn out 2-3 articles in one evening and make a quick $15 or so. What I don’t like about Textbroker is that you need to wait a long time for payout; the site pays everyone only once monthly, on the 10th of the month.
This post was written by Halina. When not hunting out money-making opportunities online, Halina can be found making money on Associated Content at the following site: Associated Content.
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I began the sign-up process for this site, however I found that the terms of service seems to take away all rights to your work after you submit it to them. This is different from what I’ve seen on other sites, where you allow them to alter/modify/distribute your work but you still retain authorship. It seems as though on this site they can take your work and claim it as their own. ’sole and exclusive rights’ is how it is expressed by them. If I am in error and this is how all sites handle written submissions, please let me know.
It is only for those within the U.S.Joe,please give us something international
I’ve signed up with Textbroker too. In 2 days, I wrote 5 articles on law topics and was paid $11.50 for them. Its easy freelance writing if you have a talent for writing. I hope to up my ratings and get direct orders from customers.
I wanted to leave an update on Textbroker since writing about this site a few weeks ago. I am coming up on my first payout and will have close to $85 going into my Paypal account. I have written 15 articles by now, some as small as 200 words and some over 800 words. My pay rate has been 1.4 cents per word. I have not had a single article rejected or not paid for, though I did have to revise two articles with some minor changes.
I’ve had several Direct Orders (as opposed to Open Orders, which are available to all writers for writing) come to me through my Textbroker Inbox, and I’ve also been recently contacted by a Webmaster to be the copy editor for his site. He asked me to set my own rate for a 500 word article, which allowed me to increase my pay rate dramatically (I asked for 2 cents per word). This was all due to my writing articles for Textbroker.
It is true that with Textbroker, you are selling all rights to what you write. Depending on the nature of your article, then, you may not wish to sell it on Textbroker. However, the pay rate on this site is higher than many online freelance sites (like Associated Content), and the acceptance rate is also better (as opposed to Constant Content).
I will keep you all posted on new developments with this site.
I wanted to post a correction to the position I was offered recently, thanks to Textbroker.com…it is for copyright editor.
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Update! Today I received my entire month’s payment from Textbroker- a whopping $77.63! I have some additional money in that account that did not carry over, because it was under $10 when the 5th of the month came (which is the cutoff for payouts for a given month). I am very happy.
Another nice thing: Textbroker pays through Paypal, and Paypal does not charge a fee for the Textbroker funds transfer (unlike when you have money paid via Ebay- who owns Paypal, of all things!). So, I received every last penny of the money I had earned. In this respect, Textbroker is much like Associated Content and Constant Content: all the money you earn comes to you without a kickback going to Paypal.
It’s month #2 since I began writing articles for Textbroker, and my payout was $138.81 this time! Which is nice, since it covered my recent commencement into the Niche Blitzkrieg system of Michael Brown.
I’ve used it too, but I found it retarded. Anyone else? The article assignments are something like, “Write 250 words about bumblebees. Make sure you use the word bumblebees 12 times.” And I keep thinking, what about bumblebees? Who is reading this? Where is it being published and for what purpose? But none of this is ever explained.
Hi, everyone, well, one thing that makes me bitter on their service is so-called editing rate! I can’t fully understand that “tricks” Imagine, I have written for so many companies, and individuals. And none had paid me less that 0.02 cent per word. Whereas in text broker, after my application text, I was rated 2 stars! I continued and wrote more 15 articles, then sulk back to 1 stars! For that reason, I gave them a quite!
I would like to know the seceret of sucess in textbroker, though
Bobby,
I believe that you’ve been rated two stars and then only one star because, judging solely from your above post, your level of grammar is lacking. If you’d like to be successful on Textbroker you will need to work on your writing skills. If you’re serious about getting a higher score (and therefore are open to genuine advice without hostility) consider purchasing Strunk and White’s Elements of Style, a book of grammar and solid writing techniques considered to be the Writer’s Bible for decades.
As of two days ago, I am now marked as a professional writer by Textbroker. This means that I can claim articles spcified as 5-stars. Payout on 5 star articles is 5 cents a word- not bad! The only problem? I can not find these 5-star articles in the least. Most of Textbroker’s clients ask for 2, 3, and 4 star authors only. However, I’ll keep on looking.
I’ve been using textbroker for a few months. I don’t know of another site where you can just pick an article and write it. However, I’m curious to know how much textbroker makes off my writing.
Usually, assignments are just a few dollars each, so I only use it when there is nothing else going on. I get paid a lot better from freelance bidding sites. I did, however, stumble across an assignment for multiple articles that won me about $100 for a day’s work. That was a really nice day!
I would not recommend textbroker as a sole source of income, but it is a great tool for freelancers who may need to supplement their work flow stream.
Dear killfive:
Textbroker makes a 25% commission on top of the fee charged by you to the client. You can see this when you look up individual clients on the site, or go to the clients’ area of the web site. It’s not much, compared to places like Constant Content (who cut off a third of your earnings for their commission, and have you charge more as a result- which of course leads to fewer sales for you).
The nice thing about Textbroker is that, once you achieve 5 star author status, you start getting direct clients with whom you can haggle for better money and unique assignments. For example, I am currently involved with an IT company and rewriting their web pages, and I’m trying to see if they will pay me an up-front fee to do search engine and keyword optimization too.
I just started writing for them last week, and specifically searched for a forum like this to see others’ experiences. Because I’m so new with them, I don’t have much to offer, but I’m glad to see everyone was paid, and Hally’s info was interesting and encouraging.
The first article I submitted was rated excellent by the client, and was accepted almost immediately, though not assigned a rating by Textbroker. I proceeded to write four more articles. To date, I have no feedback for the other four.
When I submitted the fifth article, a message popped up that I would not be allowed to submit more until Textbroker rated my submitted articles, and that could take up to a week. I remain in a limbo state until they get around to rating them, I guess. I’m sure they’re inundated, but I wish they would eliminate writers exhibiting poor skills because I think reviewing their work is very time consuming for Textbroker, and it slows the production process for their clients and for their good writers. (I don’t wish to be rude, so I won’t name names, but there’s a comment herein for which I have not a clue to the commentator’s meaning because the comment is little more than gibberish.)
As the site becomes better known, a potential problem I see is that if there are more poor writers than good writers, the client base will not only shrink, but the dissatisfied clients will not have paid for work that was unsatisfactorily completed. Textbroker can afford to pay because their clients pay them. If too much sub-standard writing is submitted, there’s going to be a gap in the flow of income to Textbroker, and the ability to make timely payments to their good writers might be affected.
I joined Textbroker a couple of months ago and have really enjoyed it so far. The first month I only made about $11.00, but the second month I cashed out $209.16. I figure if I’m having fun with something and getting paid for it at the same time, it’s definitely an added bonus. I’m pretty new to the online writing world and although my confidence in my own writing skills is lacking, I am happy that I was recently upgraded from three star status to four stars. I was a little intimidated at first about writing four star articles, but it has ended up working pretty well and the thing I like about Textbroker is that if there is anything they don’t like about an article you write, you get a chance to edit it and still get paid. Textbroker has boosted the confidence I have in my writing abilities and added some extra money to my pocket as well. I now hope to start making even more money online through Textbroker and other sources such as eHow and blogging. We’ll see how that goes!
Nice article, as i write for textbroker and just wrote an artice for 12.00 tonight, it took some time but i gotitdone!!!!!
I also write for accoiated content and enjoy them as much as you seem to.
I also have just started with textbroker. Actually, about 3 days ago and have made 12 dollars. I like textbroker. I write for Associated Content as well and enjoy their site. I am not as concerned with republishing the content else where, I can do that with AC. I believe, if I read the TOA correctly, that the client has the right to refuse the article, and at this point textbroker will pick it up. Also if an author’s work falls below a 2 rating, textbroker will end the contract with author.
I started writing for textbroker a few months ago. I was directly assigned 4 stars and started writing the 4 star-required articles. I have stopped writing for them now because of the following:
- the pay is, simply put, ridiculous. A decent writer who actually cares about writing can not work 2 hours for an article that gets paid $3.45. Most of the articles require serious research and can not be done in 10 minutes, if you do quality work. The clients pay so low and yet dare to be so demanding. Just ridiculous.
- most of articles are for search engine optimization. So most of the times, all you`re asked is to repeat a keyword 50 times in an article. About Montreal real estate agencies. About Connecticut Bankruptcy Lawyers. The content almost does not matter. Your article can be like shit, it`s no problem as long as the keyword is there the required number of times. So if you imagine you`re going to write a well-researched, poetic article you can pass.
- of course, you lose all copyrights on your article. And don`t know where/how it will show up.
Globally, i would say that any decent and quality writer who has a little bit of self-esteem for himself and his work can not accept to write for 1.4 cent a word. Don`t get excited about the 5-star rates, there are almost no articles for that category and it still barely pays like 5 cent a word. Why would a client even pay 5 cent a word when there is an army of 4-star writers begging to write for 1.4 cent a word ? Then again, if you`re ok to copy/paste keywords and fool yourself pretending you`re writing, and all of this for $20-50 a month on articles about Delaware vacation rentals, it`s another story.
I can never figure out how to get Constant-Content to work. Currently I work for TB and the pay is normally so much better at Constant-Content; I would like to do a little of both (and work less for more money!!) But every time I get an email that there’s a new Constant Content request, I write an article in about an hour’s time and by then the case is closed!
Going into the school year being able to work a little less and make the same money would help me so much, but it seems as though you have to race against everyone else to get your article to Constant Content! Could someone please advise on how I can use it regularly?! Thanks
I can’t get signed up with PayPal and therefore no money from Textbroker. Every article I wrote weas accepted but I can’t hassle with PayPal anymore and Textbroker is no help, so I’m just screwed.