Textbroker - Writing for money (not vouchers)

2cats1kid

Another email in the inbox and I was prepared to swear a lot, but it's been accepted now. And breathe....

Now I wait for 3 more to be accepted, hopefully, and then sit it out till they do my 5 article review.

SchminkyCat

Its irritating isn't it. I didn't plagiarise, there are only so many ways you can say "provide your name, address, telephone number and email"...lol!

2cats1kid

Yes, I know. All you can do is jumble it up a bit. I was getting a tad frustrated sitting there going 'but HOW can I change that - it's a list!'. Anyway, job done, and by the sounds of it I can expect a wait of at least a week for any more, so I can take a chill pill while I sit it out!

Interesting to see lots of wannabee authors on here though. You can add me to the list!

dadallover

I'm really enjoying textbroker - it's never going to make me rich, but it's good to get paid for writing (it's giving me the inspiration to finally start some freelance writing on a wider scale).
I was rated as 4* on registration and have had my first 9 articles accepted. The first 5 were rated 4* and if the next 5 get rated the same (they have been well received by the clients) I can apply for a 5* rating and access the higher paying work.

I much prefer it to clickworker; I find the Groupon assignments incredibly tedious whereas textbroker at least feels like 'real' writing.

Annie021063

HI all, I'm back in the land of the living after my move and should be ready to write again tomorrow, how has everyone one been getting on??

SchminkyCat

Has anyone been upgraded from a 3* to a 4* on Textbroker? I'm just wondering if you have to have all 5 of your most recent articles rated as 4* to be upgraded, or if they round up the overall score?

For example, my last 5 articles were rated 3, 3, 3, 4, 4 - so my average is 3.4, which they "round down" to 3*. But say my next 5 are 3, 3, 4, 4, 4 - the average would be 3.6. Would that still be rounded down to 3* or do they round up?

I'm guessing down still. If a client is expecting a 4* article, they are going to want writers who are at least 4* or more aren't they, not "approaching 4* so we rounded her up"...

Sorry - entire conversation by myself there. That's what happens after 7.30pm in this house...

katini

SchminkyCat wrote: »

Has anyone been upgraded from a 3* to a 4* on Textbroker? I'm just wondering if you have to have all 5 of your most recent articles rated as 4* to be upgraded, or if they round up the overall score?

I have been upgraded from 3 to 4, but all of my articles received a 4. I was trying to find out about the ratings earlier but I couldn't see anything in the FAQ about how it all works.

SchminkyCat

Thanks for replying Katini - will have to wait and see what happens, i've done another 5 now, so hope to find out in a week or so!

katini

SchminkyCat wrote: »

Thanks for replying Katini - will have to wait and see what happens, i've done another 5 now, so hope to find out in a week or so!

You are on fire! I've not seen anything on there since I have been back from MIL's so need to get refreshing the page more often! I have applied for the sales team though so hope I'll get on that. Still plodding through Groupon tasks on Clickworker but having been such a big fan of them to start with I am now bored stiff!!

Eels100

I've done four but struggling to find more 3* jobs. It's frustrating, I'm refreshing constantly on my phone but sounds like I missed some today while I gave my little girl lunch! I quite like the challenge of shoehorning fairly random phrases into seemingly unrelated articles though. And a thesaurus is your best friend!