Textbroker - Writing for money (not vouchers)

ElDavido

F1 season so far.
My last minute travel deal to Greece.
Hyperpigmentation.
Cheap flight deals.
History of the television.

I got 3 3s and 2 4s. The 3s were marked down for not including 3 bloody commas that I maintain aren't really necessary, but their site their rules so you can't really argue. I haven't seen any articles up since my account was unlocked again.

Eels100

I've written about running, caravan holidays, bank charges, 3D CAD software and I rewrote an information page for a loan company. All 3stars and up to 450 words if I remember rightly.

You're very organised having just moved - stuff like that takes me forever!

SchminkyCat

Annie021063 wrote: »

what sort of things have people written about for their 5 articles. I'm currently 3* and would love to get up to 4*, now I am back in the land of organised living after my move I want to crack on and write my articles. Any info would be appreciated, how long, what subject etc. Thanks

Annie, not sure if you mean the sample articles you can write? If so, I asked Textbroker about them and they don't count towards your rating. They told me they were useful for potential clients to see what your writing style is like, but that they wont be rated by Textbroker.

Sorry if i've got the wrong end of the stick!

Kiran

Does anyone else think the text broker bubble has burst?

I can see what is available (or not) in the assignments section, but are people still getting direct orders? For those of you that do get direct orders, is it due to your public profile or is it repeat business for someone you have written articles for in the past?

movingon

kiran, there is one on now for 3* about future technology which I will now release and 4 * fashion

Kiran

I must have missed it Shame, the tech ones flow off the finger tips nicely. Nevermind, back to the refresh button

ElDavido

Kiran wrote: »

Does anyone else think the text broker bubble has burst?

I can see what is available (or not) in the assignments section, but are people still getting direct orders? For those of you that do get direct orders, is it due to your public profile or is it repeat business for someone you have written articles for in the past?

Most definitely, when I signed up there was a fairly regular flow of articles. I finished by first 5 in two days and pocketed the 20 ish Euros happily. But since then I've only seen 1 or 2 available articles and they were on farming equipment, something I know exceedingly little about, so didn't pick them up.

Kiran

Although I've struggled to get stuck in to clickworker, it seems to be drying up too! Hmm, wonder what's causing the slump or is it just so many people having a go now?

SchminkyCat

Not sure I think the bubble has burst, just that the work is slow at the moment. It was like this when I first signed up (mid July), I didn't get my first article for ages as there simply wasn't anything. Then there was a run of a few each day and I clocked up 5 articles in about a week. My account was frozen for about 10 days, and then I managed another 4 articles in another week, and since then its been really tough. I've written 2 articles in over a week I think, and I check regularly throughout the day.

Like ElDavido - I gave all the farming ones a miss! lol Did write a great one on baking a cake on Thursday, but am still waiting to hear if it has been accepted...I HATE waiting!

Kiran

Finace type articles have just come up. 22 in total, scramble!