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cte1111

CWSmith wrote: »

Please could someone answer a question about Teamorders?

For "products" you have to write 2 100-word samples to apply - that's straightforward enough.

Then it asks you how many articles you think you can do a week and in brackets it says 500 words. Does that mean you have to use 500 words to answer that extremely simple question? How on earth do you do that? I attempted to answer it in 2 sentences and got told I hadn't used enough words (even though my articles were 100 words each).

I've done some direct orders for this client and think they have now finished, as the deadline was last week. However they might well come back with more work, so worth applying still.

It does like you need to submit 500 words in total. Obviously you can't write 300 words on how many articles you can complete. Maybe copy and paste the 2 product descriptions twice with an explanation of why you are doing so, or do some more to make up the total?

CWSmith

Thanks cte1111, I'll give that a try. If you go to the Teamorders page, they still seem to be open. The apply button still works anyway.

I've found many of the instructions on the site to be very ambiguous!

mel12

Got my first 3 direct orders this week Does anyone know if I'll get ratings for direct orders, or is that only for open orders?


@Finchcliffe - it comes and goes, sometimes there's loads of 3* orders other times there's none.

Natu

mel12 wrote: »

Got my first 3 direct orders this week Does anyone know if I'll get ratings for direct orders, or is that only for open orders?

Yes, my DirectOrders were rated by TB (eventually!).

Can I just ask, how did you manage to get Direct Orders? Do you message the client after a successful article, or did they message you. I've had a few in the past, but that was months ago, and I'm on the lookout for more.

I don't know if my profile needs sprucing up or what - I've had 21 profile views. Does anyone else have a lot more views than that?

Bmth100

My partner and I have only had 6 profile views despite releasing 35 articles. And only one client has sent direct orders (which led to a team invite). They seem to differ for each person.

FabB

hi all

the first article u write (the first one when u register), is that rated on your spellings/grammar etc or is it more based on how creative your writing is? i'm not sure what to write about (so many choices!), but it would help to know what they rate u on

tia

mel12

Natu wrote: »

Yes, my DirectOrders were rated by TB (eventually!).

Can I just ask, how did you manage to get Direct Orders? Do you message the client after a successful article, or did they message you. I've had a few in the past, but that was months ago, and I'm on the lookout for more.

I don't know if my profile needs sprucing up or what - I've had 21 profile views. Does anyone else have a lot more views than that?

I wrote an article through open orders for the client on a fairly specialist subject that relates quite well to my day job, so I messaged them explaining my experience and offered to write some more articles for them. A couple of months later they sent me some direct orders.

mel12

FabB wrote: »

hi all

the first article u write (the first one when u register), is that rated on your spellings/grammar etc or is it more based on how creative your writing is? i'm not sure what to write about (so many choices!), but it would help to know what they rate u on

tia

As far as I can tell it's mainly spelling and grammar. By the way, they really seem to like it when you include commas in everything - I've noticed I get a higher rating when I do
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FabB

mel

thanks, will bear in mind the tip about commas, might make all the difference

Bmth100

Just be careful with your commas

Quite disappointed about this teamorder group I'm in. It still has 60 articles left (the team has only managed 18 since it started, they're so big) worth 42 euros each and the deadline is tomorrow morning. I hope they extend it and don't just remove them all. Such a big opportunity wasted if so