Textbroker - Writing for money (not vouchers)

Natu

CWSmith wrote: »

I do not understand the Team Order thing at all. I applied ages ago to two, as they were advertising for people to join and heard nothing. The two articles I wrote to join are still sitting there ............... 6 months later.

Clearly they didn't want me, fair enough, but until the specimen articles I wrote "disappear", I can't access the team orders at all.

................. Perhaps that's the point ...............:eek:

Some of the public teams are completely inactive and have been for months. I'm in a dozen or so teams and only 3 actively post jobs (and I was invited to them). I think some clients just create them and forget about them. Before you write any more samples I'd message them and ask if they're still looking for members.

The team that Textbroker have been asking people to join is called Textbroker Guides, btw. Is it not showing up for some people? It should be in the Public Teams section.

emilykf

emilykf wrote: »

Not sure if anyone else has had this problem, I accepted an article last night, then went into Textbroker this morning to find that it's awaiting acceptance/payment from client. The thing is, I hadn't written a word, or submitted it!! Not sure if was a glitch in the system, I've emailed TB about it but wondered whether anyone else had ever had this? :cool: Bit annoyed as haven't spotted any other 3* jobs today.

Well, this never got sorted! Got a response telling me that I'd submitted my article and it was awaiting client acceptance :huh:, I replied that I hadn't written a word, and that I was asleep in bed with the computer off at 1:16am when it was showing as submitted! Haven't heard back yet, but the article was accepted after the client (I think after 3 days so was obligatory). How random!

Just submitted a 3* article where the client had requested 75% or above on the Flesch Reading Ease text. No problem, I thought, until I actually checked the test out! I put all the articles I've done so far in and got between 40-50% for them, so tried 'the cat sat on the mat' and it gave it 116%!!! :rotfl:

So anyway, have submitted but I'm sure when Textbroker rate it there will be criticism for the short sentences and words. I actually spent more time changing it to meet the 75% than I did researching/writing the b*gger. There are no words with more than 2 syllables in, sigh.

Natu

emilykf wrote: »

Well, this never got sorted! Got a response telling me that I'd submitted my article and it was awaiting client acceptance :huh:, I replied that I hadn't written a word, and that I was asleep in bed with the computer off at 1:16am when it was showing as submitted! Haven't heard back yet, but the article was accepted after the client (I think after 3 days so was obligatory). How random!

Just submitted a 3* article where the client had requested 75% or above on the Flesch Reading Ease text. No problem, I thought, until I actually checked the test out! I put all the articles I've done so far in and got between 40-50% for them, so tried 'the cat sat on the mat' and it gave it 116%!!! :rotfl:

So anyway, have submitted but I'm sure when Textbroker rate it there will be criticism for the short sentences and words. I actually spent more time changing it to meet the 75% than I did researching/writing the b*gger. There are no words with more than 2 syllables in, sigh.

I had the exact same thing happen to me at 1am in the morning on the Thursday/Friday last week - weirdly, the client accepted the article and rated it the same day! I have absolutely no idea what went on. I didn't message anyone because it all went through OK. I honestly thought I'd sleeptyped an article when I got the email saying it had been accepted. Wow, that's really strange aha....

emilykf

Natu wrote: »

I had the exact same thing happen to me at 1am in the morning on the Thursday/Friday last week - weirdly, the client accepted the article and rated it the same day! I have absolutely no idea what went on. I didn't message anyone because it all went through OK. I honestly thought I'd sleeptyped an article when I got the email saying it had been accepted. Wow, that's really strange aha....

Bizarre! Maybe we've got guardian angel ghost-writers?!

sachatith

Hi all - writing my first article for textbroker and I wondered if anyone can help? The instructions say that I need to include hyperlinks (not an issue) preferably in a 'word' which again is not an issue - I know how to do this in a word document. However, I can't seem to find a way of doing this on textbroker so that rather than it coming up as a URL in its own right it just comes embedded in the words - does anyone know how to do this or if it is possible?

Keen to do it right as my first one!

sachatith

No worries - figured it out

Patchwork_Girl

Can anyone tell me if there are quality guidelines for Textbroker - I can't see any on the site?

I'm about to start writing my sample and it would be easier if I could see what they are looking for. I know from experience that these writing sites often have specific likes and dislikes and I'd really like to get off to a good start with the best rating possible.

CWSmith

Patchwork_Girl wrote: »

Can anyone tell me if there are quality guidelines for Textbroker - I can't see any on the site?

I'm about to start writing my sample and it would be easier if I could see what they are looking for. I know from experience that these writing sites often have specific likes and dislikes and I'd really like to get off to a good start with the best rating possible.

It's worth making absolutely sure your punctuation is spot on - especially commas. TB likes commas.

miwa

CWSmith wrote: »

It's worth making absolutely sure your punctuation is spot on - especially commas. TB likes commas.

Obsessed with commas.

Go on, I'm curious, how many of you actually signed up as self-employed to work on TB?

Sommer43

Me...

I signed up as self-employed. I have spent the last 10 months writing for TB and other content farms. I am preferring elance and odesk and am acutally making quite a nice living from it all. I have picked up some very good deals from oDesk and Elance - no hassles from clients. No editor giving me * ratings and telling me where to place my commas.

For the sceptic who said "It is impossible to make a sane living" then whatever is sane, it's keeping me sane and bringing in a nice little earner, obviously I have to combine the three platforms, but odesk and elance have work there which pays very well. I have loads on and have spent a whole 15 hours finishing a project with a team of writers. We get to talk to each other too. Although, as with TB, we are paid individually. I do get paid in dollars and over the last month with euros and dollars, I have cleared around £1500. Mind you, I have been at it for 15 hours a day.

I have a regular position now of 15 hours per week with one client doing market research for him and his new UK venture. It's nice to mix up the three and drop off from SEO stuff for a while...