A New Opportunity for Writers to Earn Money

I had an advanced press release today giving details of a new site where writers can earn money by publishing their articles.

This opportunity was only sent out to the top members of another writing site of which I am a member, Qondio, and the new site has been created by the same owners, who purchased Qondio a few months ago.

On this new site, called Fortitude, all articles published will be from it's members, who will also have the ability to rate articles and to help determine which of these will make the front page on a daily basis. Those articles which make the front page will earn between $10 and $100.

The articles can be in any format, and about any topic that the author chooses to write about. It is stated that payments for articles will be paid into the authors account immediately, from where they can withdraw to Paypal.

Right now Fortitude is only open by invitation, and the only catch is that there is a $23.88 fee for joining. However, if you decide to join before June 7th you get an extra 3 months free.

Apart from front page articles being worth a sizable chunk of money, if you refer other members to join prior to 7th June, you will receive between $20 and $8 per referral, the amount being $20 up to the 24th may, and decreasing by $4 a week after that down to 7th June, at which time membership will be open to everyone.

For further information and to see the site yourself, CLICK HERE.

MY ANALYSIS OF FORTITUDE

I have been a member or Qondio almost since it launched several years ago, and in fact when it was known as Qassia. This has been a revolutionary site for writers, which stalled until about six months ago, when it was significantly updated, and since that point it has seen a massive resurgence in traffic and members.

In February, Nick Oba, the principal founder of Qondio, announced that it had been purchased by Shavkat Karimov http://www.seomanager.com, an investor who specializes in web properties and who is an expert in SEO.

Seeing what Shavkat Karimiv has done for Qondio and the way that this is performing since his purchase in February, I had no hesitation in signing up for Fortitude today following the announcement.

While I do not generally like to pay for membership of web sites, I do see this as limiting the membership to only those authors who are seriously committed to writing quality articles, and $23 for 15 months is a small fee should the site prove to be successful.

If you consider that you can earn up to $20 by having a referral sign up, and between $10 to $100 by having an article featured on the front page of Fortitude, you don't need to achieve a lot to at least break even.

My first thoughts on receiving the announcement in my mailbox today were for the many international members of Associated Content who are currently looking for another place to write. This new site could be a good opportunity for you to continue to earn an income from writing.

Secondly I thought of the rest of us who are continuing to write at Associated Content, and how the purchase by Yahoo might affect us. While I am positive that Yahoo will continue to maintain and enhance Associated Content, it is always useful to consider other writing sites as well.

Many of us I know already write for multiple sites, and I hope that this will be another good addition to the collection of top sites from where we can earn a living.

UPDATED INFORMATION

Many of you have left comments on this posting already, and a number of questions have been raised.

I have now published some ANSWERS to these questions, plus a lot more information about Fortitude, which I hope helps to fill in a lot of the blanks.