How to Make $1000 a Week on Demand Studios

Demand Studios is a sub-company of Demand Media, the online media contributing giant. Demand Studios is the writing sector of Demand Media, and much of Demand Studios writings appear on websites such as eHow, Livestrong, Answerbag and many more. Unlike some online freelancing gigs, Demand Studios requires that you go through an application process and get hired by them before you can write for the company. Once you do, though, you have the potential to set and make the income of your choice. With a bit of planning and dedication, you can even make $1000 a week on Demand Studios every week throughout your employment at the company.

Choose the right type of articles to write. If you have a job with Demand Studios, you know that there are two basic types of articles you can write for the company: revenue share ones or flat fee ones. Revenue share articles are articles that you do not get paid for upfront, but you receive a share of the revenue earned from the articles through advertisements. Flat flee articles, on the other hand, are articles that you get paid for upfront, and the pay scale for these types of articles range from $3.50 to $15 per article, depending upon the article format. In the long run, revenue share articles might be more beneficial, but it takes take for them to start accruing revenue, so if you want to make $1000 a week on Demand Studios steadily, then you'll want to write flat flee articles.

Determine the article format that you are best at writing. Do an experiment if you must, or keep logs of your progress. Try writing each of the article formats offered on the website, from how-to articles to about articles to strategy articles to fact sheet articles to tip articles. Estimate the average time it takes you to write one article of each format. You might also want to judge your copy editor feedback to determine which article format for which you receive the least amount of rewrites. The articles that you can write the quickest (and most thoroughly) with the highest rate of acceptance (without rewrites) is the article format with which you will want to stick.

Find out how many articles of the format you are best at writing you need to write a week in order to make $1000 a week on Demand Studios. To do this, determine what the flat flee rate for the article format you are going to write is, and divide $1000 by that rate. For instance, if you are best at the how to format, you would determine that the flat flee rate for a how to article is $15. Divide $1000 by $15 to determine how many articles you need to write a week in your chose article format to make $1000 a week. In this example, $1000 divided by $15 equals approximately 67 articles. Therefore, you need to write 67 articles a week to make $1000 a week on Demand Studios writing $15 flat flee articles.

Break your weekly article goals down into daily goals. Determine how many days you want to work a week, such as 7 days a week or only 5. Divide your week articles by the number of days you wish to work to determine how many articles you need to write per day to meet your weekly goals. For instance, if you're going to work 7 days a week, 67 articles divided by 7 days comes out to 10 articles a day that you need to write. If you're going to work 5 days a week, 67 articles divided by 5 days a week comes out to 14 articles a day that you need to write.

Tips

Break your writing goals down even further into hourly goals. If you know that you can write approximately 2 articles an hour, then make yourself work for 2 hours straight, take a break, write for 2 more hours, take another break and then finish writing.

Choosing topics that you are knowledgeable in is the key to quick writing. Not only will such topics require less research, but you will write them more thoroughly because you will be familiar with the subject matter.

Warnings

Do not sacrifice quality for quantity when attempting to meet your writing goals. Providing quality content to the reader is the highest priority at Demand Studios, and submitting subpar content could lead to you being terminated from the writing platform.

Beware of procrastination when trying to meet weekly writing goals; procrastination is a writer's biggest downfall and worst enemy.