How to Write Freelance on Demand Studios Full Time

Quit Your Day Job and Write for Demand Studios as a Full Time Freelance Journalist

Penny Richards
Demand Studios is a freelance journalism website that pays freelance writers and copy editors for various types of articles and content. Demand Studios' hired freelancers have their work published on help websites such as eHow.com. With careful planning, budgeting and a love for writing, journalists can work at Demand Studios full time and earn a great living wage of up to $60,000 USD a year (or more). In this freelance journalist article, I will teach you how to write freelance articles on Demand Studios full time to make money and (maybe) get rich.

How to Work For Demand Studios Full Time as a Freelance Journalist Writer:

Send in your application for a writing position at Demand Studios. Demand Studios has a very rigorous freelance application process. You must include professional writing samples and a resume showing your work history. A background in journalism is obviously preferred. Once your Demand Studios resume has been reviewed, Demand Studios will notify you via email if you have been admitted into their freelance writing program. This process may take several months, though some freelance writers are approved to write for Demand Studios in just a few days.

Next, carefully read the Demand Studios style guides to understand exactly what Demand Studios is asking for in its various freelance article assignments. This is critical! For example, how you write an About article for Demand Studios is different than how you would write a How-To Article. It is important to follow the style guides closely to prevent your freelance work from being rejected by a Demand Studios editor. If you get too many rejections, you will lose your job with Demand Studios.

Third, start searching the Demand Studios freelance article database for freelance writing assignments. Click an article title to reserve it in your writing queue. You have seven days to write the article and send it through the system to your freelance editor.

Fourth, wait for your submitted article to be reviewed by your Demand Studios editor. It will be accepted if it meets all of their journalism requirements and style guides. If you made a mistake in the article, the Demand Studios editor will return it to you with editing comments and feedback and give you a single chance to edit the article and re-submit it.

Get paid for writing on Demand Studios. Once your article is accepted, you will be paid by Demand Studios. Demand Studios cutoff time for accepted articles is 6 PM PST on Wednesdays. Any article written, reviewed and accepted before the cutoff time will be processed for payment. You will receive your Demand Studios freelance payment that weekend via PayPal.

Calculate how much money you need make while writing for Demand Studios to do it full time as a freelance journalist. Set a freelance writing financial goal for how much money you wish to make each year by writing for Demand Studios. For example, let's say you wish to make $60,000 freelance for Demand Studios journalist team.

Divide that amount by the number of weeks in the year (52). The result for a $60,000 annual wage is $1,153.84. Now divide that by $15, the amount that Demand Studios pays for each article. That equals 77. Thus, you would have to write only 77 freelance articles for Demand Studios each week in order to make $60,000 a year.

Note that the working hours for Demand Studios is flexible and you can work on the weekends. If it takes you half an hour per article, you would only need to work 36 hours a week to make $60,000. Your hourly wage would be $30. Many individuals would find such an hourly wage satisfactory for a freelance journalist working full time.

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  • Bridget Ilene Delaney 9/20/2010

    Thanks. Looking into this. I'm getting a freelancing resume prepared and trying to find out about DS!

    I do comment for comment if you are interested - you leave a comment (I tend to leave quotes) after viewing (and reading if you want) an article, and I'll view/read all the pages of your articles. I've found it does help with page views!

  • Mark 9/8/2010

    I think it was www.demandstudiosreview.com come to think of it. Anyway.

  • Mark 9/8/2010

    Good article. I think writing for Demand Studios full time would be a bit of a stretch, but could be done. I read an article on this Demand Studios Review website that basically said it could be done but wasn't necessarily smart.

  • Heather Tooley 1/6/2010

    Amazing information. Wow. That would be phenomenal to earn $60,000 in writing.

  • Andrea Parker 11/18/2009

    You are right. Great financial break down- thanks!

  • Han Van Meegerin 9/14/2009

    Interesting, thanks for the info.

  • kimberleee 9/9/2009

    Thank you for the good information~

  • Christine M. 9/8/2009

    "you would have to write only 77 freelance articles for Demand Studios each week in order to make $60,000 a year."

    LOL

  • Me 7/11/2009

    I would agree that 77 articles is a bit high but DS is pretty solid. I have never had any problems with payment, and while review of the first few articles was slow, the last five have been done within a day. Actually, I wish there would notify you like AC does by email when they do approve your article. i barely even noticed some of them had gone from my queue.

  • Drew Anderson 6/22/2009

    business. The boom DS is having won't last, and relying on it as your sole source of income is unwise.

    Also, in response to what other people have said: DS is NOT journalism. There's no interviewing experts, tracking down hidden information, or doing research beyond a skim of the Internet sources. You can draw on your own knowledge, and you may even be an expert capable of writing a journal-worthy article--but it's not necessary to do the job. It's pure, simple content creation. Respect it for what it is, and don't suggest that what it is is somehow unworthy because it's not something else.

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