The View Features Associated Content as a Great Online Money-Maker for Stay-at-Home Mom Writers

I felt like a proud mom just now, watching Tory Johnson, author of Will Work from Home - Earn Cash Without the Commute mention on today's The View show about getting a job Associated Content as one of the best places for freelance writers and / or stay-at-home moms to make money online.

Seeing the newly redesigned Associated Content website displayed there on The View, with its estimated 4.25 million viewers, I couldn't help but smile and concur with the assessment that Associated Content is one of the most legitimate and best ways for freelance writers to get started online.

It was way back in August 2006 when I got my first piece on AC published here after stumbling across the website somehow in the search to make money writing online.

My son was entering Kindergarten and Lord knows it was the perfect time to delve deeper into the writing that I'd always loved, and was getting published intermittently in print magazines. The tide was changing to online writing, and Associated Content (as you new visitors from The View will discover is also called AC for short) helped usher me into that trend.

I wrote and wrote and wrote, article after article. I learned about SEO. I got into mini-blog fights with other content creators (or whatever they're called now) but overall found a lot of support. I created a lot of controversy by writing from my heart.

And importantly, I got paid!

The single most payment I received for any one piece on Associated Content was $50 for an interview with Robert Scoble, who amazingly emailed me back when I asked him whether Microsoft's Zune was better than an iPod.

Time and chance, dear The View watchers, drew Associated Content and I apart. I learned how to set up my own Blogger blogs, and then moved up and on to my own WordPress.org hosted dot coms, only posting a piece every blue moon on Associated Content.

But in the meantime, Associated Content was busy improving their payout structure and adding performance revenue -- instead of a mere 6 bucks or so per article, we could gain more monies from our hard-written pieces by SEO-ing them and promoting them to gain more expsosure.

Now, it's nearly a full three years after I first began writing for the lesser known AC and they've probably had their biggest mention to date, on TV at least -- the highly-watched The View show!

You'll see in the URL of my source page I was around member #17,700 and now Associated Content is up to nearly 500,000 (that's half a million!) people who've signed up at one point or another to become a content creator source.

And the important part is, you viewers of The View who are wondering if Associated Content is legit, I can confirm and testify that I still get money in my PayPal account every month as dependable as clockwork from AC.

Even though I haven't written for AC in ages, Associated Content still pays me for the performance views my articles still get years later!

My performance views still bring me $135 or more (hopefully up to $200 after this piece is published) per month, which comes in very handy because I transfer it right to my checking account to pay for my student loan payment (yes, still have one of those) and use the extra cash for bills and tithes and such.

So while I may fight and sulk a tad like a child when I don't win certain awards, or aren't allowed to put my affiliate links in some articles (Can we do that yet, AC? I read that Squiddo allows people do to that and splits the profits...) -- when I saw Associated Content's site on The View today I couldn't help but smile, feeling like they were talking about a kid of mine all grown up and made good, rewarded big time in public.

Or a proud parent, you get the drift.

So if you found out about Associated Content from The View, you love to write and are thinking of trying it: Take the plunge, write your butt off with quality content.

You never know where AC may lead you...