Why You Should Work for Associated Content: An Introduction & FAQ

I tried many work-at-home opportunities before I finally found some that were legitimate. Even then, they required a client searching, recruiting, time away from my son, and even monetary investment. None of these things were convenient or feasible for me. At long last, I found Associated Content--a legitimate work-at-home opportunity that doesn't require me to spend money, hire a babysitter, or try to recruit people and find clients. It is the perfect job for me, and it's what I've always wanted to do.

Associated Content is an online publishing company. They will pay you a small amount for articles that you submit to their website. They also pay you an even smaller amount per page view. If you refer others, you are paid for that, too. You can use these features to your advantage in anyway you want: promoting your articles, referring everyone you can, or just focusing on making money off of offers.

It is free to sign up and start writing. Registering is quick and easy. All you need is a paypal account so that you can be paid. You don't have to put any money into it. You also don't have to invest huge amounts of time into yet. You do have to write, and it is good if you promote your content. However, you don't have to spend hours a day plunking away at the keyboard to earn a decent amount at Associated Content.

This is a great job for anyone looking to make some extra cash or even to replace a full-time income. I'm a stay-at-home mom who needs to save money and pay down credit card debt. I can do this job even with my son playing at my feet or climbing all over me. College kids use this site for extra cash. Anyone can benefit from joining Associated Content. Get your ideas out into the open, or inform the public about an issue close to your heart. Get paid to do it!

How does it work?

You sign up. Write an article, and submit it for payment consideration. Spice it up by adding a picture if you want. In a few days to two weeks, you'll receive an offer from Associated Content. You may make $3 at the lowest, up to maybe $15. Are you satisfied with that amount? Then accept it, and your article will go live. You'll start receiving comments, Diggs, and perhaps accumulating a nice rating. If you're rated high enough, you make the front page! Within a few days after you accept the offer, the payment will be deposited into your paypal account. It's that easy.

What do I write about?

Anything and everything you want. You can write whenever you want, too. Hot topics include news and pop culture. The best thing to do is write what you know. That's what a good writer does. Write from experience. Write about issues that are important to you and that you are knowledgeable about. I specialize in pregnancy, birth, and parenting articles. You may want to write about wolves or restaurant reviews. You could even specialize in humor if you like. Associated Content accepts all kinds of articles about a variety of topics.

How much money can you make?

It really depends on you. I make about $7 an article right now, sometimes more and sometimes less. If I write one piece a day, I make $210 a month. If I write four pieces a day, I make $840. The amount I make depends on how many articles I write and the offers I get for them. There are some folks who only make about $5 an article, but write 7 pieces a day. They make over a thousand dollars a month at Associated Content. This is just from writing and receiving offers. It's not counting the extras.

You also earn $1.50 for every thousand page views. One page view is when someone loads your article a single time. Let's say I promote and write about very high interest topics, so I manage to make one thousand page views on every article. If I'm writing one piece a day, that's 30,000 page views for a bonus of $45 a month. If I'm writing four pieces a day, that's 120,000 page views for a bonus of $180. Now next month, I write another 30 articles which each get 1000 page views, and my articles from last month continue to get about 500 page views. My page view bonus is now about $270, and it increases every month as I keep writing more articles and getting page views on all of my articles.

Let's go with the bare minimum here. Let's say you write one article a day, at six bucks each. That's $180 a month. Let's say each of your articles gets 500 page views, for a total of 15,000 a month. That's $22.50 each month, a number that will grow as you continue to submit articles. You're making $200 just to write one article and then promote it a little bit. Let's up it to five articles a day. Now you're making $900 a month off of offers and $90 off of page views! You'll make more or less depending on how much you write and how much you promote.

Isn't that going to take a lot of time?

No! Depending on how fast you type and how much research you do, you may need to put in more or less time. It takes me 30 minutes at the least, an hour at the most to write an article. Let's average that to 45 minutes. If you write one article, then promote it for 15 minutes, you've spent only an hour. If you do that everyday, you work 7 hours a week and make about $200 a month. If you have two hours a day, you could write two articles, then promote for 30 minutes. Can you find 3 1/2 hours? Then you could write four pieces or three and promote for 45 minutes. It really is up to you. How much time do you have? Even if you have only two hours a day, you could make a decent amount off of offers and Associated Content's page view bonus.

How do you find the time?

It's hard, being that I'm a SAHM. I try to do some of my work in the mornings and evenings when my son is asleep. That gives me about an hour. He takes a good long nap everyday, which gives me another two hours. I also work while he plays or eats lunch, when he's behaving well. I put in about 3 hours writing and another hour promoting in various ways. Some days I can't find the time, but that's okay. There's always tomorrow for Associated Content if I spend today on my house or son!

How do you 'promote' your work?

There are social book marking sites with which you can register, then you can link your site on each of them. You can email them to family and friends. You can blog them on your journal and MySpace. Announce them on your MySpace bulletin and to the forums you use. Submit them to search engines like I Need Hits and Yahoo. Participate on the Associated Content Forums, leaving links to your articles. Place your content producer link everywhere you can, in your profiles and signatures for example. Leave comments on other people's articles in hopes that they will return the favor. There are so many ways you can attract readers. Using lots of keywords for which people search in Google and other search engines will help, as will using flashy titles and writing about hot topics.

But I stink at writing!

You probably text, IM, and email people all the time. You can write. Are you bad with spelling and grammar? Install Microsoft Works, and use their spelling and grammar checker. Have a friend proofread. Make an outline of points you want to address, then expand on each one. Go back and recheck for errors several times after submitting while waiting for an offer. Your writing doesn't have to be perfect, just informative and entertaining. Many of the writers at Associated Content are new at it. There are also many seasoned writers who would be happy to help you out.

Associated Content is fabulous. There are a lot of wonderful writers on there who will support and help you. I've made a lot of good friends there. You can make some extra cash for spending or some serious money for bill paying. How much you make depends on how much time you put into it. Even putting in only a few hours a day, you could make a pretty good amount of money. It's not a pyramid scheme; it's totally legitimate. You can get your voice heard and get paid to do it. What are you waiting for? Sign up now! Start making money, and being heard.