If you’re involved in Bum Marketing, or article marketing of any kind, wouldn’t it be nice to know that your articles will earn you at least something? Isn’t it an empty feeling researching, writing, submitting, spending 10, 20, 30 hours a week, with no immediate gratification?
Sure, there may come a day, after you’ve submitted hundreds of articles, and waited weeks, months, or more that your article empire starts to give you a significant income. But often that can take a lot of time.
In the meantime, you have no clue what people think of your articles. Are you wasting your time?
Did you know that you have the ability to get some immediate gratification, and at the same time, some immediate payment for your efforts.
If you haven’t heard of Associated Content, check them out. You can submit articles to them for payment directly to your PayPal account. Amounts earned will vary. Bum Marketers will most likely be interested in the option where an article is submitted on a “non-exclusive” basis, meaning you can submit it to Associated Content at the same time as other article directories.
I don’t have a lot of experience with them yet, but just to check them out I took an article I wrote a couple years ago and submitted to many article directories, didn’t change a thing, submitted it to Associated Content, and a week or so later had an offer in my inbox. Once I accepted it, I had money in my PayPal account about a week later.
As far as I can determine you can’t put affiliate links or links of any kind in your articles, but that’s not the point here, is it? The point is to get some income flowing in.
Of course, it’s always a good idea to spin your articles slightly so that different directories get at least slightly different versions. Different headlines, slightly different text.
Your article will be reviewed by a human editor. If acceptable, an offer will be made to you, it could be as little as $3 or $4, but wouldn’t it be nice to know your article isn’t worthless? And if it isn’t acceptable to AC, that feedback is valuable also, so that you can work on doing a better job next time. Why submit articles that are unacceptable to AC to article directories to begin with?
If you’re outsourcing your article writing on eLance or elsewhere, it’s also a way to get some of your investment back, as well as to get an idea about the quality of the person working for you. If you’re paying someone $6 to write an article, and getting $4 back for it right away, that’s significantly reducing your costs.
Articles submitted on an exclusive basis will earn you more. You might experiment. It might be possible to profit from your ideas. Outsource the article writing, pay $5 to $8 per article, maybe you can earn more from those articles than you paid. It would all depend on the topic, length of article, quality of the writing.
And if you’re writing your own articles, going this route will make you not only a better writer, but also a paid writer, in other words a professional writer. :-)
Not a bad deal in either case. Check them out.
