Writing is a business

Writing at Helium http://www.helium.com/items/1301825-how-to-link-helium-articles-for-traffic-and-increase-earnings Writing jobs http://www.helium.com/items/1275004-how-to-make-money-online-for-writing-articles Marketing & Selling Writing http://www.helium.com/items/1286613-how-to-make-money-online-writing-articles-for-residual-long-term-income

Hi, can I join your zone? How do I do so? I'm still a newbie in Helium, in fact a newbie to writing, need guardians at the moment. Still very confused about the rating and all the stars. Submitted only 10 articles and got 2 writing stars, with funny statistics in % and dont know how on earth they compute. Earn only 18 cents so far, please guide me on the marketing. Thanks.

Hi Iamsolucky, I joined both sites a week ago. Initially signed up for AC, but AC took so long (exactly a week) to process my articles, and then rejected 3 of 5 articles. Even though I'm not entitled to upfront payment, and the FAQ mentions that usually they process within 2 days. They did give very good advices to improve the articles, so I got to edit a bit here and there and re-submit. Helium is very different. My submitted articles were approved almost instantly. It seemed to me that the articles were then routed to the "Rating" system, where other writers would rate your work. As long as they didn't reject your articles on any ground, the articles lived happily there. In Helium, your article will not earn any page view bonus till you got your first "rating star". So my advice to you is, before you ask your friends to read, get the rating star first. And make it a habit to rate enough articles to keep your rating star. At first, I hate the rating system in Helium. But now I love it so much. You see, I get to see so many lousy articles that I don't feel so bad! AC allows you to give them exclusive rights to your article. If you choose that, then you can't post it elsewhere. Articles post in Helium can be posted elsewhere. So advice from the many "experts" here is that, post your article in both place.

Forget to add another important difference. AC allows you to post any articles you like. You can choose your own titles. But in Helium, you got to stick to their titles. You may submit your title for their approval. After rejecting my suggested titles twice, Helium sent a long email explaining that they only want titles like "How to do" "What to do".

I'm still a long long way from a full time writer. So far, earn 18 cents in Helium for page views. At this rate, I will see my heavenly father soon.

Hi informer, if you want to add business element to your blogging, then have to think of ways to attract traffic. When I say writing is a business, it's not just pertaining to the content written. I also mean the ways and means to attract people to read the articles. That's the real business part of it. Otherwise, might as well keep a diary and lock in drawer.

Oh dear, that's really bad experience. As if someone kidnaps your baby. Anyway just keep on writing, someday will get great reward.

I like to write things that I am interested in. Guess subjects like money, love, home, hobbies etc are forever popular. Thousands and thousands of years later, people are still interested in all these. Hmm, would people living 2,000 years from now dig out the old hard disk and read my writings? Hope so, if unable to get famous now, at least there's a hope to get famous in the future.

haha, that Sunday breakfast must be very exciting. Otherwise 10 words can do. "We go McDonald. We order. We pay. We eat. Finish." I'm sure you have a lot of things to write about. Grocery shopping, an hour bus journey, quarrelling with family members etc. Sometimes folks love to read this kind of articles. Good luck to your writing.