Associated Content-Upfront Payment Question
By queenlove
@queenlove (495)
United States
June 22, 2009 10:48pm CST
I am wondering...what type of submission qualifies for upfront payments on Associated Content?
I noticed that "how To" articles usually qualify, but one time I submitted an editorial and was told it didn't qualify for upfront payment.
I would like to know which categories do qualify, because those are the types I want to write.
Anyone that knows this, please inform me.
Thanks in advance.
~Miss Love
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3 responses
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Jun 09
Well upfront (no pun intended) any article you submit for upfront payment has to be original, that is not published anywhere else otherwise you won't qualify for upfront payments but only performance pay, that is page views. Pretty much any article can qualify for upfront payments, such as recipes, medical related, general informative types, news related...the ones that don't qualify are the editorial/opinions type, short stories, poems, memoir types
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Jun 09
Meant to add...the editorial/opinions type, short stories, poems, memoir types can be put up for performance payment, so you can still post them but not for upfront payment..I actually got annoyed one time myself...I did an article that I thought as informative, but they viewed it as a memoir type thing....still can't figure that out as it wasn't a memoir but related to a news item
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@morgandrake (2136)
• United States
23 Jun 09
My personal theory is that if they can crowbar an article into a non-paying category, they will. Then again, I am a touch paranoid, ain't I?
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@morgandrake (2136)
• United States
23 Jun 09
I have been paid upfront for political news (firsthand report).
And I know that they do NOT pay for book reviews.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
23 Jun 09
They do pay for reviews of products, even food though...yes they do seem to weedle out from paying what you KNOW is not a memoir...they used to pay better too when I first started...about $8.00 an article..now down to about half
@queenlove (495)
• United States
24 Jun 09
The highest I made upfront on an article was 1.76
How do you make an article get paid more? I am curious. I write unique content and I am sure to spell and grammar check, but they don't offer me much.
@trekkiemelissa (211)
• United States
24 Jun 09
Take a look at this. This has information about what is not allowed for upfront. http://www.associatedcontent.com/faq.html#B5
