How much time will you spend writing something if you know the pay is minimal?

These days, I do most of my writing on Helium. The pay isn't fantastic, but it builds up into a nice residual monthly payment. One article, which took me kess than an hour to write and is ranked 3 of 3, earns more each month than the rest of them put together. I'm concentrating on building up my article count there, as other, more successful Helium members say it's possible to earn more with more articles. I usually spend up to an hour on a 500 word article, though I have been known to dash one off in about 20 minutes if it's something I'm very passionate or knowledgeable about. Recently, I wrote a series of 10 SEO optimised articles about corporate gift giving. (Keyrings, pens, etc) I had to research, as I knew nothing about the subject, but I earned $50 for the series of articles, and I was paid immediately. It was a bit low for the amount of work, but hey, $50 is a useful sum. If I want to write something, I'll do it without giving much thought to the payment, but if I need to do a lot of research, I wouldn't bother unless the pay was over $15 per article.

I stopped writing as faithfully, when I noticed my pay dropping too. I decided though, I'm not a professional writer, no one hired me of yet, so I was probably making pretty good money for someone who was a stay at home mom. Everyone wishes they made more money. LOL I know I do. I think I have to settle for what I can get until I become accomplished. I have people stealing my articles and changing them so I think I am really close to making it big time. LOL

It depends on a couple of factors. One, do I care about the project at all. If yes, I'll put more time into it. If no, I won't. Two, am I trying to impress these people so that they will give me bigger and better assignments and better pay? If yes, I'll put more time into it. If no, I won't. And lastly, does this assignment possibly improve the world in some way? If yes, I'll put more time into it. If no, I won't.

Hi vivasuzi, I come here to know more people, to look at things from their perspective, and to understand other cultures. I also come here to look at solutions to some of the problems that have dogged me throughout my life, and I never found a solution to them. Its a pity that this site came so late in my life. :( I could have received such valuable piece of advice as some of the people out here have given me. Like I used to be perturbed, one lady told, that is what is intended. So dont let them get away with satisfaction. It struck me yes, how true. But I cant go back in time and correct a situation where I'd reacted. I can though ensure that in future when such problems come, I will remember the words of the wise one. I dont think earning is as important as getting hold of that peace of mind. But may be, it is easier for me to think like that considering the fact that my career is almost over. I can only say, I feel the happiness I get when I participate in discussions out here is more valuable than the monies. I dont want to struggle and get monies that I will be paying to the surgeons and physicians! Oh what is the use of that much of tension, and blood pressure! I just want enough for my food, clothing, shelter, and medicine, and of course, enough to compensate anybody who looks after me. Other than that, I want nothing. So money is not the criteria for coming to this site. I have, however, done some tasks, and god bless Sharon Bucks, she has paid me well as well. But I did it because I thoroughly enjoyed knowing new things! And of course, thoroughly enjoyed the movies that she wanted me to review. And I will continue to do these tasks, as it will keep Alzheimers as far from me as possible. Our motives are different, aren't they? But then, u might be young. U need to work real hard before 45 to get as much as possible tucked behind u, so that even if u dont earn enough later, u have something to fall back upon. Blood pressure, and heart attacks, and diabetes are mostly age related problems, so as long as u dont have them, work hard. Happy earning.

I left textbroker for this exact reason. The pay is about four dollars for 450 words. I got bad ratings because the textbroker editor found two typos. They rated me 3/5 for two typos in an article that garnered me $4. I ended up at helium. I made $16 for the first article I wrote for them, exact same word count. Even just starting out writing online, where I am mostly just practicing, some expectations versus pay scales are just personally offensive.

Then why not start your own niche website? Why write for someone else when you can do it for yourself? earn the whole, not the part. Online writing is a lot of effort and initially you don't see a great return but once you work it al out and realise that writing isn't so much hard work as smart work, you're off to a flying start. I spend a considerable amount of time writing and initially there was little in paid return. Now I can see the results - and spend a good portion of my time adding to my portfolio of online written work. The way online writing works is like this: when you write for 'you', and have sussed out the SEO stuff and the search engines find you, so do the surfers. Add in a couple of affilliates and you're away. Best of all, once you start earning you'll keep earning. Give the search engines what they want - top quality unique content - and they'll find you.

If it would be JUST for the pay, no, I wouldn't do it any more. I made about $ 15 a day 3 years back for writing three short articles, but since I was new at that, it took me all day. Writing just for the money, no way. But how about branding yourself? For example, here at myLot. I couldn't for the heck of it imagine doing it for the money. However, and that applies to article writing as well, I'm making new friends and contacts, people begin (hopefully) to trust me, and they might look up my businees link in my profile. And THAT'S where the money is. Lots of people write articles to make themselves known to the Internet world, maybe they are selling a product and want to establish themselves as experts, or they are building an organization in a network marketing company and want people to trust them s as sponsors before they sign up. The money in writing in my humble opinion is a minor incentive (not even thinking of the money here at myLot, where it's more a token of appreciation from the owners of the site towards it's users. Good luck to you.

Hi Vivasuzi, I think you are fortunate to live in the US. If you live in Singapore, I doubt you can make money writing review about the TV show. The market is too small, most probably nobody will know what you are talking about. If want to watch TV from other countries, have to pay more for cable TV, and watch the show at odd hours. Another thing is that news articles and TV reviews get a lot of hits in a short period of time. The long term earning potential is very minimal. For some article, such as hair loss or weight loss, the passive income is slow and steady. It's very likely that the evergreen blog post will still make a few cents per day after a year.

I like to write blog for the fun of it. I write my thoughts. I copy reports and paraphrased them and give it my own twist and interpretation and flavour.I also journalised any important happenings in my life.

My Lot is paying me minimal. I am not really satisfied, but I still write long paragraphs because I enjoy mylotting. Even if I am not paid enough I still write because I like to write and it is a kind of soializing for me.

I write not so long.. but write..solid things...but the pay is minimal.. i write 3-4 line for answers..to every questions.. i know..it's difficult to say..how they paid for that..