Associated Content Producers Spotlight

With the economy being in the crapper everyone is looking to scrape together extra money for the upcoming holiday season. Here are some content producers that have found ways to make money online and have written articles about it.

Princess G. has been a content producer for 2 years now and she has an extensive library of making money online tips.

Check out her article, Make Money Selling Art Trade Card Supplies.

Excerpt:

“You can make money by selling needed supplies to art trading card makers and artists. Many artists are willing to buy pre-cut watercolor paper, card holders, pens and inks, colored pencils, paints, collage papers and tons of other types of supplies used in making art trading cards.”

Melanie Marten has had amazing success writing for Associated Content. She has over 1 million page views with nearly 900 articles published. She has written some fantastic content on how to make money online.

Check out here article, Make Money Selling Homeschool Lesson Plans Online.

Excerpt:

“With the hundreds of homeschool websites on the internet, you will find many places to advertise your homeschool lesson plans. Start by creating a basic website with your lesson plans for sale listed. You could also sell them on eBay or homeschooling classified sites. Offering one free lesson plan for potential customers to examine is a great idea. It will let the homeschooling parents know that your lesson plans are worth the money.”

SophieLC is a single mom from Galway who has worked hard to build an online business.

Check out her article, Make Money Online Monetizing Blogs: I Cracked the Code.

Excerpt

“Doing an online search for money-making opportunities will bring up on your computer screen millions of blogs and websites, all promising to give you the ultimate solution to you current money problems”

Timothy Frazier has been a content producer for quite a while. He has a wide variety of articles on all kinds of topics.

Check out his article, Blogging for Money.

Excerpt:

“It’s certainly not time for me to quit my day job and become a full time writer, but if the trend continues as it is that day will eventually come for me, and a lot faster than I first thought.”

Tammy Forner has written 6 articles since she became a content producer and from the looks of her topics has much success coming to her.

Check out her article, Be a Successful Work at Home Mom and Make Money Online.

Excerpt:

“Anyone who wants to be a work at home mom and make money online by blogging needs to realize that both methods for making money blogging are legitimate, but are not for those that think this will be a way to get rich quick. Although blogging can be fun at times, it is work.”

Melanie Winters is a stay at home mom who has been writing for Associated Content for over 2 years. She may only have 19 articles in her library but she’s made it to clout 5.

Check out her article, How-To Earn Money for the Holidays.

Excerpt:

“you do not need to be an upgraded member of a site in order to add an additional stream of income to your checkbook. I will highlight the ones that will pay off if you upgrade on them, but again, it is not necessary to do so! Also, the programs that I recommend do not require you to purchase anything or take a trial test drive of any product that might cost you money”

Kristie Leong is one of AC’s Top 1000. She’s written over 1,400 article and is quickly nearing a million page views.

Check out her article, How to Make Money Photographing Food.

Excerpt:

“Wouldn’t it be great if you could earn income from something you enjoy? If you’re good with a camera and you enjoy good food, you can combine your two passions into a potentially lucrative business.”

Naomi Kent is fairly new to AC but she’s already well on her way.

Check out her article. Work Online – 5 Ways to Earn a Living on the Internet.

Excerpt:

“The good news is, you’ll be doing what you like to do on your own terms, so it doesn’t always feel like work. Persevere, and you will soon be reaping the benefits from making your own hours and being your own boss.”

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With no announcement or warning, Associated Content started compensating their contributors for articles distributed via their web site partnership arrangements. We don’t have any official word so the following is early-observation conjecture.

Background
First, you have to know when submitting an article to AC, the author has several choices, one of which is “Distribution: Would you like to make this content eligible for distribution with approved AC partners?” This selection is only available under a couple of conditions:

1. The article must NOT be previously published.
2. If submitted as “Exclusive,” it is automatically eligible for Distribution consideration.
3. If submitted as “Non-Exclusive,” you have a choice in Distribution consideration.

Keep in mind, even non-exclusive submission are going to experience a publishing delay as a content manager must review them.

Distribution Payments
AC has been trying for a long time to figure out a decent way to compensate their contributors for articles sold to other sites. Since it is virtually impossible to track the amount of traffic these articles receive on the partner sites, it looks like AC has fallen back on a simple one-time payment for such articles. Reportedly, it is a $2.00 flat payment. At least, that is what the early returns are showing.

At this point, we don’t know if the payments may vary by partner or if AC is marching forward on some sort of traffic-based compensation from the partners. There has been no official announcement from AC about this new policy. Were all just guessing and hoping. The good news is, AC seems dedicated to finding new ways to fairly compensate their authors.

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