Secrets to Success on Associated Content

As of the time of this writing, I have been an Associated Content - Content Producer for a few weeks short of one year.

In my time here, I've had my ups and down, good days and bad, but no matter what's happened, there is just something about Associated Content that keeps me coming back, week after week, to network, write, earn some extra cash, and cut loose and bring back the joy to writing for myself, instead of writing for everyone else.

I've had some lowball offers and some fantastic ones (my offers have ranged from $3 to $50 per article). I've had some articles barely get 100 page views while others have been featured in the showcase, and many are well on their way to 10,000 page views, with one having already crossed that 10K hurdle.

I'm not an expert, and I'm likely not even close to having the page views some people on this site have managed, but I do consistently well on AC, and continue to increase my income as well as my readership every month, averaging about 1000-1200 page views per day for my content, and hoping to continue to grow that average over the next year.

Coming up on my one year anniversary, I decided to take a break from writing my usual content and take a look at some statistics from my own writing over the past year, and then share with you the conclusions that I have drawn from the last year worth of Associated Content experience.

Let's start with some of my personal stats as of the last page view update.

210 Articles Total, 173 Submitted for payment, 37 Submitted for free (excluding 56 poetry and prose free submissions)

Between initial payments and the performance bonus, if I continue at the rate I am currently (average page views and average initial payments), by the end of one year of performance bonuses, I will have increased my average payment per article approximately $7.00 per article.

Assuming my page views continue to increase with my promotional efforts, that could be even more, making my average payment per article both upfront and performance based would be between $12-15 or more per article by the end of one year (and will continue growing a little every month the PB is in effect.)