Writing for Other Websites Along with Associated Content

As you're likely to know about Associated Content, I'll talk about submitting to www.constant-content-com and www.suite101.com first.

Constant-Content

You may never sell anything you submit to Constant Content and then again, you may do very well. The great thing registering for Constant Content does is sending registered writers notices of what they call Public Requests.

Responding to a Public Request is the way to go. After logging in, go to the requests section of your home page. You will be taken to a long list of requests, not in any discernable order. I use the edit function to reach the word I'm looking for. I recently thought about responding to a Public Request on Watches. I typed in Watch and came to the request. There I clicked on Q&A to send a note to the requester about whether the opportunity was still open. I quickly go a response of yes, so I sat down, did some research and wrote the article to the length he wanted. Then I went through the CC process of submitting, did submit the article, went back to the list of Public Requests, found watches again, and Q&A'ed the requester that I had submitted an article to CC for approval and, assuming it was approved, would be willing to do one rewrite if he wanted.

Why was all this effort worthwhile? Because the price offered for full rights to my article was $100. Full rights means the requester can use the info any way he or she wants to, revise it, and take credit for it whatever. In this case, that's what the requester wanted. Other possibilities are Usage rights (one time, not exclusive) and an intermediate category.

Does Constant Content have a downside? Yes, at least two. First of all the editor who reads your submitted article may be very picky and not necessarily tell you why your article is rejected. So you can go about "fixing" your submission and still the article is declined. I experienced this a half dozen times before my first article was accepted.