Demand Studios Strategies: Living off of Demand Studios Income (Part 6)

Posted by Christina Crowe in Freelance Writing, Passive Income, Web Content Writing on May 14, 2010 | no responses

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This is Part 6 of the series Become a Successful Demand Studios Writer.

Because Demand Studios pays higher than most of the other upfront pay content websites, the company offers freelance writers a chance to make full-time Demand Studios income working from home. However, making full-time income as a Demand Studios writer isn’t easy, especially for those just learning the ropes. It requires time, constant writing, constant rewrites, and patience. As you get more experienced, you’ll learn what makes a Demand Studios writer successful and what dooms a Demand Studios writer to fail. Read about my journey toward full-time income on the Demand Studios Work Challenge.

Demand Studios Strategies for Full-time Demand Studios Income

Memorize the Demand Studios editorial guidelines. Spend a few hours each day going over the editorial guidelines until you have it memorized. Though this will take up some time in the beginning, it will save you stress and unnecessary rewrites in the long term. This then will increase your Demand Studios income.
Stick to one writing format until you have it mastered before moving on to another. If you’re familiar with writing how to articles because you were once a member of eHow, stick with that writing format first until you can finish articles under that format in under 30 minutes. If you’re unsure with which writing format to choose, play around with them all until you decide which one works best for you.
Find titles on topics you already know a lot about to limit your research. If you’re unsure with which category to build your foundation on, think about your daily hobbies or activities and decide which categories they would fit under.

Learn topics and then write about them. It’s best to write about something you enjoy, so if you enjoy something but you don’t know much about the topic, spend an hour doing pure research to learn more. When you’re ready, look for titles that fit the category you researched. The next time you earn Demand Studios income and write a similar article on the category, you won’t have to do much research at all if the information is already learned. Continue searching for the same topic daily, since new article titles are added continuously.
Keep a list of references on hand. Once you can find a topic or several topics you can write about fairly easily, whether you had to do the additional hour of research or not, keep a list of references and websites you used to learn about the topic in a file on your desktop. This will reduce the time you have to spend looking for additional references when the ones you already used are sufficient.
Keep a list of citations that can be used in the articles on your topic. If you want a high score on your scorecard, it’s a good idea to cite your sources. So, keeping a list of 10 citations that can be used in relevant articles is a good way to rack up those points in the quickest way possible.
Remove distractions and stay focused. Not only will eliminating distractions help you to concentrate on your work, but it will also increase your ability to produce more work, which translates into more Demand Studios income. One way to eliminate distractions is to close all tabs on your web browser besides Demand Studios and Google search. You can also disconnect yourself from the Internet or work offline if you know the topic you’re writing about fairly well. Moreover, there are applications like Focus Booster that will help you to stay focused on your work.
Calculate how many articles of a certain format you need to write in order to reach your income goal. Once you have a clear idea of how many articles you need to write in order to make full-time Demand Studios income, stick to that number. For instance, if your income goal is $66,000 a year, you’ll need to make $5,500 a month or $184 a day. If you generally make $15 per article written, you’ll need to write about 13 articles a day. If your income goal is impossible for you to reach now because you simply can’t write that many articles per day, divide the goal by half until your experience builds up and you’re able to write articles at a faster pace. So, if it takes you an hour to write each article now, creating 13 articles per day probably would be too stressful. Instead, work on 6 articles a day until you’re able to complete each article in 30 minutes. Then, the goal of 13 daily articles will be a lot easier to achieve.