Extra Income for Your Home Busines: Constant Content

On Sparkplugging the other day, I read about an interesting opportunity to earn a little extra money for your home business. It’s called Constant Content, and it serves as sort of a clearinghouse for online content. While it is geared primarily at freelance writers, I can see how someone with reasonably good skills could use it as a source of income, even if writing isn’t your main focus. It matches up writers with people who want to buy online content. Lorna Doone Brewer describes how it works on Sparkplugging:

The way the site works is you, the writer, turn out an article on any topic that pleases you (unless responding to a request, more on that later) and submit it. You set the price and decide if you only want to sell usage rights or full rights. There is a strict approval process that ensures only top quality articles get into Constant Content’s article database, but once you’re in, potential buyers can view and purchase your article. Constant Content takes a percentage off the top (35%) and the rest goes into your account, which is paid out at the beginning of each month if you have $5 or more pending.

She goes on to say that you can get between $25 and $50 per article (minus the 35%) and as much as $100 or more, depending on the quality of your work. And I like that the article are carefully screened for quality. I have been Associated Content as my “fallback” when I have a little extra time to make a little extra cash, but Constant Content might be more profitable. AC will accept just about anything, regardless of quality. However, with Constant Content, your article has to sell in order for you to make money. On AC, you just get your money (even though it’s less).