One of the sites I signed up with a long time ago, but have only recently started to really work with is Constant Content. Unlike some of the other sites that pay you to write, which base their pay on revenue sharing and referring other writers, Constant Content is a platform for people to buy your articles outright.
To start, you upload your content to the site, and wait for the editor to review it. Be forewarned, however, that the editor isn’t going to make changes, but rather will accept or decline the article. You want to make sure that your content is truly proofed and ready for sale. Once your content goes live (they also allow you to sell illustrations and photos), it’s available for a customer to purchase.
One of the nice things about Constant Content is that they allow people to purchase the content at several different levels: usage rights, unique rights, and full rights. The three levels allow your customers to buy the content with how they will use it in mind.
“Usage rights” allows you to earn multiple times, because it can be downloaded more than once by many different people, and typically have the lowest price point. The buyer is not allowed to change any of the content. But, once something has been purchased with usage rights, it’s no longer available for sale under the other licenses. “Unique rights” allows the buyer to be the only one who buys the content, and all they can change is the formatting and creating links within the content. “Full rights” will allow the buyer to be the sole purchaser of the content, but they can do anything they want with it, such as changing a few words, adding links, reworking the piece entirely, what have you.
So beyond this, you can choose how you would like to sell your work. If you only want to offer an article for multiple downloads, that’s fine. But here’s the catch: they get a cut. And Constant Content has to make money, right? They take 35% of the sale price.
35% sounds like a lot at first. But when you consider the platform and what you are earning outright, it’s actually quite a good deal. To make it easier, check out the different ways to rewrite your articles so that you can easily get a lot of unique, quality highly-keyworded content on Constant Content right away.
