I’ve been writing a little bit for Helium since the site first began and honestly, I collect a payment from there every couple of months and forget about it. However, recent developments have caused me to take another look.
As most of you know, in order to receive your payments, you must do a minimal amount of “rating” each month on the site. Though I still don’t agree with this policy, it does help to keep me active. You are given two articles to read and you have to rate the one that you think is the best.
ANYWAY, a couple of weeks ago I was checking out the Marketplace section of the website. If you are going to make any real money from Helium, this is the place to do it. I saw an article title that was available that I could easily write. The payment, if my article was chosen, was $24 and it had to be 500 words in length. I wrote the article and it was accepted.
Needless to say, I enjoyed writing this article much more than I enjoyed writing how to articles for Demand at $15 a pop. But the fun didn’t end there. A couple of weeks after my article was published, I got an email from a Helium project manager saying that the client who bought my article was interested in making a team of writers who would be writing at least 2 articles for them per month. I readily accepted.
