If you are an eHow writer you have probably received an e-mail by now announcing that the Writer Compensation Program will cease to exist to new users. They also announced that current eHow writers will now solely produce content through Demand Studios. This marks an extreme change for Demand Media which is one of the largest content creation companies in the world.
Current eHow writers will either be pre-approved, based on their current article acceptance rate as of April 1st, or they will be given the option to apply for a writing position at Demand Studios to continue producing content for eHow.
A lot of people who receive a passive income from eHow should pay attention to these changes. All of your old articles will not be touched and you can continue to receive revenue sharing from your articles as you have been, however, for any new articles you submit, you will have to go through Demand Studios.
Thankfully, I was pre-approved into Demand Studios based on a 92% acceptance rate. Here is the e-mail that I received from eHow earlier today.
| Demand Studios is now the exclusive writing platform for eHow.com.
Hi strongside, Today, we are announcing that Demand Studios is now the exclusive platform for writing new articles for eHow.com. Congratulations, you have automatically been accepted into Demand Studios. This change will not impact any of your existing articles or payments currently affiliated with the Writer Compensation Program (WCP). Demand Studios gives eHow.com’s writers a more robust publishing platform including copy editors, quality assurance and a number of great, new resources for the writer community. We are committed to providing a quality experience and are excited for you to get started. How does this impact you? Demand Studios has a rigorous writer admission process to ensure quality. Writers, like you, were pre-approved, because of your excellent track record. Quality is paramount, and our criteria for accepting eHow.com writers into Demand Studios were based on writer activity level andmoderation history. By the end of March 2010, you should have published five or more articles, of which at least 80 percent were accepted. Also, you must have been a member of the WCP. Having written 64 articles with a 92% acceptance rate, you should be proud of yourself for being pre-approved. We are migrating thousands of writers on eHow.com over the next few weeks. We appreciate your patience and will notify you via email when you can begin writing for Demand Studios. In the meantime, it’s business as usual, and you can continue to publish on eHow.com. What are the benefits? Demand Studios now offers the benefits you are accustomed to on eHow.com, with added flexibility. You can suggest your own titles and write articles that pay monthly on a residual basis. In addition you can select assignments that pay upfront. The combination of these options gives you the opportunity to make more money. You choose what articles you write and how you get paid. Next Steps:
Thank you, The eHow Team |
Important Changes Ahead
Here is an additional graphic provided from eHow that will hopefully illustrate some of the differences between eHow and the new Demand Studios publishing platform.
What do you think?
Will you continue to write for Demand Studios?
