HRDoubleU wrote:HiredGun wrote: Summer can be slow here... You'll be amazed at how early seasonal content starts selling.
Okay, but during non-summer months would you all say that you're making a regular income or more like extra spending money? I would really like to gauge just how much return I can expect to see from my efforts.
Not every writer here has noticed a slow down in sales during the summer months. I can't say the money I earn here is my full-time income, but I can definitely say it's a healthy part of my regular income paid twice a month, so it's always handy. I have a number of private clients outside this platform and also submit work to print publications in various countries as well, so the amount I contribute here varies based on external workloads.
There are writers who frequent this forum who will happily tell you the sales and pay rates are better everywhere else outside of CC, but they always end up back on this site and posting on this forum, so it makes you wonder sometimes what's really happening and why they keep coming back if they find it so terrible here. There are also some very prolific writers on CC who *never* post on this forum, but who obviously sell huge amounts of work every month and continue to submit new content regularly. It's easy enough to search for those prolific writers by searching for various types of content by category. The same names pop up often and their profiles show massive sales numbers that keep growing each month.
I think HiredGun is correct. Those really prolific writers who sell lots of work tend to submit lots of articles regularly and play the numbers game. They submit across a range of categories, topics and price ranges, which attracts a variety of different clients. Many of those clients may become private clients over time, which could also account for those increasing sales figures on their profiles.
Take a look at some really prolific writers like beconrad (
https://www.constant-content.com/Author ... ails-0.htm) or Word Gypsy (
https://www.constant-content.com/Author ... ails-0.htm). I'm nowhere even remotely close to these guys, so I can only imagine what they earn. Much of my own income on CC comes from orders from various writer pools I'm in, private requests, and the occasional random article submitted to the catalog just because I felt like writing something different.
Every writer here has a different story. It's just a shame the forum is so quiet, otherwise I think we could learn plenty from those really successful writers here who sell a lot of articles on a regular basis.