I've already written and submitted one article, and am awaiting approval. As a new writer, I must wait 40 minutes between articles until I have been rated five times. After that, I will be able to write one article after another. Additionally, they will deposit my pay into my PayPal account each week, on Tuesday, which I especially like. To me, this is a no muss, no fuss website, and it takes the work out of getting the work. The minimum payout is $20, and the buyer or requester has 72 hours to approve or reject your article - and if they do nothing, the article is automatically approved and you get paid.
You can write the article directly on the site, which is really nice, but it is suggested that you copy your article and paste it into your own text editor before submitting in case something goes wrong - so you don't completely lose the article. The editor on the site is really nice, as it not only counts words for you, but also keyword density - and it is automatically run through CopyScape when you hit the submit button.
As a beginner on the site, the pay is incredibly low - it could even be construed as insulting. But if you haven't proven yourself, you have to work your way up from the bottom. I've been in this game for a long time, working through many freelance websites, so I know how this works, and I'm willing to accept it. What I can see through the interface at iWriter is that the more I write, and the more my articles are accepted (and I know that my writing is good enough for this), the more I will be paid per article. Therefore, I am willing to take the short amount of time it will take to work my way up to the better paying opportunities on the site. So, before you kick and scream over the low, insulting wages that are offered, think this through. So for now, I will take the lowest paying articles, requiring the least amount of words, on the easiest topics, so that I can quickly knock the work out, and gain the required ratings to be eligible for the high paying articles - and I will not be insulted. Too often, writers and other creative people let pride get between them and ultimate success - especially in the freelancing world.
Again, I'm really impressed with what I see so far. The site is very clean and easy to navigate as well. Watch out vWorker...iWriter could give you a serious run for your money!
I've been writing on iwriter for about a month, and I really like it so far. My first goal was to earn enough to see if the payoff was real (and it was! Over 20 dollars in your iwriter account and they transfer it automatically to your Paypal) and although I am still in the standard writer's rate, I've been getting a number of special requests. This week I received almost more requests than I can handle! And getting them all finished successfully will get me past the 30 article bump that gets you to the higher pay rate. This is a great little side thing for me, but you should be careful to take a look at the requester's reviews and their rejection rates because I was burned once by someone who rejected my (very strong and original) article and made a comment that he already had the exact article submitted before...no, he didn't. That was frustrating, but out of 13 articles I've written so far that was the only bump in the road. I would highly suggest iwriter---even though textbroker has higher pay rates when you start out---you might like textbroker too if you haven't tried it yet.
ReplyDeletehey shyley nice writeup, loved each bit of it. i just wanted to ask you, does iwriter pays you even if the article is getting rejected by the requester?
ReplyDeleteI''m so sorry for the extremely late reply...the answer to your question is no. If your article is rejected, you do not receive any pay for it,
DeleteI always publish the article on my blog before I did submit it for requesters, if they approved I just remove it from my blog, but if they rejected the article will stay on my blog, and I always check my articles through Plagium.com. It is useless to report to the admin as they're not really care about writers concern, they only care to the requesters, they may even banned your account if one requester report you, the only thing you can do is report them to the writer's forum.
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