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Add to FavoritesIf all websites offered to pay their writers some sacrifices would have to be made. The sites would have to accept payment for the right to publish our writings. Some paid sites will not recognize you if you are unable to pay for membership. You are unable to submit writings to them. Some of them offer a short free trial period usually ranging from fifteen days to one month depending upon the site. You would have to pick and choose the ones you wanted payment from and that you were willing and able to pay for.
If all webstites offered to pay their writers, they would have to accept higher standards.
Many writers would be disqualified. If writers write for the joy of being published, money is not an issue. There are sites that offer money for writing that can be found by surfing the Internet. There are other opportunities that do not involve writing where extra cash can be earned. Sites such as Ebay offers income for qualified people. Some Helium writers also particpate in surveys, and are more familiar than I am with the rules of their game.
Sites such as Helium have conditions for paying their writers. Market place articles and promotinal opportunities offer their clients a chance to make some money. One Helium writer earned $1,000 out of writing for Market place articles alone! According to him, not too many websites offered that much earning potential. Helium did not pay him, the Market place articles did. But Helium provided him the opportunity!
Not as many people would get a chance to voice their opinions as well as share their knowledge with their writing community. It would have the domino effect, the websites would simply close their doors because of lack of subscribers. Students and teachers would not be able to access knowledge based web pages because they would simply cease to exist.
I can remember doing reserch the old fashion way of spending hours reading books and magazines for reserch topics. I am not againt this type of reserch, but who has the time nowdays with increased committment needed from the educational systems?
Let's face the wealthier citizens probably do not write for free websites, but they would be the only ones able to afford to. How many people could afford to pay for each website that they visited? Certainly not people earning fixed or limited incomes. The working class poor could not afford to have their children do reserch on the Internet. Free Internet sites are part of foundatations of a free society. They are a voice that should not be silenced by greed and avarice.
If people want to earn money for their writings that is one thing. For recreational writers such as myself that is a horse of a different color, purple!
Learn more about this author, Roxanne Dubarry.
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Websites which are promoted by other peoples work should pay these people for their work. I believe this sum things up quite nicely, but let me be more explicit.
The websites that are set up by the webmasters are being advertised and refreshed for content by hundreds of people who want to voice their opinion and have some very informative points of view. While everyone is submitting their own creative insights to be blogged on various sites which advertise their resources for all of the habitually logging users, the interconnected channels which observe and study how people write, what they write, and when they write it; are benefitting their own website setups and individual ranks among the search engines.
This is certainly a clever plan for asking the general public what their interests are and what they percieve to be issues that are important to them. But there is personal experience and intelligence that is vested in these entrepreneurial endeavors.
If my point of view is pertinent enough to be heard, then it is valuable as a research and survey questionaire. I think that it would be only fair to include one in the very business of profiting from his input and wisdom among other websites who only guess and chose according to what is selling commercially and how they can potentially create money from selling products. There is no merchandise here to get old, and there is no spoilage. Everything that is typeset within these pages on the internet has a very long shelf life.
Where other people can read what is written and also benefit from the very words of wisdom that would require at the very least a good newspaper reading to summarize for themselves, I think that the author of the article should receive compensation. Also, the delivery here is instant; there are no fading newspapers to foul up your doorway. Neither are there membership fees to receive the information which is posted here free of charge.
To say that we should not get paid would be to say that what we have to say is not worth taking the time to. That is why time is worth money.
I appreciate that Helium does have a payment plan where people are compensated somewhat for what they have to contribute. I would like to have a more directed connection to reaching out to people with what I do have to say, however. Perhaps Helium can find Publisher connections to further encourage people to share their stories, personal, and professional experiences.
Learn more about this author, Zev Percowitz.
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