Many sites that are talked about online for writers to make money are based on performance or revenue sharing. This means that a writer gets paid a small amount for their articles, but it comes in each month. This allows the author to promote their work and work on getting visitors to their site to increase their earnings. Constant Content is actually a middle man that connects writers with webmasters in need of content. Therefore, their pay scale is completely unique and very different from many sites writers are working on.

Your Articles, Blog Entries, Pictures, Illustrations, and Video.
You create your content, whatever that may be. You upload it to Constant Content's site. They then use software to check for grammar and spelling mistakes and then have a "highly skilled" (according to their FAQ) editor check your piece out. If it is accepted it will be placed on their site. You get to choose the different licenses you are offering webmasters and you set your prices.

Usage.
The first option that you have is to offer a usage license to the webmasters that visit Constant Content and see your piece. This is just letting them use your piece a single time and in a single place. This is going to be the least expensive option for webmasters, however for you it allows you to sell the piece to as many webmasters who which to buy it. You could sell the piece a hundred times and that would be fine legally and in accordance to Constant Content's policies.

Unique.
Worth slightly more money is a unique license. This states that the piece isn't published anywhere else and never will be. While this means you can't sell it more then once it also means that the buyer can only publish on his or her sites and can't change your article, your by line, remove your name, or sell your piece to others.

Full Rights.
A full rights license gives the purchaser the right to change anything he or she dislikes including your by line or your name. They can publish on any site, both their own and others, they can resell your work, and they can claim it as their own. This is much like ghost writing. It has the largest individual price, but also means you won't be selling the piece again or publishing it in another location. It also means that you won't be able to get the recognition for it or gain exposure from writing the piece.

Pricing.
While Constant Content allows an author to price their own work, there is a range for the work that is offered. Offering a piece that isn't above the rest of the crowd for a price that is, isn't going to get it sold. Most usage licenses are priced around $5-15, but some range into the $50-100 range with a few even higher then that. Most unique licenses range from about $10-45, with a few in the higher price ranges. Full rights licenses start around $50 for most of them with some going as high as $250.

Constant Content's Take.
Constant Content only makes money when you sell your work (or your fellow writers do). They will keep 35% of the sale price. This means that you will only be making 65% of the price that you choose to sell your item at. If your article sells for ten dollars you will make six fifty, or if it sells for one hundred dollars you will make sixty five dollars.

Constant Content has a pay scale that is fairly easy to understand. Many feel it would be better if their take wasn't quite so big, but for those that write there they find that they either love it or hate it. This is one pay scale that is fairly uncomplicated and with a little work, trial and error, and some basic research you could be finding yourself selling licenses to your articles left and right.

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