Write articles? Looking for some beta testers.

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Hopefully it's alright to post this here. If not, feel free to move it to another section or otherwise let me know.

I have been arduously working on developing my WordHire project. It's a platform that allows people to write articles for money as well as allows people looking for website content to buy articles.

Everything is done on a per word basis, so writers are paid by the word and buyers pay by the word.

I am finally at the point where I can get some writers in the system to start writing articles so that they can make some money and at the same time provide some feedback to me on what features they would like to make the process easier or better for them.

Writers receive 2 cents per word and are paid on a weekly basis via PayPal or Check (your preference) and would of course be paid for their work while testing.

I think that this is a solid way for people that are familiar with writing articles to make some cash as well as a great way for new people to business to make some immediate income for their effort while honing their skills for their own endeavors. My goal here is to make this accessible to anyone that would like to make some extra cash in their spare time. You don't have to be a pro at writing articles.

There is also a really great affiliate program in place on top of all of this but at the current time I am only looking for writers to ensure that content is turned around quickly.

If you're interested, feel free to send me a PM or email and I will get back to you.

Thanks!
#articles #beta #testers #write
  • Profile picture of the author MsDebra
    I am very interested in serving as a beta tester.

    Let me know at readywriter53@gmail.com.

    Thanks!
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    • Profile picture of the author ArTsYwRiTeR
      This is really interesting. How will you protect the buyer from paying for a flowery paragraph when it would have been more appropriate to just pay for a bud?
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      • Profile picture of the author saintsguy
        I'm interested in this and will send a pm.
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      • Profile picture of the author AdInventive
        Sorry for the late response. There was a bad storm here and fried my cable internet and I was pretty much out of commission for the weekend.

        As far as protecting buyers is concerned, human review is the best protection that I can give to a buyer. Aside from my own experience of writing articles over the past couple of years, I also have a couple of technical writers at my disposal to help out in the event that I am unsure about something.

        The buyer also has the responsibility of stating what they want from it. They have the ability to enter in keywords as well as a description for each individual topic if they wish to. This is to be used as a guideline for the article creation in and of itself and while reviewing articles this is all taken into consideration.

        Hope that answered your question!
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        • Profile picture of the author tdpubs
          I'm interested. Let me know what you need. You can PM me.
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          • Profile picture of the author tamtu
            I am interested I'll PM you. Do one get to write daily?
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          • Profile picture of the author AdInventive
            @tdpubs

            It won't allow me to PM you. It says you are not accepting them.

            You can just head over to wordhire.com and signup as a writer if you wish. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

            Thanks-
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            • Profile picture of the author Reeveso
              I'm interested...

              I just signed up and it looks to be a great way for people to make some extra cash.

              One question though...

              What if I start writing an article, submit it, and the article had just been finished by somebody else?

              You should make it so that if we agree to write an article - it's therefore off-limits to anybody else and maybe we'd have a certain time frame in which we needed to finish it.
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              • Profile picture of the author AdInventive
                @Reeveso

                This is actually being addressed as I type this.

                A topic reserve system is being put into place that will allow a writer to reserve 1 topic for 24 hours. This should be ample time to research/write an article at their leisure.

                If the 24 hours expires the topic is available again for anyone.

                If they submit the article for the topic that is reserved they are allowed to reserve another.

                Writers will also have the ability to 'release' their reserved topic and reserve another at any time.

                This is actually being put in at this very moment and we're working on fixing some bugs so that it's working as intended.

                edit: It's now live and functional.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joe1204
    I am interested. Pls let me know.

    cheers, Joe
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  • Profile picture of the author azgold
    Already signed up, am PM'ing you.
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    • Profile picture of the author azgold
      Originally Posted by azgold View Post

      Already signed up, am PM'ing you.
      Tried it in IE and Firefox, but can't get it to work. It won't accept my login info, and says page error when I try to sign up again.
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      • Profile picture of the author AdInventive
        I don't appear to be having that problem in either IE or FF. =\

        Perhaps the page error that you are getting while trying to sign-up again is perhaps due to using the same information?
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        • Profile picture of the author azgold
          I dunno....I'll try it again with different info, thx.
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          • Profile picture of the author azgold
            Thx for the opportunity!
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            • Profile picture of the author cypherslock
              Is anyone having issues updating their account info. First I couldn't get past the captcha. no matter what I did it said I failed. then after our generous friend made an account for me, I signed in and wanted to update my info. I tried on firefox and it did nothing. So I tried in IE7 on windows. It throws javascript errors. so I tried in Ubuntu Linux and nothing. So I tried at a completely different computer and on IE6 and it kept giving me runtime errors as I filled in the form. It even gave me a runtime error filling out the contact form. And in both cases nothing worked.....anyone??? Furstrating! I know I'm nnot dense and my computer is updated and what not......I really want to do this as all I do is write. But I'm stumped as to what I can do to help out....
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              • Profile picture of the author AdInventive
                I am honestly unsure as to why you're having problems. Everything you have stated that you are having problems with other people have done just fine. I've gone through everything that you are having issues with in IE and FF and have had no problems...
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                • Profile picture of the author darrenolander
                  Can you PM me the site? I may be interested in paying for articles if I can learn more.
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                  • Profile picture of the author darrenolander
                    Nevermind, I read more and found it.. just skipped over it. Thanks
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                    • Profile picture of the author AdInventive
                      Hey Darren,

                      Noticed you signed up as a buyer. While it's functional, I personally don't feel it is optimal quite yet. You would be welcome to trying it out and helping me understand what could be added to the buyers side of things to help you and other potential buyers get the most out of their money.

                      Any suggestions for features or critique on what's there would be appreciated.
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                      • Profile picture of the author threeg5
                        I signed up and everything seems to work find and it is very easily navigable. I have a few questions though.
                        1. Is there going to be anything besides the mortgage and financing articles?
                        2. Is there going to be a place where subjects of articles to be wrote will be available?

                        I realize that these my kind of be hand in hand, but the difference being that the first would be you are offering the subjects the other would be that the users would be offering things that could be wrote about.
                        Something like they offer the subject you approve it and they get the first 24 hours to themselves then at this time it would go back into your pool of subjects.

                        Thanks,
                        Mike G
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                        • Profile picture of the author AdInventive
                          Originally Posted by threeg5 View Post

                          I signed up and everything seems to work find and it is very easily navigable. I have a few questions though.
                          1. Is there going to be anything besides the mortgage and financing articles?
                          2. Is there going to be a place where subjects of articles to be wrote will be available?

                          I realize that these my kind of be hand in hand, but the difference being that the first would be you are offering the subjects the other would be that the users would be offering things that could be wrote about.
                          Something like they offer the subject you approve it and they get the first 24 hours to themselves then at this time it would go back into your pool of subjects.

                          Thanks,
                          Mike G
                          Hey Mike,

                          1. I only have one buyer in the system right now and all they are interested in are finance related stuff. Niches will start opening up as more buyers enter into the system.

                          2. I'm not too certain what you mean by this. If I read it correctly, what you're asking is already there.

                          As far as having writers propose what to write about, I don't think it's the best business model out there. Besides, there's already services out there that allow you to write whatever and put your content out there hopeing someone would come along and buy it....there is no guarantee that someone will though that's the thing.

                          Which is why I made wordhire...a way to make sure people get paid for the work that they do.
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                          • Profile picture of the author ibringjoy
                            I signed up to test it out for you, too. I have IE6 and it worked just fine for me. I like the way you designed the system. I would have even snatched up some of the articles also, but I'm in the middle of a project and need to finish that one for my existing client first.

                            Did you change the pay? I could have sworn the first time I read your first post it said a different amount.

                            Kathryn Thomas
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                            • Profile picture of the author AdInventive
                              Thanks for the compliment Kathryn. Nope didn't change the pay.
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                              • Profile picture of the author threeg5
                                I understand what you are saying and Please do not get me wrong and think that I am in any way trying to say anything negative. I just had some questions which you answered or at least answered why, and I very much Thank You for that. I will be watching your service for the subjects that I will feel more comfortable writing about and I hope your idea thrives and surpasses your own expectations. Good Luck to you and All that have and or will help you make it what it will become.
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                                • Profile picture of the author cypherslock
                                  has anyone had problems with inputing a dot email address. like joe.smith@gmail.com? I put everything in and input the captcha and hit save. and it seems to kill my passwords and doesn't register me.
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              • Profile picture of the author azgold
                Originally Posted by cypherslock View Post

                Is anyone having issues updating their account info. First I couldn't get past the captcha. no matter what I did it said I failed. then after our generous friend made an account for me, I signed in and wanted to update my info. I tried on firefox and it did nothing. So I tried in IE7 on windows. It throws javascript errors. so I tried in Ubuntu Linux and nothing. So I tried at a completely different computer and on IE6 and it kept giving me runtime errors as I filled in the form. It even gave me a runtime error filling out the contact form. And in both cases nothing worked.....anyone??? Furstrating! I know I'm nnot dense and my computer is updated and what not......I really want to do this as all I do is write. But I'm stumped as to what I can do to help out....

                I found that if I changed one line of info at a time and then pressed 'save', it worked. Takes a few minutes, but at least it takes.

                Hope that helps.
                Shirley

                P.S. I just noticed that you live quite close to where I do!
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                • Profile picture of the author cypherslock
                  I did that and was told to fill in the confirm password which I did. Then I entered the captcha. I hit save. It seems to reload the page with the confirm password field empty and doesn't give me an error.
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                  • Profile picture of the author cypherslock
                    There's obviously an issue somewhere as I've tried multiple computers/OSes.
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                    • Profile picture of the author AdInventive
                      Hey cypher: I really wish I knew what was giving you the problem? I have not had anyone else come to me such issues and personally have not had them myself after checking numerous times. =\
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                      • Profile picture of the author AdInventive
                        Hey everyone.

                        Just want to say thanks for the help thus far. You all have really gone above my own expectations and have motivated me even further to make this system as good as I possibly can.

                        At this point people are free to sign up if they wish as a writer, but there is not too much to write about since everyone has gone through quite a few topics in the past few days!

                        I will continue to work on the writers side of things (a couple of things need to be fixed/added) but will start focusing more on the buyer and affiliate side of things so that I can be in a position to start advertising for more buyers to fill the system for the writers out there.

                        Thanks!
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                        • Profile picture of the author threeg5
                          Hey Congrats on having every single article that was asked to be written DONE.

                          I think you should concentrate a little on the buyers side.
                          I hope it has continued success and has more articles to be wrote soon.

                          Much success,
                          Mike G
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                        • Profile picture of the author ghoti
                          I am having the same problem as cypher, using Firefox. Looks interesting, but I'm out of time. I'll try later on another browser
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                          • Profile picture of the author SEOwriter4hire
                            Hi there!

                            I signed up yesterday and submitted my first article today. The system is working fine for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ruby2
    Originally Posted by AdInventive View Post

    Hopefully it's alright to post this here. If not, feel free to move it to another section or otherwise let me know.

    I have been arduously working on developing my WordHire project. It's a platform that allows people to write articles for money as well as allows people looking for website content to buy articles.

    Everything is done on a per word basis, so writers are paid by the word and buyers pay by the word.

    I am finally at the point where I can get some writers in the system to start writing articles so that they can make some money and at the same time provide some feedback to me on what features they would like to make the process easier or better for them.

    Writers receive 2 cents per word and are paid on a weekly basis via PayPal or Check (your preference) and would of course be paid for their work while testing.

    I think that this is a solid way for people that are familiar with writing articles to make some cash as well as a great way for new people to business to make some immediate income for their effort while honing their skills for their own endeavors. My goal here is to make this accessible to anyone that would like to make some extra cash in their spare time. You don't have to be a pro at writing articles.

    There is also a really great affiliate program in place on top of all of this but at the current time I am only looking for writers to ensure that content is turned around quickly.

    If you're interested, feel free to send me a PM or email and I will get back to you.

    Thanks!
    I'm really interested - would love to hear details of how to work with you. Also, how do I e-mail you? I'm a new member and am known as Ruby2. My e-mail address is CATANDABOWL@aol.com. Look forward to hearing from you!
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    • Profile picture of the author Ruby2
      I'm a new member here, known as Ruby2. I'm very interested and would love to have details about how to work with you. My e-mail address is CATANDABOWL@aol.com. And by the way, how do I e-mail you?
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  • Profile picture of the author raj7
    I'd like to participate. I'll pm you.
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  • Profile picture of the author MCryer
    I will participate in the beta testing by offering a few articles to get you started; however, for $.02/word I really can't afford to write much. Time is precious and that it is a low rate for professional writers. Feel free to contact me when you are ready to start.
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    • Profile picture of the author cypherslock
      Thatnk you ghoti, glad to see I'm not alone.
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      • Profile picture of the author ghoti
        Originally Posted by cypherslock View Post

        Thatnk you ghoti, glad to see I'm not alone.
        Still can't sign up. I take that as a suggestion I shouldn't.
        Good luck.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alan Paterson
          Hi,

          I'd be interested in trying this out too.

          I might have missed a bit somewhere, but, is this a write articles and see if someone buy idea like constant content, or see what a buyer's after and write an article for them like elance etc?

          Thanks,
          Alan
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  • Profile picture of the author moxie
    Interested in beta testing. Let me know. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author jocelyn
    I have send you PM. Hope its not too late. Let me know...Contact me a joycescape@gmail.com
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  • Profile picture of the author projectpayday777
    Do you still have openings?
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