Forget writing articles for $5 each... get $10, $15, $20 per article instead! Here's how...

How would you like to make $15 or more for each 500-word article you write?

I stumbled upon an interesting site... it's not really my cup of tea but I thought I'd pass it along to the Warrior crowd. If this has been discussed in another thread somewhere, my apologies. Also, I should note that I've not signed up for an account here or actually used the site. The information presented here has been gleaned from help pages and such.

The site I'm talking about is Constant Content (which I will abbreviate as "CC"). For those of you who love to write and are looking for some extra cash, it might just be the thing for you.

Basically, you write articles and submit them to CC. Every article can have three types of licenses that can be purchased: Usage, Unique, and Full Rights. I'll explain each in a bit more detail.

If someone buys a Usage License for your article, they are entitled to use your *unchanged* article ONLY ONCE in their own Web site, magazine, newsletter, etc. They can also add links in the article. These licenses seem to go for about $20 each.

If someone buys a Unique License, they can use the article multiple times but only on their own Web sites, newsletters, etc. They cannot change the content, except to add links. Once a Unique License is purchased, the article is removed from CC. These licenses go for about $25 each.

If someone buys Full Rights, they can pretty much do anything they want with it. This includes changing content, removing the author's name or byline, adding the article to ANY Web site or newsletter, and reselling the article. When Full Rights are purchased, the article is removed from CC. These licenses go for about $30 each.

You set whatever prices you feel are fair for each license type, but of course you want to be competitive. CC takes 35% of whatever you get... a hefty percentage, but at the current licensing rates it still leaves a decent amount to be made if you really enjoy writing.

What's really interesting about CC is that you can pretty much see what other authors have made. They show the number of articles written, and the number of each license type sold. Since you can see what the author tends to charge for their usage licenses, you can get an idea of what they've made.

For example, one author wrote 3,627 articles total. She sold 477 Usage Licenses at about $15 each ($7,155), 191 Unique Licenses at about $25 each ($4,775) and 1,715 Full Rights Licenses at about $30 each ($51,450). Add it all up and she grossed about $63,380. Take out CC's 35% and her net was $41,197. That's $11.35 per article -- not bad.

Here's another example... an author wrote 61 articles. He sold 3 Usage Licenses at about $20 each ($60), 3 Unique Licenses at about $25 each ($75), and 50 Full Rights Licenses at about $30 each ($1,500). Total revenue: $1,635. After CC's 35%, he's left with $1,062.75 or $17.42 per article. If you were able to crank out 10 articles a day and maintain these kinds of sales figures, you'd be on course to make $43,550 a year.

If a buyer likes your writing style, he or she may request that you write an article specifically tailored to their needs. Buyers can also make public requests that go out to all authors. I don't know how much money is typically offered for public or private requests, sorry.

Another interesting feature of CC is the ability to submit photos, illustrations and videos for licensing. It pretty much works the same way as the articles licensing described above. Could be a nice way to make a few extra bucks to pay for that new digital camera...

Well, that's pretty much CC in a nutshell. Hope this information is useful to some of you.