Making Article Marketers Subscribe

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Hi there, I have a WordPress blog with over 1,000 guest contributors who publish freely. However, since the vast majority of them are article marketers, I want to set up a subscription service whereby contributors will be allowed to pay a small amount to publish a certain number of articles? Do you know any WordPress plugin that would make this possible? Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve B
    Yes there are many. But first I would ask myself if that's really a viable business model.

    There are lots of blogs that pay their article contributors. Many blog owners pay for content written by others.

    I guess I'm just wondering . . . if I were a writer and could get paid to write, would I want to pay others just to get my articles online? Why wouldn't I start my own blog?

    The only reason I could see that a writer would want to pay to have content published is if the site were huge, popular, and brought me a lot of traffic to my own web site.

    You mentioned you have a site with "1,000 guest contributors who publish freely." Maybe "freely" is the key. They publish because it doesn't cost them anything.

    Please keep us posted as to how well your idea works. My own take on it is that many of the article directory sites are losing customers, especially because of the lack of traffic that is generated to the author's sig file links.

    Good luck to you,

    Steve
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    • Profile picture of the author muyilleum
      Originally Posted by Steve B View Post

      Yes there are many. But first I would ask myself if that's really a viable business model.

      There are lots of blogs that pay their article contributors. Many blog owners pay for content written by others.

      I guess I'm just wondering . . . if I were a writer and could get paid to write, would I want to pay others just to get my articles online? Why wouldn't I start my own blog?

      The only reason I could see that a writer would want to pay to have content published is if the site were huge, popular, and brought me a lot of traffic to my own web site.

      You mentioned you have a site with "1,000 guest contributors who publish freely." Maybe "freely" is the key. They publish because it doesn't cost them anything.

      Please keep us posted as to how well your idea works. My own take on it is that many of the article directory sites are losing customers, especially because of the lack of traffic that is generated to the author's sig file links.

      Good luck to you,

      Steve
      Thanks for your reply. Can you please give me some examples of such plugins? I'll start with a pilot & keep you guys posted.
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