Comments on: Freelance-ology: Should I bother?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:37:56 +0000

It goes to show that I don’t always pay attention to everything, when I commented on your previous article, I did not realize these posts were written in June.

I was not following your blog at that time. Had I been doing so, I would not have signed up at Triond in July.

In the 3 months since I’ve been writing on Triond, I’ve earned a whopping $.68 on 11 pieces. Triond is a site similar to Helium.

Granted, these were relatively short pieces. Not all of them were written with thourough care and research.

I will say you were well advised not to waste your time on the Helium experiment.

I am very sorry for your loss. I lost my mother 9 years ago this month. While no one can know what you are going through, I can say I have an idea. My best wishes to you Ron.

By: Marisa Wright

Marisa Wright — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:31:29 +0000

Well, he must have been looking over my shoulder. I’ve earned about $250 from 191 articles in nearly 3 years. You do the math! I’m only sorry I spent so much time there.

I now write on HubPages. I’ve earned about $600 from 75 articles over 2 years. Not a huge income, I know, but earnings for all articles are improving as they age. I’m also now using my HubPages articles to promote my other websites, so they have a value there, too.

I wrote a review of Helium on HP, here:
http://hubpages.com/_Marisa/hub/Heliumcom—Writing-Fun-or-Money

By: Carriep

Carriep — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:32:16 +0000

Continue the experiment with Helium? No way.

With other services with different business models? LIke Examiner, or, say, Mahalo? Maybe.

I’m fairly familiar with Mahalo and its “Answers” product, which has a very novel business model based off of “tips.”

http://www.mahalo.com/answers/

The nice thing about Answers is it assigns a specific cash value to the work you do, and you select what you want to do. The questions people ask tend to be answered in short amounts of time, however as an answerer you are competing with other answerers for the best answer.

By: Ron S. Doyle

Ron S. Doyle — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:09:13 +0000

No one plans to write a book, do they?

By: Jennifer Fink

Jennifer Fink — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:43:08 +0000

While you WOULD get some interesting blog material from the experiment — and I would surely enjoy reading it — I vote you hang it up. You’re a Dad with 2 girls, a husband and a man whose mother just passed away. And you have real editors with real, decent-paying work coming your way. Why put your time and effort into something you already know won’t pay?

Unless, of course, you’re planning to write a book about your experience. That changes everything.

By: Ron S. Doyle

Ron S. Doyle — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:11:52 +0000

Mmmm… steak taco… so MSG-zy… You’re making a convincing argument there, Cynthia.

By: Cynthia Drake

Cynthia Drake — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:32:14 +0000

I’m in favor of just looking under the couch cushions and in the car cupholder for taco money as opposed to giving this company and its ilk any more publicity by continuing with your experiment.

It’s slightly more fun, plus you get a cleaner house/car out of the deal. You might even find enough to spring for the steak taco! That’s living high on the hog, my friend