In case you were wondering, yes, I’m still blogging for Just Make Money Online. Just had a rough couple of weeks, as I encountered a few bumps recently including my father’s sudden death – so I had to take a break.

In my absence, Kelly Erb, b5′s Business Channel Editor, invited a few guest bloggers to help out here at JMMO. I just want to take this opportunity to thank them:

• Miranda Marquit of Yielding Wealth, who wrote “Make Money Online by Lending to Others“.
• Donna Jackson of Digital Money World, who wrote “Making Money Online and Getting Paid“.
• Allison Boyer of Greener Assets, who wrote “Constant Content: A Great Web Content Writer Resource“.

And, of course, my regular guest blogger, Alfa Mercado.

I also want to express my gratitude to fellow b5 business bloggers who contributed a total of US$110 as a charitable contribution in my father’s memory.

Thank you all so much for your help and your support at this very difficult time. Your generosity and kindness are greatly appreciated.

In any case, right now, I’m slowly getting back to ‘normal life’. Including blogging. So, I’ll be working on getting our regular usual features (Open Mic Mondays, advice/Q&As, the A-Z series, and polls/surveys, among others) back on track. Stay tuned.

Photo: Shai Coggins

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Back to Blogging, Back to Business

(Guest Post by Allison Boyer)

Have old articles lying around? Most content writers do, simply from jobs where the deals fell though or samples that were never purchased. The good news is that you don’t have to wait for the right gig to come along to sell. Sign up at Constant Content, and you can make some cash from those old articles without even trying!

Constant Content is great because you can choose your own price as the author of the piece. The process to submit articles is fairly straight-forward, and you can list your article in one of three categories:

• Full Rights: The person purchasing the article owns it completely, and can add it to multiple websites, resell it, put their own name on it, add links, or whatever. Once an article is purchased for full rights, it is removed from the CC database so no one else can buy it.

• Unique: This is almost the same as full rights, but the person cannot remove your name as author or resell the content when using it. Again, once it is purchased, it is removed from the CC database.

• Usage: Someone who buys usage rights is paying to use the article as you wrote it with your name attached. However, they are acknowledging that the article can be purchased again and used by another person. Once someone purchased usage rights, the article can no longer be bought for unique or full rights.

Every article on CC is reviewed before added to the marketplace, so you can’t just upload anything. You have to proofread and make sure that your summary reflects the article itself.

Again, you get to set your own prices for each level, although they do give you guidelines as to what the average writer is asking per piece, according to word length. In addition, if you want some extra cash, you can check out the article requests – people looking for specific topics. I personally haven’t checked out this part of the site much, as I’ve been doing quite well with submitting articles on my own. One of the features I do like, though, is that a buyer can request you for a private job, so if you produce quality work, you’ll continue getting work for the prices you think are fair.

Constant Content also gives artists the ability to upload and sell photography, illustrations, and videos, so if you’re interested in making money with more than writing, you do have that option as well. They take a cut of the profits, of course, but since you can name your price, you can account for this in your settings. I wouldn’t recommend writing articles solely for CC, but this is a great way to make some extra cash with articles that you’ve not sold in the past, for whatever reason.

The above post is by guest blogger Allison Boyer, who writes about green business at www.GreenerAssets.com and how to make money blogging at www.TheMillionaireBlogger.blogspot.com.

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Constant Content: A Great Web Content Writer Resource