Constant-Content

I was writing for Constant Content for a few months and they always paid on time, until the June 15 payment, which apparently never happened. They said they had problems with Paypal and asked for patience. Fine. Around the end of June, they asked for my name and bank details as they said they would be sending payments through direct transfers as a short-term solution to the problem. I haven't received any such payment up to now. They said they sent my payment but put in the wrong account name, so they had to wait for that money to be returned by my bank before they could send it again. I checked with my bank and they said rhey NEVER received any such payment. Now CC isn't replying to my emails and I remain UNPAID more than a month after.

I joined Constant Content as a freelance writer in April of 2017. Five years later, I had my account suspended without any notice. During my time on CC, I published over 500 articles, selling over 400. Therefore, I have no idea why my account was suspended with around 110 articles in my catalog. The first thing I noticed after my suspension was that my articles were still available for sale on the platform. However, my writer profile was deleted. I emailed support to see if there was a way that I could access my content. While they didn't offer me that option, they did assure me that I would still be paid when my previously submitted articles sold. I thought that I could at least make some money for all of the time and effort I devoted to the site, so I gave them permission to leave my articles up for sale. Unfortunately, the very next day, all of my articles were deleted from the platform. It would have been really nice if I could have been given some explanation as to what was going on with my account, as well as the opportunity to access my content before it was deleted. All I can tell freelance writers considering Constant Content is that if you join the platform, you do so at your own risk.

Constant Content is a great resource for writers. Not only do you get amazing support as a new or seasoned writer, but the fact that you don't have to drum up your own business is a lifesaver. Constant Content will send you the work; all you have to do is write and deliver on time. I highly recommend this service!

This review is based on my experience regularly writing product copy for an established e-commerce client, after being put in touch directly by a past coworker. It has been great! Consistent work, prompt pay, total flexibility as far as what time of day I do my work (assuming deadlines are met, of course). A CC manager is assigned to our project and works as a liaison with the company, so that is super helpful. I've worked with a couple managers during my time on this project, and both have been responsive and supportive. This has been a great part-time work option for me as a SAHM with a young toddler and I would highly recommend it, especially if you can get on board with a large client writing regular content. I have not tried writing and selling an article yet, so I can't speak to that aspect of CC.

I like that you can sell articles you've written in a marketplace-like feature. There's also a lot of jobs available all the time which is a plus, but only after you've worked yourself up more to have access to them (when starting out, there's barely anything to pick from). These people are the WORST with communication. I got hired to work as an editor for them and they were vague about details, then a month after it started, the work from the client company just stopped suddenly and our editing team was asking what happened and where our work was. The CC people wouldn't respond to us for 3 weeks, literally left us wondering where our job was or if we even had it anymore. Finally told us they were trying to negotiate stuff with the client and they'd message back in the next few days. Another month later, they finally said the project was cancelled. Yet another job I got hired for fell through with them after weeks of wondering what was going on (client backed out and CC just didn't bother to tell the writers they'd hired for it). I dumped CC after that, they are ridiculous.

After the pandemic happened, they used excuses to refuse to pay writers. They still owe me my money. Don't work with them.

I have a wide range of interests, so it is probably unsurprising that what I like most about CC is the relatively constant flow of projects on different topics.

I wrote an article which include one typo and two blocks of text in the short summary when there should have been one. The feedback was that the content was marketable, and I should make the changes and resubmit. It took about two minutes so I did.

I did. Nothing happened. I made a subsequent query and received a prompt reply that they would look into it. Nothing. I made a second query after a month. Nothing.

The platform is great - really good idea. But there is just something wrong with these people. They need to get editors who are not fantasizing that they're working for The Atlantic.

My articles were approved, then one editor suddenly started rejecting everything and told me each time I was prohibited from resubmitting a different style. This all happened within one week. When I reached out for help, not only was there no response, but my account was suspended.

I am a top-rated author on another site. Constant Content is not accepting good content, nor are they constant in their responses!

I'll start with the pros. You get to set your per-word price as a writer, and you can also build up a nice catalogue while writing for yourself and/or other content companies, which is what I did.

The cons? Constant Content takes a whopping 35% of every sale and does very little to earn that money. So self-promotion is mandatory because a lot of writers are selling their content for peanuts.

The biggest con would be dealing with the editors and their respective quirks. Most of the Constant Content editors that I dealt with were knowledgeable and professional in spite of their quirks. However, there was one editor in particular who was rude, entitled, a liar and laughably incompetent. This became more evident whenever I wrote about subjects that were clearly outside his/her wheelhouse. And as luck would have it, I soon found myself dealing with that insufferable [rear orifice] most of the time, which is why I quit.

My advice to management would be this: Remember that writers are your bread and butter.

Ummm only you can write a killer article in your field. Of course you will need to add technical things and maybe some better images.

Ive written hundreds of articles for my own blog and when I can get a fitting article from them I JUMP ON IT. They are always well written so adding my own technical facts is simple.

If you want a market for your articles and don't mind CC taking a whopping 35% cut, then fine. It is nice to write what you want and the writing standards are high.

But be VERY careful with the "projects" or "casting calls" that you often see advertised on the website. Sometimes the management will get in touch with you personally begging you for help and saying the pay is really good and there's plenty of work for everyone. And then you sign on, make time for the project, attend the meetings, and find out that not only is there no work but the pay is not as high as you thought it was. Furthermore, clients for these projects are trying to save money on their own end by making everything "publish ready" - so they don't have their own editors, HTML coders, or researchers. You have to do all of that. What's even worse is that the editors will tell you, "sorry there's no work" but they'll be lying. Some writers from the group will stay on the project and others will simply get ghosted.

So, to sum up...
1. They lie about the project in the first place
2. They lie about the amount of time required
3. They ghost you when you try and find out what's going on.
4. They allow the client to make changes and demand rewrites that you won't get paid for.

This has happened to me no less than four times in the past year. The last time this happened, I had finally had enough. I confronted a person in management about this, a person I have otherwise worked with amicably for YEARS (I've been on CC since 2010) and instead of dealing with my concerns he kept mindlessly repeating, "This is what the client wants" even though what I was telling him had nothing to do with that.

I'm actually surprised they haven't been busted for fraud by now because of this practice. I'm lucky, it's just me and the cat. But I can imagine the grief this would cause someone who has a schedule, other clients, or a family to feed. It's more than just unethical. It's cruel and totally unnecessary.

UPDATE: The latest project has turned me off the site completely. After a number of articles were sold and the writers had already been paid, the articles were returned and resold again at a lesser rate. The result of this is that my account there is now in the negative and other writers have the same problem. They have no asked me for money, but I sure don't plan on working my way out of their hole.

As a purchaser, I love the site. It gives me great, unique content for my blogs. Of course, the articles need fine tuning, so I don't purchase them expecting them to be post-ready, but, when you are having a writers block, these articles can jump start your creativity and get you on the right track. I gave 4 stars because I feel the price of most articles on their site is costly for the quality of content. I only purchase articles specific to my industry and you can tell most of the industry specific articles are not usable as written, you will need to fine tune them. However, it's much better than creating something from scratch. Also, I have found the best written part of the article is in the preview. When you get the entire article, usually the portion not previewed is of diminished quality from the preview portion. It appears the writers start to throw random things in towards the end of an article to meet a word count rather than provide you a solid product. However, even with all of this, I still love it. I love that I can preview the article before I buy it to ensure I like the authors writing style and can work with the content. I've ordered writing projects before on other sites where you give someone a topic and they create the content and 99% of the time, I've gotten something that needs heavy editing or was trash can worthy. At least with this site, you have an idea of what you're getting before you spend money, which is priceless to me. Also, I get my blogs posted a lot faster than if I had to start with an empty slate. So, I love Constant Content, it's perfect fit for my needs. I've been making purchases from the site since 2015.

We have been using Constant Contact for over 12 years and it has been an excellence source to keep in touch with over 2,000 subscribers. I don't understand many of the negative comments. It has worked very well for us. We only pay $50 a month and it has been worth it for the return. And the customer service has been very good. They are constantly making improvements. Their seminars are helpful. Having skills in editing and formatting a good newsletter is helpful. There are tricks of the trade but they can help you with that. It is the center point of our social media and on-line resources. Keep up the good work Constant Contact.

I had high hopes for this service as the rep said they were able to get me good writers and that everything was quality controlled. Tried them for two articles and got an unusable result for both, low quality. Not recommended. They still have a credit from me and did not respond when I ask for the remainder of my money back. Questionable company... avoid.

I love Constant Content. They're standards are high, and yes, you have to know your grammar and punctuation, but if you're good at that, then you'll have a high acceptance rate. The editors read your article after you submit it and if they come to a mistake, they immediately stop reading. That's why when you fix the mistake, it might be rejected again later - because they didn't read the whole thing. It wastes their time to read the whole article if there's a bunch of mistakes. YOU need to be able to self-edit. If you can do that, then the site is worth it. As far as Constant Content stealing your ideas and reselling them, that's ridiculous. There's a short summary feature where you post at least a third of your article for clients to see - some writers post the whole thing. There will always be some shady dude looking to make some money off of your article and they may rewrite and spin your article and post it to another site. That's the risk you take when posting a large portion of your article for prospective clients.

I love Constant Content - I've found that my energy and health and fitness articles sell very well, and I consistently make about $35 to $40 dollars (after CC's cut) for 400 to 500 word articles, which is light years ahead of what you will get at most content mills. Give them a shot - they're worth it!

I wrote around 190 articles that were accepted by the site, 63 of which sold. Then my account was deactivated without so much as an email explaining why. I wrote several follow up emails to constant content to at least try and have a conversation with them about this. I never heard back. This left me holding 130 articles that I never had the opportunity to sell. I'd be careful about using constant content, because you may wake up one day to find your account deactivated with no way to contact this company. Better to spend your time writing for clients that pay rather than writing with the hopes of getting paid and then being treated as disposable.

Their system is extremely badly designed as you ask for an article and they seem to randomly let people write an article for you. You end up with a handful of poorly written articles. Further, you don't get to see the full article so while they give you just 2 reviews it's very hard to review an article you can't actually see in full. Further, writers can name their price so if you have a budget not only do you have to waste time negotiating with writers on price you need to waste a review message just to try and see the article in full so you can review. Then because you can't screen the writers who write the article if you do choose one you have to become an editor and waste more time rewriting the poorly written article. The problem is not the writers it's the system they have. Avoid and use a system who lets you choose the writers, set the price upfront so you don't have to waste so much time post article being written.

I just found another similar website like constant content, it's articlesauction.com and it seems pretty interesting.

I want to give them my money for articles but they simply won't respond to us customers. I've tried email and their own site chat. There is simply no one there. I have to assume they've gone out of business but just haven't taken the site down yet.

Constant-Content pays writers pennies and then they keep 35 percent for themselves. Not fair.

Here's my experience: They emailed me asking me to submit "at least two" writing samples for a travel writing job, which paid pretty well. I took a couple hours to put together the writing samples, wrote a cover letter and sent it to them.

After a couple weeks they got back to me and said the position was filled, but they had another last-minute job I could help out with. The pay was really, really low, $2.50 for 100-word pieces. Even though the pay was low, I thought that if I helped them out to get this last-minute project done, that they would consider me for better-paying work.

I agreed to do the job for them and pulled an all-nighter to get it done. I worked from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. to create 3,000 words of content. After doing the work and submitting it, they notified me that I was going to be paid 35% less. Not because of bad quality or anything else. They were going to keep 35% for themselves because "that was their cut."

Perhaps a writer living in India or the Philipines could survive off that kind of pay. I don't know how it's even workable for anyone to live off that little. It was content for product descriptions for Target. I wrote 3,000 words of content, pulled an all-nighter and received about $48.00. They paid 1.6 cents a word for my content.

If you're thinking, "Oh, you must not have understood their offer. They must have told you about the 35 percent somewhere." Well, they didn't...

Here is the exact wording of their bait-and-switch offer. First, they got me to apply for the high-paying content writing gig, and then they said that the position was filled and offered me drastically lower-paid work.

I am cutting and pasting from two different emails:

"Thanks for your interest in the Travel SEO Content project. That casting call has now been filled. However, we have another project going on right now for the next two weeks. Its writing product descriptions for Target. The descriptions are about 100 words with 3-5 bullets and a long description. Each description (SKU) is priced at $2.50, but there is a ton of work available (they are bundled in batches of 10/request)."

"Were looking for writers to help out with product descriptions for Target. Each description is 50-100 words and 3-5 soft bullets@ $2.50 gross."

They told me I was supposed to understand that the word "gross" means I don't get to keep all of the $2.50 for myself.

When I said I wanted my full pay, they refused. I asked for my content back because they violated the agreement and employment offer they made me in writing. They refused. Ultimately the pay was so little to begin with that it wasn't even worth arguing.

You could look at this in a lot of different ways. The way I look at is this: Constant-Content stole my work from me and refused to pay me what they agreed to pay me. Eventually, I realized the poor guy on the phone was stuck in their office probably from 8 to 5 every day, and his hands were tied. He couldn't help me. I felt bad for him when I realized the owners of Constant-Content were exploiting him out of his time just as much as me, so I dropped the whole thing.

I wanted to write this review so that other writers don't get screwed by Constant-Content. I also wanted to feel that my all-nighter wasn't the absolute complete waste of time that it was. If my experience can help you avoid this company, then it was time well spent in my opinion.

It's hard to make it as a freelance writer, and these content mills seem like easy money. What actually happens when you rely on them is you get stuck in a cycle of crap pay and ultimately the quality of your writing will suffer as you struggle to become a "speed writer" just to survive. I wish companies like this didn't exist. They are middle-men treating writers like slaves and constant-content is one of the worst in the business.

1.6 cents a word? Give me a break... I don't care who you are, or where you live in the world, your writing and your time is worth so much more than that.

I've been a freelance writer since 2009, and have completed work for a variety of clients, with excellent reviews from many of them. I have had mixed results with Constant-Content. For the first couple of years, there were quite a few assignments available, but now the work requests have slowed to a trickle. Also, the pay isn't the best, and CC takes 35% of the gross fee, so you won't be fairly compensated for writing a quality article. For several years, however, I periodically completed CC assignments based on my available time and cash flow needs.

However, now I'm done with Constant-Content. In 2017, I accepted an assignment on a topic with which I'm quite familiar. I wrote a high-quality article, and it sat in Editorial Review for awhile before the client finally received and accepted it (yes, I got paid).

Then, I accepted and completed a second article for that client. I received a message that CC had sent the article to the client for review. However, the article apparently fell into a black hole, as I never heard back from the client again. I messaged her twice with no response. Next, I contacted CC for help. Several days went by, and CC finally responded, but said they couldn't reach the client. I tried two more times to reach her, without any response. CC stopped responding as well. Bottom line: The client vanished, CC vanished, and I never got paid for my work. Never again.

Since they updated their payment process, Constant-Content has become easier to use. There are many good writers and valuable content on there. They do need to improve their UI, especially filters.