You found your title from Demand Studio's title's list. It felt like you've spent an eternity finding something you could write. You get right to work. You pour through one website after another finding material you could add to your article.
You start writing. After what felt like a headache, and an hour of research and writing, you did it. You've got a finished product.
You take a break, then come back.
You go through your article making sure that your work is grammatically correct. You check all your spelling, then double check all your data. You push your keyboard away and sigh with relief.
You've done it. You've created an article that you hope will mean an extra $15.00 in your account. You hit submit and move on to your next article.
Days go buy without content editor comment. You keep writing articles. Each time you hit "submit," you tick your pay counter in your mind. Then it comes. You receive an email saying that your article need edits.
You look at the feed back. You're ready to bang your head against the wall. The Content Editor obviously had no clue about the subject matter that you wrote about. Getting the information that they asked for is either impossible, or would require expanding time, money and/or resources.
You have two choices at this point.
You can abandon the article, or you could rewrite it as best as you can. You chose the second option and submit it. The Content Editor rejects your article.
A couple days later, you're browsing on eHow and what do you run into? You see an ehow article on display, that looks familiar. It's not that different from how you wrote it. Yup, that's your work, your words. Someone rejected your article, then turned around and submitted it. It quickly got approved.
The person that rejected your article earned $15.00 for your sweat, time and effort. It took him less than 1 minute of effort to get your credit. You're left standing there with an empty bag while the person that rejected your article added your $15.00 to his account.
So, what do you do when you're faced with your next article rewrite?
It's your call. If the changes make sense, and are actionable, then make the changes. But, if the changes are ridiculous and aren't actionable, then you have a couple choices. You could erase everything that you put in there, save it, and then abandon it.
Or, you could copy and paste the article, change the title, then use it for another client. If you don't have another client that'll take your work, post it on your blog. Don't have a blog? There are free blogging sites you could create a profile for. Blogger.com is an example of a site that'll let you blog for free.
At any rate, if you don't plan on resubmitting the article, republish it elsewhere.
Remember, Demand Studios doesn't own the rights to your article until they flag it for payment. Until then, what you've written is yours. You have the rights to it, just rework the title.
What does posting it, elsewhere, do for Demand Studios?
It puts them in the wrong a second time if one of their editors decides to repost your rejected article. You have 4 days to rewrite your article. This means that if you repost it, either on your blog or though another client, it ages for 4 days.
If a Content Editor "steals" your work, they'll be posting a duplicate of a four day old post.
If that happens, report them to the people that run the search engines.
If you're no longer a writer at Demand Studios, here's a strategy for you.
Find an eHow article that's no longer accurate. Write a counter article with the correct information, contradicting that eHow article. Post this counter article on your blog... or sell it to your client if his or her "terms of use" permits such articles.
Once you get it posted, push it to your social networking site. Log onto facebook, go to that eHow article, and reply to that article with your rebuttal. Give enough information to discredit the whole article, or a good chunk of it.
What do these two strategies do?
They slowly wage war against Demand Studio's credibility over a long period of time. This is your chance to get back at them... while building on your own writing portfolio.
