I just got an email saying that Demand Studios is going to start paying its freelancers twice per week. I haven’t written anything for Demand since June, but this is a great incentive for active Demand Studios writers. I think DS will start getting articles on a more regular basis. I know when I was writing for them, I’d write on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, trying to get my assignments in before the work-week cut off period. Basically, I wrote for a few days so that I could have some quick cash on pay day. Now, that there’s two pay days… hmmm… Demand Studios is looking a little more attractive to me. I’ll have to see how I can work those assignments into my already full plate….

I started writing for Demand Studios in April, and stopped in early June. In that time, I earned a few thousand dollars. It’s ridiculously easy money, but the fact that I was writing articles that won’t ever earn me passive income sort of bothered me.  At DS, I was earning $15 per article. It’s easy money, yes, but a a little voice in my head started wondering how much those same articles would have earned me if I had written them for eHow. I’ve been at eHow for nearly a year, and some of my articles have earned hundreds of dollars. Contrast that with the $15 that Demand Studios pays me for the same sort of work. Demand Studios appeals to the need for immediate gratification, but earning passive residual income at eHow just makes a lot of sense. I see eHow as a creative bank account that keeps earning me scads of interest on the work that I’ve paid into it.