Writers Income Opportunity.

I have launched a new website for writers and authors to buy and sell content.

This is the very first forum I have offered it to. It is a way of building a reputation, supplementing income or gaining content for your own website.

The site is ENTIRELY totally end to end FREE for authors or writers to submit serious, funny, social, community or business orientated content. It will cost you zilch, zip, nothing.

Content is offered for sale for up to three years. Register as an author, as a website or both at www.thecontentregister.co.uk

There is an extensive FAQ section. Because of the number of scams and false hopes we have all experienced, I shall leave you to check out the site and make your own mind up.

Hi,

this looks great I'll give it a go

I have been asked to clarify the 'rights':

We recognise that as a very important issue for the performing arts and creative writers generally.

The 'rights' as in ownership of the material are set out in the authors Terms and Conditions. In essence, you retain the ownership of the material but you grant the buyer a single open licence to use it for their purposes (website, periodicals etc). These are deliberately at the front end of the system, so even before you register you can get an idea of the offering.

We found it very difficult to divide it in such a way that the buyer gets a usable product but the seller does not lose it entirely. This was the best solution I could come up with. We welcome other ideas.

The key is that the buyer get first stab and first use of the material. It is really the 'virgin' quality of the material that they want. You agree not to use or sell it beforehand. If you do decide that you want to sell it before hand, you withdraw it from the system as it is no longer 'virgin'.

As more and more commerce moves on line, search positioning becomes ever more critical.

As for the website ourselves, we have no interest in your work (You understand what I mean). We shall not use, sell or pass it on anywhere else. The transaction is between you and the buyer.

We MAY look at a new category of work for sale over and over again, but this would be for things like templates (letters, wills etc). It is the originality of the content that holds the value...in many ways more than the quality of the content, though it is the quality that will sell it and sell more.

This sounds like a content mill invented by a drunk.

Honestly if you can't write about it in an attractive or coherent manner you won't be going far.

Maybe start breeding monkeys and buying typewriters instead?

Sooty,

I am saddened that you do not like website offered or the presentation of the proposal, but more, that you have chosen to express it in such a blunt, public and offensive way.

If your style of wit is sarcasm, then I hail you as a master of your trade.

Actually if I'm being blunt it's because I'm trying to be helpful.

Your site is unattractive and your plugging in every thread you can find unhelpful.

Your business model is just way too complex.

Sooty,

This was posted on four threads only because they were the only ones asking about income...so relevant I thought. You have posted on 50,000 occasions, and all no doubt erudite.

I take your comments about complexity and appearance as useful. The complexity is to provide flexibility so the author can protect their work to any level they feel appropriate. Comedy writers work is never taken by others ...so I guess I am wrong on that score too.

Clearly I was also wrong to think that comedy writers needed more outlets for their work (whether they choose to take them or not is a matter of personal choice).

There's nothing wrong with the intent behind it, but you'll need a site that looks considerably more professional than that if you want to go anywhere with it.

To be fair commenting on the high post count of a regular user on a dedicated forum as an argument against that poster having something interesting to say is not a very clever observation.By all means rebut his his take but do so in a way that highlights your own professionalism in whichever area that is, would be my advice.

That should get my count a tad higher at least.

Prove Sooty wrong then.

Thank Marc, Vince and Paul...OK some balanced debate. That I welcome.

As stated from the outset the site is very new, and needs a lot more work (investment) and development, but it works and is a genuine attempt to offer a free opportunity.

The 'complexity' (which I take to be concerning the content) is derived from a desire to be open and up front. Too many sites hide all sort of nasties that are later discovered. I have tried to be open and honest and offer a real and complete proposal. Putting the detail further under the covers is a fine balance. Some people like detail, others do not, put detail too close to the surface and people feel overwhelmed, but put it too deep and they would say it is being deliberately hidden.

To be honest I did not expect such a challenging response, I hoped the site would be welcomed rather than derided, however the comments ARE welcome. Even now themes in the responses are emerging.

As for the appearance, yes it could be a lot flashier, but that in many ways was deliberate. A black and white theme is rare and uncomplicated. I felt that it expresses the black and white nature of the written word, it is the use and nuances of those words that provide colour. That is what you guys do best. I do agree with you Vince but to develop such a site with designers and programmers would have cost 50-100k. This was designed with function and transparency taking a higher place than look...we can do the look later. That said it is the look that will attract users and websites. Is that superficial? Probably but also realistic.

Moving to offer...one comment (cleaned up) has been 'nothing to do with comedy so go away'..... This is not so, comedy has a place everywhere. It is just the application and amount of it that varies. Comedy can be specifically added as simple jokes (in the general content) or a full script offered and priced by yourselves in the 'authored content'. Here you decide what it is worth and what you want to sell it for. If it does not sell, you have lost nothing, you just take it down and offer it elsewhere.

As for the posts...I am new to this forum and have added to four threads only....ones that specifically talk about income. This has not been a scattergun approach or spamming. Henceforth I shall stick to this thread only, unless something very relevant is entered on a new threat.

Sooty is clearly an experienced user and a post count is not the same as a thread count. Thus the point he made was an exaggeration, so I responded with one of my own! I have no desire to prove sooty wrong, he is very entitled to his opinion, I merely want a fair and objective assessment.

Whether you like the site and the offering or not, I am merely trying to open doors. Whether you choose to step through is a matter for you.

I am not here to sell, nor looking to get praise or thanks...I am here to offer a free service for users.

You are meant to talk about more than one subject, CR. You do come across as rather optimistic though.

First of all it's Sootyj

Secondly I earn my living full time as a free lancer, so my advice is benefit of 2 people. You as in your site is unattractive and unworkable you just won't make any money or help anyone.

Secondly it's for other people considering freelancing. This is another site where you invest hours writing articles, organizing your profile only no ones going to buy it.

Some writers might starve to death hoping someone will buy their brilliant blog on choosing Yfront. As it lurks on your unvisited site.
Like a lonely, ginger orphan in a radioactive orphanage in the heart of a forbidden desert where North Korea is testing atomic weapons.

This is really serious stuff and you're a diletante. Like some 17th century mad man experimenting with slavery and drowning whole African villages as his ships get lost on the way to the Caribean, as you made up all your own nautical maps based on your dreams.

http://smallbiztrends.com/2014/04/find-skilled-freelance-writers.html these sites are all better than yours.

https://www.contentrunner.com/ This site does what you're doing....but much better.

Sootyj

You have got to be on LSD. I didn't know you could still get that stuff.
You brag you are a full time freelance writer. Give one specific job, including
client and what they bought. Otherwise shut the f**k up.

Just out of interest, why do you find it so hard to believe someone on this site earns their money from free-lance writing?