Constant-Content

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Me and my team are working on a new magazine, we need to buy some articles and we used this web site constant-content.com

Their support doesnt answer any email and they work too slow. We paid money to credit our account and we waited few days. And We sent an email to them to credit our account as soon as possible, after the email they suspended our account.

I called their phone number, and some guy helped me to re-activate our account. But still not deposited. We decide to wait a bit more, and few hours latter suddenly, they suspended our account again.

Question; We paid money, and we cannot get the service which we paid for it. Isnt it a FRAUD?

Question; Why the support doesnt answer the emails if they earn salary to answer the messages?

Question; How can I buy articles that I need on that bad web page and untrustable system.

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.

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.

As a content writer, my experience with CC has been quite good. Over 85% of my articles have been sold and about half of them were sold within 10 days of approval.

There was a time when approval used to take more than 10 days, but lately, that has come down to 4 days, which is very acceptable.

During the initial days, rejections were common, but I learned from each one of them and improved my writing. These days, only about one in 10 articles is rejected and it usually takes me only a couple of minutes to fix them. So, I have no problem with the editors.

Although most of my work is eventually sold, some articles tend to sit in the catalogue for months. I have noticed that these articles sell faster if I take the effort to promote them. When I am paying 35% of the price as commission, which is usually over $20 an article, I expect that effort to come from 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.

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.