January earnings report - 20% decrease from December - Melanie Zoltan

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Melanie Zoltan

Birthday: March 13

Bio: Melanie Zoltan is a writer and college professor (currently on hiatus from teaching). She is a Contributing Writer for About.com on education issues. Clients and publishers have included PC World, HomeStars.com, Lerner Media, W.W. Norton, Prentice Hall, Brain,Child Magazine, EBSCO, and more. With three sons ages 1 to 12, a husband, writing, and an ever-increasing virtual life that threatens to take over (Cafe World? Now my 8 year old wants me to join WHAT?) she tries to sleep when she can.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010 10:19AM

January earnings report - 20% decrease from December

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20% DROP from December

I expected it - some of my Christmas-related articles aren't hot now, and I can see how much they contributed to revenue.

I am now the Feature Writer for Suite101's History and Philosophy Books section, which gives me an extra 10% bonus in revenue, and 29 more articles (100 total) gives me an additional 10%. The faster I write, the sooner I get that bonus.

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This is great information. I'm writing for Demand Studios, which pays ok but isn't very creative. (I'm going a bit brain dead. Lol.)

rmgosselin

March 04, 2010 02:18 PM

I write for them as well, sometimes. I'm working in figuring out whether the $20 upfront (I write for Livestrong) is worth it vs. making an average of $31 per year for my articles on Suite101. Cash in hand is nice, though.