About

[Victoria]

Aspiring to be an About.com guide or contributing writer? Have you already made it through the training/selection process? There's a confidentiality agreement, but share what you can!

[Melanie Zoltan]

I am a Contributing Writer for Continuing Education at About. I used my experience in higher education and my SEO writing experience in my application, and on the fourth try got in. Here's a link to my work: Post 911 GI Bill Benefits

If anyone has questions about the training/tryout process, please ask. I can give limited answers, but some help is better than none.

[Ben Lloyd]

Do About.com pay or do you just get kudos for your contributions? They aren't very "big" (ie. massively used and talked about) here in the UK, so I have no idea!

[Victoria]

Ben - About Guides are paid 500+ per month, depending on a number of factors.
Contributing Writers receive somewhat less in guaranteed payments, but can make more depending on those other factors.

[imported_Ben Lloyd]

Wow - looks like a very nice money-spinning opportunity if you have the required expertise. I can't see and restrictions on US-based guides only. Might have to look at the potentials of that one



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Ben Lloyd
Tech-Write UK
"Where Technical Expertise and Writing Genius Combine"