Support Animal Rights? Become an About.com Guide
Posted on January 19, 2008
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About.com has an opening for a “Guide” on the topic of animal rights. I did some research into the position, mainly because I was interested. Since I’m not going to apply however, I thought I’d share the job opening with the world.
What is a guide exactly?
“As a Guide you’ll build and maintain a GuideSite, a topical section of About.com which contains:
- Original content (articles, reviews, FAQs, tutorials) written by you
- A blog featuring your unique voice and personality
- A directory of the best content in your topic, whether it be your own work or links to other sites
- A discussion forum where you serve as community leader
All About.com Guides are freelancers who work online and set their own schedules, giving them the flexibility to log on from anywhere in the world whenever they have the time. With no timesheets to fill out and no timecards to punch, working for About.com gives you the flexibility to write when you want, even if you have a full-time day job.”
That sounds cool but what can I get paid?
“The basis of Guide compensation is year-over-year page view growth. As of 1/1/07, if your page views grow you will never make less than $725 per month and it’s likely you’ll make much more than that over time (in some cases we have Guides who earn in excess of $100,000 per year).
At a minimum, About Guides must publish two full-length articles every 14 days and update their blog one to three times per week. However, the potential for your GuideSite is really up to you. The more high-quality, relevant content you produce, the more you can earn.
New Guides - Guides in the first two years of their contract - are guaranteed to make at least $725 per month, and it’s likely that they will make much more than that over time.”
It sounds like a great thing to get into if you enjoy writing and a bit of web development, but you might get by just being a great writer. The money sounds good, the job sounds good, so why would I not apply?
The Training - I just don’t have the 17 days to complete the online training session. Apparently writing intensive, which I could handle, but if you’re not hired on afterwards you get absolutely no compensation. Its only a 17 training session, but what a waste of time if you don’t get the job.
Besides, there has to be an animal rights enthusiast out there who would be better at this job than me. Someone with more skills and possible less opinions…
Here is a link http://beaguide.about.com/index.htm
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