Textbroker International Reviews

A Warning for Writers and Clients Considering Textbroker I worked with Textbroker over a decade ago (for several years) as a way to earn some extra cash, and I decided to sign up again since my old account didn't exist anymore. After completing their lengthy sign-up process—which includes submitting a new writing sample on a topic they provide, formatted in HTML—I was informed via email that they are not currently accepting new applicants but to please try again in a few months. This information is not disclosed anywhere on their website prior to starting their application process. To make matters worse, they deleted my entire account after notifying me, including my responses to their editing questions and the original content I submitted. If I were to try applying again in a few months (as they strongly encourage), I would have to start from scratch, with no guarantee that they wouldn’t do the same thing again. This process feels disrespectful to writers who take the time to apply. Companies like this could implement a better system—at the very least, be upfront about not accepting new applicants at this time, and/or allow writers to retain access to their completed application for a period of time. For clients: I can guarantee you that those of us who write for a living are not wasting more time coming back to a site like this. Please note that I'm not the first to leave a review about this issue. I should have paid attention to the others. I am one of the many writers who will not be returning.

I don't know what clients think, but remote writers barely get paid. Here's how it works. If you're a remote writer, you log in and look for open orders or team orders if you're a member of a team. Then you click on one and complete the article within the timeframe given - it's usually 24 hours. The client then has the right to ask for a revision. The problem is that you only get paid when the article is accepted. You don't get paid for writing the article. You also don't get paid for revisions. And sometimes the revision request is hard to figure out without spending a lot of time on it. For example, they may point out a paragraph and then say the wording here is fluff. Okay, so they don't like it, but how much time did you spend on the article? The maximum amount of money you're to make depends on the number of words and your star level, such as a four-star, which I think is the most common. However, a lot of articles are 500 words. So, you'll be paid eight dollars once it's accepted. That means that if you get a revision request, you have to decide whether or not it's worth your time to do so because it may or may not get a second revision request before potentially being rejected. Keep in mind that you don't get paid to write a revision. You only get paid once the article is accepted. That's it. Most articles are accepted within a few days, but some aren't, and the money you're paid isn't worth doing a revision. Also, I'm not sure what Textbroker does. They definitely have employees on staff, and I think those employees are writers themselves. So, I don't know why they use remote writers in the first place, but if you are one, you're completely on your own. You're a freelance writer, and I guess they just view you that way. There's no correspondence. You just pick up articles here and there. It might be a nice place to work on-site, but I don't recommend working for them remotely. It's definitely not a way to earn a living. If you do write for them, it's only going to be for a few extra dollars a month, maybe to pay for a relatively small bill. Also, you'll find that you go through periods where only half of them are accepted. I have found this, and I don't know what happened during those times when all of a sudden my articles needed revision. The revision requests are things like restate this paragraph because it sounds like fluff or reword the call to action. Eight to ten dollars is not enough money to write the article and then rework it knowing that it could still be rejected. An example: I wrote one article that was 200-something to 300 words. The maximum amount that you could make on the article was $4.64. That's it. That is arguably slave labor. Despite this, I was asked for two revisions. I did the first but canceled the second. If you cancel the article instead of revising it, they're not supposed to be able to use it, therefore, you can use the article somewhere else. It's better to freelance with other companies or to build a catalog of work before starting to freelance. Also, it's hard to write a good article in just a few minutes. Realistically, you need (at least) a couple of hours to write a good article, especially if it's a topic you don't know that much about. So, it's best to seek a job where you have consistent pay so that you can spend the time you need to write something worthwhile. One more thing, a lot of times there aren't that many orders to choose from. Sometimes there aren't any. When you have them, the topics range from things like how using CBD products will help you sleep to things like write about the best concrete flooring you can use when adding on to your home. There's a full range of topics when you have several orders to choose from. But like I said, a lot of times, there's not anything to choose from at all. Final judgment: if you're on the fence about writing for Textbroker, go ahead and sign up. See for yourself, but don't expect much.