Great Content UK review

Today, I was going to through my email folders and stumbled upon my Great Content UK files. I realised I have been writing for Great Content since 2012. Four years is a long time to be with the site and although I do not pick up all the titles I see, I have written nearly 500 texts for them.

Application

When I applied in 2012, I sent in a sample text based on a topic of their choosing. It did not take them long to review my work and I was classified as a 4-star writer. Not bad, I suppose.

Topics

Like most content providers, you get to pick the articles you want to write. However, you can only write for the current level you are on, Hence, you will see 4 star articles that you can write and also lower than 4 stars articles. Pay rates go up as you have more stars. I think it starts at 2 then up to 6 or  6+? Not sure. At the moment, I am a 4+ writer so I was bumped one step higher. 

The topics vary from product descriptions to travel pieces. I believed in the beginning, there were mostly travel pieces and then later on, product descriptions for clothes, shoes and bags. There are also transliteration jobs which are interesting. Hence, if you have knowledge of other languages, there are casting calls for transliteration jobs. I often worked on translating product description from French, Dutch and German to English.
Each piece of work that you submit is rated by the client from 'My expectations have nearly been reached', 'My expectations were met', 'The results exceeded my expectations.' Clients can send back your work for revisions and you can also send messages to them to clarify instructions.

Pros

I like the following of Great Content:

1. Flexibility to choose the articles that you write with no obligation to write in a given period to keep your author credentials active.
2. Payment is prompt. Once you reach a minimum of 25 pounds, you can request for payment which they issue via PayPal or Skrill.

Cons

1. PayPal takes a percentage of my earnings and I don't like it when I see my homepage on GC as having a negative balance. It will automatically be deducted once I have money in my account from articles which are approved.

2.. You can only take three articles from the pool at one time and sometimes, you can't write more for the client until one article has been approved. There are times when the client takes time to go through your articles so you are sitting there waiting for approval. For mainly this reason, I don't go often on the Great Content site if I know that I have to wait for articles to be approved before I can cash out. I always plan it that I can write the max no of articles so that I can be paid. Other than these issues, Great Content is always a nice site to fall back on when work in other places is slow.