Anyone consider giving the NEW Helium a try again?
I've only recently gone back to look at "the new" Helium, but in the past I had sold either articles or else one-time-use license on articles. Helium did act as the "middle-person", and I was satisfied with the pay and the terms (more for out-and-out selling the article, of course; less for one-time-use license). What was good at the time was that this was stuff I'd already written (like on Constant Content sometimes - although I haven't been there in ages either) and that was sold when someone else "picked it off the shelf" (type of thing). I won't write according to someone else's terms/guidelines if I'm not sure they'll even buy it. I won't do the thing where you have to write according to someone's guidelines and then end up competing with a bunch of other stuff that other people wrote on the same thing and for the same publisher.
I don't even entirely "get" some of the things that are going on with Helium now, but I did submit my professional credentials to them (no skin off my nose, and who knows what might show up that may interest me). In the past Helium has been very clear about the fact that selling an article itself (rather than just one-time-use) involved selling the rights and not re-posting/publishing it anywhere else; but I was fine with that for what I was paid. It's standard practice when someone is hired to write something that the person won't own it or rights to it once s/he has been paid. Since it was only recently that I submitted my professional writing credentials to them, I haven't had time to figure out if all assignments will be handled one way, or whether it will be more on a case-by-case basis, depending on the individual publisher and/or assignment. Either way, I'll see what, if anything, shows up. I've had a similar "preferred assignments" type of thing with the old Associated Content (now Yahoo Contributor Network), and there's no law with them that says a person can't ignore however-many assignments show up. I'm only assuming, but I assume it's probably similar with Helium. I pretty much want to leave my name/accounts where I'll at least get to see some assignments and decide if I want them or not. You never know... So, to that extent, I haven't entirely ruled out writing on Helium at this point.
These sites change all the time. I'm generally not a bridge-burner, even when I don't have any particular plans to go back over any standing bridges. If some site all-of-a-sudden starts doing things that particularly appeal to me - then back over the bridge I may go.
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