Taking Advantage of Constant Content's "Usage" Option

I finally wrote a couple of articles for Constant Content this week.  I have only been tinkering with the site lately, because of so many issues when it comes to getting your work "Accepted".  Today, I submitted: Using Liquid Chlorophyll to Increase Your Male Libido to them, an article I rewrote and submitted as a response to a Public Request. 

I also found something out that I wasn't aware of about the site.  When I submitted an article (not a Public Request) for strictly "usage", I received a note in my inbox, informing me that this option is only available for material that has already been published elsewhere.

I normally indicate a "usage" amount, along with the "fullrights" and "unique" rights whenever I submit to a Public Request.  Since I never got the notice about pre-publication before, I assume this is only for articles that you submit on your onw (non-public request articles).  This was good news to me, to learn that you can offer articles that have been previously published and continually earn a usage fee.

When I found this out, I quickly popped back over to Associated Content and reviewed their stand on non-exclusive content.  They allow you to offer first publication (non-exclusive ) rights, even for articles that they pay a small "upfront payment" for.  I normally ignored this option and just allowed them exclusive rights.  I now realize, if I had offered the 130 articles I've published there this year as non-exclusive, I could have used them at CC as well!  Oh well, live and learn.

Obviously, now, when I submit articles to AC, I'm writing them with CC in mind also.  This is a great way to maximize your earnings that come from article writing at Constant Content.

My recent articles for Associated Content are are still pending publication because the website has slowed down in reviewing articles considerably, since Yahoo has taken over.  I hope to over some of these titles at CC for usage, once they are actually published.

I currently have the following titles yet to be reviewed:

• 57 and on Team Edward: How to Recognize Twilight Fanatics
• Ways to Spend Less on Back to School Shopping
• Domino's Pizza: Still Lousy but it Sucks a Little Less
• Learning to Enjoy Your First Personal Massager
• Do You Control Your Own Sexual Pleasure?
• Super Easy Way to Turn Arts and Crafts into Cash
• 3 Practical Ways to Be Useful Though Broke and Unemployed
• 5 Effective Ways You Can Stop Taking Life for Granted

I was happy that Associated Content finally published my two articles that had been waiting a while.  Now viewers can read: 

1. The Creative and Diverse Venice Beach Sidewalk Vendors and Merchants
2. Convalescent Hospital Residents Enjoy a Karaoke Show on the Go 

These two articles, like so many of my other articles, were published as exclusive submissions on AC, so if I want to use the topics again, it will call for some line by line rewriting.  Yuk!  That sucks! Thank goodness for Constant Content's "usage" option with pre-published work.  I fully plan to take advantage of it in the future.