Q&A-Payment, Posting and more...

As we get established, and stumble through the policy forming process it is important to ask questions which often lead to new policy or ideas. Kevin is our go-to guy for answers so I want to share this e-mail with you where he answered a few of my questions. Please add any comments or other questions you have so we can be completely clear about how Bangari Bangs!


I really don't mind waiting until things are running smoothly before getting money, but thanks!

No Problem. Maybe later, when we've recruited some hard working new writers, some of us "original" Bangari writers can hold off on a payment, or cash in only 50%, so new writers can be encouraged. Remember, you don't "lose" the money if you don't take a payment. You just get more at a later date.




I managed to post a Ketubah article in 36 minutes including proofing and learning how to post. I haven't added links or images but will go back to that. If we give easy instructions to writers on how to post it shouldn't be a problem, some of them may already know how.

That's awesome! Very encouraging news! I think you are great at writing instructions, and the glossary and such. I think once I get you to completely understand our payment system, you will be able to do a better job than I can when it comes to explaining it to others. Adding links and pictures is very easy on WordPress. point and click & drag and drop.




I want to take this one article and go through the whole process - in a week I'll post the other spunout versions on the other places (blog etc).




That will be great. Make sure you keep your time on each step. Once you do that, I'll take your timekeeping notes, and make a time study form. This way we know how many credits to pay for other types of work that we do, besides producing word count.



We need to mention that word count for spunout versions don't need to be added to the trade table as they are paid for the RSA which is the same words - right?
Or do writers claim payment for ORG, RSA and Spunout word count?

You are 100% correct about all this. Although, I'm trying to figure out the process of spun outs. It still takes time and effort to use the robot to pull one out of the RSA, proof, edit and post. We should get times on this so we can document it all and pay for it.

We also need to figure out a fair way of distributing the spun out versions inside Bangari. All Bangari content producers should be allowed to take spun out articles, even if they didn't work on that RSA. These can be used for their own personal sites, or to promote sales of their own books or products.

When we figure out the value in credits, then this won't be too difficult. That's why I made the "trade tables" It will enable us to trade credits with each other. E.g.; Maekela could pay you 10 Bangari bucks that she has in her account, for a spun out, proofed and edited Ketubah article to post on her site where she promotes her book: The Kama Sutra of Celibacy.

See...Just when you thought the payment system couldn't get more complicated! LOL



I'm still worried about keeping the balance between incoming money and payments to writers. There could be a month where writers write but no income comes in, then where are they getting paid from? If there were several months like that, what then?

True. But we need everyone to understand that we are all in the same boat. We are all new authors. Every writer writes their first book "on speculation." All that work, and they only get paid if they find a publisher who likes it. Even that first payment is just an advance on what the publisher believes they will make in book sales. (Like the $50 I just sent you) After that, the author gets royalties, like, a buck a book, each time one sells. It's only after the first successful book, that the publisher will pay the author on another title, before that author has written a single word.

The most important thing to remember is: Unlike the content farms, your work will never be taken from you and used to generate revenue that you don't get a share of.



Bye for now

Bye!

PS. Could you start a thread w/ this email on Bangari Content Studio Blog? (not the private site)

Learning as we go

Hi Team!

I'm really excited about our new venture, and I really believe that one day - not so far away - that our company will be as well known as the content farms that we are used to writing for. Kevin realizes that I don't know much about SEO stuff. Yes, I know about keywords and keyword density, and I know a little bit, but the stuff that I know nothing about is vast!  He challenged me to educate myself by researching and writing articles.  Well, I'm doing that. I wrote one about semantic and structural mark up and how it has brought the Net to what it is today.

I am suggesting that we all challenge ourselves to get out of our comfort zone to research and write articles about stuff we don't understand right now.  As we read, research and write, we will teach ourselves and others will learn from our work.

I won't put the link to my article here, because since this is a public blog, I'm not sure it is a good idea.  Maybe my article will be good enough to be sold to an interested future client.  I will let Kevin read it and I'm sure he will critique it for me. He said I can write like I understand stuff, and when I finally do understand what I write I will be dangerous...lol.

I know I can't be the only one that doesn't understand things.  I might have a slim understanding of some things, but I do understand more when I saturate myself with the topic.  I want to suggest that we all write about stuff we don't quite understand so that we can teach ourselves.  When Kevin talks about SEO stuff, I don't want to be looking at my computer screen like a deer in headlights. I want a firm understanding of what he is talking about.

Your thoughts?