Marker Content Ltd posts on LinkedIn; Love writing? Want the freedom and flexibility to write whenever, wherever, about what you know and love best? Marker is expanding our fast-growing, remote-based team of writers, and this is your opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing writing communities in the world. We sell articles to agencies, publishers, small businesses, web developers, and more. These businesses need written content to use on their social accounts, newsletters, blogs, and websites, and here’s where your writing skills come into play. Write about bestselling topics, including travel, food & drink, beauty, business, lifestyle, and more; whatever topic you’re passionate about, there’s a buyer out there for your work. Signing up to Marker takes just a few minutes, and your articles can be purchased multiple times by buyers; every time they do, you get paid 80% of the final sale. Click the link to sign up, and our team will review your application within 48 hours: http://bit.ly/3EBDTtT. We’re looking forward to hearing from you! Team Marker. They are then described as a Marketing & Advertising company with 2-10 employees and 264 on LinkedIn; However, I’ll be honest I don’t know how they have 264 on LinkedIn if they only employ a maximum of 10 people, but I digress. They then say, Browse over 195,000 articles, quality assured, marketing ready, and all written by Marker’s experienced, global copywriting community.
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So is Marker content a scam? Well, maybe not by the strictest definition, but if you want to make money, there are better ways to do it than by writing for Marker. After all, they charge you 20% to sell the articles, but wait, it gets better.
Recently I signed up for Marker. I applied to Marker, was “hired’ and submitted two articles, both of which were accepted. Then I received an email telling me that in order to make money on Marker, I would need to recruit buyers. Wait a second; I am going to recruit people to buy my articles. I am entirely okay with that; I am not okay, however, with randomly giving money away. At this point, I don’t see what Marker is doing to collect the 20% they earn from writers’ money. They don’t get buyers; they ask the writers to do that and don’t provide the marketing tools. The email states that writers need to find buyers, and then you can use their template for cold emailing, telling potential buyers you are part of a network of 63,000 writers who upload to Marker and that there might be content that works for the buyer there. Perhaps it’s not your content, but that’s okay. Marker is offering a $50 bonus for each buyer that you recruit.
While it might not be considered a scam by all definitions, Marker Content raises some definite red flags. Marker doesn’t tell writers up front how much they make. They also don’t tell you upfront that you will have to “Market your own work” essentially, they are a clearing house similar to Constant Content, but the writers are encouraged to market and look for buyers. Articles sell for as little as $4.95, of which you get 80%, and Marker Content gets 20%. Honestly, I don’t know why Marker Content receives anything. After all, the writer is writing the content, editing the content, posting in Marker, and then going out and looking for potential buyers. If you wanted to sell a piece of writing for $5 or less, you would be better off cold emailing or working at a content mill.
So is Marker Content a scam? Perhaps not by most definitions, but it is buyer beware.
