If you’re familiar with Associated Content, you’re probably familiar with Sabah Karimi, who was featured on The Early Show in 2008 for her work with Associated Content.

But what’s more remarkable is how fast she gained success working as a freelance writer: she had only written professionally for two years prior to winning Associated Content’s Content Producer of the Year award. She also released The AC Source Book in 2008, a blueprint for maximizing earnings with Associated Content. 2009 proved to be an equally fruitful year: Demand Studios honored her with their Top Content Creator award, an award only given to a handful of writers.

Like many writers, Tara began her online writing career unexpectedly–by being laid off from a self-publishing company, where she was a manager of a self-publishing pilot program. To earn extra money, she began writing online for AssociatedContent.com.
“I temped and worked as a Starbucks barista for a few years while writing on the
side for AC,” she explains. She published her first piece, Ireland as a Commodity in Irish-American Culture, in December 2006, going on to publish nearly 260 articles to become one of the top producers on AssociatedContent.com.
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The first edition of “The Write Career” introduces Vonda Sines, a two year writing veteran who previously worked in the federal service.  Her retirement—and interest in Kentucky Derby sensation Barbaro—inspired her to start her online freelance writing career.
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Freelance writing was not Vonda Sines’ first priority.  ”Although I was formally trained to write, it always ended up way down the to-do list because of full-time job commitments,” says Sines. “Now it pays the electric and gas bills.”
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Sines began her online writing career on the website AssociatedContent.com, inspired by the story of …